For Tarsem, visuals tell stories
'Fall' director says he's 'always been a visual person"
By Alex Regnery
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He found that actor in Lee Pace, a Golden Globe nominee for his role in "Soldier's Girl" where he played a transgender nightclub performer.
"Someone showed me a tape [of "Soldier's Girl"] and I said, 'What am I looking at? The guy?' They said, 'No, the girl [played by Pace].' And I thought, 'Great.' So I went to him and told him it was going to be very difficult, for 12 weeks you won't be able to walk. It's not going to be the character-actor cliche," Tarsem said. "It's going to be for the other people. It's going to be depressing. And he was game for everything."