Ben Foster on Working With Ron Howard in ‘Inferno’

Inferno marks the third installment in the Robert Langdon film series, serving as a sequel to 2006’s The Da Vinci Code and 2009’s Angels & Demons. The mystery thrillers are based off of the novels written by Dan Brown and their film adaptations have all been directed by Ron Howard.

BackstageOL’s Dave Morales recently sat down with Ben Foster, who stars in the film alongside Tom Hanks, Felicity Jones, Omar Sy, Sidse Babett Knudsen, and Irrfan Khan. Foster spoke about what it was like to work with Howard.

“It’s a privilege,” he said. “He’s what everybody says he is. His reputation is true. He’s the nicest, smartest, polite, hard-working, and a hell of a director. It’s a living legend…I can’t go on enough about how great it is working with Ron.”

Check out the official synopsis for Inferno:

Academy Award® winner Ron Howard returns to direct the latest bestseller in Dan Brown’s (Da Vinci Code) billion-dollar Robert Langdon series, Inferno, which finds the famous symbologist (again played by Tom Hanks) on a trail of clues tied to the great Dante himself. When Langdon wakes up in an Italian hospital with amnesia, he teams up with Sienna Brooks (Felicity Jones), a doctor he hopes will help him recover his memories. Together, they race across Europe and against the clock to stop a madman from unleashing a global virus that would wipe out half of the world’s population.

Inferno hits theaters Friday, October 28th.

Watch our interview with Foster and Sy below: