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How Kurt Russell Got The Role Of Peter Quill’s Father In Guardians of The Galaxy 2 #GOTGvol2event

We learned how Kurt Russell got involved with the Guardians of the Galaxy 2 movie as Peter Quill’s father. What a fun Kurt Russell interview!

An interview with Kurt Russell - How Kurt Russell Got The Role Of Peter Quill's Father In Guardians of The Galaxy Vol. 2

I am excited to share the next interview in our Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2 series is with an awesome, legendary actor – Kurt Russell! Russell plays the role of EGO, Peter Quill’s father, and comes onto the scene quite unexpectedly. Peter Quill’s character learns so much about himself from his father, as well as his history with his mother and what happened in his earlier years while he was with the Ravagers. Russell is such a nice guy, he was thrilled to be in the Marvel/Guardians franchise and told us all about how he got involved with the movie…

Kurt Russell at Marvels Guardians of the Galaxy vol 2 press day, The London Hotel, Los Angeles, CA

photo: Louise Bishop/Mom Start

Here’s How Kurt Russell Got Involved with Guardians of The Galaxy 2 As Peter Quill’s Father

We wanted to know just how Kurt Russell got involved with the movie Guardians of the Galaxy 2, and how he got to play the role of EGO, Peter Quill’s father. It’s actually funny to know that he’d never seen the first movie and had no idea how big it was. Here’s what he said:

I was doing this publicity stunt for Tarantino’s movie, The Hateful Eight, and one day all of a sudden, [my phone calls] started to go off, which is very rare for me. I don’t have a lot of telephone action. I don’t do media stuff on it so, [the calls were] literally like, this is exciting, are you gonna do this? Then the people in the interview started to ask me, are you gonna do Guardians of the Galaxy? Are you gonna play Peter Quill’s father? I literally had no idea what they were talking about ‘cause I hadn’t seen the movie. And I just said, no. I was like, wow, whatever this is they’re excited about it.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 EGO and Star Lord movie still

So he finally talks to his team and says that once he saw the movie, he loved it and was totally into it the more he watched!

The next day kinda got the official word and I said well guys, I need to read it and I need to see the movie. When I saw the movie right away I kinda fell in love with it and it just got better and better. But more than anything else I was kinda watching Chris [Pratt] and saying, yeah, I get that energy. I get that, kinda that style. I realized from movies that I had done in the past, I would bring the right baggage here. As I read the screenplay, it was even more so.”

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 EGO and Star Lord Peter Quill's dad movie photo

Russell says that he got such a great reaction from everyone about him playing the role of Peter Quill’s father, and he really wanted to make sure it was right. He spoke with Director James Gunn and told him he wanted to “make sure we hit the right notes here. I said, you know, it has to have the right amount of comedy and we started talking about it and I felt very comfortable with James. I thought his hand was really solidly on it. He really knew what he was doing.”

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 EGO and all of the Guardians

Catch Kurt Russell as EGO, Peter Quill’s father in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, NOW PLAYING!

This movie is so good, if you have not gone to the theater to see it yet, I highly encourage you to do so! See how EGO and Peter Quill’s father son relationship forms in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, there are so many unexpected twists!

More from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2…

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New characters Mantis, Ayesha, and the return of Nebula
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Kurt Russell plays Ego, Peter Quill’s father
James Gunn and Kevin Feige: Music in Guardians of the Galaxy 2
Michael Rooker & Sean Gunn return as Ravagers Yondu and Kraglin

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I attended a press trip courtesy of Disney. Travel, lodging and other logistics are provided, opinions are those of Honey + Lime.

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