Zoom in On His Ears
While the family didn’t want to talk to the producer, Bourdin, who had been there for nearly three weeks, agreed to talk. “I wanted the attention at the time,” he later explained. “It was a psychological need. Today, I wouldn’t do it.” Parker stood off to the side, listening as the young man told his story. “He was calm as a cucumber,” Parker recalled. “No looking down, no body language. None.”
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But Parker was curious about his accent. He also didn’t buy that this was the same boy as the photo he was looking at of Nicholas. Having once read that ears are as distinct as fingerprints, he went up to the cameraman and whispered: “Zoom in on his ears. Get ’em as close as you can.”