http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/southside-with-you-obama-michelle-obama-117762.htmlActors cast to play Barack and Michelle in upcoming romantic dramedy
By Nick Gass
5/8/15 11:30 AM EDT
Actress Tika Sumpter was cast as a young lawyer named Michelle Robinson. | AP Photo
“Southside With You,” a movie documenting the first date of Barack and Michelle Obama in 1989, has cast its main characters.
Parker Sawyers will play a young Obama as he tries to woo a young lawyer named Michelle Robinson—played by Tika Sumpter—on a rendezvous to the Art Institute of Chicago, a screening of Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing” and a drink on the 96th floor of the John Hancock building.
“I was sold,” Michelle Obama said of the date in Peter Slevin’s recent biography “Michelle Obama: A Life.”
In “Dreams from My Father,” Obama described visiting the Robinson clan during their early courtship and being struck by the close-knit extended family, something he lacked as a child.
The film, described as a romantic dramedy, will also include the couple’s first kiss, which came outside of a Baskin-Robbins in Chicago’s Hyde Park.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film will begin production this summer in Chicago.
