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Of the casting of Sunny Pawar as Saroo Brierley, director Garth Davis said: "I had an emotional template for this character and, through the story, I could feel the spirit of this kid. So I knew who I was looking for but it was very sobering to think about what we had to achieve. Children generally can be good actors from about the age of eight but it is difficult to find a five-year-old capable of acting. But I knew it was important to have a small boy. It is visually very powerful having a tiny boy lost in the world and a boy who had the resilience and the patience to cope with the demands of the lead role in a film." Davis continued: "I just kept coming back to Sunny. I would put a camera lens on him and he just felt like the boy I had been feeling. I needed a boy who in his natural state could give me 80% of the performance, someone with a look behind his eyes, a history, a quality that's beautiful to look at... and Sunny had that in spades. He could just sit in a room with the cameras on him and those of us watching would get lost in his story, in his face. At the same time there was something darker, something interesting going on." Davis added: "He was one of those special kids. So then the question was: 'Can we do a scene with him? Can he take direction? Can he cry? Can he scream? Does he have strength? Can he withstand direction?' He did all of that and more." Davis concluded: "There was a certain point, maybe a week into the shoot, where he became an actor ... where it was clear he was putting together different emotional ideas. It was absolutely extraordinary recognizing that he was bringing something to his performance that we weren't asking him to do."

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