THE QUESTION WAS ABOUT GOALS: At this stage in his young and highly successful movie career, what is there that Chris Pratt still wants desperately to do?
The answers, which came as he smoked cigars on a Hollywood Hills patio, were part personal, part professional, and then, well, weird.
“I want to do a comedy,” says Pratt, speaking during a 72-hour furlough in Los Angeles from filming in London. “I want to flex my muscles as a collaborator, so that I have more creative control.”
The 37-year old actor, who mixes Midwestern good looks with the physique of a tight end, takes a puff of his cigar, a Hoyo de Monterrey Epicure No. 2. “I want to catch a world-record large-mouth bass—a 25-pounder. I’d love it if my son became…