May 6, 2024 • 42 mins
His body of work may have started in the 80's but Corey Feldman transcends time.The eccentric actor and performer tells us all about touring with 90s band Limp Bizkit, the famous director who calls Corey his muse, and what he considers his greatest achievement. This is the true 'unmasking' of one of Hollywood's most intriguing talents!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey Dude, the Nineties Called with Christine Taylor and David Lasher.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Hey, everybody, welcome back to Hey Dude, the Nineties Called podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
I'm David, Hi David, I'm Christine. Welcome back to the podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Everyone. Yeah, we've got we've got an exciting one today.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Yeah, this is like, this is my childhood.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
You know, Corey Feldman is the guy that was in
every movie when we were in our teens, you know.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I know, I mean movies like you know it just
I can't imagine I can't imagine.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
A childhood without these movies, you know.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Gremlin's, The Goonies, stand By Me, Lost Boys, Dream, A
Little Dream, I mean like and those are all eighties.
I know this is a nineties podcast, but he worked
NonStop through the nineties as well, and he's just kind
of taking off, like having this sort of new next
chapter in his career, which is really exciting. What was
your favorite? I know what your favorite? Y?
Speaker 4 (01:02):
You know Corey feldon scene with about his father.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
You know, listen, I his work moved me when I
was when I was a kid, Like I really you know,
connected with his performances and of course you know coonies.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
You know, no, no, next level. Yes, yes, The Lost Boys.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
I mean we just showed Quinn The Lost Boys like
last year or the year before or something.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Oh really does that hold off?
Speaker 3 (01:32):
It's oh, it really holds up.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
I mean it's such a period piece, like the Wardrobe,
it's so eighties, like it's so late.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Eighties and Patrick.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Yeah, just it's it's such a damn good movie. Yeah,
I just feel like And also I saw I don't
think I ever saw it, but they did make a
sequel to The Lost Boys that he was also in
or produced I think he produced, which I never saw.
But anyway, we're we're very much looking forward to talking
(02:02):
to him. We don't have a huge window of time,
so we're going to do our best to get a
lot of questions in. He's in a press junket today.
If any of you are Mass Singer fans, he was
just ousted on the Mass Singer. The big reveal happened,
and apparently Jenny McCarthy.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Can I you must have watched it, because you watch
every one of these shows.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
I love all the shows, but I don't watch them
all in real time.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I've got everything recorded so that I can kind of
go back and like watch highlights.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
I'm not I can't. I can't stand on top.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Of all of them at all times, but I do
have them on record.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
What'd you say he was a seal or something?
Speaker 3 (02:40):
He was a seal? This really cute little like fur creature.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
And you know, we've had other guests on this show
who have been on the mass Singer.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
So we got to talk to them about that.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
I don't know if we'll have a chance to ask
him about that stuff because now that now he's off,
he's off, he's off, so so.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Now the big reveal.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
But apparently Jenny McCarthy guessed him from the first time
he came out, and she kept saying because they give clues,
that's the thing they sing. But they also the key
is their very sort of obscure clues, so if you
queue into those clues, and one of the clues he
gave was that he had partied with Jenny at some
(03:20):
point in the nineties, or he had spent an evening
with Jenny in the nineties or something like that, And
Jenny apparently just guessed.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Him from his first performance, and she was right.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
People other people thought it was going to be Macauley Culkin.
Other people thought it was going to be Haley Joel Osman.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
It was funny. I read all.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
No, Jenny spent a night with him.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Yes, but it was nothing, No, it was nothing. They
were both there. Apparently they were both married to other people.
But anyway, it looks like he's here, the legendary Corey Feldman.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Yeah, let's go with Corey Feldman.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Dude, uck Corey.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Welcome, dude.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
This is iconic. This is iconic, dude.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
That's so cool. Things.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Oh, bro, I know we're probably all the same age around,
but I feel like I grew up with you.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
I feel like I know you.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
So you're twenty two as well, all of us.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
We're all still in our twenties, right exact?
Speaker 5 (04:19):
I know I am. I mean I wear a proof
of it every day.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
There it is. Yeah, you see that?
Speaker 5 (04:25):
You see it? Can you see it? You can see it? Right? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Fantastic.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
I don't know, I don't know if you can see it.
Let me get a little closer. You can see that?
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Oh yeah, twenty two baby.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
That's it. That's me. That's my religion. That's where I live.
