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  • So I admire him as a person, so that really helps so much when you're working with somebody

  • that you already admire.

  • Oprah Winfrey and Forest Whitaker talk about teaming up for their new movie, The Butler.

  • The two of us worked together to make sure that we had real chemistry on screen as a

  • family because that is the reason he said yes to the story, right? And also the reason

  • I said yes to the story because we want to tell it through the eyes of this family, so

  • you have got to actually have a family that works on camera and not this sort of pretend

  • thing.

  • We have no tolerance for politics at the White House.

  • I'm Cecil Gaines. I'm the new butler.

  • The film, which focuses on presidential butler Cecil Gaines, see the pair play Cecil and

  • his wife Gloria, and their chemistry was as obvious off screen as it was on set with Forest

  • having been invited to one of Oprah's parties.

  • When I did Last King, she called and she set up a dinner for me at her home. Because that's

  • what Oprah does. I called him up, and I said your performance is so outstanding, I just

  • love you. I would like to celebrate you. Could I have a party for you? And he said yes, and

  • so I had him come to my house and had a little Oscar cake done. Yeah, what was it? Like 38

  • people or something. Then I had a whole big book made about the dinner and all that stuff.

  • Not your average spag bol night then. The film hits cinemas on Friday.

  • Everything you are, and everything you have is because of that butler.

So I admire him as a person, so that really helps so much when you're working with somebody

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