Shit, my emotional experience have peaked just by reading this. Everything will be downhill from here on.

Kassie Stepanova I literally cried while watching simply because she was crying

Yeah I watched Lee's interview and he told that he made everyone on the set believe from the start that he's Roy and he can't walk so the atmosphere would be more sensitive.

I was thinking more of the repercussions on the crew after the reveal. Several members were upset, and I imagine working on the fantasy sequences later must have been awkward. I admit the gamble paid off as Lee and Cantinca's scenes together are mesmerizing on every viewing.

I would think that the crew would know, and if they didn't... why? I understand not telling Catinca, but the crew should know. She was 6 at the time, so it would be understandable. It's hard to explain how a man could not be able to walk one minute and be running about the next. Why the crew would be angry baffles me still. A bit less awkward, probably more shocking at the start. All of the scenes for the hospital were shot before the story scenes, obviously (the haircut). The director (or Lee, we don't know), had to sit Catinca down and explain to her what was going to happen. All of a sudden, her Roy could walk when not a moment ago he was confined to a wheelchair. Ah, the things we do for children. It all paid off, though. This is the one piece of work Lee is extremely proud of. Tip if anyone ever meets him; ask about The Fall. He'll get all giddy and excited and want to talk about it all day. He'll want to talk about little *Catinca* all day. If the actor is happy with the work, then you know the work must me truly marvelous.... with quite a few stories to back it up. Can you tell I love this movie? Apologies if I went off on a tangent.

Don't apologise. The movie was such a pleasant surprise in terms of how much it awed and moved me. Tarsem has said in several interviews that he kept up the deception for 3 months because of how it would affect Catinca's performance if the crew were jokey about Lee's supposed disability. He said Catinca would have picked up on the vibes if she knew it was all pretend. Several staff complained that he could have trusted them with the secret. I would hate to have that many people upset with me, Tarsem and Lee are brave souls!

Why can't people just understand that she is SIX YEARS OLD. So what if Lee faked his injury? You would have had to do the same thing everyday. Knowledge wasn't going to give you power, crew.

***** I think I read somewhere once that not even the crew knew. He said that the first part of filming was very lonely for him, because he couldn't let anyone see him walking.

atikahrockslikecrazy I always believed that Wallace rather was a reference to Alfred Russell Wallace, who found out about the theory of evolution independently from Charles Darwin. Look him up. :)

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Thanks for this tidbit! I liked this quirky movie for one reason: Lee Pace! But, I fell in love with that adorable little girl! She has a future, if she wants it! Young Lee is very a-dor-able, his own self, too!

I just googled the name of the actor you said and now i can totally see why they cast Lee for that role. He does have the resemblance. Also i love Lee so much (and he's more beautiful than Wallance in every way😍😍😍)

Same here. Why would that be a joke?

Miss Mann "no joke" is just American slang, meaning that she/he is serious and means what he /she says so, don't laugh.

Just a saying that you're serious

Mine too

Me too

I took a statist course once where we had to act out different kind of scenarios and me and my acting partner had to act out an argument (my character did something wrong and he had to act mad). Let me tell you, it was awful, I almost cried and the teacher had to stop it because she saw how upset I became 😂 Btw, I never appeared in any movie, I think it is not for me 😅

​@realMoMoPuFF lol yeah dont take acting classes if you cant handle being yelled at, I learned that one the hard way 😅 I was taking an acting course while dealing with a very not fun home environment and regularly ended up walking out of class crying lmao, acting teachers love getting students to take out their emotions on each other, acting classes are kinda not fun a lot of the time tbh Ive gotta say though, the few professional directors Ive worked with have never once made me cry. Professional directors tend to be nice to actors in my experience, its typically the crew who end up crying in professional settings. One of the most pleasant experiences I had as an actor was on a BBC show. I wasnt doing what the director wanted and I fully expected to just be yelled at or replaced, but they just gave me new notes to help me give them what they wanted and by the end of the day the director thanked me and gave me a handshake. And that was for a background role where I was on screen for like 2 seconds. Acting jobs are cushy af, acting classes are pure hell lol

@@Amber-uh1iy I thought that if I don't try it, I will never know what am I capable of. It turned out I would be a sh1tty actor 😂 I envy you that you was able to take part in productions, it must be very interesting.

+CaitlinSk Yes, she believed his real name was "Roy" and that he really could not walk, while they filmed all of the hospital scenes.

when is this in the clip?

One of my all time favourite film...India is amazing PERIOD! Everyone is amazing...Love the behind the scenes...all that work for this masterpiece...most underrated film ever

You can have these behind the scenes footages if you buy a dvd or bluray disc of this movie, it is available on amazon.

yep, he says so in the audio commentary

It's such an interesting clip when you know that he was lying about being paralyzed.

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Lisa Baltzer Is it possible we all have a twin somewhere? I have been told I look like someone else at least 3 times and one lady said I looked a lot like her brother. I am a woman. That was funny!

patphatcat I met my doppelgänger in high school. Her name was Charlene. When I met her, we even had the same haircut.

a friend of me got angry at a girl in town because he was shouting at her thinking she was me. He got upset and thought I was ignoring him so ran up and was like "why the frick are you ignoring me???" and it wasn't even me. But he swears she was my identical twin in every way!

Yeah I was wondering how they got around that too. I think all the fantasy shots were overseas and maybe they filmed them last when everybody had found out.