Ben Foster: Doing steroids to play Lance Armstrong in biopic, ‘The Program

The journalist, who is Chief Sports Writer at The Sunday Times, is in Ireland to celebrate the release of The Program, a new film based on his 2012 book, Seven Deadly Sins: My Pursuit Of Lance Armstrong.

But speaking to the BBC at the BFI London Film Festival, where the film had its European premiere, the actor said he felt the drugs had “definitely damaged” his body, even though he took them in a “contained, doctor-supervised manner”. That’s why you take them.

“The Program” stars Ben Foster as the noted Austinite, Jesse Plemons as Floyd Landis, and Lee Pace and Bill Stapleton (come on, all three are just ingenious casting).

Foster recently disclosed that he took the drugs in an interview with The Guardian, though the actor declined to say which drugs he took or how long he took them. “But they additionally can devastation our bodies pretty lasting and then in really serious ways”, he was quoted saying.

Ben says his experimentation with the drugs, which he didn’t want to name, was “all legal” and was “an interesting element”.

“I had a great doctor which helped me handle a few of those consequences”.

“There’s been doping at the beginning of sport and there will always be doping”.

Studiocanal Ben Foster admitted to doing a cocktail of performance enhancers to get in the right headspace to play steroid-tained cyclists Lance Armstrong. “For my own investigation it was important for me privately to understand it. And they work”.

However, he survived the disease and went on to win seven Tour de France titles between 1998 and 2005, making him the greatest star of the sport.

“And this bicycle that’s being locked into something has a punishment to it, unlike anything I have ever seen”.

The Program hits United Kingdom cinemas on October 14.