Nick Nolte may cast his first vote in 50 years

He hasn’t voted in more than five decades, but Nick Nolte says that may change next month so he can cast his ballot for Hillary Clinton.

“I’d have to vote for Hillary because I don’t want the chaos that would come from somebody that doesn’t know the job,” Nolte tells ITK in a phone interview, referring to GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump.

{mosads}“I’ve always felt that the next barrier we need to jump is we have a female, that it’s time for a woman. I just cannot see two white-haired men, their sleeves rolled up, arguing. I just can’t see that right now,” the gravelly voiced actor, 75, says.

Nolte is rolling up his own sleeves to play an ex-president on the new Epix dramedy “Graves.” Nolte takes on the title role, ex-President Richard Graves, who’s trying to right the wrongs of his administration.

For instance, Nolte says his character “was very strong on immigration, and he put into action that there would be deportations, and now they’re kicking in.” So Graves must figure out, “How is he going to right the ship in his way?”

The actor says he drew inspiration from some real-life former commanders in chief for the role: “I looked back at everybody, all the way to [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt. There’s bit and pieces. There’s some [Lyndon B.] Johnson.”

Exclaiming how tough the job of occupying the Oval Office must be, Nolte repeats his sentiment: “I really think it’s time for a woman.”

But there’s a reason the Golden Globe winner says he hasn’t shown up on Election Day since he was about 21: He’s a felon.

Nolte told TheWrap earlier this year he was charged with selling counterfeit government documents in the form of blank draft cards. He says he’s been told his record was supposed to be wiped clean since the charges occurred as a teen but seems unsure if that’s been the case.

“I haven’t registered yet,” he tells ITK. “I probably will this time. It’s a really important election, you know?”

Trump, Nolte says, “may know something about business — but even that’s questionable.”

“Just because the guy has made a million dollars, and lost a million dollars, and knows how to write that off as a tax loss — I couldn’t get my accountant to ever do anything like that,” Nolte says with a laugh.

“Politics, I think has to be — you come from the political world,” Nolte explains. “You might not start out in the political world, but it takes a good apprenticeship of 20 years to learn how to deal with it, and how to get things done.”

A life in politics, says Nolte, is “a wide-open public affair. There’s nothing you can hide under a rock. So it takes that kind of person that’s been there, done that.”

“Graves” premieres on Epix on Oct. 16.