Guardians Of The Galaxy star Chris Pratt has said that, despite the results of the US presidential election, Americans need to “focus instead on showing up for each other”. The Hollywood actor wrote a piece for his mother-in-law Maria Shriver’s newsletter in which he suggested Americans must “accept the results” whatever they may be and concentrate on their civic duty. “Like so many of us, I’ve been doomscrolling my way through this election season,” the 45-year-old, who is married to Katherine Schwarzenegger, wrote in the Sunday Paper.
Chris Pratt said he has been ‘doomscrolling’ his way through this election season (Isabel Infantes/PA) “I also see that there are millions of people who feel overlooked and invisible to our government and are desperate for something to change.” The Jurassic World star said “about half of the voting population” will be “incredibly disappointed” on Wednesday as the US election results trickle in. “It’s OK to take a moment to lick your wounds when you lose.
Heck, go ahead and cry in the mirror,” he wrote. “But if we become too paralysed by defeat or too pompous in victory, allegiance to our ‘team’ can blind us to the fact that we are fellow countrymen. Pratt said he is known as superhero Star-Lord from Marvel’s Guardians Of The Galaxy, but he grew up in “small-town America” with parents who “worked hard to make ends meet”.
“Our family was poor. I wore hand-me-down clothes. I lived out of my .