San Francisco Salute to Supernatural by Creation Entertainment
January 14-16, 2011
It was a great convention and especially so for being my first Creation and my first Supernatural convention. I wasn't sure what to expect but I was very satisfied. The most unusual part for me was the structure of having the guests only appear one day. For instance, Corin's meet and greet, Q and A session, photo ops and autographs all happened on Saturday. The gold package extra of a dessert cocktail party also was on Saturday and included Corin. His schedule for Saturday was:
1:40 – 2:40 Meet N Greet with Corin Nemec and Richard Speight, Jr
3:55 – 4: 35 Corin Nemec on stage for question and Answer session
4:40 Photo Ops with Corin Nemec
7:05 Autographs with Saturday stars including Corin Nemec
10:45 Cocktail/Dessert party with Saturday stars including Corin Nemec (Gold pkg only)
I wasn't gold pkg so I didn't go to the dessert party but I went to everything else. The Meet N Greet was something Creation put together about a month before the convention. There were several offered including 30 minutes for ten fans with Jared, 30 with ten fans with Jensen, an hour with Aldis and Samantha and an hour with Corin and Richard. The auctions started at one price and Jensen's sold out the first week. The other three still had openings as late as the week of the convention. I bought mine the day of and there were only three of us in the Corin/Richard meet. This made it even MORE awesome!
The meet was held in the Victor's room, a beautiful ballroom at the top of the Westin St. Francis, 32 stories up. The view of San Francisco was gorgeous! I think the meet was so small partially because this convention wasn't as big as many other Creation conventions. Another great feature of the meet was that Richard and Corin had never met before and Richard ended up asking Corin a TON of questions. While there were three of us fans, the third lady didn't arrive until it was almost over. Which did make Richard feel better because he had met her before. Within a few minutes of arriving, Richard looked at Corin and I interacting and asked “do you two know each other?” to which Corin replied “yes, Hollie is my stalker.” Some questions/information from that hour:
Corin is reading “The Imperial Cruise” by James Bradley
Richard is reading “Unbroken” by Laura Hillenbrand. He also just finished the trilogy of books by Stieg Larrson
Corin's grandfather and greatgrandfather were Freemasons. The group isn't as big in the US anymore. Richard was fascinated and kept asking questions and Corin kept answering. In particular, I think he mentioned that Jimmy Kimmel films in an old (no longer functioning) Masonic Temple. He mentioned that there is a lot of reading involved and it isn't very appealing to a younger generation.
Beverly Hills, according to Richard and Corin, is the neighborhood 'your parents' live in rather than the hip/happening place it might once have been.
Richard's wife works on gamespot.com
Richard is 5'8
Richard told Corin the story of Skip Muck and Fritz Nylon being friends and both being from a very small town in New York. Skip was the character Richard played in “Band of Brothers” based on a real story and Fritz Nylon was the man the “Saving Private Ryan” story is about. This came out of Richard asking why I had a notebook. When I said I wrote things down, he asked what and I mentioned the story he'd told during his Q and A. Which Corin didn't hear so he repeated it for Corin.
Marie had asked them how they relax. Richard said he goes to the beach a lot with his kids who are both under 5. Corin talked about his graffiti painting. How his breakdancing 'lifestyle' in Atlanta morphed into graffiti when he moved to LA.
This absolutely was worth every penny I paid for it. The interaction between the two actors was lovely as well as the great small group experience. I didn't have a camera but graciously Marie shared her picture with me and it is on my facebook page.
The next Corin event was his Q and A. This was the first Supernatural convention he was at and the first time he could really take questions about his character. Though the first question was about “The Stand.” Here is some information from the QA.
He is very physically different from the character of Harold Lauder but was cast based on how performed the character.
The director asked him to do things to creep out Molly Ringwald so he'd silently come up behind when she was talking to someone else and just stand really close to her until she'd get uncomfortable and move away.
Stephen King once started laughing for no obvious reason and when asked said he was thinking about how with 103 speaking roles in the film, it wouldn't be that unusual for one of them to die in a plane crash. According to Corin, not a single actor laughed.
He played Pop Warner football when he was young in Atlanta and one of the teams he 'played' for was the Steelers. He is a big Steelers fan.
Today, Parker Lewis would probably be a telemarketer and his sister would be his boss.
Mitch Pileggi and he would go to Starbucks and discuss acting
A lady asked him how he prepared for the torture scene. He quipped that he brought his table from home, 'doesn't everyone have a demon knife?'
J2 are both southern boys, as is Corin, since he was raised in Arkansas and Georgia
He has family fairly similar to the Campbells – in particular an uncle in a double wide trailer who lives off the land.
He confirmed that the J2 drive the mini-scooters and that the set is very relaxed but professional
Corin just finished “Besties” and is about to go back to “Nuclear Family”. He had worked on it as a web series last year but its been picked up as a film project. He will also start working on a creature feature called “Sand Sharks.”
He has a sneaking suspicion the hair and make-up people on Supernatural have seen Star-ving, the web series in which he appears naked and plays a version of himself.
As a first convention for a not that popular character, I think Corin did fantastic. As always, he won over even more people. I talked to several people who had not met Corin before but were very impressed. I also saw the smiles as they walked away from the autograph table and it was brilliant! Unfortunately I didn't go to the dessert party since it was gold members only. But I think it was a fantastic convention.
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