'Succession' star James Cromwell says he can't remember how many times he's been arrested: 'I lose track'

• "Succession" star James Cromwell's animal rights protests have landed him behind bars several times.
• The Ewan Roy actor told Page Six that he has "lost track" of the number of times he's been arrested.
• He said gluing himself to Starbucks to protest its vegan milk upcharge in 2022 was "a lot of fun."

"Succession" actor James Cromwell has said that he's "lost track" of the number of times he's been arrested over the years.

The 83-year-old actor who portrays Ewan Roy, the estranged brother of Logan Roy (Brian Cox) and the grandfather of Greg Hirsch (Nicholas Braun) in the HBO drama said he can't actually remember how many times he's been put in handcuffs for participating in protests.

Speaking to Page Six on the red carpet at the drama's season four premiere last Monday, Cromwell guesstimated that he's been to jail "seven or eight times, maybe more."

If "The Green Mile" actor is correct, that means he's been arrested more times than one of Hollywood's most vocal and persistent protestors, Jane Fonda, who has been arrested six times.

Cromwell, who is an honorary director of animal rights charity PETA, has taken part in a number of protests in recent years over the mistreatment of animals. In 2022, he superglued his hand to a table at Starbucks in protest of the coffee chain's higher prices for vegan milk. 

According to Vulture, the actor became vegetarian in 1975 and took up veganism 20 years later in 1995 after he starred as Farmer Hoggett in "Babe" which followed a piglet with grand ambitions to become a sheep pig rather than just meat for slaughter.

Speaking about the Starbucks incident, Cromwell told the outlet: "Oh, glue was fun. I had a lot of fun with that one."

He explained that following the protest, the branch in question had to be temporarily shut down while it was fumigated because he and the other protestor had used glue that could only be removed with acetone, which is a carcinogen.

"Which is good, because what they were doing was horrendously stupid, charging for non-dairy creamers," Cromwell said of the store's closing.

"It's not very good for your skin, but it comes off," he added. "Never quite fast enough for the police who have come because they're all sitting there wondering how soon I'm gonna get out."

USA Today reported that Cromwell was also arrested on the Texas A&M University campus in 2019 during another PETA protest. At the time, Cromwell was fighting the university's use of dogs for medical research purposes.