United Kingdom, Jan. 22 -- Chris Pratt nearly made Christo his stage name.

The 46-year-old actor - born Christopher Michael Pratt - said the moniker would have paid tribute to when the P-H-E-R got rubbed off his Bubba Gump Shrimp Company employee tag.

Appearing on the latest episode of Josh Horowitz's Happy Sad Confused podcast, Chris - who worked as a waiter at the seafood chain's Maui, Hawaii, restaurant - revealed: "I was going to be Christo.

"I had a name tag that said 'Christopher' - but this is at a Bubba Gump Shrimp Company. But the P-H-E-R part got rubbed off, so it said Christo, and everyone called me Christo for a long time while I was working at Bubba Gump, high turnover rate, the new employees thought my name was Christo."...