Interview
by Brendan Lemon
November 2006
  
In the just-released Infamous, Lee Pace plays Dick Hickock, one of the murderers immortalized in Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, but don't think that just because you've read it or seen last year's Capote you know everything about Pace's character. Hickock "is not the guy portrayed in the book," the 27-year-old Juilliard graduate says, suggesting that Capote's version of the 1959 slaughter committed by Hickock and Perry Smith of a Kansas farm family, the Clutters, was not the unvarnished truth. In preparing for the role, Pace says, "We found some of the crime-scene photos," which were "really upsetting."
Pace first garnered attention three years ago in Soldier's Girl, about real-life army private Barry Winchell, who was beaten to death by other soldiers because they thought he was gay. To play Winchell's transgendered girlfriend, Calpernia Addams, Pace lost 25 pounds. In the upcoming movie The Fall, the actor plays a Hollywood stuntman who gets injured. "I was in a wheelchair practically the whole time," Pace says. The Fall was filmed in South Africa and India, among other locations, but Pace is no stranger to farflung travel: He grew up partly in Saudi Arabia, where his father worked for an oil company. The actor undergoes another transformation for Robert De Niro's The Good Shepherd, a December release in which he plays one of the early members of the CIA. The moral of that story? "That the American elite does what it likes," Pace says. "If you're an outcast, like Hickock, it's harder to get away with things."
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