If you’ve read President Obama’s autobiography, or seen of he and Michelle’s television appearances, especially around the time of his reelection campaign, you know about the First Couple’s first kiss.
In case you’ve somehow missed the story, he told O Magazine in 2007:
“On our first date, I treated her to the finest ice cream Baskin-Robbins had to offer, our dinner table doubling as the curb. I kissed her, and it tasted like chocolate.”
Is it just me, or was there a little double entendre there?
Either way, the story has become so popular and so sentimental, that there was plaque placed at the spot where the two shared their first kiss.
And now, according to Variety, the couple’s first date will be turned into a romance drama. The film, called Southside with You, will star Parker Sawyers as a young Barack and Tika Sumpter as Michelle Obama, then Robinson.
Ice cream wasn’t the only part of their date, the soon-to-be couple also visited the Art Institute of Chicago, took a walk and then saw Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing.
They made a whole day of it.
Sawyers recently completed a role in Snowden and is about to shoot The Autopsy of Jane Doe.
Richard Tanne will serve as screenwriter and director for the project. Glendon Palmer, who executive produced for Jumping The Broom, will also do so on this project with Tracey Bing, among others.
Shooting for the film is set to start in August.
You can watch Barack and Michelle Obama talk about their first date in this video below. It’s pretty adorable.
