Some fans of the new animated <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/marvel-to-unveil-gay-spider-man-in-disney-owned-companys-latest-lgbtq-nod" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sony</a> film &#8220;Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse&#8221; are convinced that the fictional character Gwen Stacy is transgender.
In the sequel to Sony&#8217;s highly successful &#8220;Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse&#8221; (2018), viewers observed that the color palette used in several of Stacy&#8217;s scenes &#8220;appear imbued with the pastel blue, pink and white&#8221; colors of the transgender Pride flag, The <a href="https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/05/spider-man-across-the-spider-verse-gwen-stacy-trans/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pink News</a> reported. There is also a &#8220;Protect Trans Kids&#8221; sign on the wall of Stacy&#8217;s bedroom.
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A third example comes from a scene where Stacy reveals her secret identity as Spider-Woman to her father, who is a police officer reportedly wearing a &#8220;trans Pride flag badge&#8221; pinned to his uniform. The Pink News reported that many viewers interpreted the scene as a metaphor for coming out. The colors of the transgender Pride flag are also incorporated into the animation.
&#8220;Gwen Stacy is trans,&#8221; one fan wrote. &#8220;Her whole arc is a trans allegory. The colors are the trans flag. But most telling. HER WHITE COP DAD WEARS THE TRANS COLORS ON HIS UNIFORM. NO F***ING COP IS THAT MUCH OF AN ALLY UNLESS THEY HAVE A TRANS FAMILY MEMBER!&#8221;
Another added, &#8220;All the &#8216;you haven&#8217;t read the comics&#8217; people are funny because neither have they. Miles isn&#8217;t the same Miles from the comics, why would Gwen be? Infinite multiverse of possibilities and we can&#8217;t have a trans Gwen? Silly.&#8221;
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Trans (and even cis) fans have every right to say Gwen Stacy is trans, even if the movies never outright confirm it. You can’t deny that it’s been hinted at.
The fact is— if she can make somebody feel represented, who are you to tell them they’re wrong? <a href="https://t.co/5QCuHIbTQR">pic.twitter.com/5QCuHIbTQR</a>
&mdash; The Green Kasey (@RawbertBeef) <a href="https://twitter.com/RawbertBeef/status/1665542810815135744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 5, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Trans (and even cis) fans have every right to say Gwen Stacy is trans, even if the movies never outright confirm it,&#8221; another social media user wrote. &#8220;You can&#8217;t deny that it&#8217;s been hinted at. The fact is— if she can make somebody feel represented, who are you to tell them they&#8217;re wrong?&#8221;
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Others, however, slammed the idea and said wearing colors of the &#8220;trans community&#8221; doesn&#8217;t make you transgender.
&#8220;So if you wear colors of the quote unquote trans community you&#8217;re automatically trans or a ally to the trans community even though these colors were here before that make that make sense&#8230;and no Spider-Gwen is not Trans,&#8221; one person tweeted.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/marvel-welcome-its-first-openly-trans-actor-spider-paul-bois">Marvel To Welcome Its First &#8216;Openly Trans Actor&#8217; In &#8216;Spider-Man: Far From Home&#8217;</a>

