Guest Starring: Ben Foster’s Teen Star Past
It’s time for another of our Guest Starring spots – and this time around it’s rising star Ben Foster.
I’ve been a fan of Ben’s ever since his sensational, and scary, turn in Alpha Dog – and have a feeling an Oscar lies not too far in his future. Over the years he’s popped up in X Men: The Last Stand, 3:10 To Yuma, the underrated 30 Days Of Night, critical favorite The Messenger and a long stint on Six Feet Under.
This weekend Ben will be hitting movie screens in The Mechanic, opposite Jason Statham - in my opinion exactly the kind of movie he SHOULDN’T be making! He’s too good for that kind of action movie trash…
But before he became an acclaimed character actor and indie fave, Ben was a teen star back in the mid-90s on the Disney Channel (which as we all know also launched Britney, Justin, Christina, Ryan Gosling and Shia LeBeouf)
Ben’s show was called Flash Forward – nope, not the recent ABC sci-fi disaster – but a teen drama about two friends making their way through eight grade. The show lasted just 26 episodes but was notable for being one of the first original series produced by the Disney Channel.
Check out Ben in action below… and in the trailer for The Mechanic...time sure does fly!
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