CULTURE | INTERVIEW
He may be known as the farmer from Babe , but James Cromwell is an actor with a long history of activism. Until the system’s fixed, he says, we’ll keep making a pig’s ear of politics
Winter in upstate New York, it’s cold comfort to find James Cromwell in a farming town: “Not Warwick, War-Wick,” the 80-year-old actor explains when The Big Issue calls, “in isolation, like most everybody else, trying to get through this pandemic with my head still intact.”
It was on a farm most of us first met Cromwell, as Farmer Hoggett in the 1995 classic Babe. Since then he has been on call whenever an intimidating, towering (at 6ft 7in he’s the tallest actor ever to be Oscar-nominated), often grouchy presence is required, from hard-boiled detective in LA Confdential to Prince Philip in The Queen and countless others: , , , , Jack Bauer’s dad in , …
