Mercy – the new sci-fi film starring Chris Pratt and Rebecca Ferguson – is just about the textbook example of the latter category. Set in near-future LA, it sees Pratt playing a detective who has been put on trial by murder and whose fate now rests in the hand of an AI judge (Ferguson).
To mark the release, RadioTimes.com spoke to Pratt for our Film Flashbacks series – discussing everything from his very first film memories to why he doesn't expect Mercy to change too many perspectives on AI. You can check out the full interview in video form above and in written form below.
The first film I ever saw in the cinema was Gremlins. I'll never forget it because back then, all those years ago, you would find out what was playing at the box office by looking in the newspaper. You'd open the newspaper and there'd be the movie section. And I remember my sister being really excited... she was like, 'We're gonna go see gremlins. We're gonna go see gremlins.' But I didn't know what Gremlins was, and I thought she was saying 'We're gonna go to grandma's. And I was like... I don't know why she's so excited!
I don't know that I revisited that one too many times. I think I watched it one time again, relatively recently, within the last 10 years, but beyond that, no.
I would say, probably around the time that Jim Carrey was really blowing up. I think I saw Ace Ventura: Pet Detective in the theatre, and I came home and I was like, 'God, he's so funny.' I loved him from In Living Color, and I was always trying to do the characters that he played. So I think around that time.
Wow. The memories from The Extreme Team... I remember they asked me if I knew how to snowboard and I lied and said yes. And then I showed up in New Zealand to do a movie that was all about snowboarding and I didn't know how so they had to pause production for a month and teach everybody how to snowboard.
And that was in 2001, and oddly – this is a little dark – September 11th happened while we were on set, and so I remember that. That just took a real dark turn for Radio Times, so yes, that's what happened. I should learn to filter myself! But I remember being really excited, I remember thinking this is it, I'm never going to have to be a waiter again.
It's like if you throw a frog into boiling water it'll jump right out but if you put them in cold water and turn on the heat then eventually it will boil and they won't even know. And I feel like my career has kind of been like that – slow incremental steps over the course of multiple decades.
Do you remember the first time you saw your Mercy co-star Rebecca Ferguson in a film?
I was like, 'I don't think I've heard of June.' I just thought that was like an independent movie where she played, like, a prisoner with tattoos on her face. Didn't put it together that she was talking about Dune for like ten minutes. She was like, 'You've never heard of Dune?' I was like, 'I don't think I've heard of June, I'm so sorry, I don't know you're whole filmography. Anyways, got there in the end!
View Green Video on the source websiteIt was a great rapport. We spent a few weeks together. All of the stuff that we shot was – including the reshoots – isolated in the chamber... And we cleaned up all of the courtroom stuff relatively quickly because we were doing really long takes.
Is there a film that you would recommend people do as a double bill with Mercy?
What do you hope people take away from the film. There's obviously themes of AI and how much we can we can rely on it, how much we can trust it, how much we we can't...
My hope, actually, is that maybe some of the anxiety we feel in life can be turned off for 90 minutes, and you can just be brought on a thrill ride, and enjoy an experience of just sheer entertainment.
Mercy is released in UK cinemas on Friday 23rd January 2026.
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