NYTimes article about "Southside with You" -- the fictional movie about the Obamas.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/28/t-magazine/entertainment/obama-sundance-film-southside-with-you-parker-sawyers-tika-sumpter.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=mini-moth®ion=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below&_r=0

In preparing to film “Southside With You,” which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this week, Parker Sawyers and Tika Sumpter had some impressive shoes to fill. In the film, they play Barack and Michelle Obama (née Robinson) as they were in 1989: he, a Harvard Law summer associate at a prestigious Chicago firm, and she, an ambitious young lawyer and his adviser. Telling the story of their first date, it’s the first major depiction of the Obamas in a feature film, and Sawyers and Sumpter portray the future first couple with such sweetness and magnetism that you’d be forgiven for thinking them an item offscreen. But it didn’t come without baggage. “I was worried that the CIA would come shut us down!” Sumpter says, laughing. “It is the leader of the free world, after all.”