Chris Pratt opens up on the differences of raising girls and boys

As his new Super Mario Bros. movie makes it to the box office, Chris Pratt talks about the difference between raising boys and girls.

The 43-year-old actor shares 10-year-old son Jack with his first wife Ana Faris and two-year-old daughter Lyla Marie and 9-month-old daughter Eloise Christina with wife Katherine Schwarzenegger.

Pratt was promoting The Super Mario Bros. on Friday. Movie on Late Night with Seth Meyers, where he talked about the differences between raising boys and girls.

When asked what it’s like to be a new girl dad, Pratt said, “Love it, man.

” It’s really fantastic.’

“I have a 10-year-old son and this is the first time I’ve had daughters, and it’s really fantastic,” Pratt added.

“You hear that the experience might be different, and it really is, in my experience,” Pratt added, before giving a specific example.

“My daughter Lyla is so girly.

I picked her up yesterday and she was like, ‘Oh daddy, that’s a cute outfit. Look, you have cute little pockets,” he said.

Pratt added with a laugh, “That’s not something Jack ever said to me,” while host Seth Meyers added, “Yeah, my boys didn’t mention my pockets once.”

Meyers also asked Pratt about his famous father-in-law, Arnold Schwarzenegger, asking if it’s “surreal” to be part of his family.

‘Yeah, it’s quite surreal. I mean, I’ve come to know him now as a regular guy and everything. He’s a great-grandfather, a great father, a good father-in-law, and oddly he has a wealth of experience in the world of promoting blockbuster action movies,” Pratt said with a laugh.

Pratt added that Schwarzenegger is “a great guy,” adding, “We play a lot of chess and he loves his grandchildren.”

When Meyers asked who is better at chess, Pratt admitted, “I’ve never beaten him.” He’s really good.’

Meyers also asked him about voicing Mario in The Super Mario Bros. Movie, asking if he played any of the video games as a kid.

‘Yes. Honestly, if I had to add up the hours, and this isn’t an exaggeration, I think it’s almost 25 million hours,” Pratt joked.

He added that the new film is “fantastic,” adding that there are a lot of “amazing Easter eggs” sprinkled throughout the film.

The actor also said that “the soundtrack is from the games soundtrack,” and he had a “Pavlovian reaction to the coin and landing on a turtle and breaking a rock and getting a star.”

“30 years I’ve been preparing for this movie, and as an audience you realize how hypnotic that music has been,” Pratt clarified, adding that his son Jack plays Mario Kart and Smash Bros on his Nintendo Switch.

When asked if he was of the age to actually go to arcades, Pratt said he was.

“I was in the right place. So it was the late 80’s when I was first introduced to the arcade game Super Mario Bros. or Mario Bros.,” Pratt said.

He added that he grew up in a “really small town” and there was nothing to do, so I came home from school and went to this little coin-operated laundromat…and there was an arcade game there.”

Pratt added that there was also a pizzeria with a jukebox that had the coin returned in the back, so he reached behind the machine for a quarter and when he found one, he went to the laundromat to play that game.

He also said that the laundromat’s teen manager Jason would give him a quarter if he got in the clothes dryer and spun it, adding that it was a win-win for him.