Dennis Quaid

It was decades away from it.

But he made the Russians think at least 10% that it might be real.

Reagan even offered to share it with them in exchange for let's take our missiles down to zero.

And

You know, I got mad at him in Iceland when I thought he was acting like an old codger because they came up and said, we're offering you this, you know, half the missiles or this or that.

And he said, no, because they wanted us to get rid of Star Wars, which didn't exist.

I said, well, you know, you have to get rid of Star Wars.

And if we'd done that, the Soviets would have just gone on their merry way and been doing what they would have had been doing.

But Reagan said no.

And the Soviet Union came toppling down.

But it was great progress that he made.

And it took a cold warrior, hard-assed cold warrior, to be able to negotiate with them.

And that's what we don't have today.

Did you do a deep dive?

Yeah.

Well, for one thing, I lived through it.

I remember every single thing because even back then I was a big news wonk even though I had three channels, three news channels.

And also when I was offered the part, he was my favorite president, OK?

And –

I didn't say yes, but I didn't say no.