After Step By Step was cancelled in 1998, Call also retired from acting.
Now, it’s unclear what he’s up to, with some outlets reporting that he owns a petrol station.
In 1996, when he was on the way home from filming, he was involved in a road-rage shooting. He was shot in both arms, but thankfully made a full recovery.
“Brandon always had fancy cars. That was his thing,” his co-star Christine Lakin recalled on a podcast in 2022. “One night, he was driving home, he got in some kind of altercation with someone on the road. Some kind of road rage altercation. He and this other person were, like, kind of racing on the road.”
“Brandon thought he got away from this guy and turned into a neighbourhood, and it ended up being a dead end,” she continued. “When he turned around in the cul de sac, the person was waiting for him. So, he just drove really fast, as fast as he could pass him. He kind of put his head down … and the guy shot him, like, six times.”
She contributes his retirement to this incident. “That will change you as a person, a traumatic event like that,” she said. “I feel like he just really had no interest in being in the spotlight anymore.”
