Overview

• On day two of shooting 1995’s Oscar-winning children’s film, Cromwell broke for lunch to find farm animals he’d worked with served on the table and decided to adopt a vegan diet.
• He described how months of training taught pigs, sheep and other animals to perform complex tasks, revealing their personalities and intelligence on screen.
• The 85-year-old Succession star has volunteered with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and lent his celebrity to campaigns promoting plant-based diets.
• In 2022, he superglued his hand to a Starbucks counter to protest higher charges on vegan milks, decrying the coffee chain’s pricing as discriminatory.
• Cromwell said in recent interviews that he has lost count of his arrests for civil-disobedience protests, underscoring his long-standing commitment to animal rights.