United Kingdom, March 5 -- Barack Obama turned down Keanu Reeves' role in 'Severance'.

The former United States President, 63, was offered a role in the hit AppleTV+ psychological sci-fi thriller series by Ben Stiller - who serves as executive producer and director on the show - as the voice of an animated Lumon building in a film shown to staff in season two.

Appearing on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' this week, Ben said: "There was one person that I asked before [Keanu], and he said no."

Ben confirmed Obama was the other person, and explained: "I didn't ask him in person. I knew someone who knew his lawyer, and his lawyer said: 'I can relay the request if you write an email, so I wrote this email to him saying: 'Hey, we have this show... whate...