Stars of Lee Daniels' "The Butler" PRESS at the Waldorf Astoria New York; After Party at The Bowery
Eugene Allen, the man whose life and career were the inspiration for Lee Daniels’ The Butler. He served 8 different presidents as a butler in the White House. On August 16, you will be able to see him depicted as Cecil Gaines. # LeeDanielsTheButler ! The film follows the life of Cecil Gaines, an African-American domestic worker at the White House (played by Forest Whitaker ) who worked for ten different U.S. presidents from the mid-1950s onward, with Robin Williams playing Dwight Eisenhower , James Marsden playing John F. Kennedy , Liev Schreiber playing Lyndon Johnson, and John Cusack playing Richard Nixon, among others. The suggestion is that President Obama was invited to play himself in a brief scene near the end. President Barack Obama does NOT make his big-screen acting debut in the upcoming White House drama "Lee Daniels' The Butler." "We wanted him to do it," Daniels said, and it was in the script for him to make an ap...