WEBVTT - OMG: A Night at the Roxbury with Corin Nemec 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:05.480 It's nine o Gene Engine with Jenny Garth and Tory Spelling. 0:00:10.000 --> 0:00:13.000 He played Derek Driscoll, the con artist on nine O 0:00:13.080 --> 0:00:20.239 two and Oh he's here, Jen, I'm excited corn Nemic. Hello. 0:00:21.239 --> 0:00:24.720 Hi. Can we just go. 0:00:24.680 --> 0:00:27.280 Back in time. Let's rewind, because by the time you 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:29.880 joined nine o two and now you had already had 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:32.840 you already had a lot of success as an actor. 0:00:32.880 --> 0:00:35.880 You'd already done seventy three episodes of Parker Lewis Can't Lose. 0:00:37.040 --> 0:00:39.080 How did this happen? How did you get to the 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:42.839 role of Derek Driscoll, the criminal on nine two and 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:44.720 l Well. 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:49.160 I was desperate for money, No, Tiffany Amberthiessen's money. 0:00:49.960 --> 0:00:50.080 No. 0:00:50.200 --> 0:00:53.840 I honestly, it was it just popped up through my 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:57.800 agency at the time and they just called and asked 0:00:57.800 --> 0:01:01.240 if I was available to, you know, to do the character. 0:01:01.280 --> 0:01:03.080 I didn't know that it was that it had more 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:06.320 than one episode at that at the time, but uh uh, 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:08.480 you know, fortunately for me, I was available and it 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:12.080 worked out. I was uh uh, you know, I thank god. 0:01:12.160 --> 0:01:15.080 I've always stayed very busy as as an actor, even 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:17.920 even at the present time. It's been it's been one 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:20.280 of the greatest blessings in my life for sure, besides 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:25.200 meeting my wonderful wife and uh, good job, thank you. 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:29.040 But so it was it was really exciting because uh, 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:31.720 you know nine O two one oh and and part 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:34.000 of Lewis they both launched at the same time, and 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:36.640 I was around a lot of you all. In fact, 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:40.160 you and I went to Israel together yea and which 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:42.280 was which was very interesting. It was the first time 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:47.240 I ever heard uh sirens in Tel Aviv for like 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:50.360 incoming scud missile attacks and I was like, wait a second, 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:51.640 am I even safe here? 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:54.040 But we had a fun time. 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:55.200 Who cares? Right right? 0:01:55.560 --> 0:01:56.480 We had a good memory. 0:01:56.520 --> 0:01:57.080 What about me? 0:01:57.360 --> 0:01:58.960 We didn't want to go, You didn't. 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:00.920 Get to go. It's really hard for me not to 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:02.520 call you quirky because. 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:05.920 It's yeah, it is hard to not call you you sorry. 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:09.920 Because Brian and Green were best friends. 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:12.400 So we were very close and we still are. We 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:13.960 still are. We are good buddies. 0:02:14.400 --> 0:02:18.440 So I got to see lot we can. I ask 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:20.000 the question, is this going to upset your wife? I 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:24.040 don't think so. It's like thirty years ago. Do you 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:26.560 remember ever kissing me once? 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:31.240 I do? I have that recollection. It's very vivid as 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:34.560 a matter of fact. Yes, yes, of course, howvid is 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:41.480 it and vivid enough to recall. Yes, yes, those those 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:45.960 were fun days. Back then it was you know, everybody 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:48.080 that was on television at that time. You know, it 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:49.400 was a much smaller world. 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:53.160 Yeah, that's all you who hung out with and that 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:54.720 was an absolute blast. 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:56.799 I think I think both you can agree that that 0:02:57.680 --> 0:03:02.400 with the industry being so which might knit at that time, 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:05.520 you know there was, it was kind of a luxury 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:11.880 being at nowadays it's you. You can be on a 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:17.480 on a hit series, you know, on one of the 0:03:17.520 --> 0:03:21.120 platforms like Paramount Plus or TV whatever. You can be 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:24.680 on like your your fourth season, fifth season, and nobody 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:26.040 will know who the hell you are out in the 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:29.919 real world except for people who watched that platform of course. 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:31.239 Alf Soda Pop Club. 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:31.280 Was like. 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:36.000 It was like the place to be, uh when you 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:39.960 were a young actor back day it was. But but yeah, 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:42.400 that was where everybody hung out. It was wild. I 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:45.640 have very vivid memories of being at that. 