Anthony Michael Hall on Nation’s Dumbest, Halloween Store, and Surviving 50 Years in Hollywood: Podcast

Listen via: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Podcasts | More Platforms Anthony Michael Hall has spent five decades discovering that the strangest career turns can sometimes be the ones worth taking. The Breakfast Club and Weird Science veteran spoke with Kyle Meredith about joining Fox and Hulu’s celebrity competition series Nation’s Dumbest, despite initially recoiling at both reality television and the show’s title. Hall also digs into his upcoming indie horror-comedy Halloween Store and his role in S.W.A.T. Exiles, all while reflecting on why treating every job like it matters has helped carry him from John Hughes movies into a remarkably durable second, third, and fourth act. Listen above or wherever you get your podcasts. Hall admits Nation’s Dumbest arrived during one of those dreaded stretches when the phone wasn’t ringing, and the unexpected offer forced him to reconsider what counted as a worthwhile gig. “Once the job is over, you’re unemployed. I mean, that’s the line and you’re back at square one,” he says. Once he stopped worrying about what a reality competition might mean for his career, Hall found himself having a blast alongside Ice-T, Dr. Drew, Steve-O, Elle King,...