Anna Faris’s Dad Reads Vulture!

Last Friday we reported on the news that Anna Faris’s next film will be a biopic on Deep Throat actress Linda Lovelace, jokingly noting “Her parents must be thrilled!� Well, it turns out we were right. Jack Faris, Anna’s dad, sent us an e-mail last night responding to our post:

I am Anna’s father. I was thrilled when Anna played Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird and Heidi in Heidi as a child, and I was thrilled when she played Cyndy Campbell in the Scary Movies, Lashawn Malone in Brokeback Mountain, the stoner Jane in Smiley Face, the out-of-control pop star Samantha James in Just Friends. I’m thrilled that she will appear soon as a former Playboy Bunny, Shelley, in I Know What Boys Like, and as Nora Flanagan, with Jeff Daniels and Diane Keaton, in Mama’s Boy. And I will be thrilled if she plays the sad, tragic, courageous character of Linda Susan Boreman in Inferno.

Sincerely,

Jack Faris

Sincerely,

Jack Faris

Sincerely,

Jack Faris

A fair point, but in Vulture’s defense, we feel we do cast aspersions on, and suggest shame for, the career decisions of scores of celebrities, male and female, in a generally evenhanded way. Also, if Robert De Niro or Al Pacino were being considered for the lead role in the Linda Lovelace movie, we’re pretty sure we’d have been equally — if not more — flippant. But mostly, we just had no idea that Anna Faris’s dad was reading our blog!

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