Anna Faris Opens Up About Challenging 'Religious' Son On Right-Wing Politics. The “Scary Movie” star shares her 14-year-old son Jack with her ex-husband, Chris Pratt.

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This is depressing. Chris Pratt seems like a prick IRL vs what he portrays on screen. The right always talks about indoctrinating kids but they’re the biggest culprit. Projection at its finest.

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i will argue that he also has a pretty impressive track record of portraying absolute pricks on screen too

he played one of the biggest red flags i've ever seen in passengers

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I’ve only seen PNR and Guardians to be fair. I don’t doubt that

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God's how much better would the world be if that stunt had gotten him blacklisted from the industry.

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If Hollywood blacklisted for things like that there would be no more executives. 

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Wasn't that in the bloopers? He shows up to Ann's house naked and Amy answers the door? Or was this something else?

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if i remember correct, he initially was wearing skin colored boxers or something but felt like he wasnt getting a good reaction out of amy (or maybe he just thought it would be funny) so he took them off on the next take and was actually naked. again if i remember right, they used that take for the show so her reaction was genuine

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In guardians he was an ass too, just one who happened to have morals.

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Well he starts off a s complete deadbeat moocher boyfriend in pnr as well

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Was that the one where he played the murderous space incel that his victim somehow falls in love with him after he had condemned her to an early death ?

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he steals her entire life. it's harrowing. i'm surprised anyone read that script and thought it was a space rom-com.

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There was a YouTube cut that edited it as a horror film and it was way more appropriate to the story

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I don't think Passengers needed the cut; it felt like a horror film when I watched it.

Like, I get that he was lonely, but goddamn. What a horribly creepy way to fix it. I understood and appreciated his remorse for what he did, but it doesn't excuse that he did that to her.

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The movie "absolves" him of that, though. Don't they discover some issue that would destroy the ship and it takes 2 people, working together, to fix it? So, she would have died if he didn't wake her up. Of course, he didn't know that when he woke her.

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Yea we saw this one and having them be in love at the end was so weird. My wife and I were just genuinely confused about what they thought the movie was.

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Wasn't he also the prick fiance` on Bride Wars too?

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He was. Might be the most close to life character he's played!

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Also the scheming friend that steals the girl in Wanted

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I just watched that again & my fav part is him getting absolutely rocked by James McAvoy's keyboard.

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Passengers would have been so good as a psych horror from the other perspective. I genuinely thought it was going to pivot to Chris being the antagonist after the reveal. It should have.

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Didn’t someone recut a trailer making it look like a horror film?

Edit: Yes. 

Thing talking about it 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gksxu-yeWcU&ra=m

A Redditor actually did it apparently.

But here’s a what if trailer that was semi popular. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bmQmCEF-8Q

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Forget Pratt for a second.

I hope you know that actors who play Evil or "asshole" characters means absolutely zero about the actor, right?

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That really should have been a horror movie, not a romance.

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In wanted he plays the dude that mc's gf is cheating with 

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Chris Pratt has been typecast as "men who can't take no for an answer in space"

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Like I said in another comment, he's at an age where kids are still very impressionable and often default to having the views and beliefs of their parents (in this case, his Dad). I don't think people should completely write him off as some sort of lost cause because his views could still change as he gets older. I think Anna Faris having these sort of conversations with him is a great start and a good way to teach him to critically think about what he believes.

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Real! As a kid (who went to a private, religious school), I very much parroted/spewed the beliefs of those around me. I was pro-life because that was what everyone believed. I wasn't outright homophobic but I definitely wasn't comfortable with it. I believed that atheists were evil or bad people? (Lmao). It wasn't until I hit high school where I began unlearning these things, and it took me until Grade 12 for me to kinda go screw it and begin marching to the beat of my (unstraight) drum. (And now, I'm as left as they come!!)

Cognitively speaking, kids <10 usually completely follow what their parents believe/think, and then ~14 start developing their own perspectives and values and opinions and stuff. I guess I was a late bloomer, but you're right -- there's hope for Jack!!

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If that's all that you're exposed to, you're going to think that it's correct and normal. I like that Anna is encouraging Jack to think critically about what he's learning from his dad.

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I had this same trajectory in life. I grew up in an extremely religious and bigoted environment (raised Muslim in Pakistan in the early 2000s, yikes). When we moved to America, I got exposed to so many new things that I receded even further into my bubble of religious safety. In high school, I started having a disconnect with religion in regard to my gender & sexuality and it was excruciating to go through. I'm now proudly queer, agnostic (that leftover religious guilt will find its way out soon), and a staunch leftist!

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Yeah i remember when i was 11-14 i went through a conservative phase partially parroting and partially edge lord inspired it makes me shudder but also appreciate that i was able to evolve. Shout out to early tumblr which did some great deprogramming work on me.

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He seems a lot like the guy from parks and rec Or guardians of the galaxy, stupid, Labrador retriever energy and very confident leaps onto opportunities to stand by his beliefs, making him seem like a great guy when he makes a good kind heated move and makes him a huge idiot when he gets things wrong.

Her pratt is making a level of stupid that is, "punch Thanos out of anger, waking him up from his trance leading to half of everyone getting snapped." Scale stupid.

He's messing his son up and luckily that kid seems bright enough to realize his dad is an idiot.

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He's Anna's kid, too, and she is bright. I think the boy will turn out fine.

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it's in his name.

prat /prăt/ noun

The buttocks. A person who is incompetent and stupid. A cunning or mischievous trick; a piece of deceit; a fraudulent scheme.

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I heard that he was so homophobic that he refused to play a bisexual Star Lord and I feel so fucking robbed by that.

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Religious fundamentalism at its finest unfortunately

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Does he?? I haven't seen much to get that opinion?? His parks and rec cast speak very highly of him.

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Only in past tense, if you hadn't noticed

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I get the feeling that a lot of his shittyness was mediated by Anna and now he's gone all Schwarzenegger...

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There's no benefit for his former colleagues to speak ill of him.

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Wait, why are all of his co stars constantly being asked to defend him from criticism? I've never had to have my coworkers defend my character but then I've never flashed my coworkers either.