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Showtime’s 2003 ‘The Reagans’ Oral History: How Republican Backlash Almost Killed the TV Movie

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Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorWhen James Brolin was first approached by producers Neil Meron and Craig Zadan to play Ronald Reagan in their 2003 miniseries “The Reagans,” he said he wasn’t interested.“Neil and Craig are old friends and I immediately said to them, ‘I guess everybody else turned it down,” Brolin recalls. “But they said, ‘No, we think you’re the guy.’ I wouldn’t even read it.

I thought me playing Reagan was absurd.”Meron and Zadan, who passed away in 2018, eventually convinced Brolin to read the first 20 pages of the script. “It just tickled me,” Brolin says. “I went, ‘Wow, this isn’t just saying some lines.

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