Ben Foster: the quest to find the character vibration (Christy out 28th Nov) #646
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
Scroobius Pip
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🗓️ 26 November 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!
This week Pip is joined by the fabulous actor BEN FOSTER!
Ben's been making a huge amount of power moves out there on the big screen, and carries an unmistakeable presence which makes each role totally unique. Whether you started off on the marvelous Hell Or High Water, the beautiful Leave No Trace, or perhaps you're about to catch him starring alongside the phenomenal Sydney Sweeney in Christy, Ben's someone who gives so much to the camera and leaves - well - a very visible trace. From upbringings in Iowa which led to a love of theatre and the simple act of 'play', the path for Ben has been meticulous but also diverse, and this is a really lovely chat you'll definitely enjoy. There are two differing sound qualities you might notice for Ben which are to do with a change of environments but your ears will be fine with the little transition!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is the distraction pieces podcast episode 646. Is it? Yeah, it is. 646. I lose track |
| 0:10.0 | sometimes. My guest today is the wonderful Ben Foster. I'm a big fan of Ben. He's a great actor. |
| 0:17.0 | He's been in many of my favorite films. We get into a lot of it. We've never met before. We tried to line this up for ages, man. Like there was numerous points during London Film Festival, or when this was maybe going to happen, and then it didn't, and things like that. You know, if I've persisted, it's someone I'm excited to have a conversation with, and this is the case, |
| 0:38.2 | and it was a hell of a conversation. |
| 0:40.5 | Ben was on, I mean, there's on to talk about a load of things. |
| 0:43.3 | He's had two amazing films out this year. |
| 0:46.0 | The one that's currently in cinemas, or in cinemas this Friday, in cinemas this weekend, |
| 0:53.5 | is Christie, which is the story of christie martin the most |
| 0:57.2 | successful female boxer of the 90s but kind of of all time like real groundbreaking stuff and |
| 1:02.9 | ben's performance in that honestly blew my mind like i don't know i had to to go back I was nervous I'd got the wrong guy. |
| 1:13.4 | As dumb as that sounds. |
| 1:14.7 | In my research, I didn't say that out loud |
| 1:16.8 | to him here. In my research, I was like, |
| 1:19.1 | I'm definitely talking about the right character, |
| 1:20.8 | I don't I? Because his performance is |
| 1:22.6 | so good, it's such a transformation. |
| 1:25.1 | But then he had another film out earlier |
| 1:26.8 | this year called |
| 1:28.1 | Sharp Corners, which is available to view on demand. So that's worth checking out as well. |
| 1:35.5 | But before we get into the podcast, we are brought you as ever by Speech Development Records.com. |
| 1:40.5 | Christmas is coming. Pop over to Speech Development and see if there's anything you want for a gift for anyone or for yourselves, actually, as a matter of fact. You can also support the podcast by going to patreon.com forward slash scroobious pip or coming over to twitch.tv. forward slash scroobius pipyo and having a blooming lovely time. Right, let's get into this. This is a wonderful chat. I really enjoyed Joy talking to Ben. |
| 2:02.5 | Yeah, he's a joy. And this is episode 646 of the distraction pieces podcast with Ben Foster. |
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