Quaid, producer Mark Joseph, and director Sean McNamara preview the Ronald Reagan biopic.
One word sums upDennis Quaid’s initial reaction to being offered the role of Ronald Reagan: confusion.
“It’s more about: There was totalitarianism in the world and Americans together helped to end that.
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My hope is that it’s a movie that doesn’t divide, but unifies.”
“He told me, ‘When I didRocky, it’s not really about boxing.
It just happened that boxing was the backdrop for the story about the guy.’
And so that really guided me forReagan,” Joseph says.
“I want them to walk through the theater and go, ‘I learned something about Ronald Reagan.
“It was an honor to play him.”
A version of this article appears in the February issue ofEntertainment Weekly.
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