Biden gets State of the Union pep talk from Morgan Freeman, Michael Douglas and Scandal's Tony Goldwyn after they dealt with meteors and aliens when they were 'president'

President Joe Biden gathered a group of ex-presidents to give him a pep talk ahead of Thursday's State of the Union address.

Instead of hosting a chat with former Presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, Biden, 81, assembled those of the Hollywood variety. 

The White House released a video on X Thursday in which the president held a virtual conference at Camp David with five of the most famous actors to have played the commander-in-chief.

There was Morgan Freeman from Deep Impact, Geena Davis, the country's first female president from the TV series Commander in Chief, Michael Douglas, the lovesick leader from The American President, Bill Pullman of Independence Day fame and Scandal's Tony Goldwyn.

Freeman, 86, kicked off the discussion by telling Biden he needed to offer Americans 'hope.'

President Joe Biden gathered five movie and television presidents to give him advice during State of the Union preparations at Camp David this weekend. The White House released a video of their conversations Thursday ahead of the big speech 

'Well sir, in my capacity as president all I had to deal with was a meteor,' said actor Morgan Freeman (left) to laughs when advising Biden. Freeman was the president in the 1998 film Deep Impact (right) 

'Well sir, in my capacity as president all I had to deal with was a meteor,' Freeman said to laughs. 'One of the things that I came out of that with my speech to people: hope. Hope is the strongest force we have in this country. It is the most useful and the most effective.'

'My advice is just keep telling us how you're working for us in building hope,' Freeman added. 

Goldwyn, 63, whose character President Fitzgerald Grant was having an affair with his strategist and fixer, Kerry Washington's Olivia Pope, and whose team also rigged the election in the Republican's favor, conceded to Biden that, 'I behaved very badly in a lot of situations.' 

'Tell them that you exist for them. Tell them that they make you a better man,' Goldwyn said. 

The actor also said when he gave big speeches he would wind down with red wine and popcorn - Pope's famed snack combo. 

'But I know for you that would be ice cream,' Goldwyn added. 

Davis' show only lasted one season, but Biden commended her for doing a 'hell of a job.' 

Scandal's Tony Goldwyn admitted as president, 'I behaved very badly in a lot of situations,' and told Biden to tell the American people, 'Tell them that you exist for them' 

Goldwyn's President Fitzgerald Grant (left) had a longtime affair with his aide and fixer, Kerry Washington's Olivia Pope (right) in the TV series. Grant's team also rigged the election in his favor 

Actress Geena Davis played the country's first female president in the season-long TV show, Commander In Chief. David told Biden over the weekend, 'there's no crying in politics,' which, of course, there is 

'I do feel like I should just point out one thing, it always bears remembering, there's no crying in politics,' Davis said.

'Well, what I hope is my politics doesn't make anyone else cry,' Biden responded. 

Douglas, who played bachelor President Andrew Shepherd, who falls in love with an environmental lobbyist in the 1995 romantic comedy, told Biden that he 'learned that having a loving partner changes everything.' 

'Love and compassion as a leader are strengths, they're not weaknesses, and our key to your character,' Douglas continued. 'So let that shine through in your speech and don't forget to save a dance for the first lady in the East Room.'

Pullman, who played the strapping President Thomas Whitmore in the 1996 summer blockbuster, Independence Day, said it was easier for him to pull the country together than it is for Biden today. 

'In Independence Day, I had it easy,' Pullman said. 'We just had invaders from outer space coming in wanting to mess with us and that tends to unify people.' 

In the movie, Pullman's Whitmore, a former fighter pilot, gives an inspiring speech on the Fourth of July as he and a group of American pilots head into battle against a massive alien space craft. 

Michael Douglas, who played the lovesick President Andrew Shepherd in the 1995 comedy, The American President, told Biden that 'having a loving partner changes everything' and encouraged him to 'save a dance for the first lady in the East Room' 

Bill Pullman, who played the strapping Thomas Whitmore in the 1996 summer blockbuster, Independence Day, said it was easier for him to pull the country together than it is for Biden today because the human race had to unite in the fight against the aliens 

He tells the American fighters 'we can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore' as the human race fights for its survival.

'Perhaps its fate that today is the Fourth of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom,' he says. 'Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution - but from annihilation. We're fighting for our right to live, to exist,' Pullman said. 

'And should we win the day, the Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day when the world declared in one voice: We will not go quietly into the night, we will not vanish without a fight. We're going to live on. We're going to survive. Today we celebrate our Independence Day,' the actor said. 

Twenty-eight years later, Pullman played coy about it being the 'greatest speech ever' but he pointed to the line about humans being 'consumed by our petty difference' and 'united in our common interests.' 

'And somehow these words became something to remember,' the actor said. 

Pullman suggested that Biden would be remembered by his own trademark phrasing in speeches: 'There's nothing, there's nothing that we can't do when we do it together.' 

'Those are good ones,' Pullman said. 'Best wishes to you sir.'

Biden then added, 'there's nothing beyond our capacity.'

He then invited the group of Hollywood stars to come see him at the White House.  

'I've never spoke to so many presidents all at one time,' Biden marveled at the conclusion of the video.