{"id":932271,"date":"2026-10-18T05:48:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T05:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/932271\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T05:48:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T05:48:23","slug":"patrick-brammall-leaves-colin-from-accounts-with-a-new-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/932271\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Brammall Leaves Colin From Accounts With a New Career"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe year arguably belongs to Anne Hathaway. But it\u2019s been a pretty banner 10 months for a particular co-star from one of the actress\u2019 five theatrical releases. <\/p>\n

Patrick Brammall<\/a> leveled up in 2026. After opening himself to his widest audience ever by playing the love interest to Hathaway\u2019s Andy Sachs in the nearly $700-million grossing Devil sequel, he made a rare turn as a dramatic leading man in Apple TV+ thriller Last Seen<\/a>. And, in September, he released the third and final season of Colin From Accounts<\/a> \u2014 the romantic comedy he created with and starred alongside his wife, Harriet Dyer<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\tColin From Accounts follows strangers Ashley (Dyer) and Gordon (Brammall) as they fall in love after share responsibility for a dog (the titular Colin) Gordon runs over with his car and leaves permanently handicapped. In a funny way. The Australian series was a success in the duo\u2019s home country, a juggernaut in the U.K. and a sleeper hit in the United States. And the fact that its end coincides with an onslaught of other work is not lost on Brammall, whose career, with a few exceptions, has been largely defined by his work in the Southern Hemisphere. \u201cI think we\u2019ve all had a year, the same year, 2026,\u201d he says, when I tally his credits, before surrendering and turning it into a bit. \u201cYeah, it was mine. You\u2019ve all been having my year. It\u2019s pretty mental, isn\u2019t it?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBrammall breaks into a few bits over our early October conversation, one where he covers the significance of Colin From Accounts, his daughter\u2019s disinterest in the fact that he voices a character on Bluey and how he still has no idea what was really going on with his character on the bonkers Paramount+ supernatural drama Evil. <\/p>\n

\n\tYou\u2019ve worked a lot in Australia and now a lot in the U.S. as well. I suspect that there are many aspects of television that are done differently. How, in you speaking to like studios and platforms, can you compare the response to pitching a show that starts with a dog getting hit by a car?<\/p>\n

\n\tAustralia and the U.K. didn\u2019t have a problem with it. That\u2019s funny. These two strangers meet at an intersection, she flashes her nipple, he gets distracted, he hits a dog. It\u2019s hilarious. In America\u2026 not so hilarious. There\u2019s even a website, doesthedogdie.com. So in when we were pitching it over here, we had to start with, \u201cThe dog\u2019s fine and he\u2019s very well cared for.\u201d And you do meet his previous owner at the end of the first season. That guy was an asshole. Colin\u2019s got a much happier life.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe show title obviously worked in the end, but it\u2019s not the easiest sell. Many people assumed it was a workplace comedy. Was there ever any pushback on the name?<\/p>\n

\n\tThere was a bit of pushback. Because Colin from Accounts does not sound like what the show is. Our only alt title was Dog with Wheels, which wasn\u2019t very good either. We liked the name because these two people, in that first episode of season one, what they connect about is naming the dog Colin from Accounts. They have a shared sense of humor. They\u2019re plugged into the same frequency. That serves as their foundation. I think lot of people who found the show either were always going to watch it or just stumbled on it. They watch that first episode and they feel like they\u2019re in on the joke. It does set the tone in many ways. On the other hand, terrible title.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tPatrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer promoting the third and final season of Colin From Accounts<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTodd Williamson\/JanuaryImages for Paramount+<\/p>\n

\n\tYou and Harriet wrote every episode. Have you ever worked in a traditional writer\u2019s room?<\/p>\n

\n\tOnly once \u2014 and even then it wasn\u2019t that traditional. I did a show called No Activity for CBS All Access. We did the show in Australia first, and it was just Trent O\u2019Donnell and myself. We created it, and it was largely improvised. We just had outlines. But for the U.S. version, the studio was like, \u201cHey, we love it! Write full scripts, please.\u201d That\u2019s not really the show, but they\u2019re paying, so we did it. Trent and I ran a writer\u2019s roombut were not very good at it. (Laughs.) People came in and I found it really inefficient. It was a fun time and you\u2019d order lunch and you\u2019d have your Le Croix, but I found it a very inefficient way to write something. Having said that, there were a lot of great ideas that came out of it. It was just so lumbering.<\/p>\n

\n\tSo Colin From Accounts wraps up. You have this well-received dramatic turn in Last Seen. And you were in The Devil Wears Prada 2<\/a>. It\u2019s a real strong year for you. Have you noticed any previously closed doors opening up?<\/p>\n

\n\tA couple of doors have opened, and it\u2019s probably a result of the combination of the lot. I know Colin opened doors, because I wouldn\u2019t have the offer for Prada because the writer (Aline Brosh McKenna) and director (David Frankel) were huge Colin fans. I don\u2019t have people smashing the door down, but also that\u2019s a little bit intentional. The last eighteen months have been so crazy. Our youngest is 20 months old. We\u2019re just back in L.A., steadying the ship and just being a family for a minute.<\/p>\n

\n\tI mean, you\u2019re working in all of these different countries with children who are not at, shall we say, a fun age to travel with.<\/p>\n

