Chris Pratt Reveals His First Big Paycheck & How He Blew Through It

Chris Pratt opened up about his first big paycheck as an actor.

The 44-year-old actor is a Hollywood star with lead roles in some of the biggest movies in recent memory now. However, in his earliest days in the industry he was waiting tables to make ends meet.

During a recent interview, Chris revealed the amount of his first big paycheck and talked about how he blew through the money.

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While on SiriusXM’s Sway in the Morning, Chris explained that he got a $75,000 check for a TV movie that he did. It’s not clear which movie he is referring to.

“The first paycheck I got, I was like, ‘Are you serious?’ I had lived on very little money for a long time,” he recalled. The actor joked that he thought he’d never have to work in a restaurant again. However, the money didn’t go as far as he thought, joking, “About two months later, I was like, ‘Where’d that money go?!’”

He said that he “traveled the world,” thinking that he’d “probably invest” and buy a yacht. Chris explained that he didn’t have a grasp of money at the time.

“That was just a crazy amount of money to me. I never could have possibly imagined making that amount of money. And it went very quickly,” he said.

He continued, saying, “Because we never had any money growing up, no one ever taught me financial literacy. i didn’t know what to do with money. It was like, it would come in, I would spend it.

“It took a good amount of time for me to kind of stop and say, ‘All right. I’ve got to get wise about this. I have to think about what am I going to do. How am I going to get the point where if I stop working one day I’ll still be Ok?’”

Check out how so many other stars spent their first paychecks. One of them bought an ice cream truck?!