![]() ![]() I got to take what I learned from those accounts and create my Michelle and what I thought she could possibly be like. It was mostly taken from personal accounts of people who knew her during that time, her brother. How did you tap into her inner life during that period? You’re playing Michelle long before she reached the national stage. Hopefully people will come out and see it and disprove whatever studios think. But from the responses we’re getting from people-they really enjoy seeing themselves onscreen, and not just black people, but white people, Indian people-they see love and they see their own stories. I wouldn’t call it a risk, but obviously things are based off of box office, so we’ll see how this does on the 26th. I think people are trying to figure it out. Do you feel like things are moving in the right direction? We don’t see that many love stories onscreen with two black leads. I felt like I had to do it in order to show what I can do. It’s sad sometimes because you’re just like, I could play that part!, but the opportunity goes to somebody else. I could show you better than I can tell you. Listen, if you’re not going to put me in your film, I’m going to put myself in one that I love, and do it myself. The challenge: to breathe life into a version of Michelle Obama decades removed from the one the world has come to know since her husband was elected president in 2008.Ĭompletely. But Sumpter, who got her start on One Life to Live and starred opposite Queen Latifah in Bessie and Kevin Hart in both Ride Along movies, was thrilled to nab the leading role she’d been waiting for. When Tanne approached Sumpter several years ago about playing the role of Michelle, the actor was so eager to see the movie made that she signed on as a producer, vowing to usher it through regardless of whether she was ultimately cast as the future First Lady. Written and directed by Richard Tanne, the movie takes place over the course of a single day: absorbing some culture at the Art Institute of Chicago, catching Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing, sharing a cone at Baskin Robbins. ![]() 26, Tika Sumpter and Parker Sawyers play a young Michelle and Barack on their first date in Chicago in 1989. The Obamas’ days in the White House may be numbered, but their future in Hollywood-or at least, having their story told onscreen-is just getting started.
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