Anna Faris Details Tense Conversations with Religious Son Jack, 14: ‘I Try to Challenge Him’

Anna Faris shared that her 14-year-old son, Jack, has asked her “to accept Jesus Christ” as her savior, and revealed how she challenges his ideas.

via: EW

The Scary Movie star revealed she and her 14-year-old son, whom she shares with ex-husband Chris Pratt, haven’t seen eye to eye on religion while appearing on the Aug. 20 episode of the Dear Chelsea podcast. 

“He is religious. I didn’t grow up with religion. He’s asked me to accept Jesus Christ [as my savior],” she told host Chelsea Handler. “And I told him I would do anything for him, including this, but it’s going to take a whole lot of long conversations.” 

Faris explained that Jack is “solid as a tugboat emotionally” and “doesn’t get easily jarred,” which is why she can push up against his beliefs and open up a productive dialogue. 

“He’s impressive, actually. Because I try to challenge him,” she shared. “I’m like, ‘Do you think it’s a luxury that you get to be pro-life? Do you think that’s kind of a luxury?’’ And he’s like, ‘Maybe.’ Or I’ll say, ‘What do you think of this mega pastor that’s kind of a grifter?’ And he’s like, ‘Oh, mega pastors are the worst.’ So it’s like, ‘Okay, he’s getting there.’”

Faris noted that she’s “appreciative” that Jack is “examining religion” in a way that allows room for “recognizing hypocrisy,” adding that the teen “handles situations really well.”

Jack Pratt and Chris Pratt at the Japanese Grand Prix in Suzuka, Mie Prefecture, Japan, on March 29, 2026.

Faris and Pratt tied the knot in 2009, welcoming Jack in 2012. He was born nine weeks premature and suffered a severe cerebral hemorrhage. At the time, doctors told Faris and Pratt they wouldn’t know for sure if Jack had special needs until he was around 18 months old. 

Pratt has previously been open about how the harrowing experience shaped his own faith, writing in a December 2025 essay for Maria Shriver’s Sunday Paper that he found himself “back on my knees, pleading with God for a miracle” when Jack was in the NICU. 

“I promised that if Jack survived, I would devote my life to sharing God’s message. This time I meant it,” he said.  

Pratt and Faris called it quits after 10 years of marriage in 2017. The Marvel star went on to wed Katherine Schwarzenegger two years later, whom he met in church. They share three children together.

Faris, meanwhile, moved on with husband Michael Barrett in 2021, and is now a stepmom to his daughter, Margot. While speaking with Handler on Thursday, the House Bunny actress admitted that her own self-discovery journey was recently put into high gear when she realized there was a “correlation between drinking and depression” in her life.

“I had to take a step back and not self-sabotage.” Faris admitted, as Handler pointed out that drinking also “changes as you get older.”

“It’s not the same. It doesn’t have the same effect, impact,” the comedian explained, and Faris agreed. “I mean, all things change as you get older, so you have to really be kind of in touch with your person, you know? Like, I don’t drink the way I used to drink… I just don’t have the same desire.”

The Mom alum — who first rose to fame for roles in comedies like The House Bunny, Scary Movie, and What’s Your Number? — said she started to reflect on herself when she “couldn’t really get auditions for dramatic work” and began to feel “envious of people who got their big break in a different way.”

“I think that is a really ungracious idea,” she continued. “And it was only in the last year, I think, that I really started to notice and appreciate that if and when people recognized me, they would usually smile, you know? Like, they would be… thinking about something f---ing stupid I did on screen. And I really started to notice that and absorb that.”

Listen to Faris discuss raising a religious son, her sobriety, and more in the podcast below.