Posted by | Ray Cornelius
Check out the newly released images of Ride Along 2 actress Tika Sumpter as Michelle Obama and Parker Sawyers as Barack H. Obama in the upcoming romantic drama Southside With You.
As previously reported, the film chronicles the summer afternoon of 1989 when the future President of the United States of America, wooed his future First Lady on an epic first date across Chicago’s South Side. The film also stars Vanessa Bell Calloway, Jerod Haynes, Donald Paul, Preston Tate Jr. and more.
Reportedly, Barack fell for then Michelle Robinson when the two first met at a Chicago law firm. He was a first-year Harvard Law student, who took a job as an associate and she was his much younger boss. After much convincing, Michelle took Barack up on his offer and the two visited the Art Institute, caught Spike Lee’s film, Do the Right Thing and shared a curbside kiss in front of Baskin-Robbins in Chicago’s Hyde Park.
The film is taken from Richard Tanne’s screenplay and is being produced by Tracey Bing and Stephanie Allain. Sumpter also revealed during the recent Merge Tour that she too is one of the project’s producers. Look for Southside With You to premiere in 2016.
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Photo Credits: Blackfilm.com