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00:02:05.000And at the time, I didn't say yes, but I didn't say no.
00:02:11.000Because a shiver of fear would up my spine.
00:02:14.000Reagan is one of those figures in history, like Muhammad Ali, everybody in the world seems to know what he looks like, sounds like, walks like, and has an opinion.
00:02:24.000And I didn't want to do an impersonation of him, you know, and I really wanted to get down to Uh, finding out what, really what made him tick.
00:02:39.000I mean, that's, that's what acting is really all about.
00:03:08.000And driving up the five miles of the worst road in California to get to the top of the mountain and coming out into that pasture, I could feel Reagan there.
00:03:40.000It's and his story is uniquely American one.
00:03:43.000I want to play just a little bit from the movie here, which I encourage everyone to go to go watch and to go to the film to go check it out on August 21st.
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00:05:52.000Now, Dennis, based on my amateur understanding of history, there was a debate of whether he should say that or not and it wasn't in the speech.
00:06:28.000But we, my generation, we grew up, you know, with drills out of the blue at school to get under our desk, you know, that, you know, an atomic attack drill.
00:06:44.000And it was very real that there was going to be a nuclear confrontation between the USSR and the United States.
00:06:54.000And Reagan not only ended the Cold War, he won the Cold War.
00:06:59.000And He also, as a nation, gave us confidence.
00:07:06.000We were a nation in decline back in the late seventies, so they said, and Reagan said, no, we're going that way.
00:07:13.000And that's what great leaders are all about.
00:07:16.000The courage that he had to give that speech, and it was really a defining moment of the West versus communist totalitarianism, still echoes in today's time.
00:07:28.000The story of Reagan, though, is one where he always was up against some sort of odds.
00:07:35.000They called him a cowboy that couldn't win his presidential elections.
00:07:39.000You know, he wasn't always successful.
00:10:14.000The movie opens with that, you know, the assassination attempt on him, which really changed him.
00:10:21.000As well, you know, he said, my life is no longer mine.
00:10:25.000It's, you know, it's working for the man upstairs because he was saved by that.
00:10:32.000But Reagan was, besides getting assassinated, what made Reagan great is that he governed and lived his life by principles.
00:10:43.000And those are not, the principles don't have anything to do with political party.
00:10:51.000But they do have a lot to do with leadership as a president and us as a nation to live by and governed by principles.
00:11:01.000Because sometimes if you go by those principles, you will make an unpopular decision.
00:11:07.000But it might be the right decision because of those principles.
00:11:14.000And in the long run, that is what we'll see you through.
00:11:19.000This movie is a way, you know, you mentioned at the top about your amateur story, and I'm sure you know a lot about history, but if you're under 35, if you were born Uh after 1985 this will be a uh this movie is a great way to see what this country used to be like and feel what this country used to be like really and what it still can be if it's about us uniting as people not under a political party but just uniting as people what we can do
00:11:53.000And if you're born before 1985, it's a reminder, really.
00:12:00.000And a great look back, because the movie's, besides being about Reagan, it's about all of us.
00:12:06.000And I'd like to get all of us baby boomers to go back to the movies again for this.
00:12:41.000So, Dennis, you kind of mentioned this.
00:12:43.000We have a primarily younger audience that doesn't know the story of Reagan.
00:12:49.000You mentioned this, but I'm sure because you are one of the best in your craft and just looking at, you know, watching parts of the movie and seeing it and working my way through it, you did an amazing job of embodying him and really portraying him as he was, not as how you wished he was.
00:13:05.000Can you talk about the research and the study that you did in preparation For effectively doing the first Reagan movie ever.
00:13:13.000I mean, there were other small ones, but this is the... This is the big one.
00:13:20.000You know, it had the blessing of some of his family, let's put it that way, and the cooperation.
00:13:30.000We shot it at the Reagan Ranch, for instance, which was incredibly cool.
