Anna Faris was a guest on Jimmy Kimmel this week, where she was promoting her CBS show Mom, with Allison Janney. Kimmel brought up the fact that Anna’s husband, Chris Pratt, said in his last Kimmel interview that he planned to hunt and cook squirrels for Anna’s family over Thanksgiving. Anna confirmed that was the case, and that Chris often hunts squirrels with her brother.
On Chris hunting squirrel
I wish I could say it only happened once, but it’s happened many times.On if she likes it when he serves squirrel
I don’t, but it’s become a thing. My brother and my husband, uh, harvest squirrel during the holidays and they have to cook it outside on the barbecue because my mom refuses to have, I don’t know, the smell of cooking squirrel in her kitchen. I don’t know why.They season it heavily, because you have to, it’s squirrel. Imagine you’re eating like the tiniest little thigh bones.
[From video of Jimmy Kimmel Live]
Anna also talked about her one and a half year-old son with Chris, Jack. She said he was “a big boy” and that he would probably join his dad hunting at some point. She added “it’s great, they’re dudes.” She came across very chill and funny, the more I hear from her the more I like her.
I don’t know much about hunting, but I know there are seasons for it and that for big game, like deer or bear, there are separate weeks when you can hunt with various weapons, from primitive to modern. The deer firearm hunting season is just two weeks in Virginia where I live. I looked up small game hunting regulations in Washington State, where Anna said she’s from, and you can trap or hunt the eastern gray squirrel all year. So what Chris and his brother in law are doing is legal.
Whether you think it’s ok to hunt squirrels or not depends on your thoughts on squirrels, hunting and meat-eating in general. I’m a meat eater, and I feel that hunting is a better way to get meat than factory farming. (Not that I hunt.) Yes squirrels are cute, but they’re not pets, they’re wild creatures. I can’t imagine they have much meat on them or that they’re tasty though. At least Chris and his brother-in-law are eating the squirrels they catch. They’re not just hunting them for sport.
Here’s part one of Anna’s interview with Kimmel. You can see part two here.
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Chris Pratt on parks and rec is amazing
He is. The show was really missing something when he missed a bunch of episodes earlier this season. Glad he’s back!
And it seems him and Anna are a happy, fun, down-to-earth couple — like a couple I’d want to hang out with!
Hopefully I’m not misremembering (that’s a word, right?) this but obviously his character had changed during that absence (as Chris was in WICKED shape for “GotG”) and they asked him what he had done and he was just like “I stopped drinking beer”. The expressions were priceless. On another note, I’m so jealous of Anna Faris. I would take that man at any point on the cuddly to buff spectrum. đ
Ha! Kali – That was a great scene. He steals almost every scene he is in – he’s just the perfect guy to play Andy. I want him to be super successful — but I hope he doesn’t get too famous and leave Parks and Rec because he’s too busy making movies!
Gross.
Yeah. Kinda gross lol
Food is food. Our minds have been trained to think only cow and the lovely pig are suitable meats for us to consume. There’s nothing wrong with eating squirrels. Meat is meat.
I’ve eaten it and it’s not actually that bad and definitely not the grossest thing I’ve eaten. Tastes a little gamey, very much like rabbit or even pheasant.
Her voice really bugs me and I don’t know why.
Gross to the squirrel but Yum to the hubby he is hawt!!!
I liked her less after the interview. She sounded like a dummy.
I’m from south central Texas. My ex boyfriend used to hunt squirrels with his brothers and sister. So Chris hunting squirrels isn’t that odd to me. Although I wouldn’t do it or be ok if hubs and our son decided it would be fun.
Btw, Chris Pratt has gotten hot in the past couple years. Mmm!
I would never personally eat a squirrel, but for some reason I’m not surprised to hear Anna Faris say this. I can’t help but love her, she’s so quirky and funny! Also, LOVE her show.
She kinda rocks
Her performance in “Just Friends” is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen
Forgiveness… Is more than sayin’ sorry…
Yes, she’s amazing in that movie.
“wait a minute, am I being punk’d?! ASHTON!? WHERE ARE YOU ASHTON???”
she’s comedy gold, and she was really funny in The House Bunny too.
Agreed. I wish she would’ve had a bigger career on comedy movies.
I cannot turn away when that movie is on, she is sooooooo funny in it! Here and Ryan Reynolds should make more movies together they had great timing and chemistry.
It really is an under-rated movie. It’s a Christmas classic at my house.
Meh, I don’t have a problem with him hunting squirrels as long as he eats the meat. It’s the little a-holes that shoot at squirrels with BB guns that I dislike.
Squirrels in some regions of the U.S. carry plague. For real. So I wouldn’t eat them by choice.
That was my first thought. I’m in Northern California and we get warnings several times a year. Not taking a chance on eating that.
I think she’s the funniest thing, she always cracks me up in movies. But I’m not feeling her look right now. The only way a can describe it is she looks a little “meth-ey”. She needs to gain at least 10 pounds back and get rid of that whole hair style, it’s working against the shape of her face.
Bring back the hot, Anna!
She has messed with her face big time! She used to be so much prettier…. get the darker hair back Anna!
Squirrels are Rats with better fur coats and they are just as revolting as their poorer cousins, It’ll be a cold day in hell before i try to even find out what they taste like *gag*
I couldn’t agree more. We are overrun with them here in Elon, NC and I’ve seen them eating some of the most revolting things, including other squirrels. They’re mean little suckers, too. They sit outside our sliding door and piss on the glass just to irritate our dogs when they’ve got their snouts pressed into the door; and on more than one occasion, we’ve been standing outside when “rogue acorns” bounce off of our heads with squirrels chittering away at us.
