He's no David Blaine, but Passengers actor Chris Pratt performed magic on the latest episode of The Graham Norton Show to co-star Jennifer Lawrence's amazement.
When it was put to Pratt that he was a practising magician, who also happened to play a magician on his movie The Magnificent Seven, Pratt said: "Like I know real magic? Yes." But he quickly admitted that it had been a while.
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In what initially looked like a car crash of a card trick being performed for fellow guests Will.i.am and Jamie Oliver on studio-recorded television, Pratt seemed to pull off a miracle.
Unlike career magicians, such as Blaine who recently appeared and disappeared a frog down his throat on Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show, Pratt seemed ill at ease with his talents.
"You have to be very careful practicing in the dark arts," Pratt joked. "It's been a while so if I screw this up, you'll have to cut it out or whatever.
"This is a whole new deck, I haven't seen this deck, you haven't shown me this deck. … Captivated yet?"
"...This is called Burn 'Em and it works 50 per cent of the time. ... Now I've told you this only works half the time, so if it doesn't work I'm going to be really embarrassed."
When Will.i.am followed Pratt's instructions to shuffle his randomly selected card of an Ace of Hearts (unknown to Pratt) into the full deck, the hip-hop artist went slightly rogue by mixing the cards through the middle of the pack.
![On the Graham Norton Show, Chris Pratt (centre) deminstrates to Will.i.am, Jennifer Lawrence and Jamie Oliver that he ...](/web/20161206110229im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/t/3/q/j/r/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.gt3qqk.png/1480846243246.jpg)
"Argh you may have screwed it up for me but that's Ok, let's give it a try," said a still-confident Pratt.
"What all great magicians say," retorted an amused Lawrence.
![Phew! Chris Pratt did not have to 'eight' his words about being able to perform magic.](/web/20161206110229im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/t/3/q/j/q/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.gt3qqk.png/1480846243246.jpg)
After opting for four chances to select the correct card, Pratt began sifting through the deck ("Dear Lord God, please," muttered Lawrence) and he pulled out a Three of Clubs.
"No, no remember I get four chances. It's called Burn 'Em; I take one and I burn it. I might have burned your card," he told a skeptical Will.i.am.
![Jennifer Lawrence's face at Chris Pratt's magic trick was priceless.](/web/20161206110229im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/t/3/q/j/s/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.gt3qqk.png/1480846243246.jpg)
He then repeated the process four times, each time failing to produce the Ace of Hearts, but just when it got embarrassing, Pratt said: "Will.i.am I'm not done, give me a fist pump. A magic fist pump."
And the magic happened.
![Magic fist pump: Skeptics Jennifer Lawrence and Will.i.am witness 'real magic'.](/web/20161206110229im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/t/3/q/j/t/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.gt3qqk.png/1480846243246.jpg)
In doing so, Pratt proved the real illusion was in making his earlier attempts look fumbled.
The episode is due to air in Australia on Friday, December 9, on channel Eleven.
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