Chris Pratt Talks About Fans Hating Him After AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR and What He Thinks of That Scene Now

In Avengers: Infinity War, Earth’s Mightiest Heroes went up against their biggest adversary yet, Thanos (Josh Brolin). The villain traveled the universe collecting the Infinity Stones for his gauntlet, and one of them required him to make a sacrifice, and he chose his “daughter” Gamora for it.

This completely devastated Peter Quill/Star-Lord (Chris Pratt), and he ignored his friends’ plea to stick to the plan. He attacked Thanos, only giving way to chaos, ultimately allowing Thanos to get away.

This, of course, made the dominoes fall into place which lead to Iron Man doing the only thing that would save the rest of the world- give up his life.

So since one thing lead to another… is it Peter Quill’s fault that Tony Stark died? Maybe, but Chris Pratt has a case for why this was necessary.

In a recent interview on Out of Order’s Scene Stealers (via SuperHeroHype), Pratt watched and broke down several iconic scenes from his filmography. When looking at his divisive scene from Avengers: Infinity War, the actor said he currently viewed it “differently” from when he first filmed it.

“What’s wild about this scene is people eviscerate Quill because of his responsibility for essentially getting Iron Man killed for that moment. You know that human moment where people hate this character for a while, and I really felt that.”

He went on to recall that frustrated fans would approach him on the street and ask him why Star-Lord ruined the heroes’ efforts. Pratt added that he defended himself by telling them he didn’t do anything.

He also joked that if he didn’t do what he did, fans would get a 30-minute-long movie instead of two movies — Infinity War and Endgame.

“We got him. That’s not a movie. You know what I mean? So, looking at it now, I kind of feel the weight of and the ramifications of what happened to the character of Quill because of that. I’m still happy that it happened. But I didn’t understand that it would be iconic.”

It was, and it’s still annoying to think about how irrational the character was, really throwing a wrench in the plan. But like he said, there had to be some conflicts and road blocks or we would have had a much shorter and more boring film.