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VFS Acting grad Stefania Putnam recently wrote to us from her home in Thailand with a terrific account of her experience working on the set with Christian Bale in acclaimed German director Werner Herzog’s latest feature film Rescue Dawn, due out this summer. The film is based on Herzog’s own 1997 documentary Little Dieter Learns to Fly, about the U.S. fighter pilot Dieter Dengler who was shot down and made a prisoner-of-war in Laos during the Vietnam War. Seeing as Herzog is one of only a handful of truly visionary directors working today, creating awe-inspiring films that blend fact, fiction, the impossible and the unbelievable, it’s easy to understand why Stefania was so thrilled to have the chance to work with him. What follows is the complete story of her time on set (complete with a few handy acting tips), in her own words:
