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How Dennis Quaid Brought Ronald Reagan to the Screen in New Biopic: 'I Was Scared to Death' (Exclusive)

Dennis Quaid spoke to PEOPLE about why he was 'scared to death' to play Ronald Reagan in the upcoming biopic, 'even though he was my favorite president'

During a conversation with PEOPLE at CinemaCon in Las Vegas on Thursday, April 11, the 70-year-old actor admitted that he initially felt some fear at the prospect of playing the 40th president of the United States in the upcoming biopic Reagan. An official synopsis of the upcoming Sean McNamara-directed film, which PEOPLE shares exclusive first photos from, describes Reagan as a story that "follows the path of a young boy from the dusty roads of Dixon, Illinois, to Hollywood, to the Presidency of the United States and the world stage." Reagan begins with an aging Petrovich, now 90 years old, being visited by an up-and-coming Russian leader who wants to know how the Soviet Union was lost," the synopsis adds.

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