Get M.A.D. With Chris Graves episode 18 - Brian O'Halloran

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Get M.A.D. With Chris Graves episode 18 - Brian O'Halloran

On this very special episode of Get M.A.D., I talk with someone who was an integral part of the film that would change the course of my life forever and inspire me to want to write and direct low budget independent films. Not only that, but this film made it seem like that could actually be a realistic possibility and not some cinematic pipe dream. That film was Kevin Smith's 1994 debut, the black & white Gen X slacker comedy, "Clerks". Brian O'Halloran is my guest. We talk about how his character in "Clerks", Dante Hicks, represented every poor shlub that ever had to grind away at some dead end job, especially serving the public, and found themselves in life's quicksand, as the years went by. Here's some more about Brian:

Brian Christopher O'Halloran (born December 20, 1969) is an American actor, producer, and podcaster best known for playing Dante Hicks in Kevin Smith's debut 1994 film Clerks and its 2006 and 2022 sequels Clerks II and Clerks III. He has also made appearances in most of Smith's View Askewniverse films, either as Dante Hicks or one of Dante's cousins.

O'Halloran's first role was in Kevin Smith's film Clerks, in 1994. He has returned many times to reprise his role as Dante Hicks in films by Smith.

O'Halloran is the lead actor in the 2000 film Vulgar, about a small town clown who is traumatized after he is attacked during one of his performances. Writer/director Bryan Johnson wrote the lead specifically with O'Halloran in mind.
He has worked on theatre productions since high school. He has said on the subject of doing theatre:

Oh, yeah. It's the best training you can do, as an actor. To be in front of a live audience. There's no 'Stop, wait, oh geez, what was that line again?' It just sharpens your reflexes. It sharpens your interaction. And it definitely sharpens your memory because you have to know an entire show from beginning to end.

Since Clerks, O'Halloran has primarily been a stage actor, working with the Boomerang Theatre Company, the New Jersey Repertory Company and the Tri-State Actors Theatre, among others.

In 2020, O'Halloran began presenting his own pop culture podcast, The O'HalloRant, on YouTube.

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