Actor Jamie Foxx was treated like royalty when he arrived in the United Arab Emirates to film his latest movie The Kingdom - he was even given his own ambulance. Foxx joined co-stars Jennifer Garner, Chris Cooper and Jason Bateman in the capital Abu Dhabi for the Middle Eastern action thriller earlier this year (07). But the 39-year-old Miami Vice star was the only one to be given the Hollywood treatment usually reserved for top politicians and members of the royal family. The protection including a 25-strong armed guard, a personal food taster and his own team of paramedics, who followed his every move.Director Peter Berg tells OK! magazine, "They gave him their highest level of protection - what they would offer a visiting president." The Kingdom follows an FBI team who go on a secret trip to Saudi Arabia to investigate a terrorist bomb that went off in a Western housing compound.But the team find their expertise thwarted by Saudi officials who are suspicious of the presence of the Americans.

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