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Hollywood star <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/why-are-you-so-scared-of-breasts-florence-pugh-wears-sheer-dress-calls-critics-prudes-who-need-to-grow-up" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Florence Pugh</a> said that when she decided to branch out of the indie film world to appear in several Marvel projects, people in that community were really &#8220;pissed off&#8221; at her and thought she was &#8220;gone forever.&#8221;
During the 27-year-old actress&#8217; interview with <a href="https://time.com/collection/next-generation-leaders/6278537/florence-pugh-leaders/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Time magazine</a>, Pugh said she never thought she was turning her back on that part of the industry when she decided to enter the Marvel Cinematic Universe to star alongside Scarlett Johansson in &#8220;Black Widow.&#8221;
&#8220;So many people in the indie film world were really pissed off at me,&#8221; the actress said. &#8220;They were like, &#8216;Great, now she&#8217;s gone forever.&#8217; And I&#8217;m like, no, I&#8217;m working as hard as I used to work.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;ve always done back-to-back movies,&#8221; she added. &#8220;It&#8217;s just people are watching them now. You just have to be a bit more organized with your schedule.&#8221;
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Introducing TIME’s newest class of Next Generation Leaders <a href="https://t.co/CEWvBcPAFN">https://t.co/CEWvBcPAFN</a> <a href="https://t.co/habCtQVxtS">pic.twitter.com/habCtQVxtS</a>
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While the move to take on the role of Black Widow&#8217;s sister Yelena Belova and later to reprise the role in the Disney+ series &#8220;Hawkeye&#8221; made the actress go mainstream, she said she hasn&#8217;t stopped taking on independent film roles.
Pugh previously said there were those in the industry who told her she was &#8220;never going to go back to small movies again&#8221; because of how big the MCU is — something that she said would upset her, <a href="https://www.gamesradar.com/florence-pugh-marvel-indie-movies-good-person/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Total Film</a> noted.
&#8220;It always kind of wound me up,&#8221; Florence said. &#8220;Because I think there&#8217;s beauty in all types of those films. There&#8217;s beauty in the massive, epic storylines like &#8216;Dune,&#8217; like Marvel, like even &#8216;Oppenheimer&#8217; that I did.&#8221;
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&#8220;They&#8217;re amazing, mega movies. And then there&#8217;s also beauty in all these little ones that not everyone is going to see, but are going to affect the right person at the right time,&#8221; she added. &#8220;I&#8217;ve never, ever only thought that I was going to just do one type of movie. I&#8217;ve always known that I want to dabble in all areas.&#8221;
In between doing the Marvel projects, Pugh did Sebastian Lelio&#8217;s Netflix drama &#8220;The Wonder&#8221; and more recently had one of the leads in Zach Braff&#8217;s latest indie project, &#8220;A Good Person,&#8221; in which she starred alongside Morgan Freeman, <a href="https://variety.com/2023/film/news/florence-pugh-fans-pissed-off-marvel-movies-1235622764/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Variety</a> noted.

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The third &#8220;Guardians of the Galaxy&#8221; film continued to hold the top spot on its second weekend out, crushing box office earnings for the last Marvel film and soaring past the $500 million mark globally.
The Chris Pratt-led &#8220;Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 3&#8221; film grossed $62 million as of Sunday&#8217;s numbers and crossed the $200 million mark domestically, making it the best second weekend of any sequel in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/guardians-galaxy-box-office-book-club-1235487301/">Hollywood Reporter</a> reported.
Globally &#8220;GOTGVol3&#8221; did just as surprising when it raked in another $91 million from 52 markets and $58.4 million from China, bringing the total two-weekend tally at the worldwide box office to $530.9 million globally.
The success has proven a welcome treat after &#8220;Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,&#8221; also by Marvel Studios, earned $475.8 million globally, the outlet noted.
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chris-pratt-sends-message-to-guardian-of-the-galaxy-fans-after-third-film-hits-number-one-at-box-office-worldwide" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pratt</a> recently posted a message of praise to &#8220;Guardians of the Galaxy&#8221; fans after the final film in the franchise hit number one.
Pratt&#8217;s success follows another film of his, &#8220;The Super Marios Bros. Movie,&#8221; which smashed records at the box office recently, crossing the $1 billion mark worldwide. It earned $490 million in North America and $532 million internationally as of May 1. And as of Sunday&#8217;s numbers scored a total of $1.21 billion globally in its sixth weekend out.
The success has made the animated film only the fifth film since the pandemic to hit such a monumental mark, joining the films &#8220;Top Gun: Maverick,&#8221; &#8220;Avatar: The Way of Water,&#8221; &#8220;Spider-Man: No Way Home,&#8221; and &#8220;Jurassic World Dominion.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chris-pratt-sends-message-to-guardian-of-the-galaxy-fans-after-third-film-hits-number-one-at-box-office-worldwide">Chris Pratt Sends Message To &#8216;Guardian Of The Galaxy&#8217; Fans After Third Film Hits Number One At Box Office Worldwide</a>

