Madelaine Petsch

But I think there's like a, not to get too into the weeds with animal activism, but there is like a separation for children between what they're eating and what it actually is.

And my parents gave me that knowledge at a young age and said, you make the decision.

Oh, interesting.

And I was like, I don't want to eat a baby chicken.

You know, when you give children who are so filled with compassion and so sentient that information and that knowledge, like, I don't know if they would choose that.

So they gave me the option.

My parents are really good about giving me the option for everything.

They gave me every religious text and said, if you want to read it, here you go.

We're not telling you what you need to believe in.

We're going to give you everything and you can decide.

We're going to give you the option to eat whatever you want to eat.

We're going to give you all the information you can decide.

So they gave me a lot of autonomy at a very young age.

Ironically, I am one of the most indecisive people that I know in a lot of ways in my life.

But then there's also a level of autonomy that I seek and crave in my career, I think, because of that.

So that's what led me to producing, I think, is that they gave me options when I was a kid.

I was able to make decisions that I don't think most kids could make.

If I didn't want to go to dance class that day, I didn't have to go to dance class.

If I felt like – I mean, I never really got sick as a child, you know, but I –

Hmm.