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:50.400 Place and at the different locations I had such as you, 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:53.480 but I like your friends, so I could never firt 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:57.760 with you. And then one night, no, it was me 0:03:57.800 --> 0:03:59.880 and my friend Hammy and you and your friend and 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:01.840 we had just gone out to some like nightclub. 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:03.240 I think it was the Roxbury. 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:06.960 Was the Roxbury? Yeah, so far drive back and we 0:04:06.960 --> 0:04:09.839 were staying at my parents' beach house which burned down 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:12.760 the fires in January, but we were staying there and 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:15.360 you guys like followed us back and the securities like 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:17.640 your friends are here, and we took a walk on 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:19.680 the beach and that's where it happened. And I'll never 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:20.120 forget it. 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:25.400 Yeah, yes, mission accomplished. 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:27.080 And then I was like, oh, Brian doesn't find out, 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:29.360 which is weird because Brian and I weren't dating, but 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:30.960 I still felt like it was me and Brian, like 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:33.200 you know the type of girls guys are like, it's 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:33.800 cool brown. 0:04:34.680 --> 0:04:36.000 Yeah. 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:39.160 Anyway, I have to ask you a question. You were 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:42.880 nominated for an Emmy. Didn't you want it? Did you win? 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:45.680 Or were your nominated? Seventeen years old? 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:48.160 Well, I was actually while I was fourteen when I 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:49.720 did I know my first name is Steven. And then 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:52.080 obviously it took however long it took for it to 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:54.560 come out, it didn't come out until I was fifteen 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:58.000 late and then then sixteen when they did the actual 0:04:58.080 --> 0:05:01.880 Emmy nominations for it. So when when uh, you know, 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:05.680 I was up against like Danny Glover and uh uh 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:10.720 Arma Assanti and whoever else it was. It was it 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:13.719 was a slew of of of of uh you know, 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:18.200 grown grown ass men. So it was. It was pretty incredible. 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:21.599 I think, if I recall correctly, I was the youngest 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:24.200 person to be nominated for an Emmy at that time 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:28.799 in that category, which was pretty cool. It was a drag. 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:32.080 I would have loved to have won it because the 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:35.640 real Stephen Stainer had had been hit by a drunk 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:39.000 driver on his motorcycle the night before the Emmys and 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:43.599 was killed. And and yeah, it was very tragic, and 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:46.120 I really really I didn't want to win for me. 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:48.720 I wanted to win so I could thank him and 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:52.760 and and honor him, uh you know, uh and and 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:54.680 and let the world know what a great guy he 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:57.760 turned out to be. And so it was, you know, 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:00.920 it was dually tragic that evening. It was a tough 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:04.039 evening actually, because he was on set quite a bit. 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:06.919 If that was the character you were playing, Yeah, yeah. 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:09.640 Yeah, I mean, what what a what a terrible he 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:14.240 lost his youth, you know, to a total pervert. And 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:17.960 uh and and the fact that he turned out so well, 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:20.799 you know, he was he was married, he had kids, 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:22.920 He wanted to become a police officer. He was doing 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:25.360 the police training thing and all of that, and and 0:06:25.440 --> 0:06:28.400 it was his his goal in life to you know, 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:31.440 try to try to protect those he couldn't protect themselves. 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:35.240 And uh. And that was, you know, a beautiful, you know, 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:39.800 a beautiful outlook he had on life. So yeah, it 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:43.080 was that was wild to be nominated that age. The 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:46.760 Emmys were a blast as well. Uh, back then it 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:48.320 was it was fun to go to them, even if 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:50.640 I wasn't nominated. I went to them a couple of 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:51.400 times after that. 