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Posted on 08/15/2026 12:41:56 PM PDT by DFG
The Newsroom and American Rust alum Jeff Daniels says The Brink of War, his new Cold War-era nail-biter, which tells an extraordinary true story, has themes that resonate today.
“The world is still a dangerous place,” Daniels, 71, told UPI in a Zoom interview Wednesday.
“There are nuclear weapons out there. More countries have them than had them, say, back in 1986. More countries want them and the world seems to be on a path towards setting up mutually assured destruction, again, whether you have star wars shields or not.”
Written and directed by Michael Russell Gunn, the film follows U.S. President Ronald Reagan (Daniels) as he meets with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev (Jared Harris) in Reykjavik to discuss nuclear arms de-escalation.
“Here’s an example of two great leaders. On that weekend, they were great leaders trying to come together, overcome their division, their differences and find a way to make the world a better place for everyone — not just you and your country, no matter what that country might be,” Daniels said.
“We can learn from history and if we have the leaders around the world who are willing to think like that, maybe we can have another, meeting like the one they had in Reykjavik in 1986. That would make the world a safer place.”
Chernobyl and Mad Men actor Harris, 63, agreed.
“The desire for something like this is to remind people what statesmen look like,” he said.
“You know what leadership looks like. Here are two people who, in Reagan’s case, had fought a battle against communism devoutly all his life and here he is sitting across the table with his arch-enemy, trying to find common ground to make the world a better place,” Harris added.
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The other side hated Reagan at the time.
Now they think he was a statesman.
Just wait 40 years. The Democrats will be hating some Republican with a white-hot hatred and longing for the good old days of Trump, a true American hero.
Don’t like that turd as Reagan..
What an incredible time that was, between those two men, and our two countries.
Thank you, God, for President Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, to get us through.
So the Dumb and Dumber guy is now pretending to be Reagan?
Nothing beats Clinton-Yeltsin moment. The interpreter shifted the emphasis a bit, which resulted in the best piece of comedy ever.
Here are two people who, in Reagan’s case, had fought a battle against communism devoutly all his life
Good God, Daniels is such a leftits d-bag and he’s playing Reagan? I can just imagine the bias.
I don’t know who this guy is; but I thought Dennis Quaid made a very good Reagan.
They will sell their soul for a buck. I like it when the anti-gun nuts try to play cowboy, soldier, or detective.
I watched some of his speeches in front of an audience and it made me realize he wasn’t acting in the movie “Dumb and dumber”, he really is an idiot and there is nothing worse than an idiot with a huge ego who thinks he’s smart.
Reagan was good at educating people, he could explain things and was doing it constantly when he spoke, watch his Johnny Carson appearances, he was charming and amusing, entertaining, but filling the audience with information and facts, he was persuading them.
Reagan explained things to us and told us why what he was doing was important and led us to unify behind it as a national goal, he unified people behind his causes, he led the people of the nation.
Exactly.....but they hate President Trump more than Reagan so they are now reduced to using RR as a pillar of good- which he was all along
Bravo!
Liberals never like the Republicans of the day. They certainly did not like Reagan. They can appear reasonable by liking Republicans of the past, like Reagan, while hating current Republicans (Trump). Total phonies - dishonest manipulators.
No idea what job Jeff will do as Reagan but he is not the same actor that he was in Dumb and Dumber. He has grown, e.g. the Martian.
So now they love Reagan.
The best Reagan impersonation I ever saw was Johnny Carson, he nailed Reagan.
I predict 5 to 10 years from today, maybe even two before the next Republican leader is unfavourably compared to Trump.
They will turn Dumbya into a saint.
Stick to acting jackass....living in your hollywood bubble of money and no doubt a walled mansion, you have no freaking clue as to what the reality of what international diplomacy is.
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