S4 Ep24: Corin Nemec: Actor, Producer, Writer, and Director

This week on Magic Making Mischief, we get the incredible opportunity to speak to someone many of you are familiar with: It’s #actor Corin Nemec! He’s an actor, #producer, writer, and #director. He’s been in Stargate SG1, Bundy, Parker Lewis, The Stand, Operation Dumbo Drop, Doomsday Device, Star Trek: Renegades, and so much more! Learn more about him and his work on 09JUN at 7PM CT!

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Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:45

Hey Magic Makers, I'm Mom Birella.

SPEAKER_03 0:47

I'm Yukita Cosplay, GG Jones here. And I'm CJ Peterson. Welcome to Magic Making Mischief. Get your wands to the ready because we solemnly swear we're up to no good. And speaking of up to no good, we have with us a special guest, and it is truly my honor to have him with us today. We have with us Corinne Nemeck from many, many shows, including one of my favorites, which is Stargate SG1. There's also Parker Lewis, there is Bundy, there is Star Trek Renegades, there's The Stand, Operation Dumbo Drop, Doomsday Device, and so many, many, many more. So welcome Corinne Nemick with us. Yay, yay! What's happening, everyone?

SPEAKER_04 1:34

If I if I had known that there was gonna be some magic wands involved, uh I know somewhere around here I I have several boxes of them. I should have grabbed one and uh and and casted a couple of spells with you, a couple of whimsical spells.

SPEAKER_03 1:50

Oh, we got spells all over. Um, I'm a ribbon claw, we got them over. All the way. Yes, we got Slytherin. I am a ribbon claw. I got lots of spells.

SPEAKER_04 2:06

That's great.

SPEAKER_00 2:07

And Momvie's a Slytherin to Well, thank you for having me on, everyone.

SPEAKER_04 2:11

It's great to see you all. Appreciate you having me on. It's great to be here.

SPEAKER_03 2:16

Well, thank you, like I said, for coming on. I know you're a busy guy. Um, you have tons going on, including uh a special project that you mentioned earlier that you have coming up or that you're currently working on, correct?

SPEAKER_04 2:31

Yes, I'm I'm in the editing process. We do have one more day of shooting coming up uh in uh next week, actually, because we had some actors that weren't available during our the time period of our primary shooting schedule. So we had to kind of schedule a satellite shooting sequence. It's uh a scene that's that's between Tara Reed and Jason London and and some other actors. Wow.

SPEAKER_03 2:56

Awesome.

SPEAKER_04 2:56

Um I guess I'll go ahead and oh I'm sorry, I'll let the cat out of the bag. I mean, the movie is called Chicken Head, and it's it's a mockumentary, it's a horror comedy, and it's about a group of documentary filmmakers who uh who go to a fictional town called Gallus, Florida, up in the northern part of uh of Florida, south of the Okie Finoke swamp, and uh to discover whether or not the legend of the half man, half chicken that has been terrorizing this town for 50 years is real or not. And lo and behold, when they get there and they set off at night to discover whether you know if this creature exists, it does. And one by one, each of the uh filmmakers is is killed until nobody is left except their footage.

SPEAKER_02 3:45

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 3:46

Oh, so it's like Blair Witch meets the Bill Diamond, who who is uh uh Bill Diamond, who is is famous from uh Jim Hinson productions for decades and decades. He's one of the one of their the most uh famous puppet makers, and he's also built a lot of stuff for a lot of horror films and everything. But he he designed our entire half man, half chicken, you know, uh uh creature. So it looks fantastic, and uh um it's going to be very amusing. I I certainly hope it is. It better be.

SPEAKER_03 4:23

Are you in it? Are you directing it? Are you both?

SPEAKER_04 4:26

Or yes, I co-wrote it with with a partner of mine, Matt Florio, who lives down here. I'm starring in it alongside uh David Faustino and Keith Coogan. Uh also my writing partner is in it, Matt Florio. And then and uh I obviously I mentioned the Tari Jason London will be doing some roles, and then there's a great cast of stand-up comedians and and other actors that are all playing parts in it. It's uh you know a wonderful ensemble.

