Actor, Corin Nemec talks PLACE OF BONES with Heather for NRW! A NRW Interview! Horror Western!

[Music] there it [Applause] [Music] [Applause] is Mama there's a man in the house there's money involved and you know what that means people will be looking for him people with greed and aice in their black hearts you found me the bastard I call on the Lord who is worthy to be praised so I shall be saved from my [Music] enemies where angel with Crystal [Music] forever what have you done dear Lord please forgive me tell me you living all the way out here without even a horse and I have no intention of ever [Music] leaving these are hard men they will kill us dead in the dirt well then we better kill them first why don't I I start by prying out one of them pretty front and teeth help me may the Lord have mercy on your soul you know I'll kill you you in the job you are a hard woman Pandora metas hello everyone my name is Heather hurt with the nrw where nerds rule the world and I am here today with Corin nimic who plays Cal in the upcoming film as of this recording place of Bones how are you today sir doing great now look forgive me but I have to say this Heather hurt yes was it painful you know I get that a lot and let me tell as someone who is naturally a clutz yes it really really hurts well hey so so was so was playing Austin Calhoun it was very painful yes let's let's talk a little bit about Calhoun um I'll I'll just jump right into that you had to lay on a bed almost the entire time hey now I got up out of that bed at a certain point now you know when when I really really had to but I'm a lazy guy I'm very lazy I don't like if I can get a couple of ladies to do as much as I can get them to do for me I just I'll have them do it even if I gotta eat the corn mush I'll eat it of course but and and of course yes you do you do get up and those final moments are pretty heavy I'll say uh but what was it like having to act in one position the entire time how how did you have to keep your did you have to do anything special to keep yourself in that mindset it didn't it didn't feel like it to me because the uh uh it actually was really really wonderful uh as an actor to be able to you know to to perform some material that isolates you and and forces you to not to to to limit your behavior to limit your you know um uh choices it it actually created a whole new Vista of of opportunity and choices uh and and a wonderful opportunity as an actor to get to know a character when bringing a character to life to the degree that literally I love this guy Austin Calhoun now I mean even my my wife throws line some of my lines at me all the time from the movie and stuff you know she's like you know uh you know uh you know how things going for you know things good today s not lately you know whatever I'm sitting here choking no you're good St out there gota make sure you stay hydrated um um yes it was magical and speaking of that the set itself this was a very practical film speaking of like your Your Atmosphere your surroundings do you like playing in Practical films like this like it one of the great things about the time period about the the Simplicity of the film itself from from a from just like a an outward perspective it was very practical do you enjoy that yes uh the the uh the production design was done very well and I know and I know that that you know this whole movie was on was on a tight budget and uh and between the producers the the uh production designer the Wardrobe Department uh wonderful makeup Department the the casting uh I mean I let me tell you something I'm absolutely amazed this film was made I'm so happy it was made it's so rare that you get a a a script that was written because you had to tell the story which in my conversations with Richard Taylor is is exactly what the story is with this he just thought of it and he was like I have to write this he never even expected he never even necessarily expected for the movie to ever be made in the history of his life but he had to write the story and that's I think that's why it's it sets itself aside from a lot of other westerns and stuff that are more formulaic in a way where there's a whole lot of moving Parts a whole lot of different things going on way too many characters everything you know which is great but this just boils every everything down to its barest Necessities you know and the and and the environmental uh conditions being out in the middle of the nowhere what's more scary being in a in a in a wild west town full of people you know or out in the middle of nowhere in the Uncharted regions of the western territories that don't even have state names yet you know to me that's far more of a scary precarious situ situation to be put in than being in a in a western town so it's a the setting is a character in and of itself of course and and I want to touch in on that what you just said just now you mentioned kind of the scariness element and in some places you see that this is a this is a thriller or a horror um which it really isn't until you get to those final moments no spoilers of course um but what were your feelings when you read that twist at the end well that it's just it you know I I I don't think that there's been a movie that I've seen before or after uh the six sense that that I watched where when I got to that aha moment and realized what the what's been going on the whole time when I read this script I was completely oblivious uh and then got to that aha moment of what's really going on and was just absolutely