Captivating New Trailer For The Lance Armstrong Film THE PROGRAM
We've got a new trailer for the upcoming Lance Armstrong film The Program, which was directed by Stephen Frears (The Queen, Philomena), and it stars Ben Foster in the lead the role. This looks like a fantastic and intense movie, and Foster went to great lengths to prepare for the role. In a recent interview with The Guardian, he revealed that he actually used performance-enhancing drugs to get into the role. He said:
"I don’t want to talk about the names of the drugs I took… Even discussing it feels tricky because it isn’t something I’d recommend to fellow actors. These are very serious chemicals and they affect your body in real ways. For my own investigation it was important for me privately to understand it. And they work."
He went on to talk about the effects that the drugs had on him:
"There’s a fallout. Doping affects your mind. It doesn’t make you feel high. There are behaviours when you’ve got those chemicals running through your body that serve you on the bike but which, when you’re not … I’ve only just recovered physically. I’m only now getting my levels back."
Damn. It's pretty hardcore that he actually put himself through that for the role. Hopefully, it all pays off for him and the movie. But now, if he's nominated for a Best Actor award he might get disqualified for using performance enhancing drugs!
Here's the synopsis for the film:
From Academy Award® nominated director Stephen Frears (The Queen, Philomena) and producers Working Title (The Theory Of Everything, Everest, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), comes the true story of the meteoric rise and fall of one of the most celebrated and controversial men in recent history, Lance Armstrong.
Based on the award winning book “Seven Deadly Sins” by David Walsh, and featuring a stellar cast including Ben Foster, Chris O’Dowd, Guillaume Canet (Tell No One) and Jesse Plemons (Breaking Bad), this tense and suspenseful thriller looks at how one of the greatest deceptions in the modern era was uncovered while Armstrong convinced the world he was a hero, winning the Tour de France seven times.
The movie will be released in theaters this fall.