{"id":217551,"date":"2025-09-11T06:57:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T06:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/217551\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T06:57:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T06:57:11","slug":"ben-foster-on-why-he-moved-to-nashville-from-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/217551\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Foster on Why He Moved to Nashville From Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tWhen filmmaker Potsy Ponciroli and Ben Foster<\/a> were trying to schedule a Zoom meeting to discuss a potential collaboration on Motor City<\/a>, they quickly discovered that time zones wouldn\u2019t be an issue. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhen Potsy emailed me, he said, \u2018OK, we can Zoom at 12 p.m. What coast are you on?\u2019 I told him that I was in Nashville<\/a> and he said, \u2018Get out! Me too!\u2019\u201d Foster recalled to The Hollywood Reporter during a recent interview at the Venice Film Festival. \u201cWe decided to meet in person and have lunch, all on the same day, right after I had read the script. I have to be intuitive. I don\u2019t want to be too thoughtful about things. It\u2019s got to move me immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMove him it did. Foster signed on for Motor City to play a ruthless drug lord in the \u201870s-set action flick, which is notable in that it casts the veteran actor opposite Alan Ritchson<\/a>, Shailene Woodley<\/a> and Pablo Schreiber in a virtually dialogue-free revenge thriller. And speaking of moving, Foster\u2019s relocation to Nashville is a relatively recent change for the 44-year-old father of two. Not only did it make his Motor City casting that much easier, it turns out that it\u2019s been a good vibe shift in his personal life, too.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI lived in L.A. for, we\u2019ll call it 12 years. I lived in New York for about the same. [My ex-wife and I] had two children and my parents are very close with my children. They\u2019ve moved close to Nashville. After the pandemic, I had a cognition that I didn\u2019t need to live on either coast, quite frankly,\u201d Foster explained of the decision. \u201cI love horses and I ride. I love live music. I dig country music. There\u2019s been a shift from both coasts and I\u2019ve found that it\u2019s gentler for me, at least, to hub there. Nashville is just a different way. I\u2019m enjoying it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFoster is now part of a growing contingent of stars that have relocated to Nashville, a group that includes Nicole Kidman, Alicia Witt, Melissa Joan Hart, Chrissy Metz and Kellan Lutz.<\/p>\n

\n\tBack to that lunch meeting in Nashville. Foster said he was so enthusiastic about the script that he wound up jumping out of his chair to act out some of the scenes in the Chad St. John-penned script. It\u2019s not something he normally does, he admitted, but he just couldn\u2019t help himself.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s like music when the song calls you,\u201d Foster continued of the film, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival<\/a> before moving on to the Toronto International Film Festival. \u201cI wasn\u2019t doing line readings because there aren\u2019t a lot of lines here, but I was more responding to the space. I\u2019m a physical person, I can\u2019t help but be in this skin suit that we all negotiate with every day. I think I just felt like moving with him and talking about scenes. I got turned on. Also, knowing that [Shailene Woodley] was attached, I have been a fan of hers for years. As an actor, sometimes you lean in and other times, you lean back and let others do their thing. Shay is always unpredictable and true.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When filmmaker Potsy Ponciroli and Ben Foster were trying to schedule a Zoom meeting to discuss a potential…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":217552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[78077,78080,185,171,78084,2987,78083,111058,67,132,68,101337],"class_list":{"0":"post-217551","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-alan-ritchson","9":"tag-ben-foster","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-motor-city","13":"tag-nashville","14":"tag-shailene-woodley","15":"tag-tiff-2025","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-venice-2025"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115184366315722155","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}