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| Corbin Bernsen discusses an upcoming project in Kipling, Saskatchewan |
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on Thursday, July 10, 2008 - 12:01 PM |
Recently we took part in a panel interview with Corbin Bernsen (Psych, LA Law) and we had a chance to ask a couple of questions that relate to a new movie filming in Saskatchewan. In 2005 Kyle MacDonald began a quest to trade one red paper clip for a house, after 14 trades this eventually netted him a house in Kipling, Saskatchewan.
One of the trades was for a KISS snow globe with Corbin Bernsen, who is an avid collector of snow globes, Corbin traded a paying speaking role in a movie for this snow globe. It was this movie role that the town of Kipling, Saskatchewan traded for a house on their main street.
Kipling threw an “American Idol” style competition amongst the locals to fill the acting role they'd traded for, the winner was Nolan Hubbard who appears in Corbin's upcoming movie “Donna on Demand”.
Corbin Bernsen
Corbin Bernsen: “I'm writing something right now that I look forward to playing. And it's funny, its just coincidentally came around the time of my dad's passing. But I'm writing a character about a guy who left everything in his 20s, and he had all the opportunity in the world. He was from a small farming town. And he gave up everything and went and joined the seminary. And now he's 50. And I wanted to do a movie about a guy who's having a mid-life crisis who isn't in a relationship. His relationship is with God and he has given up. He just sees the world and all the shit that's happening from monsoons to floods to hurricanes to China to whatever is going on, to just the priesthood and what's going on, and one day he woke up and as simply as the day he fell in love, he fell out. And he's lost his faith. And it's scaring him that at 50 he's given his whole life to this and he struggling to reclaim his faith.
And for me it's exploring a side of me that still is trying to understand the role of faith and God and religion and personal and society and all that. I want to explore stuff that's sort of bigger issue questions. And it doesn't have to be so straight and direct as that. That just happens to be what I'm writing. I 'm sure there's a certain amount of that in - what was Tom Hanks' movie in Paris?”
Panel: The Da Vinci Code?
Corbin Bernsen: Yeah. There's a certain amount of exploration of all that in there. So it doesn't have to be in direct—I just have this little story that I'm writing that I'm going to actually shoot after we're done, in Saskatchewan, in a small town. But it's just stuff to explore. Things I want to explore.
Panel: That's tied to that paper clip thing, isn't it?
Corbin Bernsen: “Yeah, it's all tied. What happened was it was all part of that whole paper clip thing there. I went there and after—I got a guy and made a movie with a kid from that town, but it's an R-rated movie called Donna on Demand. And the mayor of the town said, "Maybe we can have the world premiere here." And I said, "I don't think it's going to play. I don't know. But I'll tell you what," I said, "I've got another idea for a movie," which was a Christmas movie, a family movie. I said, "I'd like to shoot it here." And she goes, "Oh, that would be great. That would be wonderful and everybody would be very thrilled."
 Corbin Bernsen discussing his movie and TV career on the set of Psych
And so there's this mentally challenged guy. In, my farmer in my movie, this faith movie, what happens is I come back to the town but the town has been devastated by this horrible fire that's killed a family and a farmhouse. Wiped out a family. Great family. Had the whole idea of farming coming back and all that. And this guy, this mentally challenged guy who will play the role, has admitted to the fire. And he said he set it because everybody in town made fun of him and he's finally snapped. What you find out during the course of the movie is I start putting the pieces together, and while I'm trying to reconcile with my father, while the town doesn't like that I've come back with no faith in the middle of this crisis. I left and I was the town hero, I came back with no faith. And I just start putting pieces together and realize this guy couldn't have started the fire, even though he's admitted it. And what he did is he saw two boys outside the farmhouse. The girl up in the window or whatever, threw a cigarette out. And he took the blame so their lives wouldn't be ruined. And it's that act of kindness on his part that starts to restore my faith, but I have to get through the detective work”
Corbin is currently working on a few movie projects and stars on the hit US cable TV series “Psych” (Season 3 premieres July 18 on USA Network).
Check out FallTVPreview.com for our in-depth interview with Corbin Bernsen in the coming weeks.
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