Bug Hall Says He’s Leaving Hollywood for an Off-Grid Life in Arkansas

Former child actor Bug Hall says he plans to live off the grid permanently after taking a “vow of poverty” and giving up his Hollywood income.

Hall, best known for playing Alfalfa in the 1994 film The Little Rascals, told the Daily Mail that he, his wife Jill, and their five children are currently living in Mountain View, Arkansas.

“My goal is to maintain a life as free of any need for an income as possible,” Hall said in an interview published Jan. 28. He added that if money is needed, he will take temporary or odd jobs for cash.

Hall, 40, said his family is living in a camper van equipped with a water well and a generator while he builds a permanent home and a small hydroelectric dam. He hopes the family will be completely off the grid within six months.

Hall, whose real name is Brandon Hall, married Jill in 2017. The couple welcomed their first child while living in Los Angeles before later relocating. He said he decided to step away from Hollywood after what he described as a turning point in 2020, when he was arrested in Texas for huffing air duster cans. Hall said no charges were filed.

He told the outlet he had been sober for 15 years before the incident but experienced relapses that he believes were ignored while he was working in the entertainment industry. Looking back, Hall said he is grateful for the arrest.

“I loved making movies. I loved writing, producing, acting,” he said. “So God had to shake me up a little harder, I suppose.”

Hall said he ultimately left Hollywood because he no longer wanted to live what he described as a life of “manipulation” or work in jobs he felt were meaningless.

His focus now is on his family and building their home. Hall and his wife homeschool their children and said they plan to strongly discourage them from attending college, which he called “nonsense.”

He said one of his daughters, 8, has expressed interest in starting a convent on the family’s land, while another has asked him to build her a house for her future family.

In an April 2025 YouTube video titled “Into the Unknown,” Hall said he and his wife are raising their children in what he described as a “radical Catholic extremist life,” which he believes is necessary to counter modern culture.

The former Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves! actor also spoke about his vow of poverty in the video, saying his material possessions no longer mattered to him.

“It really wasn't all that great of a sacrifice compared to what our Lord had planned to give me in return,” Hall said, referring to what he described as the spiritual benefits of his decision.