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chris-pratt-admits-he-was-really-broken-before-meeting-wife-katherine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chris Pratt</a> sent a message of praise to &#8220;Guardians of the Galaxy&#8221; fans after the third and final film in the franchise hit number one at the box office both domestically and worldwide opening weekend.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chris-pratts-wife-says-the-couple-met-in-church-but-not-like-people-might-think" target="_blank" rel="noopener">43-year-old actor</a> took to his <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CsAIOK1p_hM/">Instagram</a> on Monday, informing his 43 million followers that &#8220;Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 3&#8221; is the &#8220;#1 Movie in the Galaxy!&#8221;
&#8220;Thank you to everyone who came out to support #GOTGVol3 this weekend!&#8221; he added.
The post included a behind-the-scenes photo from the set of the highly-anticipated Marvel movie. It also included numerous screenshots of comments from fans who went out to see the film and had nothing but praise for it.
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chris-pratt-drops-huge-news-about-the-terminal-list" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pratt&#8217;s</a> post comes following <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/guardians-of-the-galaxy-volume-3-nears-300-million-worldwide-in-smash-opening-weekend" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a> that the movie earned $118.4 million in the United States at the box office after it opened on May 5. Internationally &#8220;GOTGvol3&#8221; generated another $170.9 million, adding up to $289.3 million for the movie&#8217;s debut, the <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/guardians-galaxy-vol-3-box-office-opening-1235481443/">Hollywood Reporter</a> noted.
Despite the great opening, the film sits squarely between the franchise&#8217;s first film — which had an opening domestic box office total of $94 million in 2014 — and &#8220;Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 2,&#8221; which opened with a $146 million weekend in 2017, <a href="https://variety.com/2023/film/news/box-office-guardians-of-the-galaxy-3-opening-weekend-1235605486/">Variety</a> noted.
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Pratt&#8217;s success follows another film of his, &#8220;The Super Marios Bros. Movie,&#8221; which smashed records at the box office, crossing the $1 billion mark worldwide. It earned $490 million in North America and $532 million internationally as of May 1. The success has made it only the fifth film since the pandemic to hit such a monumental mark, joining such films as &#8220;Top Gun: Maverick,&#8221; &#8220;Avatar: The Way of Water,&#8221; &#8220;Spider-Man: No Way Home,&#8221; and &#8220;Jurassic World Dominion.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/super-mario-bros-movie-smashes-records-becomes-biggest-animated-movie-opening-weekend-ever">Super Mario Bros. Movie Smashes Records, Becomes Biggest Animated Movie Opening Weekend Ever</a>

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Marvel actress <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/marvel-actress-evangeline-lilly-comes-out-against-vaccine-mandates-nobody-should-ever-be-forced-to-inject-their-body" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Evangeline Lilly</a> has spoken out against what she described as the recent push to make men less masculine and women less feminine.
The 43-year-old took to <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Cr1NXwcS-ga/">Instagram</a> accusing Hollywood of pushing a double standard where masculine men are trashed, but women who exhibit the same traits are considered &#8220;cool.&#8221;
&#8220;Why are we only applauding masculinity in women and [villainizing] it in men?&#8221; Lilly wrote. &#8220;And why are we only applauding femininity in men and debasing it in women? Why can&#8217;t we just allow for all of it?&#8221;
&#8220;Why do we feel the need to vilify a man wearing s***-kicker boots, driving a pick-up truck who&#8217;s not afraid to punch someone in the face, but if they were a woman, they would be the epitome of cool?&#8221; she added. &#8220;Why is a man who loves make-up, cries easily and stays at home to tend to the domestic responsibilities valiant, but a woman who does the same is pathetic?&#8221;
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The &#8220;Ant-Man&#8221; star said it&#8217;s time we return to the old rule, &#8220;Do not judge&#8230;Let each be who they are and let us teach grace and charity above all things.&#8221;
Lilly concluded her lengthy post by writing: &#8220;Grace and charity are cornerstones of a thriving society and should not be abandoned. We need them like we need democracy, justice and peace. And, without them, we can&#8217;t have democracy, justice or peace.&#8221;
She made headlines earlier this year after saying both Disney and Marvel supported her after she protested against vaccine mandates in her home country of Canada, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/evangeline-lilly-reveals-disney-marvel-supported-controversial-vaccine-mandate-views">Fox News</a> noted.
&#8220;I&#8217;ve had direct conversations with them that I have instigated, and they&#8217;ve always said, &#8216;That&#8217;s not our business. That&#8217;s not for us to tell you how to live your life or what opinions to have,'&#8221; the actress said.
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&#8220;And I actually even got a really supportive phone call from Peyton Reed [Marvel director] at one point and just saying like, &#8216;Just so you know, there&#8217;s some rumors spreading about Marvel ditching you or canceling you. And that didn&#8217;t come from Marvel and that didn&#8217;t come from us, so just ignore that,&#8221; she added.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/it-is-our-job-as-the-people-to-hold-our-leadership-accountable-marvel-actress-begs-trudeau-to-sit-down-with-truckers">&#8216;It Is Our Job As The People To Hold Our Leadership Accountable&#8217;: Marvel Actress Begs Trudeau To Sit Down With Truckers</a>

