Rob Lowe Is “Ready” For The West Wing Reboot & Knows Who Should Play The President

Rob Lowe is “ready” for a reboot of The West Wing but doesnt think its going to happen anytime soon.

Speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live in the UK, Lowe said about a potential sequel to the hit political drama, “Of course Im in. Im in my suit ready to play Sam Seaborne. I dont think he [Aaron Sorkin] is [writing a sequel]. I think he thinks about it, I think hes asked about it incessantly, and in a perfect world there would be a version of it. But the problem with it is that, as yet, hes been unable to figure out what that show looks like.”

Lowe has an idea for the storyline, however.

“All he [Sorkin] needs to do, frankly, is go back and watch the show where he says Sam, youll be president one day. Theres your show. Hello, Aaron Sorkin, you wrote it.”

Lowes Seaborn was Deputy White House Communications Director in the Josiah Bartlet administration throughout the shows first four seasons. His character is absent from the fifth and sixth seasons but turns up in the final episode of the final seventh series as Deputy White House Chief of Staff. Its not an impossible arc. The show was originally designed with Seaborn as the main character and he was the protagonist of the pilot episode.

Rumours of a sequel to the award-winning series are never too far away but so far there has been little to indicate anything is imminent. Actor Richard Schiff said in January that Sorkin was keen for a revival.

Lowe is in London to promote new ITV crime-drama Wild Bill, which is set and filmed in the UK. The series follows a U.S. police chief who comes to the UK with his 14 year-old daughter, hoping to flee their recent painful past.

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