I live in the land of twenty two all the time,
which would put us writing about nineteen ninety one. I think, right,
so there you go.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Yes, yes, I think we need to jump in, right, like.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
Yeah, you can jump jump on in, jump on in.
What you got for me, Lay it on me, throw
it on the line. Let's do this thing.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Okay, the scene you want to go, because I have
he's got the biggest IMDb page I've ever seen in
my life.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
It's so true, it's so true.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
I mean, listen, we'll get to the masked singer because
that's so exciting and that all just happened, and I
want we want to hear all about that.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
But do you mind going back?
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Because, like David said, you are a part of just
all of us growing up, like the most iconic films.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
I'll be honest with you. I know you guys are
a nineties podcast, but I'm really not in talking about
the same stuff I've talked about a million times. I've
done that interview. So I like to talk about what's new,
what's fresh, what's exciting, what's current, what's relevant. Definitely, as
much as possible, I'd like to stay focused on that stuff.
(05:45):
Once in a while, we can, we can dip, but yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Yeah, can we at least give you some kudos for
some of the iconic work that you did as a
kid that would literally like changed our lives.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
And I think we just because we get.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
This cam you must.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
If you must, we must, we must.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
And by the way, I'll get it out of the
way very quickly because it's it's not one of the typicals,
but it probably is for a certain genre as the
like I am the biggest horror movie fan and I
really cannot wait to talk to.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
You about the birthday.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
But Friday the thirteenth, the Final Chapter Game, that was
the first horror movie I got to see in the
theaters and you're amazing at it, and I just wanted.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
To say that I just needed to do that.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
It's one of the best ones in the franchise. I'm
sorry just saying it. It's I think it's the best.
I think it tops one and two.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
I appreciate that. Thank you. You know, to me, the
Part three was the best, but only when it was
in three D, so you don't have it.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
D They would hand you the glasses.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
Right of course, of course, you know, you know, David,
they still do that now, No, no, yes, yes, it's
a real thing.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
The glasses have just gotten better. They've just got a
little more secure.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
You don't know this, David, really, no, dude, I haven't
been to a movie theater in five years.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
Wow. Yeah, okay, David, you know, right five years ago,
right before COVID, the biggest thing in cinema was actually
three D movies. That's when it kind of came back,
and that's when it was really really big. Now it's
a little less. But yeah, So, I mean I think
that the advancements, as you were saying, in technology, that's
helped with you know, the the what do they call it.
(07:33):
It's not polaroid, it's a polarization. Polarization, So that's how
they're doing it now with the LED you know, liquid
clear cell glasses where they actually are moving. There's actual movement,
so it's not like the old days, you know, where
it was just you know, a little red and blue
plastic piece of film.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Yeah, like kind of like the eclipse glasses that we all.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Right, right, right exactly. That was the old school stuff
right then we grew up with as kids. But now
you get like the nice hard plastic ones and they
actually a lot of them actually have little motors in
them with little batteries and they're shutter screens, so it's
actually shuddering at like three hundred and fifty clicks per
second or something that.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Would bring me back to the theater for sure. I've
never seen that.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
You gotta do it, you got to and now with that,
But these days they've got four D movies. Why am
I telling them that this is incredible?
Speaker 1 (08:25):
You have a podcast, for God's sakes, go with.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
The I'm stuck in the dude.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
We've got four DX, okay forour DX is like it's
like cinema sense around where you literally, I'm not even joking,
the seats moved, they blow stuff at you, they put
smoke in the theater, they put different fragrances in the theater,
they spray water on you. You never know what's gonna happen.
Immersive experience, Immersive experience. It's called four it's called four
(08:56):
D X, and you can find it in a lot
of the big cinema films that are out now. Like
I think the last one I just saw with that
wash Boy, was it Doune Too or what was another
big one that just came out. Oh maybe no, it
wasn't Ghostbusters, But anyway, you know, yes, they do it
with a lot of the recent films and it's a
(09:18):
lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Actually, dude, I would be remiss for our listeners at
least to talk about the way you started your career.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
I mean, Rob Ryaner, stand By Me.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Steven Spielberg, Gooni's and Gremlins, Joel Schumacher and Lost Boys.