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Disney&#8217;s &#8220;She-Hulk: Attorney At Law&#8221; star Jameela Jamil admitted she dropped out of recent auditions for a hit Netflix show over the filming of &#8220;sex scenes,&#8221; which she doesn&#8217;t do.
During the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jameela-jamil-celebrities-are-useless-i-might-well-leave-hollywood" target="_blank" rel="noopener">37-year-old actress</a>&#8216; recent appearance on Penn Badgley&#8217;s &#8220;Podcrushed&#8221; podcast, Jamil told the host she backed down from trying out for a potential role with Badgley in &#8220;You&#8221; Season 4 before the <a href="https://jezebel.com/penn-badgley-didn-t-want-to-do-intimacy-scenes-in-you-1850099309">actor</a> announced he was done with intimacy scenes on the show because &#8220;fidelity&#8221; in his marriage is important to him. He married Domino Kirke in 2017.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t do sex scenes,&#8221; &#8220;The Good Place&#8221; star said. &#8220;In fact, I was supposed to audition for the most recent season of your show.&#8221;
&#8220;My character was supposed to be quite sexy, and I pulled out of the audition, because I am so shy about anything sexy that I can&#8217;t,&#8221; she added.
&#8220;And then you f***ing came out and were like, &#8216;Yeah, I&#8217;m not doing sex scenes anymore,&#8217; and I was like, &#8216;I didn&#8217;t even know that was a boundary that we could draw,'&#8221; Jamil continued. &#8220;But then I was like, I should have gone and done the f***ing show.&#8221;
The &#8220;Legendary&#8221; star later talked about how it&#8217;s not only doing sex scenes that makes her feel uncomfortable but watching them on the screen as well, the <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/jameela-jamil-dropped-audition-you-season-4-sex-scenes-1235481753/">Hollywood Reporter</a> noted.
&#8220;Can&#8217;t even watch sex scenes in films. … Even on my own, I have to fast-forward through sex scenes because I&#8217;ve become so shy about watching other people,&#8221; the actress said.
&#8220;It&#8217;s not a shame. … I feel there&#8217;s an awkwardness around it,&#8221; she added.
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Her comments came after Badgley&#8217;s earlier this year when he talked about going to the showrunners and telling them he didn&#8217;t want any more intimate scenes on the show in Season 4, the <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/penn-badgley-less-sex-scenes-you-season-4-1235322600/">Hollywood Reporter</a> noted.
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&#8220;This is actually a decision I&#8217;d made before I took the show,&#8221; Badgley said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever mentioned it publicly, but one of the main things is like, &#8216;Do I wanna put myself back on a career path where I&#8217;m just always a romantic lead?'&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s really important to me … Fidelity in every relationship — and especially my marriage — is important to me, and it just got to a point where I didn&#8217;t wanna do that,&#8221; he added.
&#8220;Then, of course, before I took the show is there a question of, &#8216;Do I have a career if I don&#8217;t?'&#8221; Badgley continued. &#8220;I mean, you know, think about every male lead you&#8217;ve loved. Are they kissing someone? Are they doing a lot more than that? It&#8217;s really not my desire to.&#8221;
(Disclosure: The Daily Wire has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/introducing-dw-kids">announced plans</a> for kids entertainment content.)

