Chris Pratt Defends RFK Jr. and Talks Household Dynamics

Chris Pratt says that he and in-law Robert F. Kennedy Jr. don’t discuss politics on the dinner desk.

“I’ve spent a lot of events hanging with him in a strictly household dinner type of vibe, and I actually acquired together with him properly,” Pratt, 46, revealed on the Monday, August 18, episode of Invoice Maher‘s “Membership Random” podcast. “I feel he’s nice. I feel he’s humorous. I like him. I really like him.”

The Guardians of the Galaxy star married into the Kennedy household in 2019 when he and Katherine Schwarzenegger tied the knot. Schwarzenegger’s mother, Maria Shriver, is the daughter of Eunice Kennedy, who was sister to John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy Sr. 

Throughout the household tree, Pratt and RFK Jr. are cousins-in-law. 

“Whenever you bounce on the bandwagon with probably the most divisive president ever, it is smart that you just’re going to be made to look horrible. So I don’t know what to consider,” the actor remarked of the U.S. Secretary of Well being and Human Service’s controversial views, which embody false claims about protected and efficient vaccines. 

Pratt continued, “It’s not like I sit with Bobby and go, ‘So hey, let’s speak about this.’ We’re simply taking part in playing cards or taking part in Mafia or having enjoyable or having dinner. I’m not going to select his mind to seek out out precisely which of these issues are true.”

Pratt stated there are “sure issues [that Bobby] oversees that appear to be supported in a bipartisan approach — like getting horrible poisonous stuff out of our youngsters’ meals. I feel that’s an excellent factor. If you happen to simply try this, that’s superb.”

He added, “I’d hate to be so mired in hatred for the president that any success from his administration is one thing I’d be having an allergic response to. To be like, ‘Oh, properly, in the event that they do it, I don’t need it to occur. I’ll put Clorox in my youngsters’s cereal myself!’ Be cheap right here. There’s sure issues that will be a great factor to have. I would like all of them to achieve success.”

Pratt referred to as politics a “nasty enterprise” and stated he’s “seen how the individual you might be will be such a distinction to the individual that persons are being instructed that you’re, and you’ll go, ‘Wow, that’s pure fiction.’”

Pratt and Schwarzenegger, 35, share daughters Lyla, 5, Eloise, 3, and son Ford, who shall be 1 yr previous in November. The actor additionally shares son Jack, 13, with ex-wife Anna Faris. He celebrated Jack’s milestone birthday over the weekend. 

“I’ve a youngster???” he wrote by way of his Instagram Story on Sunday, August 17 alongside household pictures. “Jack, I can’t consider you might be 13 as we speak. I’ve watched you develop into such an unimaginable younger man, and am actually pleased with the individual you might be changing into. I really like you! Jesus is King! ❤️✝️.”