NEW YORK — The idea of working with director Antoine Fuqua was enough for Angela Bassett to appear in the action flick, “Olympus Has Fallen.”

But things got better for the Oscar-nominated actress when she found out she’d share most of her scenes with Morgan Freeman. “I was really happy to have that and I was intimidated before he even showed up,” Bassett admits. That all changed once they started working together on a set outside Shreveport, La., where they recreated parts of Washington, D.C., including the White House. “He was nothing but professional and kind and warm and fun, and you know, a treat,” Bassett recalled.

The actress plays Secret Service Director Lynn Jacobs alongside Freeman’s Speaker of the House Trumbull, who assumes presidential power when the president and vice president are incapacitated after a terrorist attack on the White House. “He’s been in so many great roles and he works all the time, you know? Who am I going to be in a world with him? His right hand! And he was at my left. So it was great,” Bassett said.

She added: “At the end, I couldn’t help myself, I just grabbed him and said, ‘I just had a ball, you know, I hope we do it again sometime.’ I think he thought the same, so I was humbled by that.”