Chris Pratt on How the Power Stone Changed Star-Lord in GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2
I’m sure you all remember the end of Guardians of the Galaxy when Star-Lord helped save the galaxy by reaching out and grabbing the Power Stone with his bare hand. The expectation was for him to die, and it looked like it was going in that direction until his Guardians team joined hands and helped take on the energy that the stone was unleashing.
I never really thought about that experience or about how the power of that stone flowing through Peter Quill’s body would have affected him. But how could it not affect him!? He was holding the freakin’ Power Stone and the energy was exploding off of it!
While talking to CB, Chris Pratt was asked if the stone affected Star-Lord, and Pratt revealed that the ramifications of that will actually follow the character into Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. He said:
"It plays a certain role. His interaction with the Infinity Stone in the first movie becomes - there’s a thread there that gets pulled in the second movie, like you get to know a little bit more. But yeah, that wasn’t an unimportant aspect of who he is."
We know that one of the only reasons that Quill was able to survive holding the stone for as long as he did was because his father is an incredibly powerful being. This sparks Quill’s journey to go and find out who is father is, and we now know this leads him to Ego the Living Planet.
We’ll have to wait until the movie comes out before we learn any other aspects of how the Power Stone affected him.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 will hit theaters on May 5, 2017.