SPEAKER_00 4:54

We've actually had Keith Coogan on here. We have had Keith Coogan on here, you're correct. We have.

SPEAKER_04 5:00

Yeah, he's great. He plays a he plays a character who's obsessed with birds and has his own like uh you know uh bird watching show that you know, and uh his his character is is is constantly not paying attention because he's looking for birds. But anyway, uh but that's I'm I'm very excited about it. We're in the editing process. Hopefully, we'll have a uh a finished version of it sometime around October, November, uh, and be able to screen it and see uh and see where we're at at that point. But I'm looking at distribution, um, most likely early 2020 uh seven.

SPEAKER_03 5:38

Very simple. So yeah. They kind of slowly faded you out of there. Um, what was your favorite episode working on Stargate?

SPEAKER_04 5:59

Uh, I had a couple of favorite ones, but there was one called Shadow Play, which was the first time that the character Jonas gets to get off the base and kind of experience life in in the real world. Uh and they investigate this uh, you know, this mysterious, I guess you call it like a symbiote outbreak or something, you know, in a small town where all these people are are are being taken over by symbiotes. And what I said, I remember that one, and it was like they kept they kind of they were yeah, it was kind of like an ex-files-ish kind of episode, and it was it was just a lot of fun, it was different than than the other stuff we were doing, and it was an an opportunity to to play with with different, you know, with the character a little bit, and and what is his response to being off base, and uh, and it was also a really cool storyline, but that was one of them. There was another one we did in an Antarctica episode where we built like a big chunk of Antarctica on a huge sound stage with you know uh crazy air conditioners that brought the temperature down to like 38 degrees and had snowmobiles that they were driving around on set. And I mean, we're in a sound stage, and they're like driving snowmobiles on it. It was it was mad, you know. So there was there were certain um episodes that were that the the scope of the production was so big, it was jaw-dropping, and and it was very impressive to work on on uh that show, just very impressive.

SPEAKER_02 7:32

That's awesome. Uh let me ask you here a quick do we have any questions in the chat that maybe we don't?

SPEAKER_00 7:37

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SPEAKER_02 7:56

And of course it's pink and sparkles.

SPEAKER_01 7:58

Um other color would it be? Of course it is.

SPEAKER_00 8:03

Camp TV says howdy. Hello, hello, my sister. That's very kind. Look at that. And super hubby says, so I have to admit I'm a huge fan. However, my wife is an even huger fan. That's my hubby. Oh, if we have a question from Super Hubby, but one more comment. Spoiler alert: the chicken is actually silly quirky who became half chicken because he ate too much at KFC.

SPEAKER_04 8:28

That's obviously cats up.

SPEAKER_00 8:30

Yes, funny, funny. Super happy asked the first question. So, which is tougher, directing or acting?

SPEAKER_03 8:37

Ooh, great question.

SPEAKER_04 8:39

Oh, um, I would say that doing both at the same time. That's that's really the toughest part. I mean, directing can be can be extremely difficult depending on how complex the story is you're telling, you know. So I can only imagine on these giant Marvel movies with all these moving pieces and all these different, you know, digital effects shots. And just, I mean, that would be an uh an unnervingly complicated process, as far as I'm concerned. But um, you know, kind of telling simple stories, uh also, you know, kind of dramatic storytelling when it comes to um TV series and stuff like that. It's not, I I don't want to discredit it as being simple because it isn't, but it's also not necessarily rocket science when you kind of understand how to tell a story with a camera. Uh, but um, but uh what just working as a director, which I I I haven't done, I've always been acting and directing at the same time, but I would prefer to have the experience of just directing and really, you know, approaching the the storytelling from a much more detailed perspective. Because uh being on set, acting and directing, I have to lean on my my director of photography and my first AD a whole lot more uh, you know, when when we're shooting, when I'm on screen, especially obviously, you know, uh than I would like to. Um the the last one that we just finished, we you know, we shot this film. It'll be eight days total, but we shot most of the film in seven days. And so we really had to run and gun. And and I wasn't really able to see a lot of the shots because we didn't have time to do playback and and do all of that mousey stuff. I just had to trust my DP and say, Did you get it? And trust the first AD that everything seemed fine, and we just had to move on and see it in in you know, in in the editing room. And uh, and so far, you know, that trust has paid off. Everything's looking really good and editing uh very well.

