President Obama Plays Daniel Day Lewis in White House Skit
The White House releases a video of Barack Obama pretending to be method actor Daniel Day-Lewis portraying the president. A skit for the White House Correspondents' Association dinner, Obama speaks, as Day-Lewis, about the difficulty in impersonating the presidential voice, as well as the time it takes to create the fake Obama ears. Steven Speilberg, who introduces the video, says he chose method actor Day Lewis as he would 'dive in and really become Barack Obama'