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:55.280 What a I mean, what a weird night. Yeah, that 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:59.479 mix of like exhilaration and excitement and happiness and yeah 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:00.080 and then. 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:02.240 That Yeah, I know, tell me about it. 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:04.520 Crazy timing, Yeah it was. 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:07.840 There was another mini series Simon Windsor did. It was 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:13.320 a Western one, Lonesome Dove Cleaned House that year, and 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:15.960 oddly enough a number of years later I worked on 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:19.080 a movie that Simon Winster directed called Operation Dumbo Drop 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:22.280 with Danny Glover, who he had worked with on Lonesome Dove. 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:25.400 And Radioda and Dennis Leary. That was that was a 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:28.920 blast that came full circle. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:31.160 funny how that works in the industry, how the industry 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:34.440 does signs. It always goes like, you know, in weird 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:36.960 circles like that, you know, you ended up working with 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:40.240 somebody that you met somewhere or you knew in this 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:44.920 project or whatever. It's it's very cool. It's it's again, 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:48.200 you know, it's just I can't I'm I'm never more 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:50.560 thankful in life than when I when I think about 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:53.320 the fact that I'm still a working actor in Hollywood 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:55.400 after starting in nineteen eighty six. 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:01.480 It is quite a vast career. You've had so many 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:06.720 different roles, drama, comedy, sci fi. Your character Jonas Quinn 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:11.120 in Stargate SG one Yes, was that one of one 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:12.240 of your most memorable? 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:15.680 For sure? I think, and you know, and you know, 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:17.600 in more modern times oddly enough, you know, that was 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:20.880 like two thousand and and four whatever when we shot that. 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:24.320 When I shot that, that the couple of seasons that 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:27.560 I was on, which is mind blowing right now to 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:31.240 think about. But what was what's really cool about that 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:34.600 is I was I was completely unaware that that these 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:37.600 comic con things go on and these big you know, 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:40.520 all the world, and there's there's these events that you 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:42.760 can you know, go to that they'll they'll pay you 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:46.319 handsomely to to to do an appearance at and all 0:08:46.320 --> 0:08:49.040 of that. And I was so ignorant of any of that. 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:52.320 And suddenly I did that show and next thing I know, 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:56.400 I'm being like flown to Australia, Germany, Belgium, the UK, 0:08:57.400 --> 0:09:00.040 you know, all over the world to you know, to 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:01.840 do these appearances for that character. 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:03.480 Will you hook me up with your person? 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:08.920 And uh and and and still even to this day, 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:12.360 I mean I I just got back from France and 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:15.720 the UK a couple of months ago doing appearances for 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:19.400 for Stargate as well as for Parker because Parker Lewis 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:24.680 was a huge phenomenon in France, and uh it, you know, 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:27.640 I still get brought over there to do appearances for 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:30.800 for Parker Lewis and we In fact, a few years back, 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:33.719 maybe four or five years ago, they flew over me 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:37.600 and half the cast for a big reunion uh you 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:40.000 know thing at one of their events in Paris. So 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:42.960 it was like me and and Troy Slayton who played Jerry, 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:47.080 and Billy Jane who played who played Mikey and Abraham 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:50.640 Ben Ruby who play Kobiac, and Maya Bruton who played Shelley, 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:52.439 my sister. They brought us all over there. 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:54.880 Do you guys all still keep in touch or was 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:56.720 that for some of you see each other in a while? 0:09:56.800 --> 0:09:59.600 Yeah? Well I keep in touch with Troy uh and 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:02.800 aber Ham and Maya for the most part. And Tim 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:04.800 Stack a bit who played my dad on it. He's 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:07.719 hilarious when he did Son of the Beach A Son 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:10.280 of a Son of Son of Son of a Beach. 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:12.600 I think that was it. But that was such a 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:15.439 funny series. It was so good, great actor. 