While her famous parents have previously expressed some mixed feelings about their children becoming actors, Sosie Bacon maintains that they gave her the opportunity to decide her own path, not swaying her to take up or avoid acting. Even so, the actor explains that having famous parents gave her a unique perspective on the industry.

"Having parents that are in this, you see a lot of the negative sides of it, not just the flashy, fun side of it," she told Harper's Bazaar. The former Miss Golden Globe winner also discussed this idea in an interview with "Inside of You," explaining, "I saw how like unglamorous and sort of painful it can be to be an actor and I therefore never, like, idolized it."

In this way, Bacon knew the sort of commitment she was making when she decided to leave college to pursue an acting career. While she describes feeling an almost rebellious aversion to acting as a teenager, she eventually realized it was where her heart was. As she told Parade, "I just feel like now I know exactly what I want to be doing for the rest of my life, so it's really nice."