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&#8220;Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 3,&#8221; the latest offering from the Marvel cinematic universe, put up $114 million at the domestic box office and another $168 million from foreign markets — meaning that the film&#8217;s opening weekend alone took it more than 1/4 of the way to the $1 billion benchmark.
Despite what would seem to be a big opening weekend, the third installment of &#8220;Guardians&#8221; – written and directed by new DC studio-head James Gunn — came in slightly short of an expected $120 million domestic. According to a <a href="https://variety.com/2023/film/news/box-office-guardians-of-the-galaxy-3-opening-weekend-1235605486/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from entertainment outlet Variety, the film rates squarely between the franchise&#8217;s first film — which had an opening domestic box office total of $94 million in 2014 — and &#8220;Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 2,&#8221; which opened with a $146 million weekend in 2017.
Another 52 global markets brought in an additional $168 million — including $28 million from China — adding up to a worldwide box office total of $282 million.
The movie, which features actor Chris Pratt as Star-Lord <a href="https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/2023W18/?ref_=bo_hm_rw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">topped the domestic box office</a> by almost $100 million for the weekend — and was followed by &#8220;Super Mario Bros.&#8221; — another Pratt-led film that brought in just over $18 million.
The video game-based animated film – which also starred comic actor Jack Black as the villain Bowser — tied the second &#8220;Guardians&#8221; outing in its first weekend at the domestic box office, opening the first week in April with $146 million. &#8220;Super Mario Bros.&#8221; has since become the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/super-marios-bros-movie-shocks-hollywood-after-hitting-massive-milestone" target="_blank" rel="noopener">first film</a> of 2023 to pass the $1 billion benchmark globally. It has also been touted as the most successful video game-based film in movie history.
Since the start of the pandemic, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-super-mario-bros-movie-becomes-the-first-billion-dollar-plus-film-of-2023-1e93483b" target="_blank" rel="noopener">only five movies</a> have reached the billion-dollar mark — &#8220;Avatar: The Way of Water,&#8221; &#8220;Spider-Man: No Way Home,&#8221; &#8220;Top Gun: Maverick,&#8221; &#8220;Jurassic World: Dominion,&#8221; and &#8220;Super Mario Bros.&#8221; If &#8220;Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 3&#8221; makes the cut and brings the total to six, half of them will be headlined by Pratt.

‘Guardians Of The Galaxy: Volume 3’ Nears $300 Million Worldwide In Smash Opening Weekend

'Guardians Of The Galaxy: Volume 3' Nears $300 Million Worldwide In Smash Opening Weekend

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Actor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/you-probably-need-to-watch-it-twice-chris-pratt-reacts-to-criticism-over-mario-bros-accent" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chris Pratt</a> has seen significant backlash over the years for being upfront and transparent about his Christian faith — and when asked how he handles being the target of hateful comments, he doubled down.
Pratt, 43, told entertainment outlet <a href="https://pagesix.com/2023/05/07/chris-pratt-says-jesus-struggle-helps-him-deal-with-haters/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Page Six</a> last week that he always thinks back to the story of Jesus and the suffering he endured, which reminds him that for Christians, hatred often comes with the territory.
&#8220;I sure do,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-few-good-men-these-5-hollywood-actors-put-faith-and-family-first" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pratt</a> acknowledged that he got plenty of criticism for being open about his personal faith. &#8220;But that’s nothing new, that’s nothing new, you know?&#8221;
He went on to quote a scripture that reiterated his point, saying, &#8220;If I was of this world, they would love me just like that but as it is, I’ve chosen out of this world. That’s John 15:18 through 20.&#8221;
&#8220;That’s the way it is, nothing new, 2,000 years ago they hated him, too,&#8221; he said of Jesus.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/director-james-gunn-responds-to-calls-to-recast-chris-pratt-over-actors-public-christianity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pratt</a> was rounding out a press tour for his latest Marvel film —&#8221;Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 3&#8243; — at the time, and he also told Page Six that thinking of Jesus&#8217; struggles was only part of his process when it came to dealing with hateful comments.
Saying that the trick was to deal with hate &#8220;just how you deal with anything,&#8221; he added, &#8220;Like a rhino, stick your head down, you keep driving forward, you have thick skin and if anyone gets in your way, you stick the horn right up their ass!&#8221;
&#8220;When it comes to rejection, I was trained in the crucible of door-to-door sales some 25 years ago. So, you can’t turn me away,&#8221; the &#8220;Super Mario Bros.&#8221; actor joked, explaining that his experience as a salesman had actually helped him in his film career. &#8220;[Sales] is a very hard job and it’s not dissimilar to acting or at least auditioning. You gotta collect nine ‘no’s’ to get one ‘yes.'&#8221;
The Pratt-led &#8220;Super Mario Bros,&#8221; released the first week in April, was the first 2023 film to gross over $1 billion — and after <a href="https://variety.com/2023/film/news/box-office-guardians-of-the-galaxy-3-opening-weekend-1235605486/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">just one weekend</a>, &#8220;Guardians&#8221; has raked in more than $280 million worldwide.

