{"id":71982,"date":"2015-05-07T13:58:02","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T13:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/0de2709a84.nxcli.net\/0-kjasnb\/2015\/05\/07\/barack-obama-to-be-played-by-parker-sawyers-in-southside-with-you\/"},"modified":"2018-12-18T03:46:22","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T03:46:22","slug":"barack-obama-to-be-played-by-parker-sawyers-in-southside-with-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/barack-obama-to-be-played-by-parker-sawyers-in-southside-with-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama to be Played by Parker Sawyers in ‘Southside With You’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Barack Obama to be Played by Parker Sawyers in ‘Southside With You’<\/strong>Posted by Wilson Morales<\/p>\n

May 7, 2015<\/p>\n

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IM Global and producers Bob Teitel, Tika Sumpter <\/strong>and Richard Tanne <\/strong><\/strong>announced that they have cast Parker Sawyers<\/strong> as the young Barack Obama<\/strong> in SOUTHSIDE WITH YOU<\/strong> the romantic dramedy inspired by Barack and Michelle Obama’s first date. Sawyers joins Tika Sumpter<\/strong> (Get on Up) who will play Michelle.<\/p>\n

The film covers the eventful date in 1989 when a young associate named Barack Obama was trying to woo lawyer Michelle Robinson on a summer afternoon and evening, that took them from the Art Institute of Chicago to a screening of Spike Lee’s DO THE RIGHT THING <\/strong>to the site of their first kiss outside of an ice cream parlor.<\/p>\n

\"Barack<\/a>Sawyers, an American actor based in the UK, recently completed Oliver Stone\u2019s SNOWDEN <\/strong>with Joseph Gordon Levitt<\/strong> and is about to shoot a supporting role in the feature THE AUTOPSY OF JANE DOE<\/strong>, opposite Brian Cox <\/strong>and Emile Hirsch<\/strong>. Other credits include the upcoming Universal action drama SPECTRAL<\/strong> as well as James McTeigue’s thriller SURVIVOR<\/strong> opposite Pierce Brosnan <\/strong>and Emma Thompson<\/strong>; the dark thriller DON’T HANG UP<\/strong> opposite Sienna Guillory <\/strong>and the sci-Fi thriller MONSTERS: DARK CONTINENT<\/strong>. He also had supporting roles in ZERO DARK THIRTY <\/strong>and HYDE PARK ON HUDSON<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Richard Tanne<\/strong> makes his directorial debut with the project based on his screenplay, which will be produced by Bob Teitel, with IM Global’s Founder and CEO Stuart Ford, President of Production Matt Jackson, SVP of Production Glendon Palmer and Tracy Bing on board as executive producers. The film was cast by Tracy “Twinkie” Byrd (Fruitvale Station, When the Bough Breaks, Jumping The Broom).<\/p>\n

Shooting on the film begins in Chicago in August.<\/p>\n

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