Posted on 11/19/2012 11:16:05 AM PST by olcurmudgeon
Former first lady Nancy Reagan isnt worried about Jane Fonda playing her in The Butler, according to the actress.
"I know that she was happy that I was doing it, and I sent some questions to her that she answered, Fonda said Sunday after receiving the Los Angeles Press Club's Visionary Award, Variety reports.
Hoping to portray Reagan accurately, Fonda reached out with questions and made changes to the film script.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
old Jane Fonda does not have the talent for the job and at her age she couldn’t get away with the movies she made 30 years ago.
Hey, let us not get too worked up over this traitor playing a former First Lady.
We have an illegal alien muslim statist anti-American pro-infanticide imposter in the office of POTUS. To my mind, what they do in the movies pales in relation to THAT!
I thought the part was too mean," Fonda told NBC 4 anchor Robert Kovacik in a Q&A at the Millennium Biltmore hotel, in a "lightning round" Q&A after she received the Los Angeles Press Club's inaugural Visionary Award. So she sought Butler's permission to tone down the role, saying she didn't want the the character to do anything mean that Reagan didn't do in real life.
Gee, I wonder if this flick will be nothing more than an attack piece on the Reagans, especially Nancy.
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