Left, a young Barack Obama; Actor Parker Sawyers. (Left, Joe Wrinn/Harvard University via AP; Courtesy of George Monkland/42 and Nicholas Bernheim/NB Management)
Everyone from Will Smith to Drake has been angling to play President Obama on the silver screen, but it looks like the first crack at a big role playing POTUS will go to a relative unknown.
Actor Parker Sawyers, perhaps best known for his turn as “Interrogator on Monitor” in “Zero Dark Thirty” will play a young Obama in the upcoming “Southside With You” opposite “Get On Up” star Tika Sumpter as his love interest, one Michelle Robinson, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
The movie centers on the origins of the Obamas’ union — that fateful summer of 1989 when the two young lawyers met and began dating.
Sawyers might need a little assist in the makeup chair to really pull off playing the future president. As Smith put it once, the role really just boils down to two things: “It’s all about the ears.”
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