“And now it's going to take twenty minutes to get out of here because you gotta hug the camera guys, and you gotta hug craft service, and you gotta hug the writers, and you gotta, you know, hug all these people,” Fishel said.
“And then we'd turn around and we'd have a read the next day at 8 a. m.
It's barely been twelve hours since we've wrapped, if that, and now you gotta hug everybody hello.”
She realized that similar physical expectations would be considered unusual in most standard corporate environments.
“And I at some point I was like, why am I hugging so many people all the time?
I'm just hugging everyone,” Fishel noted.
“And it occurred to me, does my dad hug everyone as the president of this company that he works at?
Does my dad walk in and go, 'Good morning Jill, good morning Steven?'
And I thought, no, the thought of that is comical to me in any other profession.
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Could you imagine walking in and feeling like, to start the day, I've got to walk around and give my hugs?”
The situation eventually prompted her to make a firm personal choice regarding physical contact at work.
“When did I decide that I will just hug the world at all times?
Or is that just something that's like ingrained in me, that I've never actually even decided that?
