L.A. CONFIDENTIAL (1997)
Cromwell's ruthless police captain, Dudley Smith, is a far cry from Babe's Farmer Hoggett.

Curtis [Hanson, the director] had a gag that he neglected to let me in on: he needed the audience to believe that Dudley was benign, until he turned and shot Kevin Spacey's character. [Spacey went on to beat out Cromwell for the 1995 Academy Award, so Cromwell jokes that he didn't kill him soon enough]. So Hanson's advantage was that everyone had in their mind that I was the farmer from Babe. So when they saw me, they said, 'Oh, it's that nice actor, isn't he sweet?' And then suddenly, boom. Everybody just went, 'Holy Jesus.'"