Inside Chris Pratt, Katherine Schwarzenegger's Sweet Family World

Chris Pratt Shares Why His, Katherine Schwarzenegger's Kids Have Never Watched Any Movies

When Chris Pratt and Katherine Schwarzenegger's children do start watching movies, their dad's body of work should at least keep them busy for a while.

"There's gonna be a season, they're gonna realize their dad is really cool," Chris quipped on TODAY. "They haven't realized it yet, but one day." 

And once Lyla, 5, Eloise, 3, and Ford, 16 months, have exhausted the kid-friendly shelf of their father's filmography—getting even more stacked with the release of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie—then they've got their grandfather's movies to discover…eventually.

"Katherine is very old-school when it comes to screens and technology and all of that stuff," Chris explained. "So, we're waiting."

But the actor's 13-year-old son Jack, with ex-wife Anna Faris, went with him to Tokyo while he was promoting his Super Mario Bros. sequel and finds his dad's PG offerings "pretty cool." 

Which, in turn, has inspired Chris to make more quality family fare, because "at the same time as wanting to make movies that would entertain my kids," he told Men's Journal, "I’m also thinking about creating movies that are merciful on the parents."

In the meantime, he and Katherine are keeping their little ones busy with lots of parks and rec.

"Growing up in Los Angeles, I think it's important for people, especially kids, to have a place to get dirty, be free and be around animals in open spaces," the 36-year-old, who used to ride competitively, told People in 2021. "It was a huge help for me growing up."

Her 2025 children's book, Kat and Brandy, about the emotional bond that can form between kids and animals, was "based off my own experience just working through fears as a child,” she explained to Extra in November. "And it was important to me now, having three of my own little kids, that I write a book that talked about overcoming your fears, talked about bravery and courage and doing that all alongside the healing power of animals.”

Arnold Schwarzenegger would agree, as the 78-year-old Terminator star shares his home with a whole menagerie, including a miniature horse.

Chris, a self-described "sensitive kid," said on Today last August that his parenting style is also "heavily influenced" by how he was raised. But in his case, his late father Dan Pratt, a contractor, was "very tough and very strict. So, I tend to be a little more mindful of the sensitivity in kids…I’m not as tough and I’m not as strict.” 

Katherine "is more of the rule enforcer," he added.

But, as Katherine told People in November, "We do a really good job communicating," something that was really important to both of us from the beginning and continues to be really important to us as life gets busier and crazier, especially as you add more children into the mix."

And, ultimately, she said, they "balance each other out," Katherine noting that Chris "has a lot of strengths that I don't have, and I have certain strengths that maybe he doesn't have. We are a great team."

Having children is "incredible," Chris, 46, told Men's Journal in 2023, because "the things you normally take for granted in life are new. As they grow up, it becomes more about connecting with them as individuals and what makes them unique."

As for fostering their own bond, Katherine told People that she and her husband of six years find time for "micro moments" to enjoy each other amid the chaos.

"We put so much pressure on doing date nights or couples trips," she said, "but I think just having these moments throughout the day that allow you to connect really takes the pressure off of having to plan something that's over the top. It's honestly more realistic for this phase of life."

“We didn’t even know each other," she told Extra, "and he was trying to figure out where we should go on our first date.”

She figured a long car ride to Carpinteria, Calif., to visit her childhood horse would give her a good read on Chris' character.

"It was definitely a risk to take like a five-hour drive with someone that you don't know," she reflected, "but it lended itself to a lot of talking and conversation."

When they got engaged in January 2019, Katherine hired a step-parenting coach to help her with understanding her role in Jack's life because, as she said on a July 2025 episode of the Parenting & You With Dr. Shefali podcast, "step-parenting, like parenting, has no handbook."