SPEAKER_03 10:47

Awesome. You've had some challenging roles like Bundy, you did Bundy, you did Jonas Quinn, you've done a Star Trek role. Um, do you have any good stories in any of these? The Keratish.

SPEAKER_04 11:01

There's I mean, uh yeah, some you know, every movie kind of has its own, you know, stories uh that go along with it. Um, I some really funny stories from Operation Dumbo Drop working with Ray Leota and Danny Glover and Dennis Leary, especially Dennis Leary. But uh, you know, and then on Stargate, I mean, well, you know, what one of the one of the the biggest things that happened on Stargate was just a giant brown bear came on set one day, one morning while we were setting up to film for the day up in the woods, and it came over to the craft service table and just started like eating bagels and locks and like munching on blueberry muffins and uh and they had to call the the the animal control to to dart it and they load it on a truck and drive it off, you know, and drive it somewhere deep in the woods and drop it back on.

SPEAKER_02 11:53

Oh my goodness.

SPEAKER_04 11:54

But uh yeah, that that was pretty hilarious. Uh you know, but you know, yeah, totally. So, you know, I I mean every every project, I mean the you know, the Star Trek thing. I had just gotten out. I I had been horribly injured in an onset accident filming in Belize and and the Star Trek Renegades uh um T you know shows that we did. We only did two episodes or three episodes or something like that. But uh, but that those episodes, I mean, I was really not even hardly able to walk at the time. So, you know, we had to structure all of my scenes where I like kind of get up out of a chair and like shuffle forward a little bit because I had shattered my leg and and had like five surgeries, all kinds of stuff. So, you know, like that was going on while filming that. And there was uh um uh which so that's not very funny, obviously.

SPEAKER_02 12:44

But um, but every every single yeah.

SPEAKER_04 12:50

I mean, every every project has its funny moments, you know. I mean, Supernatural, working on Supernatural, uh uh Jared and Jensen, they had these um these uh tiny uh motorcycles. They were like little hot rod motorcycles, you know, that they would ride around the back lot at uh at the studios up in Vancouver. But um, and and they had each one had them parked outside of their their uh trailer where where they were at between scenes. And the distance from like where their trailers were to the studio door was only about maybe, you know, 25 yards or something, you know, it wasn't very far. And uh, but they would but when when they'd be called to set, they would come out of their trailer, get on these tiny little bikes, and they're both giants. So it was like bears, bears riding bikes in a circus, you know, and they'd get on these tiny little motorcycles and start them up, and they drive 25 yards to the entrance of the of the studio, put the kickstands down, park them, and then like walk on to set. And then when they leave set, they do the same thing and drive back to their. I'm like, these guys, I mean, they're having way too much fun making this show. This is just ridiculous.

SPEAKER_02 14:03

Awesome. Well, you've been in so many iconic things. Like you were on uh Parker Lose Can't Lose in the 90s, right? Like that was a was that was one of your earlier projects, though, was it not?

