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The award-winning star of the 2016 film Hell or High Water was in Hong Kong recently to attend The Hub’s charity gala
Ben Foster is worried he’s underdressed.
“No one told me to bring black tie!” he grumbles, only half joking, while posing between life-size horse statues ahead of Ready to Race; The Hub Charity Gala Ball, at the Grand Hyatt, in Wan Chai. Wearing a charcoal suit and unbuttoned shirt, he looks more suited to the Cannes red carpet than a charity ball in Hong Kong, but he is far from scruffy.
It is late October and the American actor is in town to lend his celebrity to The Hub, a charity that supports the city’s disadvantaged children and runs a centre in Sham Shui Po at which young people can play, eat, exercise and get help with homework.
The communications manager and I meet in the hotel lobby and he repeats the message, whispering, “His management has decided that Ben won’t be answering questions about Weinstein.”