Ben Foster takes on Lance Armstrong in exclusive 'The Program' clip
Lance Armstrong's life turned out to be just as dramatic off the biking path as it was on it.
The disgraced American superstar, who had seven Tour de France victories stripped in 2012 following a high-profile doping scandal, is the focus of the new biopic The Program, directed by Stephen Frears and starring Ben Foster as Armstrong. The movie premieres exclusively on DirecTV today and premieres in theaters March 25.
Based on Irish sportswriter David Walsh's book Seven Deadly Sins: My Pursuit of Lance Armstrong, the film chronicles Armstrong's rise to the top iof the cycling world, his diagnosis of testicular cancer in 1996 and Walsh (Chris O'Dowd) doggedly pursuing evidence of Armstrong using performance enhancing drugs.
This exclusive clip re-creates a memorable 2004 Tour de France press conference where Armstrong calls Walsh out specifically (his first book on the cyclist, L.A. Confidential, had just been released), uses the infamous line "Extraordinary allegations must be met by extraordinary proof" and tries to make the journalist look bad by saying he's distracting from Armstrong's Livestrong Foundation and its mission to fight cancer.