Trivia / Capote

• Ability over Appearance: Philip Seymour Hoffman was quite a bit larger than Truman Capote was, but he was cast because of how well he portrayed Capote.
• Dueling Movies: The film Infamous came out a year later covering the same basic events, but was less well received.
• Dyeing for Your Art: Philip Seymour Hoffman lost a good deal of weight to portray the physically slight Truman Capote.
• Fake Nationality: Mexican-American Clifton Collins Jr. as Caucasian/Native American Perry.
• Life Imitates Art: The premise of the film.
• Scully Box: Inverted. Some trickery had to be done to make Philip Seymour Hoffman look smaller as he was slightly above average height whereas the real Capote was famously short.