Chris Pratt nearly entered Hollywood under a very different name

Chris Pratt might have been known by a different moniker if he had not made last-minute changes while becoming a full-time actor.

The Jurassic Park actor revealed in a recent conversation that before his breakthrough roles he considered entering Hollywood with his stage name.

“Not even rebranded, just branded. I was gonna be ‘Christo,’” Pratt said during the January 22 episode of the Happy Sad Confused podcast.

He went on to say, "I had a name tag that said Christopher, but at Bubba Gump’s Shrimp Company, the P H E R part got rubbed off, so it said Christo.”

And when Pratt used to work as a waiter, the fellow workers knew him by his nickname.

“Everyone called me Christo for a long time,” The Mercy star recalled. “While I was working at Bubba Gump, high turnover rate, new employees thought my name was Christo.”

He continued, “As I navigated being discovered and brought to Los Angeles to follow my dreams, part of me thought — in earnest — maybe I'd go, ‘It's just Christo.’

Pratt, however, chose to go by "Chris", a name that had already been taken by his fellow actors, including Chris Evans, Chris Pine, and Chris Hemsworth.

“I think someone on this press tour called me Chris Pine,” Pratt pointed out. “Yeah, don't think they mistake me, think it’s just the alliteration.”