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This interview has been condensed and edited.

In the new movie The Phenom, up-and-coming actor Johnny Simmons plays Hooper Gibson, a pitching prodigy who skips college to play major league baseball. But when he loses control of his pitches, he gets demoted to the minors and starts seeing a <a href=/articles/2016/01/exercise-psychologists>sports psychologist</a> (Paul Giamatti). It's during these sessions that Gibson uncovers that his issues stem from his upbringing and his dad (Ethan Hawke). "This isn't so much a typical baseball movie," Simmons says, "but more of a film that looks at someone who's struggling and how he overcomes it." The movie premiered earlier this year at the <a href=/articles/2016/04/sports-films>Tribeca Film Festival</a>, and hits select theaters and VOD on June 24.

Q&A with Johnny Simmons

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