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<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) &#8212; Chris Pratt always declined previous offers to do commercials, but he made an exception for an upcoming Super Bowl spot &#8212; mostly because he likes beer.</p><p>Pratt will make his advertising debut Sunday in a pair of commercials for Michelob Ultra.</p><p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve watched every single Super Bowl since 1985,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;m a Super Bowl guy, and I definitely feel really connected not only to football and to the NFL and the Super Bowl, but also to the commercials&#8230; That&#8217;s always the most exciting part for me, and it feels good to be part of that, like I&#8217;m a little tile in the mosaic of American culture.&#8221;</p><p>The star of the &#8220;Jurassic World&#8221; and &#8220;Guardians of the Galaxy&#8221; film franchises also joked that being in a Super Bowl ad could &#8220;open things up&#8221; for him professionally.</p><p>&#8220;The Super Bowl launches people&#8217;s careers &#8212; like Whitney Houston,&#8221; Pratt said from his trailer on the set of the Michelob spot. &#8220;She sang the national anthem at the Super Bowl and it was like the highlight of the whole day, and then it launched her career&#8230; And I&#8217;m really hoping this is my Whitney Houston national anthem moment.&#8221;</p><p>Houston was already a Grammy-winning star when she performed at the game in 1991. Pratt was among the world&#8217;s highest-paid actors last year, according to Forbes.</p><p>He joins this year&#8217;s crop of celebrities starring in Super Bowl ads, including Tiffany Haddish, Cindy Crawford and Morgan Freeman. The airtime alone for a 30-second spot this year costs more than $5 million this year.</p><p>Pratt, 38, said he approached the job just as he would a big-screen gig. He even bumped up his training for his next film, &#8220;Cowboy Ninja Viking,&#8221; so he would be in peak condition for the commercial shoot.</p><p>&#8220;If I&#8217;m going to be having my shirt off&#8230; in front of 100 million people, I want to look good,&#8221; he said, &#8220;so we worked really hard.&#8221;</p><p>The commercial, dubbed &#8220;The Perfect Fit,&#8221; is about balancing a healthy lifestyle with beer-fueled fun.</p><p>Pratt famously dropped 60 pounds before playing Star-Lord in the first &#8220;Guardians&#8221; film. Incorporating fitness into his life &#8220;changed everything,&#8221; he said.</p><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not just an aesthetic thing,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I sleep better. I feel better.&#8221;</p><p>His favorite is exercising outdoors. Pratt said spending time in the woods near the farm he owns in Washington doesn&#8217;t just keep him fit, it keeps him grounded. He particularly loves a trail there that passes through the woods and down to the beach.</p><p>&#8220;I feel the very best when I am running on that, and I feel very dialed in and close to nature and close to God,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I think anytime you can just stop and worship this creation, it makes you feel good.&#8221;</p><p>___</p><p>Follow AP Entertainment Writer Sandy Cohen at www.twitter.com/YouKnowSandy .</p><style>
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