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:30.520 Parker Lewis can't Ley is. I loved that show. I 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:32.800 mean obviously new you in real life, but like as 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:36.080 a teen and like watching that show, it's just such 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:36.880 a good show. 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:43.160 Yeah, it was. You know, they did Long Dimon and 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:46.600 Clyde Phillips. They went and pitched a reboot at a 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:51.040 series with Sony TV, but unfortunately they didn't pick it up. 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:54.920 It was, you know, God blessed them. But I went 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:58.440 and met with them with Lawn about about doing a 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:00.920 reboot because I had a concept for it that I 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:03.600 thought would be really good, but I didn't get to 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:06.160 go in and pitch that that concept at all. They 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:09.280 had a different idea, which was Parker Lewis's kids and 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:11.800 Mikey's kids and all their kids were now, you know, 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:14.720 in high school together, and so you know, and and 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:19.000 it was sort of a similar show as the Earth one, 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:21.319 except with twice the amount of characters. 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:24.480 What was your what was your idea? Because that sounds 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:27.360 like the like typical, let's do a reboot. 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:30.440 Yeah, mine was. Mine was called Parker Lewis Can't Win. 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:33.160 And it was Parker as an adult, and his heyday 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:36.160 was in his high school years. And and miss Musso, 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:38.440 who was the principal, has now become the mayor of 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:42.360 Santo Domingo, and Lemmer, who was her little arch villain assistant, 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:46.400 has become the sheriff. And my my sister, Maya Shelley, 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:50.280 who hated me, was the local DA. And they thwarted 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:53.320 every plan I had to try and be successful in life, 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:57.760 you know. And so my my, my my years spent 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:00.160 being the man in high school were now over. Or 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:03.680 now everybody else, yeah, everybody else is successful around me, 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:06.760 and I'm like, what, you know, so trying to like 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:10.040 relive though still wearing the same shirts with the same hair, 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:12.960 but you know, now my forties or whatever, and they're like, 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:15.840 you know, and so that was kind of that was 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:21.040 like flipping the that is so good. Yes, yes, yeah, 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:23.240 I think it would have been funny. I had I 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:26.400 had a whole you know plan for you know, for 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:27.000 the show. 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:29.760 How many seasons was Parker Lewis Can't Lose On? 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:33.439 Well, we did seventy eight episodes, but only three seasons, 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:36.240 so we did some long seasons, but we were only 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:39.679 ten episodes away from the from the minimum for syndication, 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:41.319 which is like eighty eight episodes. 0:12:41.520 --> 0:12:43.439 Why didn't they do it? They could have done it? 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:45.920 Well, you know, the big problem was is that I 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:48.319 don't know if you recall that they they sold Fox 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:52.640 to you know, Ruper Murdoch Company whatever. They sold Fox 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:55.360 TV and kept Fox News. They sold Fox TV to 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:59.480 two years into our show, and the new executives when 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:02.800 they came on, they looked at because our show was 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:06.080 very costly. We were as expensive as nine o two 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:08.280 one oh and we were a half hour comedy, you know, 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:11.040 with a smaller cast. But it was very expensive to 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:14.320 make that show, and they and and our ratings obviously 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:17.120 weren't quite as good as y'all's, you know, And so 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:18.920 they were they were trying to make sense out of 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:22.520 the budget, and they thought the new execution that came on, Yeah, 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:25.680 the new executives who were hired on were like, well, 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:27.680 what we need to do is make Parker Lewis more 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:29.800 like nine oh two and oh but a comedy version 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:33.280 of it. So our third season they changed the entire 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:36.840 dynamics of the show. The shooting style, the clothing style, 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:41.160 all of that was was was altered. No, yeah, really heavily. 