Los Angeles, June 2 (IANS) British actress Emily Blunt has shared that she was cringed out by the former US President Barack Obama. The actress shared that she fell “cringe-ily silent” when Barack Obama visited the ‘Disclosure Day’ set.

The 43-year-old actress has recalled director Steven Spielberg, 79, describing how she and her castmates reacted when the former President of the United States visited the set of the upcoming sci-fi epic, reports ‘Female First UK’.

She told Extra, “Steven said we were all cringe-ily, like, silent when he walked in because we were such a gregarious, noisy bunch. And then everyone was like (silent) when (President Obama) came in. I had this acid wash ’80s denim jacket that I had put on his chair. I didn’t realise it was his chair”.

She further mentioned, “And he came and sat down and he went, ‘Oh, what is this?’ I went, ‘This is for you. I heard you loved acid washed denim’”.

As per ‘Female First UK’, Emily and her co-star Josh O’Connor, 36, have also weighed in on the possibility of extraterrestrial life, given the new film.

She said, “I think you can feel that it has reached a sort of critical mass of, like, wanting to know. I think there is a sense that if we aren’t alone, wouldn’t it actually be a really positive, exciting thing to know that? I think it might be arrogant to imagine that we’re the only civilization in the universe”.

Josh added, “To me, it’s very obvious that we’re not alone… The question of whether they visited us is sort of up in the air for me”.

Earlier this year, Obama, who served two terms as president between 2009 and 2017, caused a stir when he insisted aliens are real and the first question he asked following his election victory was related to beings from outer space.

During appearance on the No Lie With Brian Tyler Cohen podcast, the 64-year-old politician said, “They’re real. But I haven’t seen them. They’re not being kept at Area 51. There’s no underground facility, unless there’s this enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the President of the United States”>

Cohen then asked the former politician, “What was the first question you wanted answered when you became president?”

Obama said, “Where are the aliens?” After the interview was published, Obama shared a clip showing him talking about aliens on his Instagram page and made an attempt to clarify his answers.

Obama wrote, “I was trying to stick with the spirit of the speed round, but since it’s gotten attention let me clarify. Statistically, the universe is so vast that the odds are good there’s life out there. But the distances between solar systems are so great that the chances we’ve been visited by aliens is low, and I saw no evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us. Really”.

Obama was touching on long-running conspiracy theories which suggest the US government has been aware of alien life for decades.

–IANS

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