I mean, do you look back and go, like, do
you realize how insane that is the quality of the
people that you worked with to start your career.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
But that wasn't the start of my career. That was
about that you.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Were doing sitcoms in this in the late seventies.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Right, hold on, you were How old were you in
stand by Me? How was that at the beginning of
your career?
Speaker 5 (09:57):
That was ten That was literally ten years into my career. Man.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Yeah, by the way, you still isn'tful as ever too,
that's the thing.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
I appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
But you have had such contevity.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
Yeah, well, it's I think it's already here and it's
also and how we treat ourselves. He still can't get
over the fact that it was ten years into my
career that I did. He's still he doesn't know where to.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Go with that.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
I don't want to hear about your commercial work. And
you know when you were a baby. But like you know,
stand By Me, we had Jerry. Jerry O'Connell is a
good friend of mine. We've had him on here and
just the I.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
Mean trying to say that the work that I did
before stand By Me was was meaningless or insignificant.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
No, it all bilds.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
We have we have twenty five minutes with you.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
I I know you do, but I don't care about
I talked about it a million years ago. I know
you're talking about these movies that I've talked about three
million times. So anyway I'm trying to make is the
point I'm trying to make is I started my career
with a McDonald's commercial. Okay, so that was actually the
very first thing that I did that was Yes, it
(11:08):
was just a commercial, but that commercial happened to win
a Cleo Award for Best Commercial, and it also happened
to play for ten years as one of the most
classic beloved commercials McDonald's ever made.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
It was so great about that commercial.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
Nothing, No, to be honest, it was a piece of crap.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
No, it was.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
It was it was some little kid coming down the stairs,
you know, looking for a gift certificate or something. But anyway,
the point of it is is that I did that
in the beginning. But there was a lot of what
I would call huge achievements before stand by me, such
as getting to work with the great Dick Van Dyke.
Now that's something that was an amazing accomplishment at only
(11:51):
five years old. Okay, so let's start there. I got
to do a musical number with Dick Van Dyke at
five years old.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
I got to right there.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
Yeah, I got to do my first real acting scene
with Chloris Leachman, the Academy Award winner. When I was
like six years old. I got to work with Malcolm
McDowell of a Clockwork Orange and Mary Steamberge and two
of the most esteemed actors in the history of cinema
when I was seven years old. I started a Disney
(12:22):
film when I was eight years old. So, yes, there
was a lot of career to cover. If you want
to be nostalgic.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Is my point, Yes, yes, wow, I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
And you obviously were a natural, like you just worked
NonStop from that age till now.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Yeah, how did you get how'd you get into it?
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Man?
Speaker 4 (12:40):
At such a young age.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
I did two TV series before I was twelve years old.
I'd already done two TV series that were both national shows.
I'd already had I don't know, three or four number
one hits by the time I got to stand by me.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Yeah, you were a seasoned veteran.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
By the way, exactly.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Oh you know how I met Jerry O'Connell.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
Okay, I did.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
We did a burger can commercial together.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (13:08):
Oh nice.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Yeah, my first job ever was a burger Can commercial.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
So we all have fast food in common.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
Oh wow, that is funny. That is funny. Small, small, small,
crappy world we live in, Okay. But yes, well I
stayed very far away from those places now. And it
is ironic that my first job was, I don't know,
I guess as a puppeteer for the meat and dairy industry,
(13:35):
considering my whole life's mission is to be vegetarian and
help people not kill animals for food. So kind of
ironic that I would have started off in that regard.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Good for you, Good for you. That's incredible, That is incredible.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
Well, I guess we all find ourselves somewhere along the way.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Yeah, and I hope that as we, you know, go
on these journeys that we learn new things about ourselves
and we make changes, and it just feels like you
have constantly reinvented yourself.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
We have to if you s stagnant. If you stay stagnant,
nobody's gonna care, right, that's the bottom line.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Absolutely. But you not only you know, I think of
you as just You've always been such a.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Good actor, just so so so good, so real in
everything you do. And yeah, no, I mean it. Really
(14:43):
You're an author, you're a producer, you're a musician, you're
