‘Terminal List’ Star Chris Pratt on Leading the Set With Kindness, Not an Iron Fist: ‘That’s Not How I Like to Work’

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Chris Pratt stars in and executive produces the new Prime Video series “The Terminal List,” about Navy SEAL James Reece (Pratt) who starts suspecting something complex and sinister was behind his entire platoon being ambushed during a mission.

It marks the Marvel star’s first time as one of the bosses on a television series.Although the shoots on the show based on Jack Carr’s bestselling novel were long, and for much of the cast playing members of the military physically taxing, the cast had nothing but praise for their co-star and EP.“What you see is what you get in terms of his great attitude and his enthusiasm,” Jeanne Tripplehorn, who plays Defense Secretary Lorraine Hartley in the series, told TheWrap.Tripplehorn, whose character interacts with Reece as he starts following up on his hunch, said there was a few-month period where she didn’t see Pratt as he filmed more intense material.

Despite the emotional demands and physicality of that time, she said her co-star returned for their later-episode scenes with the same enthusiasm he started with.“He energizes everybody by his presence, but I didn’t know what I was going to find four months later, three months down the line,” she continued. “It was at the very end, [and] things are really intense.

He walked on set [and] I almost didn’t recognize him.”Pratt retuned “bulked out” and muscled, “covered in all this makeup.” “He had been through the wilderness, but he walked on set [with] the biggest smile,” Tripplehorn said. “He hadn’t lost an ounce of that energy and positivity.