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"Claire Danes has spoken about meeting US President Barack Obama. The Homeland actress appears on the cover of next month&amp;#039;s Elle magazine, and revealed in the interview that Obama paid her a significant compliment.  Danes said that she was persuaded to meet with the Commander-in-Chief by her husband, actor Hugh Dancy. She said: &amp;quot;Hugh was like, &amp;#039;We have to meet Obama&amp;#039;, and we walked over before we could think and found ourselves shaking hands with him.  &amp;quot;I said, &amp;#039;I&amp;#039;m Claire Danes&amp;#039;, and he said, &amp;#039;Oh, you&amp;#039;re a fine actress&amp;#039;. And I said, &amp;#039;You&amp;#039;re a fine president!&amp;#039; And he said, &amp;#039;Oh, you&amp;#039;re a finer actress than I am president&amp;#039;. I didn&amp;#039;t have any retort. Hugh and I went immediately to the bar and had a big shot of vodka.&amp;quot;  She also discussed her recent motherhood, after giving birth to her first child last month. She said: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve always wanted to have kids, but I&amp;#039;m glad I didn&amp;#039;t until now. When I was thinking about [working and being a mother] originally, I was really nervous about it. &amp;quot;I think I would make a lousy stay-at-home mom. It just wouldn&amp;#039;t suit me. I feel so fortunate, in that I&amp;#039;ve had this arrow-straight focus... that I wanted to act.&amp;quot; Homeland was recently renewed for a third season, with executive producer Alex Gansa claiming that the new run will be &amp;quot;smaller&amp;quot; in scale.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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