If you ask Ben Foster , he was born to play the part of a mustachioed, chest hair-baring gangster in the ‘70s set drama “ Motor City .”

“We had a fabulous wardrobe designer, Amy Roth, who went into the deep trunks but also went to the great designers who did Burt Reynolds and Frank [Sinatra],” Foster told Variety about preparing for the role. “But the truth is, I was in utero, in my mom, in a disco roller-skating rink in Boston. [My parents] didn’t have a car and she would roller skate to work.”

“So, that’s how the chest hair came to be,” his co-star Shailene Woodley cracked as their director Potsy Ponciroli chimed in: “We actually designed every piece of his outfit around the chest hair.”

Indeed, Foster embraced the retro look so much so that he arrived at the Variety Studio at t

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