VIDEO : Stephen Frears? ?Program? Unveils Lance Armstrong as Complex Character

Director Stephen Frears sees his Lance Armstrong movie ?The Program,? which world premieres on Sunday at the Toronto Film Festival, as a ?crime story.?
The movie, which uses journalist David Walsh?s book ?Seven Deadly Sins: My Pursuit of Lance Armstrong? as its source, follows Walsh?s pursuit of Armstrong (played by Ben Foster). Walsh (played by Chris O?Dowd) was for many years a lone voice in suggesting Armstrong was doping.
He said it was the self-deception of the public, the media, the sponsors and the sports authorities that was at fault. No one wanted to ruin the fairy-tale about the guy who conquered cancer. Walsh said, ?This was such a life-affirming story."