SPEAKER_04 14:15

It was certainly well, it was certainly one of the you know, one of the ones that they got bigger. I mean, my I kind of my first real real brush with bigger success was uh starring as Steven Stainer. And I know my first name is Steven, the miniseries in the uh in the 80s when I was nominated for an Emmy at at 15 you know years old. Uh that that was the first time really where I was I was elevated into kind of a different category of competitive actors uh or competitive acting, that is. And then uh, you know, it was a a couple of years after that that I ended up getting the role in Parker Lewis and Parker Lewis Can't Lose. But I really got that part because of a of a very it was a single episode of a pilot that was released as a TV special that was produced by Eddie Murphy Productions and CBS, uh called What's Allen Watching, that uh Eddie Murphy himself was also in. But I was acting alongside, you know, uh uh Barbara Barry and Peter Michael Getz played my parents, and Fran Dresher was my sister in it, and Polly Shore was my nemesis, and all you know, and this great collection of of uh of actors that were doing uh um spots on it. And it was a it was similar in vibe to Parker Lewis Can't Lose. It was kind of quirky and weird and and and and and it was outside the box, you know, it was the story about this kid named Alan who had a crazy family life. And I played Alan and his escape was television, but in in in watching television, he could sometimes interact with the people on TV and at times enter into the TV itself and and join in whatever's happening in the uh you know in in the uh the scene that's going on on television. So it was it was uh it was wild. And and and uh Clyde Phillips was a huge fan of that that one single TV special that was supposed to become a series, but it didn't. Uh and he just thought of me as being the right person to play Parker Lewis several years later when he got the green light over at Fox to do the series. So um I kind of walked into it uh already, you know, having kind of gotten the gotten the nod of approval from the creators of the show. And because uh of my uh my history and uh with with the uh I know my first name is Steven, and with the Emmy uh nomination, all that, it was just recent enough that I I got network approval pretty easily as well to be the lead on that show because it is a title character. I mean, they did uh you know, I know that they did audition uh you know quite a number of people around town that had big names and stuff for Parker Lewis. I don't know exactly which ones, but I know they did. Uh, so I don't know exactly who I was up against. But um, but the uh the you know the outcome of that for me as a young actor was tremendous. I mean, here I was starring on this really, really cutting edge, hilarious, uh, well-written, well produced, well-shot, uh crazy comedy about about high school, the way that anybody would ever want to live through it, you know, having T, you know, having the whole school rigged with our own our own camera system and secret rooms behind, you know, uh uh um lockers, you know, we had secret rooms behind lockers, and and uh it was Kubiak had turned one of the boys' bathrooms in like his own lounge, and he had like uh a pizza oven in there, and he had like a cutting board and a refrigerator, and you know, it was it was just an outrageous show. It's on Plex right now, and there's also a great podcast uh called uh Synchronized Swatches or uh the the Swatch Pod, uh, which is all just about Park Parker Lewis. They're just doing a viewing one episode through and then talking about it. But it's a great, great podcast, and it was a great show. I'm so blessed to have been on it, and I'm glad it's on Plex now. So if anybody wants to be nostalgic, you know, you can tune in.

SPEAKER_01 18:24

I have a question for it's from my friend Jeremy Mancuso. He says, Would there be a potential SG1 reboot?

SPEAKER_04 18:35

Well, Amazon was supposed to do one, but it apparently just got shelved. I mean, they made this big announcement that they were gonna reboot, you know, Stargate, and then what like a month and a half, two months goes by, and they make another announcement saying, uh, never mind. You know, I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 18:51

We were lying, uh sorry.

SPEAKER_04 18:54

Yeah, that you yeah, I don't know what you know. I'm I only have theories as to why that may have been. I mean, my my only theory is that you know, it's kind of that maybe this is true, but uh it's all hypothetical. But maybe that when you're trying to top a show like Stargate SG1 with a new version of it in 2026 with how expensive everything is now to produce and do, and right how much everybody's getting paid, and dah dah dah. I have I just feel like they probably crunched the numbers and were like, this is gonna be an outrage, you know.

SPEAKER_01 19:30

Let me rethink this valley.

SPEAKER_04 19:33

I that's my that's my going theory, you know, because I feel like, you know, also I feel like approaching uh it'd be interesting to approach Stargate a little bit more simple and tell kind of like simpler stories to get it going at first and then build that up later. Uh, you know, but I I don't know. I would love for them to do whether I'm involved or not, I really don't care.

SPEAKER_01 19:56

Definitely need to get you involved. Right?

SPEAKER_04 19:58

But but I don't think that I don't think from my understanding, they weren't ever planning on bringing back any of the origin any of the original cast members uh from any of the different um uh you know incarnations of uh of the show. But um I I still think it would be highly beneficial to any network or any studio or anybody else who were to get involved and to produce a new series for Stargate. I I don't see it uh if they stick with kind of the original premise, a Stargate team traveling through you know the the the Stargates and having these off-world experiences and dealing with all that, I think that they'll that that they'll hit the mark hard. But I think if they try to go too far with it and you know uh make it into something that it never really was, that they that it it probably wouldn't go over as well.

