Actor Ben Foster has revealed he took performance enhancing drugs to prepare to play Lance Armstrong in the movie just about to hit cinema screens.
With the new Lance Armstrong movie The Program set to hit cinema screens next month an extended trailer has been released, see below.
The film, which is based on David Walsh's Seven Deadly Sins book on Armstrong is due for release on October 16th.
And having had its world premier at the Toronto International Film Festival at the weekend, Ben Foster has been revealing the lengths he went to to play Armstrong.
“I don’t want to talk about the names of the drugs I took,” he told The Guardian.
“Even discussing it feels tricky because it isn’t something I’d recommend to fellow actors.
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"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.”
Foster has long been an exponent of method acting; eating dirt to help him understand the conditions for Navy Seals coming under attack by the Taliban when filming Lone Survivor.
He also lived homeless to prepare himself for a brief role as a homeless army veteran in Rampart and also used eye drops to dilate his pupils when playing a meth addict in the movie Alpha Dog.
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