Jason Ritter jokes that his first Hollywood job was a “full-on nepotism hire” thanks to his father, John Ritter – IMDb

Jason Ritter gets open about being a nepotism babe.

While appearing on Thursday’s episode of SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Show, the Parenthood actor credits his first acting job as a child when he voiced the little acorn in the animated film The Real Story of O Christmas Tree to his father, the late John Ritter , to.

“I will say without hesitation that this was like a full fledged nepotism rental. I’ll admit that,” he joked. “He [John] sure got me the job. Later I tried to stay away from it.”

The 8 Simple Rules star, who died of an aortic dissection in 2003 at the age of 54, voiced Piney, Little Acorn’s uncle, in the cartoon.

Jason Ritter and John Ritter

Jason said that later, when he was growing up, he found a recording of the video and watched it again. “I said, ‘Oh, they must have accelerated