Garcelle Beauvais has landed a role to play in the Roland Emmerich’s thriller White House Down, which already stars Jamie Foxx.
Beauvais, who co-starred with Foxx already on The Jamie Foxx Show, as his sometime girlfriend, will reunite with him in White House Down to play his wife, the First Lady.
The upcoming film is an action thriller that stars Channing Tatum as a Secret Service agent, whose job is to protect the President, who will be played by Foxx, during an invasion.
Also starring in the film is Maggie Gyllenhaal, James Woods, Joey King, Richard Jenkins and Lance Reddick. Reddick will play Colonel Janowitz, an agent whose sole responsibility is to be the handler for the Speaker of the House, to be played by Jenkins.
White House Down was written by James Vanderbilt and produced by Mythology Entertainment partners Bradley Fischer, Vanderbilt, and Laeta Kalogridis. The film is executive produced by Tatum’s Iron Horse Entertainment company.