Chris Pratt fires up grill for Aaron Rodgers

When Aaron Rodgers comes over for dinner, you get nervous — even if you’re Chris Pratt.

On “The Late Late Show with James Corden” on Monday, the “Guardians of the Galaxy” and “Jurassic World” actor spilled the details of good grilling intentions gone wrong when he and wife Anna Faris entertained the Green Bay Packers quarterback and girlfriend Olivia Munn at a rental home in Atlanta. 

Corden showed a picture of Rodgers and Pratt, who was holding up a steak, and asked what was happening in the photo.

“That’s, uh, what was left of the steak that I tried to grill,” Pratt told Corden and Munn, who was also a guest on the CBS talk show. “When Aaron Rodgers comes to your house, you think, ‘I better man up here, you know?’ So I planned some manly things, because I desperately, of course, want him to be my friend and want him to like me and respect me.”

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The plan called for fishing and grilling, but the latter didn’t go so well. There was too much searing of the steak and, ultimately, a grease fire.

“I got nervous," Pratt said. "I wanted him to be my friend."

Corden, who is British, confessed that he too gets starstruck when it comes to Rodgers.

“Me and Aaron Rodgers we had ...like these flirty texts for a while. Then he changed his number,” Corden said. “... It’s Aaron Rodgers, so I’m like planning texts and then deleting them going, ‘I can’t send that! I can’t send that!’ So you end up just sending stuff like, ‘Hey man, what’s going down?’”

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