India, Aug. 31 -- Actor Hugo Diego Garcia possesses a talent that is exceedingly rare among even the most seasoned of his peers. He's able to transition between wildly different characters and roles with the effortlessness that others might walk from one room to the next. A great deal of his uncanny ability to embody virtually anybody onscreen is no doubt due to his upbringing, immersed in three distinct cultures.

"I was born in Oyonnax, France, a small city lost in the mountains," Garcia described, "to a Spaniard father and a mother of Italian descent."

His upbringing in that idyllic, yet isolated, town didn't initially afford Garcia the opportunity to see as many films as he might have had he grown up in a big city. The collection of mo...