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Chris Pratt Says He Looks To Jesus When Dealing With Haters

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&#8220;Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 3&#8221; is set to hit theaters this week — and at least one of the stars has said that she feels like mourning has already set in as the franchise&#8217;s final chapter begins to make its way in the world.
Pom Klementieff, who played the role of Mantis in Volumes 2 and 3, said Friday that she has already begun to feel the impact of the series coming to a close — and that sometimes, the smallest things can trigger an intense emotional reaction.
Writer and director James Gunn outed Klementieff during a recent virtual press conference ahead of the film&#8217;s release, noting that he had been on a plane with several members of the &#8220;Guardians&#8221; cast — including Star Lord actor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chris-pratt-talks-getting-rejected-was-never-gonna-audition-for-marvel-again" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chris Pratt</a> and Nebula actress Karen Gillan in addition to Klementieff — when she had burst into tears over what they all thought was a simple accident.
Gunn began by blaming the entire situation on Pratt, saying, &#8220;We are on the plane. You know Chris, Chris is a clumsy oaf, okay? He comes in. We&#8217;re taking off. He has a coffee — there&#8217;s a cup holder right there. He doesn&#8217;t put his coffee in the cup holder. He puts it on the armrest.&#8221;
The director went on to explain that Klementieff had gotten on the plane with a really &#8220;cool looking&#8221; purse — which the actress confirmed had been &#8220;very expensive&#8221; — and that Pratt&#8217;s apparent inability to use a cup holder may have ruined it.
Gunn joked that the only explanation for what happened next was that perhaps Pratt had never flown before — because the coffee he&#8217;d placed on the armrest tipped over, spilling all over Klementieff&#8217;s &#8220;expensive, beautiful purse that we&#8217;ve all been complimenting for a week.&#8221;
&#8220;Pom&#8217;s a little irritated with Chris, as she should be. And, you know, we clean it up, and then we&#8217;re flying for another, I don&#8217;t know, maybe, you know, 10 minutes,&#8221; Gunn continued, adding that seemingly out of the blue, the actress suddenly began to cry a short while later.
&#8220;And she goes, &#8216;I&#8217;m so sad.&#8217; And Chris and I look at each other and go, &#8216;You really screwed up,'&#8221; Gunn said. &#8220;We thought she was sad about her purse getting wet.&#8221;
But Klementieff&#8217;s reaction apparently had nothing to do with the purse. &#8220;I feel like something is ending,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It&#8217;s funny because I wanted to hide in the bathroom and cry because &#8230; it&#8217;s like mourning, you know, sometimes it just comes at unexpected moments, and you just can&#8217;t control it. And it&#8217;s the beauty of it too, you know, it just comes like that, and I couldn&#8217;t contain it, and I wanted to hide in the bathroom to cry, but Karen was in the bathroom.&#8221;
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‘It’s Like Mourning’: ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Star Reveals What Set Her Off As The Trilogy Wrapped

'Guardians Of The Galaxy' Star Pom Klementieff Reveals What Set Her Off As The Trilogy Wrapped

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Actor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chris-pratt">Chris Pratt</a> said during a recent interview that he was rejected from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/marvel">Marvel</a> movies so many times that he almost gave up on them.
The 43-year-old <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment">celebrity</a> said on a recent episode of &#8220;Jimmy Kimmel Live!&#8221; that he &#8220;auditioned for Thor, but not even to be Thor – but to be one of the sidekick guys, and I didn’t get a callback.&#8221;
&#8220;Usually they give you a little bit of feedback, and I remember the casting director goes, ‘Wow. You really made a big choice there.’ Which is code for like, ‘Hey, dial back the acting there, guy,’&#8221; Pratt said of the experience.
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He said being rejected so much made him reach “the point where I was never gonna audition for Marvel again.&#8221;
&#8220;I was like, &#8216;This is stupid, I’m never gonna be in a Marvel <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/movies">movie</a>,'&#8221; Pratt told Kimmel. The actor said he started auditioning for &#8220;anything that came out that needed a guy that even remotely looked like me.&#8221;
&#8220;I would either submit a tape and they would say &#8216;No, we don’t need to see him,&#8217; or I would get there and see them, they’d go, &#8216;No, that’s the last time we need to see you,'&#8221; he said. Pratt said he must not have had the “it factor” casting agents wanted because they never asked him to come back.
The “Parks and Recreation” alum was later cast in &#8220;Guardians of the Galaxy&#8221; (2014) as Star-Lord. Now, Pratt is looking forward to the release of “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” on May 5.
The actor’s father-in-law, former California Republican governor and Hollywood actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, already posted a glowing review of the new superhero film.
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&#8220;I saw #GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol3 last night and WOW. @prattprattpratt, you crushed it,&#8221; Schwarzenegger shared in a <a href="https://twitter.com/Schwarzenegger/status/1652078259696439296">tweet</a> Friday. &#8220;A non-stop, perfect mix of comedy and action. I loved it and I’m very, very proud of you.&#8221; 
Pratt is still riding high on the success of his most recent smash hit, “The Super Mario Bros. Movie.” The actor voices Mario in the animated film, which recently surpassed $1 billion in revenue at the worldwide box office.