\n\tDude, tell me about it. Just going back for Christmas to Australia is a siege. Recently, our eldest did something like six schools in eighteen months. She didn\u2019t know where the fuck she was. So when we got back to L.A., it was like, let\u2019s just stop for a minute.<\/p>\n

\n\tIs is it easier for her to transition into a new school with the clout that her father voices a character on Bluey?<\/p>\n

\n\tIt would be if she accepted that I voiced a character on Bluey. She will not. I tried to tell her once, because I\u2019m a sad man. I\u2019m like, \u201cHey, do you recognize that voice? Is that dad?\u201d And she just looked at me like, \u201cDon\u2019t ruin this for me.\u201d Like, fuck off, mate. (Laughs.) She has a point. What am I doing trying to ruin Bluey for her? I\u2019ll leave her to love Bluey for as long as she can before I ruin it for her.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tPatrick Brammall in Last Seen.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tApple TV<\/p>\n

\n\tI heard that when you sent in your audition tape for Last Seen, you had to have your hands tied to your to your body to keep you from gesticulating. Please explain.<\/p>\n

\n\tMy dear friend Kirsty McGregor, who cast last scene and was the casting director on Colin from Accounts, said \u201cHey, I\u2019m working on this. I\u2019ve put your name in the mix. They want to see a tape. This is the only tape that\u2019s happening. So everyone\u2019s gonna see it, so don\u2019t fuck it up.\u201d I put it down one morning, sent it off and, a couple of days later, she said, \u201cLook, it\u2019s great. I\u2019ve got some notes. This isn\u2019t Colin from Accounts. Stop gesticulating. Like, just be still. This needs to be a leading man. This is a thriller.\u201d This is is some practical screen acting advice, which I haven\u2019t had for 30 years. So, one Sunday morning, we\u2019re out in the back office and Harriet filming. She\u2019s wearing a dressing gown. I\u2019m doing the thing and I\u2019m trying to be good be still. She says, \u201cStop flapping your hands around!\u201d Then she takes off the cord from her dressing gown and and ties my hands to my side. And that\u2019s the tape that we sent. Everyone is like, \u201cFantastic! You\u2019ve got the job.\u201d And I thought, fuck, how can I do this job without a dressing gown cord?<\/p>\n

\n\tSemi spoilers for anybody who didn\u2019t watch you in Evil, Michelle and Robert King\u2019s Paramount+ drama, but at a certain point\u2026 I had no idea what the hell they were doing with your character.<\/p>\n

\n\tYou\u2019re not alone, buddy.<\/p>\n

\n\tI love this show, but your character is this absentee husband who pops in and out after climbing expeditions. You were never a series regular. And at some point, you\u2019re just locked in some attic getting a sludge transfusion from your apparently satanist mother in law? Did they explain this to you?<\/p>\n

\n\tThat show is so good. And those last couple of seasons, I would just show show up with the script and go, \u201cWell, what the fuck\u2019s happening to me now?\u201d It was such a fun job, because I was recurring, this husband character who comes in and out. So, periodically I would fly to New York and do two, maybe three episodes a season. And I was the absent partner and father of these five three girls? Four girls? There were a lot of girls. Initially, I was very invested in the character. Like, \u201cWhat am I doing? What does this mean?\u201d Eventually, I was like, \u201cThis show is fucking crazy.\u201d It goes mental. I was kidnapped by Michael Emerson\u2019s character. He and and Christine Lahti, they were putting something into me or taking blood out. I can\u2019t remember! And then in the final season, I\u2019m in a mental institution having an affair with Anna Chlumsky.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd then you\u2019re just gone.<\/p>\n

\n\tI lost track. I had this final scene with with Katja Herbers. She was smashing stuff and telling me what\u2019s what, and I looked out the window like, \u201cI guess that\u2019s the end of Andy\u2019s story.\u201d (Laughs) It was crazy and and the most fun set and story. I really loved it. That show was underrated.<\/p>\n

\n\tJust curious, now that Colin from Accounts is over, you employed your canine co-star, Zak, for years. Dogs can be a lot like child actors. Are you going to stay part of his life and make sure he doesn\u2019t spiral?<\/p>\n

\n\tI\u2019ve done everything I can for that dog. Now I just have to let it go. You can only keep a dog out of rehab so many times before you say, \u201cGo with God. It\u2019s up to you now.\u201d He\u2019s off the rails, and he knows it. He\u2019s on a collision course with something and it\u2019s not good. No, Zak is one of the best boys. He was more professional than many of the humans there \u2014 so much so that Harriet sometimes we\u2019d have to get like a bit of turkey on us so that looked like he was doing something. He was very comfortable in the wheelchair, but he\u2019d just sit there.<\/p>\n

\n\tSo calm. I did always clock it when he wagged his tail. <\/p>\n

Was he on beta blockers? I don\u2019t know. But good for us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The year arguably belongs to Anne Hathaway. But it\u2019s been a pretty banner 10 months for a particular…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":932272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,273168,134,323152,3389,454691,302653,13186],"class_list":["post-932271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-colin-from-accounts","tag-entertainment","tag-harriet-dyer","tag-international","tag-last-seen","tag-patrick-brammall","tag-the-devil-wears-prada-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=932271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/932272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}