Anna Faris has opened up about challenging her teenage son Jack’s religious views during candid podcast conversations.
The “Scary Movie” star, 49, appeared on Chelsea Handler’s “Dear Chelsea” podcast to discuss how she navigates faith-based discussions with Jack Pratt, 14, whom she shares with ex-husband Chris Pratt, 45. Faris described her son as emotionally “solid as a tugboat” before revealing the unexpected direction their talks have taken.
“He just doesn’t get easily jarred. He handles situations really well,” she said on the podcast. “He is…religious.”
Faris, who was raised without religion, explained that Jack has actively tried to convert her to his beliefs. When Handler asked whether Faris considered herself religious, the actor replied, “No, I didn’t grow up with religion. He’s asked me to accept Jesus Christ…”
After Handler pressed, “As your savior?”, Faris confirmed, “Uh huh.”
The “Mom” alum said she responded to her son’s request with openness but also set boundaries about the process ahead. “I told him I would do anything for him, including this, but it’s gonna take a whole lot of long conversations.”
Those conversations have already begun, with Faris deliberately posing questions designed to make Jack examine his beliefs more critically. Calling her son “impressive,” she detailed one exchange on the podcast: “I try to challenge him. I’m like, ‘Do you think it’s a luxury that you get to be pro-life?’ [and] He’s like, ‘Maybe.'”
Faris also raised the topic of controversial religious leaders with Jack. “Or I’ll say, ‘So, what do you think of this mega pastor that’s kind of a grifter?’ He’s like, ‘Oh, mega pastors are the worst.’ So it’s like, OK…We’re getting there.”
Despite their differing perspectives, Faris expressed gratitude that she and Jack can discuss religion openly rather than avoiding the subject. “I’m appreciative that he’s examining religion the way he is in terms of…starting to recognize hypocrisy,” she said on the podcast. “I’m appreciative we can have these long conversations.”
The podcast appearance also touched on Faris’s decision to quit drinking, which she described as “self-sabotage” that she has now stepped back from.
In the viral moment that preceded these revelations, Jack’s religious development stands in notable contrast to his mother’s secular upbringing and aligns more closely with his father’s publicly expressed Christian faith. Chris Pratt has been vocal about how his son’s premature birth nine weeks early in August 2012 strengthened his own faith. Jack weighed only 3 pounds, 10 ounces at birth and spent a month in the neonatal intensive care unit. Pratt has recalled praying to God during his son’s serious illness and later described the experience as cementing his commitment to Christianity. The former couple, who married in 2009 and separated in 2017 before finalizing their divorce in 2018, have maintained an amicable co-parenting relationship. They were photographed together at Jack’s sixth grade graduation in June 2025. Faris married cinematographer Michael Barrett in 2021, while Pratt married Katherine Schwarzenegger in 2019 and has since welcomed three more children.
Faris’s approach to parenting Jack reflects her broader pattern of using her platforms to discuss personal challenges with transparency. She launched her podcast “Anna Faris Is Unqualified” in 2015 and has previously described it as a vital emotional support system during and after her divorce from Pratt.
Faris is set to co-host NBC’s upcoming reality dating show “Love Takes a Village” alongside Rick Edwards.