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"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. Foxx plays the US president in Roland Emmerich&amp;#039;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. &amp;quot;Research wise I talked to one of President Obama&amp;#039;s speech writers. That was really insightful, just seeing how they ramp it up and they can make a speech target the whole world,&amp;quot; Foxx explained. He added: &amp;quot;That was a great piece of information for me. But I done a lot of things to look &amp;#039;presidential&amp;#039;, I lost weight, I watched lots of video of President Obama, President Clinton, President Bush.  &amp;quot;I watched these guys to see how they moved and spoke and interacted with people. After that I just let Roland do his magic.&amp;quot; Foxx went on to stress that he wanted his character President Sawyer to seem authentic to White House Down audiences.  &amp;quot;I looked at it like this, President Sawyer is a man who&amp;#039;s basically in a time that&amp;#039;s very similar to what is going on now in the world,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s unrest in many parts of the world, there&amp;#039;s many countries that are having a hard time settling - and it could be for a number of reasons.&amp;quot;  The star continued: &amp;quot;With my back-story, for my own subtext, the people have the internet now and they can see that freedom is in the distance. When people get exposed to injustice and what is freedom all types of things are going to happen.  &amp;quot;In this situation President Sawyer is faced with the question of, &amp;#039;How do we move into the new world?&amp;#039; That&amp;#039;s his outlook.&amp;quot; His co-star Tatum recently boasted that he and Foxx have a natural on-screen chemistry. White House Down is now playing in the US and opens on September 6 in the UK. Watch a trailer below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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