Obama visits DreamWorks on California tour

November 27, 2013 at 1:17AM
President Barack Obama reacts to hearing his remarks being used as the voice for an animated character during a tour of the Recording studio at DreamWorks Studios in Glendale, Calif., Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2013. With Obama, from left are, Director Tim Johnson, actor Steve Martin, and DreamWorks Animations CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg. Obama was watching the behind the scene production of the upcoming animated movie 'Home'. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
President Barack Obama reacts to hearing his remarks being used as the voice for an animated character during a tour of the Recording studio at DreamWorks Studios in Glendale, Calif., Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2013. With Obama, from left are, Director Tim Johnson, actor Steve Martin, and DreamWorks Animations CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg. Obama was watching the behind the scene production of the upcoming animated movie 'Home'. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

This is the presidential life, Southern California style: Alien invasions and actors. President Obama dropped into DreamWorks Animation in Glendale on Tuesday, on the second day of statewide swing dedicated largely to fundraising. Before delivering a speech to employees, he was treated to a VIP tour by chief executive Jeffrey Katzenberg, at right. At one point they watched as actors Steve Martin and Jim Parsons recorded lines for the studio's alien invasion film, "Home."

The filmmakers showed Obama a clip of one of their film's characters, an alien, mouthing an audio clip of the president. "Happy Thanksgiving, everybody," the alien said in Obama's baritone. "Now that's good, I've got to get that clip," Obama said, laughing. "That will impress the girls."

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