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:44.720 So our third season just didn't have the pizazz and 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:47.880 the and the outrageousness that our first two seasons had. 0:13:47.920 --> 0:13:50.040 And that was sort of the nail, you know, the 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:52.800 nail in our coffin. Unfortunately, if they had just left 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:55.000 it alone, we I'm sure that we would have gone 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:58.480 at least four or five seasons with it. But but 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:00.960 they didn't. They just they just let a good thing. 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:03.960 Lie, changing of the card, that's what happened. 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:08.200 Yes, they always think they know better than the previous people, 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:12.520 which yeah, necessarily true. Sometimes it is, yes. 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:15.200 Yes, sometimes it helps, but yeah. 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:16.600 Well, if you had to. 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:18.840 Go back and say, what was your favorite character you 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:22.280 played thus far in your career, what would you which 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:23.080 one would you pick? 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:26.200 I have a couple of them. One of them is 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:28.560 definitely my favorite because it was my first time getting 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:32.200 to really, really do do a true character role. And 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:35.640 that was in the original Stephen King mini series, The Stand, 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:38.240 when I got to play this character Harold Louder, who 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:42.600 was a pivotal character in the overall mini series and 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:45.120 uh and also had the biggest arc. He went from 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:50.600 being this this really you know, introverted nerdy guy to 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:56.040 becoming this sort of like extrovert villain, you know. And 0:14:56.040 --> 0:14:58.080 and it was that it was the first time in 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:01.840 my career as an actor to really get to break 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:04.600 the mold of what I was generally cast as, and 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:08.000 that opened me up to a lot of other roles 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:13.640 later on after that, getting to play villain characters that 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:15.880 I never would have gotten to play. I don't think 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:18.200 if I hadn't done The Stand. 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:22.760 Guy's a question. I'm a huge Stephen King fan. I 0:15:22.800 --> 0:15:27.600 heard he's really hands on. Was he with the production well. 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:30.640 In his later ones? Yeah, yes, I had to audition 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:33.520 for him for he and Mick Garris for that role. 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:38.000 And I read the character description is like this really overweight, 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:41.280 you know, nerdy guy with greasy hair and dandriff and 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:45.240 all of that. And and I'm sitting there going I'm 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:47.080 not going to get this part, you know. But I 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:52.560 understood that the character very well. And it turns out that, 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:55.760 fortunately for me, Mick Garris had really liked me for 0:15:56.080 --> 0:15:59.200 another movie called Sleepwalkers that he had directed. I love 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:03.400 that movie out, yeah, and I didn't get the role 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:05.680 in it, but he really liked my audition that I did, 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:07.840 and he was telling Stephen King that I was the 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:11.680 right guy to play this character of Harold Louder that 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:14.720 doesn't hurt, yeah, yeah, And Stephen King was looking at 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:16.960 my head shot though, going no, he's not. He's not 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:19.360 the right guy. Look at this guy. But they had 0:16:19.360 --> 0:16:23.560 tried casting somebody who physically fit the description of the character, 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:27.640 and Mick Garris told me that they they auditioned in 0:16:27.960 --> 0:16:32.720 La New York, Chicago, San Francisco, even Miami, trying to 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:35.800 find that, you know, the person that fit the exact 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:39.360 description of the character that Stephen was in love with him. 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:42.440 They just didn't find anybody, thank god. So when I 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:45.280 went in there and auditioned for it, I mean before 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:47.200 I walked out of the room, I could they were 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:50.160 back there having their little quiet discussion. And it was 0:16:50.200 --> 0:16:53.120 one of those rare moments when by the time it 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:56.160 was back when we still had answering machines. But by 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:59.120 the time I left that audition and got home, there 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:01.240 was a message for my agent saying that I had 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:05.320 booked the job. Yeah. I was like, that's crazy. Because 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:08.040 I walked out there, I felt good about it, but 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:10.560 I thought they were whispering, like Stephen King was going, 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:12.720 I told you this guy doesn't Eric, I'm not gonna 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:14.320 you know what I mean. I was like, oh, well, 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:15.120 there goes that one. 