What does this story reveal about people when love becomes inconvenient or costly? Look, I

think whether it is an animal, whether it is a human, there is a conversation to be had right now about the society we live in.

about what it takes to keep someone alive and well, and the financial burden that's put upon you to just exist in this world.

And both of our characters, Alex and Lily, are going through it in different ways.

She has more of a quote-unquote corporate career.

She's not chasing her dreams.

She's only chasing financial security.

I think you have your morals, your

Tell us about Petunia.

Yes, so Petunia is this very sweet, very... simple slice of light movie about a couple that adopts a cat and kind of what that means for their life they're sort of at this crossroads classic quarter life crisis about like are we in the right relationship are we in the right jobs like financial burdens abound and this cat comes into their lives and they go through the course of like a pretty crazy couple of days when the cat gets sick just trying to figure out like what life is essentially

I'm assuming there were multiple cats used in the casting or did you just have one feline partner?

So we had one, we had one feline adult cat, and then we had kittens playing the same cat.

And then also other animals as well.

We had someone from the Humane Society on set whenever there was.

Yes, yes,

Tell us about Petunia.

Yes, so Petunia is this very sweet, very... simple slice of light movie about a couple that adopts a cat and kind of what that means for their life.

They're sort of at this crossroads, classic quarter life crisis about like, are we in the right relationship? Are we in the right jobs? Like financial burdens abound and this cat comes into their lives and they go through the course of like a pretty crazy couple of days when the cat gets sick, just trying to figure out like what life is essentially.

I'm assuming there were multiple cats used in the casting, or did you just have one feline partner?

So we had one, um, we, we had one, uh, feline adult cat.

And then we had, um, Kittens playing same cat.

And then also other animals as well.

We had someone from the Humane Society on set whenever there was.