{"id":22636,"date":"2025-12-14T10:11:46","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T10:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/?p=22636"},"modified":"2025-12-14T10:11:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T10:11:58","slug":"one-joke-one-bus-chris-pratt-thought-it-was-friendship-until-jennifer-lawrences-on-air-paint-revenge-on-jimmy-kimmel-live-erased-his-face-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/?p=22636","title":{"rendered":"\u201cOne Joke. One Bus.\u201d Chris Pratt Thought It Was Friendship\u2014Until Jennifer Lawrence\u2019s On-Air Paint Revenge on Jimmy Kimmel Live Erased His Face Forever."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-path-to-node=\"1\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The promotional tour for the 2016 sci-fi film <i>Passengers<\/i> became less about the intergalactic romance and more about the escalating, highly-publicized prank war between its two stars, Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence (JLaw). Pratt, operating under the guise of friendly banter, spent weeks intentionally excluding his co-star from his social media posts, a running joke that Lawrence eventually decided to end with a definitive and hilariously visible act of retaliation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><b>The Social Media Snub: The &#8220;Face-Cutting&#8221; Prank<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">During the global press tour for <i>Passengers<\/i>, Chris Pratt embarked on a sustained social media prank where he repeatedly posted selfies with JLaw, but always with her face intentionally cut out, cropped, or obscured.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul data-path-to-node=\"4\">\n<li>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4,0,0\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><b>The Tactic:<\/b> Pratt\u2019s Instagram feed was filled with photos from talk shows, interviews, and events, often captioned with a seemingly sincere greeting or photo announcement\u2014but with only half of Lawrence\u2019s face visible, or just the back of her head.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4,1,0\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><b>The Intent:<\/b> While the prank was lighthearted and designed to generate buzz for the movie, it was also a sly running joke about Lawrence\u2019s immense fame, implying that she was being sidelined.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"5\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Lawrence, who had to endure weeks of this gag, finally got her chance for a brutal, public revenge during an appearance on <i>Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/i> in December 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"6\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><b>The Revenge: Spray Paint and a New Last Name<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"7\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">After discussing Pratt\u2019s cropping antics with Jimmy Kimmel, Lawrence, feigning indignation, stormed out of the studio, declaring, <b>\u201cF<\/b>* it, I\u2019m going to do something about it.\u201d**<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"8\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The ultimate revenge was immediate, physical, and public. With the help of Kimmel and his sidekick Guillermo Rodriguez, Lawrence found the large promotional tour bus parked outside the Hollywood Masonic Temple, which featured an enormous advertisement for <i>Passengers<\/i> with a giant picture of Pratt\u2019s face.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"9\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Lawrence and Kimmel then proceeded to vandalize the advertisement with spray paint in a series of playful and devastating edits:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul data-path-to-node=\"10\">\n<li>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"10,0,0\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><b>The Defacement:<\/b> Lawrence covered Pratt\u2019s face with black spray paint, adding a mustache and a unibrow, and giving him &#8220;Terminator red eyes.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"10,1,0\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><b>The Insult:<\/b> Kimmel pitched in by spray-painting over the film\u2019s title, scoring out the &#8216;P&#8217; and the &#8216;T&#8217; to leave only the word &#8220;ASS,&#8221; then drawing an arrow pointing to Pratt&#8217;s defaced face.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"10,2,0\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><b>The Name Change:<\/b> In the most direct insult, Lawrence changed Pratt\u2019s last name on the poster from &#8220;Pratt&#8221; to &#8220;<b>Rat<\/b>.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"11\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">This act of hilarious, on-air &#8220;vandalism&#8221; was the perfect retort, completely wiping Pratt\u2019s pristine image off the bus with a message that resonated with fans who had been following the saga.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"12\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><b>Related Notable Events: The War of Words<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"13\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The exchange of lighthearted insults became a central feature of the promotion for <i>Passengers<\/i>. The duo also participated in BBC Radio 1&#8217;s &#8220;Playground Insults&#8221; segment, where they took turns delivering increasingly savage insults. Lawrence\u2019s lines, such as asking Pratt, <b>&#8220;Where do you keep your Oscar?&#8221;<\/b> (Pratt has none), were considered particularly sharp and highlighted their playful competitive edge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"14\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Jennifer Lawrence&#8217;s decisive, spray-paint-fueled retaliation on the promotional bus was the iconic conclusion to the <i>Passengers<\/i> press tour\u2014a perfect, messy demonstration that in a celebrity feud, the most successful revenge is often the one that\u2019s broadcast on live television.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jennifer Lawrence Gets Her Revenge on Chris Pratt\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T5AdquDjiyE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The promotional tour for the 2016 sci-fi film Passengers became less about the intergalactic romance and more about the escalating, highly-publicized prank war between its two stars, Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence (JLaw). Pratt, operating under the guise of friendly banter, spent weeks intentionally excluding his co-star from his social media posts, a running joke&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}