00:13:34.000We were doing these scenes that happened, you know, in history, and you're standing right there, and the Reagan Library, he was in Air Force One, But it's, you know, I did not want to do like a love letter about him.
00:13:48.000And I'd lived through all these times.
00:13:50.000And there were times when I was mad at Reagan, you know, when it came to negotiations or talks with the Russians, especially at Reykjavik, when he said no and got up and walked out of Gorbachev.
00:14:06.000And, but, you know, I, I thought, well, he's turned into an old conjurer.
00:15:22.000The applicability to today's time is remarkable, and I want to just encourage the audience here, you guys, tickets are available now at reagan.movie, and this is not a political thing, this is a historical, just, accomplishment.
00:15:38.000Alright, Dennis, tell us about Ronald Reagan's whistle-stop tour with General Electric.
00:15:43.000Well, this was before he was even in politics.
00:15:47.000He had a job as a spokesman for GE, General Electric.
00:15:54.000And he took, in doing that, he went around the country to all the factories, and not into just the business offices of the higher-ups, but he went out on the floor and he talked to the men and women who worked for GE on that.
00:16:15.000And that really was the beginnings of his political base.
00:16:19.000And, you know, Reagan was a Republican.
00:16:22.000He used to be a Democrat, by the way, and he switched over in 64.
00:16:26.000But he was, had that, he had that common touch.
00:16:30.000Regular people, you know, at all classes really communicated with him,
00:16:56.000He was a human, like all of us, with, you know, flaws, maybe not so obvious as some of the flaws that we see in other politicians these days or whatever, or ourselves.
00:17:09.000But he was, there was also, Reagan was called a great communicator, yet everyone I talked to in my research about him said there was a place in him that was Impenetrable that you could get so far and then you it was tough to get any further a very private place in the end which I think was for one thing with so many people around you and and having that place of privacy in there where and I think that place is also where he
00:17:47.000Communicated with God which is the only prayer minute in meditation, and I'm not trying to set it up that you know he was like having a telephone call with God, but he was you know as part of it is the bedrock of of him as a person and It's that was what was very That's what I wanted to get to where he came from and also There was insecurities.
00:18:17.000I'm an actor myself, and I know that Reagan Did not get to the place where he wanted to get to as an actor.
00:18:28.000You know, I think he had feelings of less than actually with that insecurity.
00:18:35.000He was married to Jane Wyman towards the end of his career when his was going down and Jane's was coming up and she won an Academy Award, in fact, which in relief to that.
00:18:46.000That's when he became vice president and then president of the Screen Actors Guild.
00:18:51.000That's not a job that any actor wants to have.
00:18:54.000That's what you have when acting is not really working out, you know?
00:18:59.000Or you're kind of at the end of your career, which was, in a way, I think, him finding God's purpose for himself.
00:19:10.000You know, we're all in a search for that.
00:19:16.000It's not so obvious to us all the time, and it's very surprising how God's purpose for us comes into our lives.
00:19:27.000I know with myself, I say, you know, I've got to be careful about what I ask God for, because He just might give it to me.
00:19:36.000He's going to give it to me in a way that I'm going to go, wait, wait a minute, that's not what I meant at all.
00:19:43.000And it's how we respond to that, which is a test in our lives.
00:19:51.000And I think that's what you see in Reagan.
00:19:55.000Dennis, thank you for doing this and spending time with us.
00:19:58.000I think this is one of the most important films to come out in the last decade.
00:20:01.000I've been wondering, when is the Reagan, you know, story going to be told?
00:20:04.000I grew up just loving Reagan, still do, and admiring him.
00:20:07.000People can check it out at reagan.movie, and we need to... You know, I'd like to say, too, if you don't mind, this is not like going to a classroom, because I hate movies like that.
00:20:17.000You know, this is a story of a person That it's inspiring, I think, and the relationship that he and Nancy had in a person's life, but it's also about the American people, about all of us.