Will politics make if difficult to cast Ronald Reagan? | EW.com

Will politics make if difficult to cast Ronald Reagan?

So they need a leading actor who is a conservative, and can play Reagan from age 20 to age 50? Good luck on that quest, lads!

On Ranker's list of conservative actors, the only possibilities would be Dean Cain and that guy who played Jesus, but they're both too old to play Reagan at 20.

I think James Franco has the right looks and the boyish charm to play Reagan. I don't know what his politics are, but he's an actor, so one might fairly assume he's somewhere between Castro and Trotsky. On the other hand, he has enough acting ability to play The Gipper sympathetically.