globeandmail.com: TIFF06

Posted AT 3:00 AM EDT on 07/09/06

From TV starlet to director, via a road less travelled

LEAH McLAREN

From Thursday's Globe and Mail

TORONTO — "No one should have to go through puberty in a period costume," says Sarah Polley, fixing her interviewer with an unnerving, blue gaze that makes it almost impossible to tell whether she's joking. She cracks a smile and the clouds part. "It's really embarrassing." As she sits in the Café Diplomatico, in Toronto's west end, there is little of the crinoline-clad child star Canadians came to know in the '90s.

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