I might Vom… Seriously like the mean assholes here in florida i’ve seen them plrk each other, behead lizards, climb up trees with mice in their gross maws…. I need a brain bleach
@QQ: Wow. One morning (trash morning), I saw squirrels dig pizza out of the guys’ trash next door. We watched for about a half hour while the squirrels fought each other off until one finally succeeded and drug that pizza up the tree. I admit at times they can be entertaining. But I just can’t imagine actually consuming of these critters. However, to be fair, I’m not much of a meat eater and I have always been uncomfortable with the idea of bloodsport, so I am sensitive about casual hunting.
My grandparents ate it during the great depression, actually many people ate it the South back in the day. It’s been passed down through the families. It hasn’t always been a want but actually feed hungry people. As a person that has actually eaten it, I would roast my squirrel in the flames in Hell, it tastes OK for a rat.
Arrrrgghhhhhh… Somebody save meeeeeee…….
You are hilarious! Don’t worry, you’re a stealth squirrel you’ll be ok.
I’ve rehabilitated several orphaned baby squirrels, eventually releasing them back into the wild. After getting to know them, earning their trust, learning their personalities, it was anguish to do the right thing and let them be free. Anguish because we lived in a region where squirrel-hunting was “normal” and “legal”. Anguish because I spent so much time giving them their rightful chance to LIVE, and yet one human could decide that their momentary thrill, their unnecessary “tradition”, is worth more than that squirrel’s entire life.
I don’t care if it’s odd or normal, I don’t care if it’s legal or illegal. Those lives were taken for no reason — she admits herself they don’t even taste good without over-seasoning. Those squirrels experienced emotions like fear and senses like pain, had unique personalities, had the instinct to survive and to protect their own. Animals aren’t worthless until a human being finds value in them — their lives have value, period.
ALL hunting is for sport if it’s not for survival. If you’re a human being who isn’t on the brink of starvation, yet you’re still taking an animal’s life, it’s for sport, period. Now, I’m a vegan who definitely agrees that grocery store meat costs far more cruelty and far more lives, but the point still stands — whether or not you’re eating the animals you kill, you’re doing it because you enjoy killing them.
How anyone could condone that is completely beyond me. I have zero respect for anyone who thinks a single life is less valuable than their own convenience or recreation or tradition. It reeks of ignorance and apathy and having something to “prove”. All it proves is spinelessness.
your soap box is about to splinter.
+1.
We should all hold hands and read this post while wearing long celtic gowns in a room full of candles.
Also we should be in slow-motion
@Brittney — Well said and I agree with every word. It says something about a person when their idea of fun is causing pain, horror, and death to an innocent, small and defenseless creature all in good fun. It makes me realize how barbaric some people still are, and there really is no excuse for it. Taking pleasure in someone else’s pain, even if it’s “just a squirrell” is sadism, plain and simple.
I completely agree with you.
Amen sister …
+1000
Agreed. I think it says a lot about an individual who finds enjoyment in taking a life. But I really do try to maintain balance with regard to my perspective on matters like this, as like you mentioned there really are those who hunt out of need.
Hope all you people agreeing are vegetarians or vegans. If not, the meat you eat, that you buy in those nicely wrapped packages in the store, have suffered and often brutally killed. Hunters tend to actually kill animals quickly versus what the meat industry does it to their animals.
I am not saying you are an stupid person but this is an immature and very grating post. As one vegan to another: your squirrel friends are *feral rodents*. They are not overly bright, loyal or nice animals, and honestly if you liked them so much you should have just domesticated them because nature has absolutely no respect for any wild animal’s “rightful chance to LIVE”.
Also it’s *much* more ethical to kill and dress your own meat than it is to buy store bought, and you’re acting like it’s a sign of sadism or something. Your behavior is why vegans are ridiculed.
Thank you for saying what I couldnt be bothered to express, I was so exasperated by what Britney wrote.
I especially agree with this bit here:
“because nature has absolutely no respect for any wild animalâs ârightful chance to LIVEâ. ”
My sentimentse= exactly. you have people STARVING to death in far flung countries the world over, and we are hand-wringing over some critters. GTFOH.
The hunting thing kind of grosses me out.
I do enjoy him on Parks and Rec though.
I really like her. I want to like her new show….but its’s hard. I think she is funny tho.
Actually, squirrels make awesome pets. I’ve raised several. But, if I don’t know them personally, they’re delicious breaded and fried.
All i know is Granny Clampett would approve. She was a big believer in eating critters and varmints.
No big D. Meat is meat.
So, do you go to the supermarket and buy meat when you’re not on the brink of starvation? Those animals didn’t volunteer. I don’t understand people that buy meat and then say hunting is wrong. As long as you eat it, how is it any different? Just because packaged meat no longer looks like the animal doesn’t mean it wasn’t one. Personally I think it is more honorable to kill it yourself.
+1
It actually makes me a little embarrassed that I buy meat at the supermarket, but the idea of hunting or butchering an animal makes me squeamish. It’s just become too easy for people in our society to divorce the food they eat from where it comes from.
Funny, I’m a vegetarian of 20 + years and I totally agree with you! I think some people buying their meat at a grocery pretend it’s not really an animal, and maybe one that was raised in horrible conditions.
I’ve eaten squirrel (my dad ran one over and decided we should eat it. Disgusting-also he didn’t get all the hair off).
I’ve also had squirrels as pets (my dad’s hobby for recklessly cutting down trees ended up making some baby squirrels orphans, so we took them in). They’re very intelligent and friendly. One of our squirrels actually ended up in our house at the same time our cat had kittens. We kept one of the kittens, and she and the squirrel were the best of friends.