SPEAKER_01 20:50

He says thank you for your answer, and you are a great premise. That's that's what Jeremy said. Yeah and I agree.

SPEAKER_03 20:59

That's the problem is that sometimes that shows kind of steer clear, they they steer from the original premise, and I think that's what started happening with Stargate when they brought in like the or I and all that stuff. I think they should have stuck with the original. And like I said, when they and I my comment online regarding when you were there and then they brought Michael Shanks is I think they should have kept both of you because both of you brought something that the whole team needed. And I don't think they should have phased you out. I think they should have kept both of you.

SPEAKER_04 21:32

Yeah, I would have loved that. Uh I my uh you know, my my career certainly would have loved it. But the longer you can, as an actor, the longer you can be on a series, the better off you are. Uh gainful employment is, you know, is uh is always tough in it in the arts and entertainment industry, as anybody knows. And that and that doesn't matter how much work you've done, you know, it's it's incredible. I mean, I'm I'm very blessed to. Uh, to have worked with the kind of consistency that I've worked with over the years, um, including having numerous films coming out uh, you know, uh up this year. One one called Myra, that's an action adventure. Sorry?

SPEAKER_01 22:15

I said that's so cool.

SPEAKER_04 22:17

Yeah, yeah. There's one called Myra. It's an action adventure that I that I shot with uh with my buddy Robert Frazier. He's a great director. He I did another film with him that came out a year or so ago, um uh called uh Day Labor that was a that was a thriller as well. This is more of an action adventure, but uh, but that's coming out uh hopefully this year, this year for sure. There's one called Buster Brooks, that's a really you know awesome kind of uh uh slice of life drama and uh a bit of a of a of a comedy, um, a soft comedy. Um, and that that'll be coming out this year. And then uh another one called Kill Trip, that's sort of this film noir thriller that is very interesting, that's coming out this year. And obviously, I'm editing Chicken Head now, and I and I think there's even one other project that's slipping my mind. But you know, so it's been it's been great. I I I've been uh I've been definitely uh very blessed. And if anybody out there wants to kind of uh track along with what I'm up to, you can follow me on all the different platforms at the same the same tag, I am the letter I, the letter M, and then my name for Nimic. I'm Core Nimic across all platforms except for YouTube, which is CoreNimic TV.

SPEAKER_03 23:34

And while while I was looking at at those, speaking of your social medias, I happened to stumble upon something else that you happen to do. Uh graffiti, would you care to share about that?

SPEAKER_04 23:47

Yes, uh, I'm I I know we're tight on time, all but uh, but I'll go over it real quick. I started uh I was my mom was in the music business when I was growing up, and uh I would I really got into the hip hop music at a young age, and and especially the breakdancing side of it and the whole art, the the art form, the graffiti art as an art form was part of that. And um I I moved to Los Angeles from Atlanta, Georgia in the mid-80s, and there were some kids in in one of my art classes that I had. I had a graphic design class that I was in in eighth grade, and there were some other kids in that graphic design class that were already at like 12 years old were like such good graffiti artists. I was like, what on earth is this? I was coming from Atlanta doing bubble letters and and stupid stuff, you know. And uh, so I was like, this is very cool. And I got into it very heavily at a very young age, you know, 11, 12 years old, and and started painting on walls and obviously tagging and doing all of the other things that go along with it. But uh, but it was it's been such a passion in mine my whole life that I never stopped. I mean, I I I still paint uh, you know, even to this day, not as often as I as I did uh uh in the past, but I still I still continue to paint. I and I was doing uh um custom paintings and things like that, and uh and a lot of street art. I've traveled all over the world doing street art and painting and doing festivals, and my work is in is in a number of coffee table books, but people don't even know that it's coronemic, they just think it's Pike 169 from TCF, the you know, the chosen few, which is the graffiti crew that I've been in since the 80s, you know, that's still as active today. And so uh uh, you know, it's wild. So my my my graffiti website is the 169, so it's at the 169 on Instagram, and that has all of you know, yeah, you'll see that I haven't been as active in the last number of years, but I do some uh more mural stuff uh recently, um, which uh which has been great. But uh but yeah, graffiti has been a huge part of my life uh since I was a wee lad.

