Anna Faris Reacts to Chris Pratt’s Engagement and Ushers in the New Era of Amicable Celebrity Splits
The last few years have been a real emotional journey for Anna Faris and Chris Pratt—and, um, their fans. First, they were one of those seemingly perfect, goofy, adorable couples that everyone adored. Then, in August 2017, they announced that they split up, and all of our irrational dreams about love died. Now, Pratt is engaged to Katherine Schwarzenegger, and Faris is perfectly okay—if not actually delighted?—about it.
“Sweet Chris, my ex, got engaged to Katherine today, and I’m so happy for them,” Faris said on her podcast, Anna Faris Is Unqualified, on Tuesday. “I knew that it was going to happen, and I love her, and I love him, and I’m just so happy that they found each other.” Faris went on to call both Pratt and Schwarzenegger “fucking amazing people” and assure listeners that “there isn’t any bitterness.” She even shared that when Pratt (with whom she shares a 6-year-old son, Jack) texted her the day after he proposed to Schwarzenegger, Faris replied: “I just wanna remind you that I’m an ordained minister.”
Yes, Faris seems almost inconceivably Zen about her ex-husband’s new romance, in a new-wave example of the grand, groundbreaking tradition set forth by Gwyneth “mother of the conscious uncoupling” Paltrow. Paltrow blew minds and drew plenty of eye-rolling detractors when she used the phrase to describe her split from Chris Martin in 2014, but, five years later, the uber-amicable divorce is the Hollywood way: Martin’s stocking hangs on the mantle alongside Paltrow’s, those of their kids’, and her new husband Brad Falchuk’s. Drew Barrymore is open about remaining close to her ex and the father of her two daughters, Will Kopelman. And Sarah Silverman recently posted a hilarious photo of herself and her ex-boyfriend Jimmy Kimmel with his wife, Molly McNearney.
Still, Faris admits that, following the news of Pratt’s engagement, she senses that people are expecting a response from her. “That’s almost the harder part of things,” she said. “People looking to me for my reaction.” Nothing to see here, people! Everyone is fine—and very, very evolved.