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:17.680 But I love stories like that. 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:19.400 Yeah, it was great. 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:21.720 They didn't want to see you because visually that's not 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:23.919 what he saw. But you came in and he was like, 0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:24.879 he is the character. 0:17:24.920 --> 0:17:27.000 Wait, did you like play yourself down? Did you do 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:30.040 anything to your physic to alter your appearance when you 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:30.480 went in there. 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:32.960 I mean, I you know, I just I just put 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:33.840 like Gid. 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:35.239 In shower for a few weeks or what. 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:38.639 Yeah, Oh god, that would have been something there. I 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:41.280 have some funny audition stories where I went too far, 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:41.680 I can. 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:43.680 Tell you that really tell us one. 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:47.840 Oh gosh, well I had two of them. I had 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:51.440 one where I was. There was in Teluca Lake. There 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:53.280 were where I had I had a house there. And 0:17:54.000 --> 0:17:57.520 up the street was this this store that sold all 0:17:57.560 --> 0:18:00.520 of the makeup and special effects stuff for the movie industry. 0:18:00.560 --> 0:18:01.840 I forget what it was called, but it was this 0:18:01.960 --> 0:18:06.000 massive store. No, I don't think that was it. It was. 0:18:06.080 --> 0:18:09.359 It was something like, you know, like Cinema Secrets or something. Yes, 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:12.920 And uh so I used to go in there and 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:15.000 you know, and just kind of just browse and check 0:18:15.040 --> 0:18:17.240 things out. And they had they had this whole collection 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:21.520 of mustaches, you know, these really really awesome mustaches, and 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:23.639 I couldn't grow. Look, I still can't grow a mustach. 0:18:23.680 --> 0:18:25.040 I don't know what this thing is doing on my 0:18:25.080 --> 0:18:25.680 face right now. 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:27.080 It's cute. 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:31.560 So I'm actually growing it out for a part I'm 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:32.680 supposed to play next year. 0:18:32.760 --> 0:18:35.320 But you've got you got a long lead. 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:37.840 Next year's not next year. It's like, whoa, it's gonna 0:18:37.840 --> 0:18:38.440 take you that long. 0:18:38.480 --> 0:18:41.480 But we're there. This is already like a month and 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:46.040 a half. Okay, But yeah, so I so they had 0:18:46.080 --> 0:18:48.600 all these mustaches, and I was like, wow, these mustaches. 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:51.199 Look at the characters I could play, you know. And 0:18:51.240 --> 0:18:53.879 so I bought like, I don't know, like four or 0:18:53.880 --> 0:18:56.760 five of these different mustaches, like the one that goes 0:18:56.800 --> 0:18:59.160 out like that, a big bushy one, some other, all 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:02.760 these different mustache And I had this audition for this 0:19:02.840 --> 0:19:06.760 World War two mini series or film or something, and 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:09.879 I was like a captain of like a B fifty 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:13.560 bomber pot you know, bomber uh. And I thought, Wow, 0:19:13.720 --> 0:19:17.119 this is a perfect audition for one of these mustaches. So, 0:19:18.000 --> 0:19:20.879 you know, I applied this ridiculous mustache and had. 0:19:20.720 --> 0:19:22.720 The handle bars we now. 0:19:22.920 --> 0:19:24.840 Not handlebars, but kind of just like went out to 0:19:24.880 --> 0:19:26.960 a little point, you know what I mean, or like 0:19:26.960 --> 0:19:30.679 the evil villain mustache, you know, but it felt like 0:19:30.840 --> 0:19:34.040 nineteen forties to me. This mustache did dusterally do? 0:19:34.240 --> 0:19:35.800 Right? Is something? Yeah? 0:19:35.840 --> 0:19:38.040 So I put this thing on and I went in 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:42.240 and I did my audition and uh, my my agent 0:19:42.359 --> 0:19:46.360 to my agent calls and goes, accorn, did you did 0:19:46.359 --> 0:19:48.679 you put a mustache on for this audition? And I 0:19:48.680 --> 0:19:50.119 was like, yeah, I did. Did they like it? And 0:19:50.119 --> 0:19:54.080 They're like, no, they didn't like it. No, absolutely not. 0:19:54.080 --> 0:19:56.159 They couldn't they. In fact, they couldn't even watch your audition. 0:19:56.280 --> 0:19:59.200 They just kept staring at this ridiculous thing on your face. 0:19:59.320 --> 0:19:59.760 Oh man. 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:02.679 And and I want to get back in and do it, 0:20:02.720 --> 0:20:05.560 but take it off. I'm like, no, no, no, they've 0:20:05.600 --> 0:20:06.280 moved on from you. 0:20:09.160 --> 0:20:09.760 That's the best. 0:20:09.840 --> 0:20:13.240 That's the best. That's good in auditions. Winter props too much. 0:20:13.680 --> 0:20:17.679 Yeah, well, the second one is even worse. I was 0:20:17.720 --> 0:20:21.679