Starring the brilliant Ben Foster as Armstrong, The Program also stars Irish actor Chris O’Dowd as Walsh himself, following the journalist as he hunts for the crucial evidence he needs to expose Armstrong.
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The system player, who’s extremely vulnerable throughout the region for visiting extreme degree to enter the thoughts of his personalities, advised the BBC where the performance-enhancing illegal substances he carried in to access Lance Armstrong for the most recent picture “definitely damaged” his whole body.
“Go faster, go longer, go stronger”.
‘And they took drugs because they work.
Ben Foster says he took the drugs “in a contained, doctor-supervised manner to better understand why they took drugs”.
“I managed to have a stunning specialist which actually guided me manage a number everyone consequences”.
Ben says his experimentation with the drugs, which he didn’t want to name, was “all legal” and was “an interesting element”.
Saturday’s flurry of galas at this year’s BFI London Film Festival kicked off with Stephen Frears’ The Program, a biopic following the triumphs and failures of cyclist Lance Armstrong.
The Program is released in cinemas on 16 October.
Despite the toll it has taken on his body, Foster insists the decision to take the drugs was all his own, saying director Stephen Frears had no idea about it until after filming was complete.
“The Tour de France is a wicked sport in the way that it’s not just man against man or woman against woman, it’s not flesh against flesh”.
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Foster’s values include doing whatever he can to coax out a more realistic performance. “As actors you find moments to keep in line with what the day is demanding”.
