You don't need to be an actor, or have any special skills.
The true accounts of surgeries without anesthesia, of wild, Amazonian animals running through English gardens, of a curious lensmaker discovering a world of bacteria he called his little friends, and the methods used to procure a body for dissection when said dissection was illegal all collide in the brave and bizarre history of medicine.
It will be disappointing to admirers of the Capote work, but they are few in number compared to those who will be attracted to and enjoy the film.