Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has a fan in Chris Pratt.

The "Guardians of the Galaxy" star, 46, spoke with Bill Maher on the "Club Random" podcast about his relationship with the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services.

"I've spent a number of occasions hanging with him, just in a strictly family dinner kind of vibe, and I really got along with him well," Pratt said during the episode released on Aug. 18. "I think he's great. I think he's funny. I like him. I love him."

Pratt's wife, Katherine Schwarzenegger, is a member of the Kennedy family. She is the granddaughter of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, a philanthropist and sibling of Robert F. Kennedy.

Pratt also told Maher that politics is a "nasty business," and he has seen "how the person you are can be such a contrast to the person that people are being told that you are."

Kennedy, who endorsed Trump's 2024 election bid after dropping his own campaign for president as an independent, has been criticized for his history of promoting false or misleading claims about vaccines.

"When you jump on the bandwagon with the most divisive president ever, it makes sense that you're going to be made to look terrible," Pratt said. "So I don't know what to believe. It's not like I sit with Bobby and go, 'So hey, let's talk about this.' We're just playing cards or playing Mafia or having fun or having dinner. I'm not going to pick his brain to find out exactly which of those things are true. I just kind of assume that none of them are, and for the most part, I wish him well."

Pratt argued that even critics of the Trump administration should be able to root for its success in some instances. "I'd hate to be so mired in hatred for the president that any success from his administration is something I'd have an allergic reaction to," he said.

The "Terminal List" actor did not endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential election, even as several of his Marvel costars rallied around former Vice President Kamala Harris.

In an essay for his mother-in-law Maria Shriver's Sunday Paper before the election, Pratt wrote that he was "trying to make sense of the election through the eyes of Americans on both sides."

"I've been thinking a lot about where we'll be as a nation on November 6th, how we can attempt to move forward after so much division, and how some of the lessons that sports teach us may be just what all of us need as we chart a course forward," he wrote.

Pratt went on to add that after the election, Americans should exercise their "civic duty" to "accept the results and focus instead on showing up for each other."

Contributing: Hannah Hudnall and Erin Jensen, USA TODAY

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