David Benioff, DB Weiss Share Why Barack Obama Turned Down A Role In ‘3 Body Problem’
deadline.comDavid Benioff and DB Weiss, having conquered the fantasy genre with Game of Thrones, could have recruited pretty much any talent they desired for their latest project – a big-budget adaptation of Liu Cixi’s sci-fi novel, Three-Body Problem, which comes to Netflix this week.
However, one person remained immune to their powers of persuasion, with the creative pair revealing that former president Barack Obama turned down their bid for him to make a cameo appearance.
Benioff told USA today that they had made the request after learning Obama was a big fan of the original novel: “He did sign a very funny note, when we tried to get him for a cameo.
It was to the effect of, ‘In case there ever is a real alien invasion, I think I should probably save myself for that crisis.'” This is the biggest project from Benioff and Weiss since Game of Thrones finished after eight seasons in 2019.
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