Television's former The West Wing president, Martin Sheen, has landed a role in director Kasi Lemmons (Eve's Bayou) mid-1960s real-life story Talk to Me for Focus Features. Sheen will play E.G. Sonderling, the owner of a D.C. radio station that employs controversial black on-air personality Ralph Waldo Petey Green (Don Cheadle). As the radio station's owner, Sonderling gives Green his big break, thereby helping the outspoken commentator become an iconic radio personality in a turbulent era distinguished by vibrant soul music and shifts in social consciousness.

Talk to Me was released July 13th, 2007 and stars Don Cheadle, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Bruce McFee, Mike Epps, Peter MacNeill, Adam Gaudreau, Taraji P. Henson, Cedric the Entertainer. The film is directed by Kasi Lemmons.