Entertainment the unusual role of rupture that Barack Obama refused

With the critical success of the first season of Rupturethe series increased the cast for the second year and even featured some special appearances – and one of them would be from none other Barack Obamaformer president of the United States.

Who revealed the information was Ben Stillerone of the directors and producers of the show. During interview at Jimmy Kimmel Live!the 59 -year -old artist revealed how he thought of the politician to be the voice of the administrative building Lumon In an animation. The paper went Keanu Reevesactor of John Wick – Back to the game (2014), Matrix (1999), Constantine (2005) and Maximum speed (1994).

In the conversation, Stiller explained how the team had a “very short list of people” as an idea to lend their voice to the animated building, which appears in “Hello, Lady Cobel“, second episode of the first season of Rupture.

“There was a person I asked before, and she said no,” he said. Then, Kimmel questioned who this mysterious person would be. “President Barack Obama. I didn’t ask him in person. I knew someone who knew his lawyer, and he said, ‘I can pass the request if you write an email, so I wrote this email to him saying,’ Hey, we have this show … so much, ‘”he recalled.

Two days later, I receive an email from the president Barack Obama Saying: ‘Hey, Bena big fan of the show, I loved the first season, I can’t wait for the second. I don’t think I have time on my schedule to make it happen. ‘

Then, Ben Stiller took the opportunity to make a joke: “What is more important than making the narration of the animated building in Rupture? But it is very cool that he answered. “Then he talked about how he went to work with Keanu Reeves in the series.

“We did as a full recording session. He was in Los Angeles, I was in New York, but he entered the studio and made several shots,” he said. “He took it very seriously. He’s like the warmest and inviting voice. I don’t know if when you see the building and hear his voice you necessarily think immediately that it’s Keanu, but you just have that kind of innate feeling.” Watch below:

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