now officially a masked singer.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
Alum, Yes, there you go. I think my greatest achievement,
if you will, is really being a good dad. That
to me is the thing I'm most proud of. That's
the thing, that's the thing that gets me. And then
I would say second greatest achievement maybe is the fact
(15:10):
that I'm an ambassador for Child USA and the work
that I've done to help change laws to protect children
in the industry and children at large. We have actually
gotten open to look back windows and change the statute
of limitations into states, both California and New York. So
that to me is my greatest achievement as a human
(15:30):
being outside of being a dad. Now, career wise, I
don't feel we're there yet, but I feel that we
are working on a steady path to rebuilding what was
a once broken career to the point where now we
can have much more of a solid, illustrious, potential career
in the future. So I kind of had to deal
with the wreckage of my past, get that uncovered, discovered
(15:53):
and discarded, move it out of the way, and now
looking towards the future. And with that there's a lot
of exciting things I have to talk about that are
coming up. So as much as I do love looking back,
I also love looking forward because I'm somebody who you know,
thrives on moving forward, as you said, reinventing, you know,
(16:15):
because we all you know, and trust me, there's a
lot of artists out there who get stuck in the
in the pigeonhole of never progressing, of never looking past
whatever their biggest accomplishment was and priding themselves on that
and kind of resting on that. Laurel, I am the
opposite of that, as I'm sure you've seen in the
few minutes of that with me. But you know, I
(16:37):
really like to move things forward, and I like to
focus on what's next and what's coming. And there's so
much great stuff coming and I'm so excited that. You know,
it's not just about the mass singer, but I am
doing the biggest tour of my life this summer. I'm
going to be doing it. What's right, speaking of nineties,
I mean, you don't get a bigger money in a
nineties band than.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
That non brand for us, Yes, that's right, exactly.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Tell us how this came to be? And are you
friendly with the band or is did this just.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
All I hate? Those guys are the worst? Are you
kidding me? I'll probably be throwing darts at them every
time they're.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Not looking every night, dude.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
Yeah, no, No, Fred and I you know we're we're
We're intimate. Let's just say that, you heard. I love it.
It's something about that big white beard. It just gets
me in all the right places, if you know what
I mean. But exactly seriously though, no, but no. The
triple the matter is Fred and I actually met at
(17:39):
the infamous Playboy mansion all the way back in the
nineties when Olympiscuit was at the key.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Of the Midsummer Nights Dream Party.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
I don't know if i'd say the peak, because I
feel like they're pretty much peaking right now. I mean,
they just played what was It Athens and they had
like two hundred thousand people singing every single word to
Break Stuff with only a drum beat being played. Wow,
they weren't playing the song. They were just playing a
drum beat and the entire two hundred thousand insynchronicity saying
(18:12):
word for word every song of Break Stuff. So you
don't get a bigger callback to the future than that.
But I would say they are definitely on top of
their game right about now. That's number one, even if
it was an old song rehash. But I know they
have some new stuff out as well, and Fred is
a genius, so everything they do is great. But here's
the other side of it. So Fred and I met
(18:33):
at the Playboy Mansion back in the nineties, and you know,
at the time, he mentioned to me that he was
a fan of my music. He's like, we got to
work together. Let's do something together. I don't care if
it's a song and album, a movie. We gotta do something.
And I was like sure. So we traded numbers and
you know, we kind of kept in touch through the years,
and it took about a decade before we were both
(18:55):
able to kind of lock our schedules into place and
find each other literally, like you know, kind of on
and off, on and off, on and off, to the
point where he'd be like, Yo, man, let's get together,
and I kind of got pissed. I was like, yo, dude,
if you're gonna just flake on me every time we
talk about day together, this is He's like, you want
to fight about it. I was like, yeah, let's go, dude,
And that kind of like broke the ice. And ever
since we've been friends. So what happened was, you know,
(19:19):
at some point, I think it was like, Okay, screw it,
we just got to do this. We just got to
you know, write a song together. And we did. From
my Angelic to the Core albums, so the album that
I produced, which was actually my most successful album to date,
which happens to be offline right now. Good timing on
that one. But because of the fact that there were
(19:40):
some copyright issues apparently with a couple of the the
sketches we did these like comedy sketches in between the
songs to help it tell a story and give a narrative.
And so some of the sketches that we did back
when we made them, these laws didn't exist. But now
all of a sudden, there's no laws that have come
(20:00):
into play that if you use background music from another
sample and that sample was you know, actually made by
humans and not AI, that they can find you and
they can make a copyright strike and shut down your
entire album because.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Of the fat gas cap is like a mafia.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
Yeah, it's insane. So this much of it, there's like
two seconds of this much material in like three or
four different songs throughout the album that are you know,
sketches between the songs, and we had our entire album
removed because of it. So but that said, on that album,
Angelic to the Core, which you can buy, by the way,
the physical copy on CBT, Like I think Amazon, what's
(20:42):
the name of your band? It's just me. It's just me,
but the tourists called Loserville. Yeah, but it's Corey Felman.
