# Cast the Obama Movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 15, 2009, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-the-obama-movie/481408 "2009-01-15T09:34:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-the-obama-movie/481408/1 "2009-01-15T09:34:44Z")
You’re casting a ‘sky’s the limit’ production of Obama’s Administration: the Early Days. In fact your budget’s so high you can even youthen/age/raise dead actors if necessary. Who would you cast? (In addition to him and his appointees and family you can have flashbacks to his childhood on Krypton or Bush/Cheney’s folk or McCain/Palin, etc.- anyone who’s signficant in his life story.) * * * I’ll start with: OBAMA- [Brian Stokes Mitchell](http://broadwayworld.com/photoops/ongoldenpondarrivals/BrianStokesMitchell.jpg) (with an extra bonus if it can be a musical) Hillary Clinton- [Jane Curtin](http://www.tvguide.com/images/pgimg/jane-curtin1.jpg) Stanley Dunham (his grandfather)- John Lithgow (could bring about a Third Rock Reunion) [Barack Obama, Sr.](http://bayareashows.today.com/files/2008/06/barack-obama-sr.jpg)- a digitally youthened to his _What’s Happenin’ Now?_ days [Roger Thomas](http://www.tvacres.com/images/whats_happening_new.jpg) Sarah Palin- Tina Fey (I can’t be the only person who sees the resemblance… what?) [Bill Richardson](http://www.insidesocal.com/outinhollywood/aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaabill.jpg)- [Graham Greene](http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Film/Pix/pictures/2007/05/15/greene460.jpg) (the actor, not the writer, obviously) Feel free to offer alternative casting to any of the above. Now… go! ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-the-obama-movie/481408/2 "2009-01-15T12:18:53Z")
So it’s a slapstick comedy, right? ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-the-obama-movie/481408/3 "2009-01-15T12:36:34Z")
Why bother? Hollywood insiders know that \*\*Common \*\*has bought the rights to the hundreds of books that Obama may write about his favorite subject, and will obviously play him in the movie, \*The Audacity of Hoping that the Dreams from My Father Result in Change We Can Believe In: Reclaiming the American Dream and Renewing America’s Promise without regard to Race and Inheritance \*. Morgan Freeman will probably be his Dad and maybe Bette Midler his mum. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-the-obama-movie/481408/4 "2009-01-15T12:40:28Z")
The first family: Will Smith, Regina King, Parker McKenna Posey, Mariana Tolbert. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-the-obama-movie/481408/5 "2009-01-15T18:13:42Z")
> [@don\_t\_ask](#): > > Why bother? Hollywood insiders know that \*\*Common \*\*has bought the rights to the hundreds of books that Obama may write about his favorite subject, Pardon my ignorance, but who is Common? ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-the-obama-movie/481408/6 "2009-01-15T18:39:23Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Pardon my ignorance, but who is Common? Common is a rap artist wikipedia link I’ll second three out of four of biggirl’s selections for the First Family, except I don’t think Regina King is as tall as Michelle Obama so I’d suggest Aisha Tyler. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-the-obama-movie/481408/7 "2009-01-15T20:21:22Z")
I’m not [the only one](http://dailydoppel.blogspot.com/2007/08/barack-obama-harry-j-lennix.html) to think that the obvious choice for Obama is Harry Lennix. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-the-obama-movie/481408/8 "2009-01-15T20:37:12Z")
The print ad for seven pounds, with Will Smith wearing a white shirt, his back to the camera and his ears apparently pushed out to look bigger, makes him look very much like Obama. (Can’t find it using Google.) Accident? I think not. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-the-obama-movie/481408/9 "2009-01-15T21:44:35Z")
Darryl Hinds. Third down on this list. It’s a longshot - young guy still making his name - but he’s the one. You heard it here first. > **[Comedy Shows in Chicago, Toronto & New York City- The Second City](https://www.secondcity.com/?id=theatres%2Ftoronto%2Fmainstage%2Fcast)** > > The world's premier comedy club, comedy theater, and school of improvisation. Live shows every night in Chicago, Toronto & New York. Tickets on sale now.