Well, first off let’s give a huge congratulations to the new President-elect Barack Obama, who will be sworn in as the 44th President of the United States on Tuesday, January 20. Let’s hope that he (we) can get the country back on track and help shape the world into a better place to live.
Now, on to the subject at hand. We all know the Hollywood has a history of providing us with some biopic of recent and past presidents (see Josh Brolin in W., Paul Giamatti in John Adams, and Frank Langella in Frost/Nixon). So the question is, who will be the actor(s) who will play President Barack Obama?
The first person that comes to mind is Will Smith. As a matter of fact, President-elect Obama said gave Will his endorsement. “Will and I have talked about this,” exclaimed Obama last year in an interview on “Entertainment Tonight,” referring to actor Will Smith. “Because he has the ears, he might have an inside track on the role.” And just recently, Will said that he wants to play Obama, although he would not want to run the country himself.
If I am ordered by my commander in chief to star in a film about him, I will do my duty as an American.
Really, that is the only actor that I can see playing Mr. Obama. I mean there are other quality actors that can do it, but I don’t see it. Denzel Washington, Don Cheadle, Terrence Howard, Jamie Foxx, all Oscar nominated actors that can do it but I can really only see The Fresh Prince in the role. It’s like Denzel as Malcom X, nobody else was really as primed for the part at the time.
Who do you think will play the part of President-elect Obama in the near future and why?
