Babe (1995) on Netflix

Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Babe (1995)

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• Because Large White piglets grow so fast, the production needed 48 different piglets of the right size over the course of filming, supplementing them with an animatronic model for effects shots.
• Babe was initially banned in Malaysia because its pig protagonist risked offending the country's Muslim population, a ban that was overturned about a year later, letting the film out on direct-to-video.
• James Cromwell nearly turned down the role of Farmer Hoggett because his character had only about 16 lines, but his friend Charles Keating convinced him to take it anyway, joking it was a free trip to Australia and that if the movie flopped, it would be the pig's fault, not his.
• Playing Farmer Hoggett turned James Cromwell into an ethical vegetarian, and in 1996 he organized a vegetarian Christmas dinner for homeless people in Los Angeles to counter what he called the 'carnage' image of a traditional holiday meal.
• Star James Cromwell said there was real friction between producer George Miller and director Chris Noonan, with Noonan later complaining that Miller tried to take credit for the film and left him feeling insecure, comparing it to being told by his own mentor that he was no good.
• Cromwell was paid around $50,000 for the role, and when the film became a massive hit he asked for more money but was turned down by the studio.
• George Miller pushed back on Noonan's complaint, calling the claim that he stripped Noonan's name from internet credits defamatory and untrue, while insisting that Noonan alone was handed the film's vision.