It's not that I intended to humanize them so that people would take another look at them politically - I was just trying to tell another story about their lives, and that requires showing humanity. Southside centers on the infamous summer day in 1989 when Barack Obama, then a Harvard law student interning at the firm of Sidley Austin, took his work colleague, Michelle Robinson (Tika Sumpter. It's a very humanizing portrait of these two people.
In another interview with THR, he said, “I think it's probably going to be a refresher in this election season. That Southside With You has meticulously reverse-engineered our knowledge of the Obamas into a sweet, sexy, highly flattering youth portrait is less a criticism than a simple statement of fact. “She never dimmed her light for anybody.”Īs to how Southside fits in with the current presidential race, Tanne doesn’t know for sure what the reaction to the film will be. She admires the First Lady’s “laser-focus” on life. The pressure wasn't that much because it was at a certain time in her life when she wasn't Michelle Obama.” The trailer for Southside With You, the upcoming historical romcom (romcom bioromcom) about Barack and Michelle Obamas epic first date across. “She climbed from humble beginnings where she was to the presidency with her husband. Barack Still Tucks Michelle In at Night and More Sweet Details of the Obama's 27-Year Love Story. “When you strip down the Michelle Obama of it all, it's Michelle Robinson, who is a girl from the south side of Chicago who came from humble beginnings - and I think that's why very accessible to a lot of people now - who was inspirational,” she said. Sumpter was equally calm about playing Michelle.
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