SPEAKER_03 25:50

Well, I happen to catch it on there, and I'm like, that's really cool. So I wanted to make sure to talk about that as well.

SPEAKER_02 25:58

Yeah, is there anything in the chat more quick before we have directions?

SPEAKER_00 26:01

Yes. Um little cat emoji. Cute. Let's see. Super hubby said met Danny Glover, he was awesome, Dumbo Drop was great. I have seen Dumbo Drop, it was a great movie with that. Yogi was on the wrong set, says Jeremy Vanders.

SPEAKER_02 26:17

Sure.

SPEAKER_00 26:20

Also says, would like to see what they're doing with Stranger Things and Firefly in cartoon form. Well, and find out, bud. Let's see. And Super Hobby has a good question. You've been injured on set a couple of times. Any advice for recovering faster?

SPEAKER_04 26:36

Uh do what the doctor tells you.

SPEAKER_02 26:40

Period.

SPEAKER_04 26:41

Like, don't think, don't think, oh, I got this, I know what to do. Like, you know, when I when I had my injury, I just I literally was like, how much, you know, how much uh uh physical therapy do I need to do? How much is it? Okay, let's double that. Let's do as much physical therapy as you know the production insurance has allotted for this. I want to do it all. I don't even care, you know, you know, how long this takes. I want to make sure that I have uh as full of a recovery as I can because up to that point I I'd always prided myself on doing a lot of my own stunts and action stuff and and all of that. And it was a blast. And after that injury, you know, basically I I have to be very careful when it comes to that kind of stuff. So, you know, after that injury, I sort of segued into doing a lot more like lifetime channel movies and stuff like that instead of those, you know, sci-fi creature feature action stuff. I I've sort of, you know, leaned in a different direction and and uh and and tried to focus more on, you know, what are whatever other dramatic or comedic roles I could do that don't entail me potentially injuring my already injured self.

SPEAKER_03 27:52

Right. Well, we have a few minutes left. Is there anything you'd like to add?

SPEAKER_04 27:58

Well, I'd just like to add that uh that all four of you are wonderful, magical uh little uh wood fairies. And uh I'm uh it's such a pleasure to be here with you all. Uh obviously, everybody make make your wishes for uh a great future for all of humanity and wave your wands around and so mote it be.

SPEAKER_02 28:22

That's right. Thank you so much.

SPEAKER_00 28:25

Well, thank you for coming.

SPEAKER_03 28:28

Coming on you're an amazing guest. And like I said, you made my birthday month, so thank you so much. And actually, my birthday is making it.

SPEAKER_04 28:34

Yes, and happy belated, happy early birthday to you. Tomorrow is the big day, but happy birthday to you now.

SPEAKER_03 28:40

I appreciate it so much. Um, so if you'd to learn more about him and his work, you can head over. As he said, um Instagram right now is the one that's scrolling across. It's I M C O R I N M E M E C. So make sure you spell that correctly. Um, you can reach out to him and check it out. Um, there's tons on his Instagram. I know that he's on Instagram, he's on Facebook, he is on Twitter as well, or X, whatever you choose to call it. Yeah. Check him out. Uh, you can also check out his project that he says is gonna be coming out soon. Uh, next week we have heavy metal Christian artist Jason Wayne. So check it out next week. It will be at the same time. Awesome box. Thank you, those who wish me happy birthday. Um, Mombi, make sure to take us out. And Cory Namick, thank you so much for making my week. Um, Mombi, it's my pleasure.

SPEAKER_04 29:34

You made mine.

SPEAKER_02 29:37

And y'all make sure to smash that thumbs up real quick, guys. And uh, if you're not following us already, CJ Peterson, Mombi Rella, Juju the Cosplay on Instagram, you keep the cosplay on Instagram, and CJ and me are on YouTube, TikTok, and all the things. So then, guys, share this out because you have some awesome stories. Thank you so much for sharing with us. We really appreciate it. And uh's up, guys, because it is time. Mischief managed. Bye.