The team needs about $200,000 to complete the film and is reaching out to Whitfield’s fans. They have done additional shooting and have a little more to go, along with editing and post-production. It’s very beautiful, poetic and inspirational film.” The crew filmed until a week before Whitfield’s death in September of last year. “At the same time, there is a love story in the film with the two of them, and Andy’s inspirational approach to healing cancer makes it very uplifting. “Andy and Vashti allowed unprecedented openness and access, with the camera following them through one of the hardest periods of their lives,” Foster said. When the cancer returned, Whitfield and his wife got matching Be Here Now tattoos Foster says symbolized the fact that “they would take the healing in their own hands” and also provided the title for her documentary. She spent the next year with Whitfield and his family as the actor went through grueling rounds of chemo and traveled to India for a shot at an Eastern medicine treatment. “We want to bring awareness to cancer treatment so others who go through it feel they’re not alone.” Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Lilibet Foster ( Speaking In Strings), whose family hails from the same small Welsh town where Whitfield was raised, came on board. “Our last experience with it was very difficult and lonely, we felt we had a lot of questions,” Whitfield’s manager Sam Maydew recalls the actor and his wife telling him back then. Facing another round of treatments, Whitfield and his wife Vashti decided to have it all documented. He went through a rigorous program of chemotherapy and was deemed as being in remission when, during a physical to return to Spartacus, his blood tests raised a flag, resulting in a devastating news for the actor - his cancer had come back stronger than ever, leaving him with about a 25% chance of survival. Whitfield was first diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma after wrapping the first season of Starz’s Spartacus, a role that would make him a global star.
The result is Be Here Now, a feature-length documentary project about the late actor, which is launching a campaign to raise money for its completion. When Spartacus star Andy Whitfield was battling cancer in the last months of his life, he had a camera crew with him every step of the way.
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