STACK #137 Mar 2016

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GETTING WITH THE PROGRAM

Although best known for his comedy roles, Chris O’Dowd plays journalist DavidWalsh – the man who exposed the Lance Armstrong doping scandal – in The Program. The Irish actor says he wouldn’t have taken on the part without Walsh’s seal of approval.

Alex Gibney, who made The Armstrong Lie , the documentary about Lance Armstrong, said that he saw DavidWalsh as the Van Helsing to Armstrong’s Dracula… CHRIS O’DOWD: I’ll take that and I’m sure David would love that, too. And I think Stephen [Frears, director of The Program ] does that very well in the film, too, where you do feel like these guys are in competition in some way, one for trophies and

egomania and the other potentially for the truth, and maybe for his own egomania, who knows? But they are quite the pair and in those press conferences where Lance quite deliberately put David down, admonished him and embarrassed him, you could see the tension and... I don’t want to say the word hatred... but you could see that there was a genuine dislike of each other for a long time.

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