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The farmer's wife was in her 30s when she did the Babe movies!


Wow I was shocked to read that the old lady who played the farmer's wife in the Babe movies was actually in her 30s when she did these movies!

Wow, her character was probably at least 20 years older. The way she looked, her character was a grandmother.....wow- she was far from being an old lady when she was in these movies!

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Yeah, Magda Szubanski definitely played a character a lot older than she was--I mean, Esme IS a grandmother, so yeah. I wouldn't have guessed that she was so young at the time, either! And I don't know how much they did to make her appear older vs. how far above her actual age she just naturally looked. But regardless, she was absolutely perfect in the part in both Babe movies.

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The age of the actors is not important, it is more important as to how the characters' believability is conveyed to the audience.

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