Actor Chris Pratt: Hollywood Isn't Representing Blue-Collar America

“I don’t see personal stories that necessarily resonate with me, because they’re not my stories.”

Chris Pratt, star of Guardians of the Galaxy, Zero Dark Thirty, The Lego Movie, and the remake of The Magnificent Seven, has rapidly become one of America's most-liked actors, perhaps not least because he is open about his Christianity and holds values that seem suspiciously conservative for a movie star.

Newsbusters reports that in a recent interview with Men’s Fitness, Pratt complained about Hollywood's dearth of stories that resonate with blue-collar Americans. “I don’t see personal stories that necessarily resonate with me, because they’re not my stories,” said Pratt, who grew up in Lake Stevens, Washington. “I think there’s room for me to tell mine, and probably an audience that would be hungry for them.”

“The voice of the average, blue-collar American isn’t necessarily represented in Hollywood,” the actor concluded.

Of course, that sentiment doesn't resonate with the social justice warriors among the media elites, like Marie Claire senior entertainment editor Mehera Bonner, who dismissed his complaint as a mark of his straight, white privilege:

While it's nice that Chris wants to see more people like himself on-screen, he is a straight, white male. And Hollywood has an *actual* diversity problem at the moment—both in terms of race and gender. So, actually, maybe it's time for there to be less stories like Chris Pratt's, and more stories about, oh, you know, literally any other marginalized community in this country.”

Newsbusters pointed out that Bonner, who probably doesn't even know any blue-collar workers, missed the obvious fact that they can be of any race or gender, and that blue-collar, flyover Americans are a marginalized community -- marginalized by Hollywood and Marie Claire entertainment editors.

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