floored as as much as anybody who's going to watch the film hopefully will be and uh and you know the pacing of it is wonderful it's got a great pacing to it and and I and I I keep saying you know it's it's a mix of hateful eight meets misery you know that's what you're in store for as an a as an audience member you know you're in store for a wonderfully written western movie that has the Dynamics of misery where you've got this you're in you're trapped in a place and you can't get out of it and but but in this case just like hateful eight the end that's coming is the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse it's death that's that's that's that's just over the horizon so the buildup to all of that makes the makes the the the secret reveal uh of what's of what's been happening behind the scenes the whole time so potent so palpable so mindblowing that uh I I do think that this is going to be a film that will end up with a life of its own regardless of of of what anybody tries to do or tries not to do with it it's going to end up with a life of its own absolutely and once again that ending it if if you get anywhere that that's going to be that life for sure um let's talk about Calhoun for a little bit uh who was he to you when you first read him and what what mindset did you have to put yourself in to become that version of Calum well the the the the script is so well written you know Richard Taylor did such a great job creating this there's enough material in there to get an idea of who of who these characters are now the backstory is where everything all the blanks get filled in for me you know what was his uh socioeconomic upbringing what was his religious upbringing what was his parental upbringing what was his educational uh you know how far did he get in school did he ever go to school did you know when when all of those things get answered and and real quickly my answers for those were you know he was born to a lady of the night who never knew who the dad was and he was raised in tent cities you know in the back of the brothel and he grew up on the streets but he was a good kid trying to do the right thing saw how rich people live saw how you know you could be well off just wasn't educated enough to do anything outside of it so fell in with the Cowboys and ended up living a life of crime so you know it was in figuring that out that you can find the humanity in this character that it's not that he wants to be a bad guy he just doesn't have any other choice because he's not educated and he doesn't see the a way out of out of it you know so that was the character development I had behind him because you can't as an anti-hero you can't you can't be unlikable even though you're a thieving murderer so you know that's basically the character he's a He's A thieving murderer he's murdered people and he's stolen from people there's no real redeeming qualities left after that you know so but but how do you find a character who's in his mind has Justified all of the things he's ever done wrong he has a he's perfectly justified in his actions he's not a bad guy he's just roped in with some bad guys you know so if they rob the bank and the teller gets killed well he didn't kill the teller he just robbed the bank you know so there there's it's it's a it's a wonderful mix of this you know uh being bad but not believing that he's bad even though he's done bad things so it's you know it's it's an interesting fine line to be able to walk there where you want the audience to like this guy but know he's not likable but for some reason you just can't help it it's like any movie Joe peshi does you know no matter how bad of a guy he's playing you just want to snuggle him that is a perfect description all right that's really quick question um what was your favorite moment that one moment on set that you just be with you for the rest of your life oddly enough it's it's this the dialogue that is not even we shot it live but it's scripted uh as voiceover and it's my introduction of the bad guys that was my favorite chunk of dialogue in the whole script was talking about each of these bad guys and they originally weren't going to shoot that I was just going to do it voice over and so I talked to Audrey and I and I know you guys aren't going to shoot or whatever we're already set for it let's just keep let's roll it out so that the voiceover sounds like I'm the continuation how it's scripted and then if you guys ever had a chance to plan to cut back which they didn't you know that you'd have it you'd at least have it but I wanted the dialogue to just roll right through from the from what was you know her question is how many you know how many were there three you know can any of them track one and then it then it goes over into Cherokee Jack and it talks about all these guys and and that was just some of my my most favorite descriptive dialogue I've ever gotten to do in my entire life and I'm not even on camera for it if y'all if y'all haven't seen it this is what y'all are getting in the movie My Friends Place of Bones movie.com look it up share it share it all over all your social medias I am Corin nimic across all the platforms Google me search Me Brave browser me Duck Duck Go me do all the things absolutely Corin thank you so much for your time place of Bones arrives on digital on August 23rd thank you sir you have a wonderful day you bet you too nerds rule the world yes we do [Music] hey hey [Music] hey hey [Music] hey hey 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