Jamie Foxx talks his role as U.S. President in "White House Down"July 5, 2013 - 15:37 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Jamie Foxx has revealed that he researched US President Barack Obama and former leaders Bill Clinton and George W Bush while preparing to shoot White House Down, Digital Spy said. Foxx plays the US president in Roland Emmerich's new action adventure film, which sees the president team up with a cop (Channing Tatum) to foil a terror plot. Discussing the movie with Flicks and Bits, Foxx stressed that it was important for him to understand the mindset of real US leaders from the past and present. "Research wise I talked to one of President Obama's speech writers. That was really insightful, just seeing how they ramp it up and they can make a speech target the whole world," Foxx explained. He added: "That was a great piece of information for me. But I done a lot of things to look 'presidential', I lost weight, I watched lots of video of President Obama, President Clinton, President Bush. "I watched these guys to see how they moved and spoke and interacted with people. After that I just let Roland do his magic." Foxx went on to stress that he wanted his character President Sawyer to seem authentic to White House Down audiences. Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | Government reveals details from Pashinyan’s meeting in border village Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has met with a group of residents of a border village in Armenia’s northern Tavush province Narek Manasyan wins European Boxing Championships silver for Armenia Armenia’s Narek Manasyan (92kg) won Armenia’s second silver medal at the European Boxing Championships 2024 on April 28. Blinken urges Azerbaijan to continue negotiations with Armenia Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken has urged Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev to continue negotiations with Armenia. Pashinyan, Blinken talk Armenia-U.S. ties over the phone Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan had a phone conversation with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on April 28, Pashinyan’s office reports. |