Ben Stiller thought-about Barack Obama for ‘Severance 2’ position?
Severance director Ben Stiller has lately made stunning confession about voice position in his sci-fi sequence.
Throughout an look on Jimmy Kimmel Reside on March 3, the Zoolander star revealed he approached the previous US president Barack Obama for offering the voice for the animated model of the Lumon administrative constructing that appeared in a video proven to employees within the sequence.
Ben advised Jimmy that he “had a very short list of people in mind for the unusual part… There was one person that I asked before Keanu Reeves, and he said no”.
When Jimmy requested who it was, Ben replied, “President Barack Obama.”
Nonetheless, Barack added, “Don’t think I have time in my schedule to make this happen.’”
“What’s more important than doing the voice-over for the animated building in Severance?” he quipped.
Ben talked about, “But it’s pretty cool that he responded.”
Elsewhere on the present, Ben shared his working expertise with Matrix star Keanu.
“We did it like a full-on recording session. He was in LA, I was in New York, but he went into the studio and did multiple takes. He took it very seriously. He’s the warmest and inviting voice,” mentioned the 59-year-old.
In the meantime, the second season of Severance could be seen on AppleTV+.