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Chris Pratt Talks Getting Rejected: 'Was Never Gonna Audition For Marvel Again'

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Actress Elizabeth Olsen made it clear that when it came to doing her own film stunts as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/thor-actor-chris-hemsworth-may-take-fewer-roles-in-the-future-heres-why" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marvel&#8217;s</a> Scarlet Witch, she had been there and done that — and she&#8217;d be just fine with not doing it again.
Olsen made the comments during a recent appearance on &#8220;The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,&#8221; and she told the host that while she understood why some actors really loved doing their own <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-world-was-sideways-brendan-fraser-explains-how-he-almost-died-filming-the-mummy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stunt work,</a> she did not count herself among them.
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Colbert prompted the discussion on stunts by recalling a story he&#8217;d heard about how Olsen had to do multiple takes of certain wire stunts because she could not stop laughing.
&#8220;Your stomach leaves you. It’s like, I guess, the joy people get on roller coasters, which I don’t get, but people love that feeling&#8230; I’ve definitely recovered from my giddiness,&#8221; Olsen replied. &#8220;Sometimes I’m just like, &#8216;Okay, how many more of these do you want? I can do this all day&#8217; kind of thing. But sometimes I get a little freaked out.&#8221;
Olsen went on to <a href="https://variety.com/2023/film/news/elizabeth-olsen-marvel-stunts-waste-of-time-scarlet-witch-1235589738/?cx_testId=48&amp;cx_testVariant=cx_1&amp;cx_artPos=5#cxrecs_s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">explain</a> that at the end of the day, she felt like it would be better for her stunt double to do those sequences.
&#8220;There is one in &#8216;Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness&#8217; where I had to be dropped from 30 feet up and land. They wanted to drop me pretty quickly so that it looked like it had an impact, but I kept landing like Peter Pan, kind of like fencing? I was like, &#8216;Just use the double. This is so ridiculous — there is a double for a reason. Like, face replace …&#8217; They do it all the time. And they used it,&#8221; she continued.
Olsen, whose Scarlet Witch went dark in the latest &#8220;Doctor Strange&#8221; film, said that she had done a lot of her own stunts for that movie and was ready to give up on taking them on herself: &#8220;It’s a waste of everyone’s time because a stunt double does it so much better.&#8221;