It's that's it. It's just me, Okay, anyway, got it anyway,
So my first top forty Billboard hit was on that album.
It was called go for It. It's a song I
did with Snoop Dogg Okay so on that same album,
was also in a song with Fred and that song
(21:04):
is called Seamless and it's a great song. It's Fred
and I. We wrote it together, we produced it together.
It's kind of like a perfect blend if you took
Limp Biscuit and Corey Feldman and matched them together. That's
exactly what the sound is. And we have Scott Page,
the great Scott Page of Pink Floyd Fame, playing sax
on it. So it's a really great song. You definitely
(21:25):
should check it out. Even if it's not available today,
we will have it back up and running within the
next two weeks, I assure you. So it's all being
worked out. It will be back up online. But you
got to hear that. And then also go to my
YouTube page if you want to see an early performance
of me with Limp Biscuit. Because through the years since
Fred and I have been friends, we've done all sorts
(21:45):
of things together, from telethons for autism to live performances,
and there is a great performance from Fred and I
on stage at the House of Blues where we cover
Michael Jackson and that's a lot of fun. So you
got to check it out.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Wait wait, wait, wait, wait wait, hold on, go back, okay,
cover Michael Jackson songs.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
Yeah, well a song, a song, one song?
Speaker 4 (22:09):
Which song?
Speaker 5 (22:10):
I don't want to give it away, but go on
my YouTube channel. Oh, my YouTube channel right now, it's
under Corey Fellman. Just look it up on YouTube Corey
Felman channel and then look up the lymp Biscuit House
of Blues video that I put up and you'll love it.
So anyway, that's we'll use that as a teaser to
get us to the tour. But anyway, so the tour
is the first time that we've ever toured together. So
(22:33):
he called me up with this idea. Uh. Actually it
was the end of last year. I was about to
do this crazy sold out show at House of Blues
in San Diego. I was just about to go on stage,
and I get a text from him saying, hey, man,
how come I haven't heard back from you about the
offer I sent? And I'm like, offer, what are you
talking about? And then at the same time I see
my manager saying, hey man, I've got this offer from
(22:54):
lymp Biscuit blah blah blah blah blah. So I'm like, okay, yo, bro,
I'm about to go on stage. It's a crazy show
here today, it's sold out, it's packed. I got to
get out there. But as soon as I come off stage,
I promise I'll have a look at everything and I'll
get back to you over the weekend. He's like, Okay,
I'm on my way to Japan right now, doing you
know olymp Biscuit Japan Tour or something like that, so
(23:15):
you know, when I land, let's talk. And so we
did and it turned out, yes, this was it. It
was Low Serve Ill and that's what we call it.
By the way, Low serve it right right, Low Serve Ill.
You can, by the way, you can come and get
tickets to not only see the show, but you can
come and see me backstage after the show at Low
(23:38):
Servi Ill if you go to my website, Coreyfelman dot
net where we are selling VIP tickets and passes specifically
for Low Serve Ill. So it's gonna be a lot
of fun, a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Congrats that is thank you. Great story. And by the way,
you know you talked about just always looking forward, but
how great is it when you have these relationships that
formed or birthed at a period of time at a
different chapter in your lives, right and.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Then in the nineties, in the nineties.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
And you know, we've had a lot of musicians on
who were huge in the nineties and are having a
massive resurgence because of the nostalgia. But it's also a
sort of window and way in to their new music.
Like you said, you'll you beg to differ that they're
that Limbiscuit is going to is peaking now right like
they're they're selling out and this is your biggest tour date,
(24:34):
you know, So I feel not.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
Only that, but you got to look at the fact that,
I mean, here's one for you that everybody told me
my whole life. You'll never have a successful music career.
It'll never happen. Nobody's ever going to take you seriously
because you're an actor first and that's the way people
know you. And with that, I said, screw you. I'll
keep going no matter what I'll about. And you know what,
it took me until I until age forty to get
(24:58):
my first top forty Billboard hit, And everybody thought at
that time, you can't get a top forty Billboard hit
at age forty, So who would have ever thunk that
at this point I would have three Top forty Billboard
hits under my you know whatever you want to call it,
backpacker or shoulder strap or whatever, but they're in there.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Your next song should be called Top forty at forty.
