` {"id":205102,"date":"2016-08-25T17:28:37","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T22:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bckonline.com\/?p=203248"},"modified":"2016-08-25T17:28:37","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T22:28:37","slug":"tika-sumpter-continues-promo-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bckonline.com\/2016\/08\/25\/tika-sumpter-continues-promo-run\/","title":{"rendered":"TIKA SUMPTER CONTINUES HER PROMO RUN"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tika Sumpter signs the wall at AOL during a visit to the company’s headquarters today. The pregnant star and her co-stars Parker Sawyers and Richard Tanne sat down to discuss their new movie ‘Southside With You’ as part of AOL’s Build Series<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sumpter stars as Michelle Robinson in Southside With You. The film tells the story of a young Barack Obama (Parker Sawyers) courting his future wife while aspiring to be a politician in Chicago. Sparks fly on the first date and the two decide to navigate the choppy waters of life together.<\/p>\n

Tika Sumpter recently revealed that she was a bit anxious to portray Mrs. Obama onset. \u201cI was nervous because, one, she\u2019s so beloved by everybody,\u201d the actress shares. \u201cBut then, I just stripped away the Michelle Obama and just took it back to the South Side of Chicago with the Michelle Robinson \u2026 I went back to her family. I was like \u2018That\u2019s my family.\u2019 Her dad worked for the city for years. Her mom instilled so much self-esteem in her.\u201d<\/p>\n

Southside With You<\/em> makes its public debut on Friday, August 26, 2016.<\/p>\n

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