STACK #180 Oct 2019

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While Sean Moody may not be back anytime soon, this month Brammall reprises the role of police officer James Hayes in the third and final season of the acclaimed supernatural drama series Glitch . Set in the rural Victorian town of Yoorana, where the dead have returned to life – including Hayes’ wife Kate (Emma Booth) – the final season promises to change the rules governing the Risen and finally offer some definitive answers as to the nature of the phenomenon.

PATRICK BRAMMALL

C anberra-born Patrick Brammall is the kind of affable Aussie bloke you’d love to have a beer with. A familiar face on local television in shows like Offspring , Upper Middle Bogan and Glitch , Brammall completed three years of an arts/law degree before finding his true calling as an actor. Graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2001, his first role was in telemovie The Alice (2004) before doing what most young, good-looking, up-and-coming Aussie actors do – a stint on Home and Away . A slew of TV guest spots followed, but it was the role of loveable larrikin Sean Moody in the ABC comedy series A Moody

Christmas (2012), and spin-off The Moodys (2014), that led to him being stopped by strangers on the street, and taking home the AACTA Award for Best Performance in a Television Comedy in 2013. “Let’s get a petition together and lobby the ABC to get A Moody Christmas happening again,” he says when STACK asks if we’ll ever see the character again? “I cannot tell you how many people come up to me and ask when it’s coming back. They love it. It’s an incredible legacy for just two seasons. I loved that show and I love that character. I’d give anything to play him again.”

Offspring

“It’s an incredible concept,” he says of the show’s premise. “It’s in the ‘resurrection genre’ but it isn’t zombies.

[ Glitch is] an incredible concept. It’s presented in a very real, grounded way and that’s what makes it work

It’s presented in a very real, grounded way and that’s what makes it work. We keep it happening in

real human terms, but there are supernatural storylines happening.” Having also spent time working in LA, Brammall says there’s no place like home. “I don’t want to be one of those actors

who goes to the States and stays there for a decade and then returns and says, ‘Hey, I’m back!’ Australians are suspicious of that. As great as the American industry is, and it’s massive, I’m not really interested in telling American stories. I want to tell Australian stories. I’ll never truly be part of that culture – it’s got to be home for me.”

Patrick Brammall and Emma Booth in Glitch

Glitch: Season 3 is out Oct 16

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