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Canadian actor Shamier Anderson leads the new mockumentary series Hate The Player: The Ben Johnson Story. He and his brother, fellow actor Stephan James, founded Bay Mills Studios, the production company behind the series. Shamier stops by the Q studio to talk about why he wanted to portray the controversial athlete, and why he calls the comedy series “chocolate-covered vitamins.”
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