NOT MANY PEOPLE — hardly any, in fact — will get the chance to attend their own funeral. For obvious reasons. For Brian O’Halloran, that wasn’t the case. When it came time to hoot the funeral of his character, Dante Hicks, in Clerks III, he was there. Not watching from a distance, like a ghost, but right slap-bang in the middle of the action as one of the mourners, observing Jeff Anderson — who plays Randal Graves, his best friend/arch-nemesis since the first Clerks — give a heartfelt eulogy, complete with heart-tugging topper: “You weren’t even supposed to be here today.”
“It was a public cemetery,” explains O’Halloran. “Wardrobe put me in a suit, so anyone who had a long lens wouldn’t be able to spoil it. We had to do a decoy diversion tactic. If I could do it in real life, that would be something.”