![]() ![]() I have to be trustworthy in order to be trusted and they have to rust me enough to be trusting in what they are able to share. "That requires a great degree of trust on both sides. A specialist in cinema verite or "observational cinema", Foster's filmmaking style eschews voiceovers and a traditional movie structure, favouring a looser, more organic style. Some of Be Here Now was shot by Andy Whitfield himself on a small-format camera.įoster says the Whitfields had already shot an interview and were exploring how to realise their dream with Spartacus producers Chloe Smith and Rob Tapert when she came on board. And not just people facing cancer either, Andy had already shown he could inspire people to go for it and make the best of their lives, by becoming a star at age 38, after so many years of perserverance." They saw a tattoo parlour across the street and decided to go and get 'Be Here Now' tattooed on their arms and thought they would share their journey with others because they felt frightened and isolated and believed there must be other people going through this who could be helped and inspired by such a story. ![]() ![]() "That night they went to restaurant and talked about how they were going to take a very different approach this time. But then, just as he was preparing to start season two, he underwent a scan for insurance purposes and they found a small amount of the cancer still lingering in his system – basically he wasn't in remission. He and Vashti decided to immediately have chemotherapy and quietly, privately thought they had eradicated it. After going to lots of physiotherapists, one of them finally suggested he have a scan and that's when they found the lymphoma. "Andy had finished the first season of the show, but was still experiencing back-pain, which he put down to doing a lot of his own stunts and the rigorous 'Gladiator boot camp' they initially went through. Lilibet Foster spent 18 months with the Whitfield family making Be Here Now.īut why would an actor, who had only just achieved fame thanks to a season on the Kiwi-shot swords-and-sandals series Spartacus: Blood and Sand, want to put his own personal struggle up on screen? Foster says there were a number of factors at work. Then I asked Andy where he was from and he said 'oh, you'll have never heard of it – it's tiny town on a little island in Northern Wales' and I said 'ah, that's interesting because that's the same town my father grew up in'. I was just really take by them – their holistic way of living and personalities. "The producer I had been working for had been approached by Andy and his wife Vashti and he introduced us. "I had been in the process of making a programme about Dennis Hopper, but when he got cancer, that project went away," says Foster. Where some filmmakers might have blanched at tackling a story where the outcome was uncertain and the ending unhappy, just one conversation had the New York-based documentarian convinced that this was a tale worth travelling halfway around the world to capture. ![]() It didn't take long for Lilibet Foster to realise she had to make a film about actor Andy Whitfield's battle with cancer. 2015 documentary Be Here Now details Spartacus star Andy Whitfield's battle with cancer. ![]()
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