Lee Pace Thirst-Traps the Old-Fashioned Way (On Film)

Out actor Lee Pace is a camera buff who shares his pics on Instagram. And while he loves digital media, he surprised Variety in an interview on the set of the latest television drama, Apple TV Plus' "Foundation," by "explaining that when he truly wants to mark something unique, he uses a film camera to do it."

He put his shirtless pics on Twitter and IG.

"When I look at the pictures that my parents took of us growing up before they got a digital camera, there's something about, you pull out the camera on a special day. You pull up the camera on someone's birthday, at the wedding, or the day that you're just like, 'I love everyone here and I want to remember this day and everyone here,'" Pace tells�Variety.�"I love my iPhone and the pictures I can take on it, but it feels kind of ubiquitous. There's a 'marking a special moment' when I pull out that film camera that it's more than just how the picture looks, it's how I feel I've approached that day."

His passion for using film began when he was working on Broadway in "Angels in America" three years ago when he began carrying a Leica Minilux around to take backstage photos.�He has moved onto Contax T2, which he used for pics he took while filming "Foundation."

Pace was very keen on taking photos while shooting the latest episode, titled "The Missing Piece," "In that episode, his character, Brother Day, goes on a pilgrimage in desert, seeking a vision in salt," adds Variety. "Pace spent three days filming the section in the desert itself. He was on location in Malta for parts of the shoot, as well as Fuerteventura and Lanzarote in the Canary Islands."�

"There's such a magic to moviemaking on location – there's magic in front of the green screen, of course – but when you're on location I feel like there is a respect for performance," Pace says.

"The goal is to get as far away from Lee and as close to the character as possible, so any way that can happen, I'm grateful for," he continues. "And being in a faraway location, it helps. We didn't have cell phone reception out there, the trailer was that I got ready and was miles and miles away, and we were in wilderness. The production team did a very good job about keeping as low a footprint as possible, which is very important to me when you go into a natural space – to leave it better than you found it."

He used his camera's timer so he was able to appear in the photos. He also noted that while some pics were in color and some in black-and-white, it wasn't so much a conscious decision as "what roll finds its way into the camera that day," he says with a laugh.

But he did have an agenda. "I wanted the character to look like he should be dead," Pace says. "It's like his sheer force of will has put one foot in front of the other. Yes, it hurts but it doesn't matter. Yes, he has lied, but it doesn't matter. He is durable beyond belief. His pain, all of that stuff, none of it matters. It's just this force of determined force of will – that's the Emperor."

He also chronicled a happy moment: when the producers gave him a pizza after a long day. "I got very cranky by the end of it," he admits of the shoot. "We're in the middle of nowhere and where they got this pizza, I don't know, but I have never been so happy to stuff my face in my life!"