Chris Pratt modelled his ‘Electric State’ character on his old neighbour that he grew up with.
Chris Pratt modelled his ‘Electric State’ character on his old neighbour.
The 45-year-old actor stars in the sci-fi film that is set an alternate 1990s universe and revealed that he took inspiration from a man who grew up on the same street as him to bring his character to screen.
He told ScreenRant: “Kenny Gundacker, may he rest in peace…
“What I remember of him as a seven-year-old is [that] he was just an icon
“I thought I lived next to David Lee Roth. I saw [Roth] on MTV, and I was like, ‘Oh, that’s my neighbour. I see him every day.’ He used to jump around on a little mini trampoline in the backyard in tiger-striped stretch pants with a tiny little electric guitar he would just rip on … it was his swagger and his confidence that just made him so attractive to anyone around him, as I remember it now.”
The Hollywood star added that he put a lot of thought into who his neighbour might have been in the decade before the film was set.
He said: “So, when I was building this character out, I was like, ‘Who would that guy be in the ‘80s?’ and then [gave] it a post-apocalyptic world and let him be kind of past his prime–where would he end up, and what would he look like?
Chris admitted that he was “mining” for a character like that, and thought back the fashion items of the day to bring the character to life.
He said: “I kind of was mining for that with some of this swagger and all of his rings, the things hanging around his neck, and the bleached hair and stuff.”
Chris Pratt modelled his Electric State character on his old neighbour
