Parker Sawyers has been cast to play a young Barack Obama in “Southside With You,” the drama based on the courtship of Barack and Michelle Obama, IM Global announced Thursday.
Sawyers joins Tika Sumpter, who will play Michelle.
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” to the site of their first kiss outside of an ice cream parlor.