Jane Fonda Tells Veterans Planning to Boycott “The Butler” to “Get a Life.” (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Jane Fonda has a simple message for those veterans boycotting her new movie, “The Butler,” — get a life. Fonda, who was cast as former First Lady Nancy Reagan in the Lee Daniels’ drama, irked some fans of Ronald Reagan, and they are planning to boycott the movie. Jane Fonda told the Hollywood Reporter, that if her casting “creates hoopla, it will cause more people to see the movie….I fiugred it would tweak the right, who cares?”

Larry Reyes, a Navy veteran and founder of the “Boycott Hanoi Jane Playing Nancy Reagan” Facebook page has been particularly vocal about the casting decision, given Fonda’s past frolicking with the enemy during the Vietnam War.

“Growing up in a military family I heard my father and uncles talk about what Jane did, so from an early age I knew about her history with the war and how upset veterans were about it. Yet it amazed me that people just turned their backs and kept supporting her exercise videos and movies. I made a commitment early on not to support her projects,” Reyes told FOX411’s Pop Tarts column. “Then when I heard she was going to play such a well-liked and highly respected president’s wife, it got to me. They (the filmmakers) knew by picking Jane for the part they were going to stir up some stuff. I’m not a conservative or a liberal, I’m an American. And that was a slap in the face.” Source