Dennis Haysbert has been known to spend
time in The Bahamas, and was honoured at the 2011 FLIFF on Location:
Grand Bahama Island film festival offshoot of Fort Lauderdale
International Film Festival with a Career Achievement Award. He has appeared in films such
as
Waiting to Exhale, and
Love & Basketball,
and o
n television,
he has played the president of the United States on
24 and now
appears as Jonas Blaine in the CBS series,
The Unit. In
addition, he is the easily-recognizable television spokesman for Allstate
insurance.
On his Facebook fan page he writes the following about the trailer, "Now three years in the making, we're working steadily to deliver to you the best movie possible."