Dennis Quaid praised Ronald Reagan for being the 'great communicator' but needed his own reassurance to take on the role of a lifetime in presidential biopic.
Dennis Quaid agonized over the idea of portraying President Reagan. The Emmy Award-winning actor questioned his decision to play the 40th president of the United States in a biopic about Reagan's life when he was first offered the role six years ago. 'I didn't say no, and I didn't say yes because, really, fear,' Quaid exclusively told Fox News Digital.
It was about feeling like I was going to be judged and feeling unworthy. He was the great communicator and all that. But I didn't want to do an impersonation of him. I wanted to really kind of get to the core of who he was as a person. So, I put off saying yes.' It wasn't until Quaid visited Reagan's Southern California ranch that he got a real idea about who the man truly was behind the decades of stories.
Quaid remembered driving through a private gate 'after going up 5 miles of the worst road in California,' when he realized that Reagan was 'a humble man.' 'He was not a rich man, and there was a humility about him that was kind of the bedrock of who he was,' Quaid said. 'And I felt him. I felt this core there. They had the ‘Western White House.’ It was bought by a circle of friends after he passed to keep it as it was.
talked to people who were close to him, you know, who knew him really well,' Quaid said. 'They all said there was a part of Ronald Reagan that was unknowable, that was very private, that you just couldn't penetrate. I think even Nancy felt that to a certain extent. You know, this is the great communicator. 'He was not a rich man, and there was a humility about him that was kind of the bedrock of who he was.
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