See Michelle totally bust young Barack Obama in this 'Southside With You' clip
LOS ANGELES -- "Pretty good setting to bring a girl -- surrounded by people who adore you."
Michelle Robinson wasn't letting this guy get away with that.
Southside With You, the (mostly) historically accurate cinematic account of the Obamas' courtship in 1989, may not have resulted in much, except that the skinny kid with the big ears had a plan: He brought her to a community meeting where, unbeknownst to his supervisor, he would give a rousing speech to a roomful of admirers who would sing his praises.
In this exclusive clip, we see that Michelle (Tika Sumpter) -- who insisted all along that their first date was not a date -- wasn't going to just let Barack (Parker Sawyer) smooth-move her:
There is some debate as to whether Obama actually brought Michelle Robinson to that meeting on their first date or a subsequent one ... but it definitely happened, and director Richard Tanne admitted after the film's Sundance premiere that his timeline was a bit of a composite.
Southside With You opens in select theaters on Aug. 26.
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Josh Dickey is Mashable's Entertainment Editor, leading Mashable's TV, music, gaming and sports reporters as well as writing movie features and reviews.Josh has been the Film Editor at Variety, Entertainment Editor at The Associated Press and Managing Editor at TheWrap.com.A finalist for the Los Angeles Press Club's Best Entertainment Feature in 2015 for "Everyone is Altered: The Secret Hollywood Procedure that Fooled Us for Years," Josh received his BA in Journalism from The University of Minnesota.In between screenings, he can be found skating longboards, shredding guitar and wandering the streets of his beloved downtown Los Angeles.
