Chris Pine & Ben Foster on The Contractor and Trying to Depict Real Soldiers

With director Tarik Saleh’s (The Nile Hilton Incident) The Contractor now playing in theaters and available on Digital and On Demand, I recently got to speak with Chris Pine and Ben Foster about making the action-thriller. Written by J.P. Davis, the film stars Pine as a Special Forces Sergeant who joins a private underground military force, alongside Foster, after being discharged from the Army and cut-off from his pension. Unfortunately, on his first mission, things go wrong, and he’s caught in a dangerous conspiracy and fighting to stay alive long enough to get home and uncover what happened. The film also stars Kiefer Sutherland, Gillian Jacobs, Eddie Marsan, JD Pardo, and Florian Munteanu. During the interview, Pine and Foster talked about why they each wanted to be part of the film, how the film asks compelling questions about what really happens to our returning soldiers, why the story of the returning soldier is important to talk about and making sure the film doesn’t have any over the top chara