"I've always loved emulating some of the old crooners, like Bobby Darin and Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin," Marsden told the New York Post this week. "I always thought there were so many interesting stories of Frank Sinatra's life that could be played.

James Marsden is ready to go the way of Timothée Chalamet in A Complete Unknown and the many other actors who've portrayed the true stories of singers over the years. His role of choice is Frank Sinatra.

"To do a biopic like what Jamie Foxx did with Ray Charles would be a lot of fun," Marsden said, citing the Oscar-winning film "Ray."

James Marsden is open to playing Frank Sinatra in a biopic, like Timothée Chalamet’s portrayal of Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown or Jamie Foxx’s portrayal of Ray Charles in 2004’s Ray. In a new interview,

"I always thought there were so many interesting stories of Frank Sinatra’s life that could be played," said MarsdenJames Marsden has his eyes set on a dream role — and it involves singing.While dreaming up his next role in an interview with the New York Post published on Tuesday,

Marsden was most recently seen in Sonic the Hedgehog 3, in which he portrayed the blue speedster’s human accomplice Tom Wachowski. The movie follows Sonic (Ben Schwartz), Tom (Marsden), Tails (Colleen O’Shaughnessey) and Knuckles (Idris Elba) as they try to stop the powerful Shadow (Keanu Reeves) from destroying the world.

James Marsden has been a working actor in Hollywood for over three decades and he’s played countless roles in movies and TV shows – but there’s one dream

James Marsden wants to portray Frank Sinatra in a biopic similar to Jamie Foxx's Ray Charles movie 'Ray'.