I did a whole big cover story on Chris Pratt for GQ (which you can read right here), but if you're one of those people who reply THA GOD to every single Instagram photo of him and you need more Pratt in your life, there will be a shitload of extras from the article posting there online tomorrow. For now, here is a small taste of the magic in store for you:


* DID YOU KNOW that Pratt's character in Guardians of the Galaxy was almost played by Glenn Howerton of It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia? It's true! Here's director James Gunn: "Glenn came along a little bit later, but there was a good chance that, if I didn't cast Chris, that I would've cast Glenn Howerton in the role." My hope is that Glenn chose to make Lethal Weapon 5, Part 2 instead.

* In the profile, I noted that Pratt and his wife, Anna Faris, had a son born nine weeks premature. "He was born at three pounds," Faris said, "and we were told, OK, you need to be prepared for raising a special-needs child. And we felt like it was devastating, but it also felt like, you know, We can do this." "He's alive," Pratt said. Indeed he is now, and has no limitations outside of needing to wear eyeglasses. Ever seen eyeglasses on a 2-year-old? ADORBSBALLS.


* Faris told me she went to a One Direction concert and did not enjoy the experience: "I felt like we were all gonna die."

"I just think it's funny that it's all five dudes who want to be taken pretty seriously as musicians, but I don't think any of them play instruments," Pratt said.

We then tried to name every member of the group.

"I know there's a guy named Harry," Pratt said.

"I bet there's a lot of one-syllable names," said Faris.

"Probably someone named Liam."

* Here's Pratt on how to skin a coyote: "You get this stuff called Krowtann, which is like this really, really crazy, abrasive stuff, and then you dump it in water, and—it has instructions that come with it, but you can do it on your own, too, with, like, Borax and salt. Mix it up half-and-half, lay the skin out, cut off as much of the meat off the skin as you can—like, the bits of fat and stuff—and then you put the salt on it and Borax, and then you let it dry for a couple days and scoop it out and use vinegar and scrub it, use your own urine and scrub it."


* On the worst bachelor party he ever went to: "I remember my brother got married when he was about 19—he's divorced now—but he was married, and they got a stripper for him, and she was definitely way, way older than all of us. And it was just, like, really fuckin' nasty. It's never like the movies. You always feel kind of bad for the person."

* On home childbirth: "I just think about all the women who had to give birth back in the day in their homes—if you were to get in a time machine and be like, 'By the way, in the future, there's facilities that, if something goes wrong, there are trained professionals to take care of you. The mortality rate goes way down. You could totally survive this, and your baby, and people choose not to. Is that crazy?' They would be like, 'What?!'"


* On Adrian Peterson: "Fuckin' Adrian Peterson, man. Yeah, that's fucked up, especially when you have fucking seven kids. And they don't live with you—they just come visit you sometimes. It's good, I guess, that he's being punished the way he is, which is probably the way that people should think about punishing their own kids, which is like, 'When you fuck up, I'm going to take something away from you that you really like. And then maybe you won't do it again.'"

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