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Chris Hemsworth may look like a typical movie star, but that doesn’t mean he acts like one.
The 39-year-old native Australian has been awarded the coveted title of &#8216;Sexiest Man Alive&#8217; by People Magazine in 2014. He’s best known for portraying the hammer-wielding Norse god Thor in the Marvel Cinematic Universe since 2011. 
It would be easy for someone like Hemsworth to slip into the typical role of Hollywood lothario, dating the most beautiful women in the world in an endless loop of sex, drugs, and money. Instead, the millionaire actor married Spanish actress Elsa Pataky in 2010 and went on to have three children with her. Most recently, the MCU star said he’s even <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/thor-actor-chris-hemsworth-may-take-fewer-roles-in-the-future-heres-why" target="_blank" rel="noopener">taking a step back</a> from the spotlight to spend more time with his family after finding out he has a high risk for Alzheimer’s disease.
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The “Limitless” star made the comments during a November interview with Vanity Fair, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chris-hemsworth-confronts-mortality-after-discovering-genetic-predisposition-for-alzheimers-disease" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
“Most of us, we like to avoid speaking about death,” Hemsworth told the publication. “Then to all of a sudden be told some big indicators are actually pointing to this as the route which is going to happen, the reality of it sinks in. Your own mortality.”
The actor explained how he has two copies of the gene APOE4 which makes him “eight to 10 times more likely” to develop Alzheimer’s in the future. He’s part of an estimated 2-3% of the population carrying a copy of the gene from both parents.
Alzheimer’s is a progressive form of dementia that affects memory, thinking, and behavior.
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He said the diagnosis inspired him to do more “outdoorsy and adventurous” things with his wife and three kids. 
Hemsworth also said the entire experience has forced him to confront his own mortality. 
“Doing an episode on death and facing your own mortality made me go, ‘Oh God, I’m not ready to go yet.’ I want to sit and be in this space with a greater sense of stillness and gratitude,” Hemsworth <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/thor-actor-chris-hemsworth-may-take-fewer-roles-in-the-future-heres-why" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> at the time. 
“And then you start talking about kids and family and going, ‘Oh my God, they’re getting older, they’re growing up and I keep slapping another movie on top of another movie.’ Before you know it, they’re 18 and they’ve moved out of house, and I missed the window.”
Hemsworth got his start acting in his native Australia, playing Kim Hyde on the soap opera “Home and Away.”
He eventually made the transition to Hollywood and reached superstar levels of fame after being cast as Thor in 2011.
Even before realizing he’s susceptible to Alzheimer’s, Hemsworth was talking about prioritizing his family.
&#8220;There [are] times when I&#8217;ve thought, &#8216;Wow, because having kids is more important to me, some of my roles have suffered,'&#8221; the actor <a href="http://www.gq.com.au/entertainment/celebrity/chris-hemsworth-it-was-a-pressure-inbspwanted-to-live-up-to/image-gallery/d2d3ffe87c11346a7e3e3dab8a014f22?pos=4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> GQ Australia in 2018. &#8220;There [are] definitely a couple of films I could&#8217;ve put way more energy into but I was like, &#8216;No, I&#8217;d rather be with my kids.'&#8221;
&#8220;I often find myself saying it&#8217;s all for my family but in all this I definitely have personal things I need to achieve, too,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;The difference is you have to open yourself up and go, &#8216;Well, you had kids so you forfeited a bit of that.'&#8221;
Hemsworth also talked about raising kids while being famous, saying he and his wife are adamant about instilling the same values that they had growing up.
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&#8220;When I think about my kids, I don&#8217;t want them to miss that joy,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Elsa and I talk a lot about how we instill that same appreciation and respect for things. I don&#8217;t want them to feel like they&#8217;re privileged in any way. The fact that we have money and their parents are famous, that somehow they&#8217;re special, that scares me because we grew up with no money.&#8221;
But for Hemsworth, it’s not all contemplating sickness and death. The father of three also likes to show off his fun side, which recently earned him some criticism from social media followers.
The “Avengers: Endgame” star posted a photo of one of his 9-year-old twin sons <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chris-hemsworth-dragged-for-photo-of-his-wife-smashing-cake-in-sons-face-on-his-9th-birthday" target="_blank" rel="noopener">getting cake smashed</a> in his face for his birthday.
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Celebrated the 9th birthdays of my two little men this weekend! Only one way to eat cake in this house and that’s to have mum slam your head into it face first!! “Hey mum I don’t like chocolate cake I prefer vanilla” “oh really son, what about now”? <a href="https://twitter.com/ElsaPataky_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ElsaPataky_</a> <a href="https://t.co/9L2XOXwex7">pic.twitter.com/9L2XOXwex7</a>
&mdash; Chris Hemsworth (@chrishemsworth) <a href="https://twitter.com/chrishemsworth/status/1637895687408062465?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 20, 2023</a></blockquote>
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“Happy 9th birthday to my two little men! Only one way to eat cake in this house and that’s to have mum slam your head into it face first!! ‘Hey mum I don’t like chocolate cake I prefer vanilla’ ‘oh really son, what about now’?” Hemsworth wrote in the image caption.
Several followers expressed their negative feelings about the Marvel star promoting the “violent” practice of cake smashing.
“Yeah, not cool. I would never want another birthday cake in my life. Also, its rude to everyone else who might be eating that cake (or what’s left of it). Its gross, rude, and a good way to ruin your kid’s birthdays for the rest of their lives,” one person wrote, while another declared it “violent” and “not funny.”
Others came to the actor’s defense, saying that he was clearly a fun dad who knew his son would enjoy a prank like that. They also pointed out how cake smashing could be part of his wife’s Spanish heritage.
“How have we come this far as a species only to get more and more sissified?! This is funny and fun,” one commenter wrote. “You know your kids and you know their limits. That boy probably thought this was hilarious.”
“It’s part of Hispanic/Latino culture,” another person said.
Cake smashing aside, Hemsworth has established himself as a committed husband and father over the course of his Hollywood career. Other actors should take note.

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