Astronaut Wants Reese as His Wife - On Screen Buzz Aldrin may have been the second man on the moon, but he’s also got his eyes set on Hollywood - especially .

The former astronaut, 78, is in talks for a proposed film about the battles he faced after his Apollo flight - and his subsequent love story, he told reporters Thursday at the New York premiere of the animated 3-D feature Fly Me to the Moon. Aldrin did voice work for the film.

As for casting the role of his wife of 20 years, Lois, Aldrin envisions Oscar-winner Witherspoon, 32.

“Lois likes ,” he says, “because she played a similar part in Walk the Line.”

“My experiences post-flight were ones of not being very productive for quite awhile - depression and alcoholism, things like that,” says Aldrin. “I was trying to recover from that and ran into %26#91;Lois%26#93; afterwards.”

Asked if Lois straightened him out, Aldrin responded with a laugh. “Nah,” he insists, “I was already straight.”

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