"Reagan" co-star Nick Searcy, who plays White House Chief of Staff James Baker successful the diagnostic film, says the movie is topping the charts due to the fact that it shows erstwhile President Ronald Reagan’s love of America.
"Reagan was a precise fashionable president and I deliberation the container bureau returns and the information that it's fig 1 connected Amazon and successful DVD income close present bears that out," Searcy told "America Reports" connected Tuesday. "I mean, the critics didn't truly emotion Reagan. I deliberation that's for governmental reasons. But erstwhile you look astatine the assemblage scores, the radical who've seen the movie truly emotion it, and it's truly catching connected retired there."
The histrion reflected connected the parallels betwixt Reagan and President-elect Donald Trump.
FILE - This December 1986 photograph shows archetypal woman Nancy Reagan holding the Reagans' favored Rex, a King Charles spaniel, arsenic she and President Reagan locomotion connected the White House South lawn. ( (AP Photo/Dennis Cook, File))
"It opens with the assassination effort connected Reagan and you can't assistance but retrieve the precise caller assassination effort connected Trump," Searcy said. "I deliberation that the mode Reagan was attacked by his critics, besides the mode the movie has been attacked by its critics, it decidedly reminds you of the disparity betwixt the mode the mainstream media looked astatine Reagan and looks astatine Trump and the mode the mediate of the country, the remainder of the country, the bulk of the country, looks astatine some men. I deliberation the parallels betwixt them are beauteous striking."
Searcy besides noted however Reagan battled against communism arsenic president and however that conflict continues to this day.
"I deliberation we're inactive having that aforesaid battle, and I deliberation the crushed that the movie is resonating with truthful galore radical is that it's not conscionable a past lesson, though it is that. It's besides a emotion story. It's a emotion story, not lone betwixt Ron Reagan and Nancy Reagan, but betwixt Ronald Reagan and America," helium said. "I deliberation Ronald Reagan was successful emotion with this state and truly sacrificed everything to effort to bring it back, to marque America large again, if you will. I deliberation that's wherefore the assemblage loves it truthful much. It's emotionally almighty arsenic well. It is historically accurate."
Ronald Reagan. (Getty Images)
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The movie offers a "fully humanized" mentation of Reagan, the histrion saisd.
"Reagan was a antheral of large substance, not lone intellectually, but emotionally ... It's precise important to retrieve however overmuch Ronald Reagan loved America, and helium is liable for a batch of the large things that we inactive person astir this state today."