asked Chris how he wanted me to deliver my final line and he said: “Right down the lens.”
I didn’t expect what happened: reflected back at me in the camera lens I saw not me, but my father.
On that thought
I laid the line:
“That’ll do pig, that’ll do.”
At the time I hadn’t forgiven my father, who was a director and very critical of my work, which stung.
I didn’t know I had to forgive him. But at that moment, I looked at myself and saw I am my father’s son and I love him. Without a doubt, it brought closure."
"the second day of filming, I broke for lunch before everybody else.
All the animals I’d worked with that morning were on the table
.
That was when I decided to become a vegan."
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jul/21/james-cromwell-vegan-how-we-made-babe-talking-pig
"Cromwell has long been an advocate of progressive causes, particularly regarding animal rights.
He became a vegetarian in 1974 after seeing a stockyard in Texas and experiencing the "smell, terror and anxiety"
He became vegan while playing the character of Farmer Hoggett in the 1995 film Babe.
He frequently speaks out on issues regarding animal cruelty for PETA, largely on the treatment of pigs.
In 2017, he was arrested during a PETA protest against SeaWorld's treatment of orca whales, at which he spoke about marine mammals' suffering and premature deaths."
December 2015, he was removed from an event in New York for heckling an energy company receiving an awars
'Cromwell and fellow Star Trek actor J. G. Hertzler were among the 19 people arrested in Watkins Glen, New York, on June 6, 2016, for a protest against underground gas storage in salt caverns near Seneca Lake.
On June 6, 2017, he was escorted out of a Democratic Party fundraiser (
which New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and House Minority leader Nancy Pelosi attended)
after disrupting the event by protesting about the power station. "
"May 2022, Cromwell superglued his hand to the counter of a Manhattan Starbucks to protest
the surcharge for plant-based milks"
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