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Jane Fonda in talks to play Nancy Reagan

(CNN) - Jane Fonda may be preparing for a new role – that of former First Lady Nancy Reagan.

Fonda's publicist confirmed to CNN that the actress is in talks to play the wife of the 40th president of the United States in the true-life story of Eugene Allen, an African-American man who worked as a butler in the White House from 1952 to 1986.