Forty-eight different real pigs were used to play the title character in the 1995 movie Babe because piglets grow so rapidly that they would outgrow the role during the film's…

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Forty-eight different real pigs were used to play the title character in the 1995 movie Babe because piglets grow so rapidly that they would outgrow the role during the film's production schedule, but every single one of these temporary farm animal superstars was spared from the slaughterhouse after filming wrapped and lived out their natural lives on various sanctuary farms as a direct result of their brief acting careers, creating an incredibly heartwarming logistical nightmare that proves movie studios will happily employ dozens of identical barnyard animals to save a production while inadvertently creating the most aggressively wholesome mass-pardon of livestock ever orchestrated by a media giant