“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. 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.