Speaker 5 (25:24):
There you go, there you go, exactly know I mean,
I mean, I think I did. I think I did
what I thought, at least was inconceivable and undoable as
a child or as a young man, I thought, well,
you know, once you hit thirty five, you're done. You
know you're done. You can't possibly have a pop career.
And you know, my music is more successful and bigger
than ever. So I've been very, very grateful for the
(25:46):
tremendous love and support that we've gotten through the years.
There's been a lot of hate too, you know. I
guess I'm grateful for that as well, because without the haters.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
With the territory, you're exactly right.
Speaker 5 (25:55):
Yeah, yeah, as Fred ask, limb Biscuit, Bred and limb
Biscuit would not exist if there were not hit. The
reason they are as big as they are is because
of the haters. So it's it's pretty crazy, and the
same thing can be said for me. I mean we
did the Today Show. We made history. More people watch
that performance than anything at any time in the history
of the Today Show. It was over a billion views
(26:17):
within a day, so I mean it was historical.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
When did you guys perform?
Speaker 4 (26:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (26:21):
When was twenty sixteen?
Speaker 4 (26:23):
Okay, okay, okay, because we've had Carson Dally's a good
friend of ours, and he was on the show and
he talks about the TRL days and how important that
was for music in the nineties, and he talks about
Fred Durst, how he and Fred and Justin and Brittany
how they started sort of like a movement in music,
and Fred Durst was a big part of that conversation.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
Absolutely, of course.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
And Carson is, you know, now the host of the
Today Show, so he's like moved with his audiences grown
up right.
Speaker 5 (26:54):
Well, when I did when I did the Today Show
in twenty sixteen, Carson had a segment on the show,
so that's kind of where he was at that point.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
But yeah, that's full circle.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
And we did two performances on The Today Show. So
the first one was such a big deal that they
actually had to bring us back and do it again.
So it was pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Sick Yeah, Corey, we're getting a note that we need
to wrap it up because we know you're in a
big press day, but I really want to talk to
(27:34):
you about The Birthday. And this story is phenomenal. How
Jordan Peel, this relationship that you have with Jordan Peel,
and how like tell me about that he was a
fan of yours and then.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
You've told him about it.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
And please please tell the story of this, of this
film and it's coming just before we have to go.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
Right coming to theaters, coming to theaters this fall. So excited, Okay,
So speaking of progress, move upward and onward, and then
still with a little bit of a callback, here is
the perfect film for all of us that we can
all get along and find the median right here in
the middle ground of everything we've talked about today, which
(28:14):
is a film in and of itself that is an
antiquity and yet a brand new piece of IP and
that is called The Birthday. And The Birthday is a
film noir, brilliant piece of cinematic lovely filmmaking by a
genius filmmaker by the name of Johannio Mera from Spain.
(28:34):
He's a writer and directed and we shot this movie
back in two thousand and six, two thousand and five. Yes, yes,
it's never seen the light of day. It's never been
released in America, it's never been released in most of
the world. Only released in two countries back in two
thousand and six. And at the time that it came out,
(28:58):
it was hailed and regarded as an incredible achievement in filmmaking,
both cinematically and from an acting standpoint. I won a
Best Actor awarded Luxembourg, and I also we won Best
Art Direction and Best Screenplay at the Seachas Film Festival
in Spain the year that it originally was supposed to
be released, but the powers that be shut it down
(29:20):
and silenced the movie and stopped it from coming out.
I think out of the fear that it would have
given me too much of a platform potentially would have
led to you know, award nods and things like that.
Already was going that direction, and so they just shut
it down. They just stopped it. They never allowed it
to come out in America. And fast forward eighteen years later,
(29:43):
I'm watching you know TV one day, or actually I
don't watch TV. So it was a friend of mine
that sent me a link and said, you know, watch this,
and I watched the link, and the link was Jordan
Peel on Seth Myers talking about how much of a
fan he is of mine. And this was when he
was doing publicity for whatever film I had out at
the time. He's saying, oh, man, I love Corey Felm
(30:04):
and he's like, my muse, and I do all these things,
you know in my films that are little easter eggs
in honor of him, and I don't know if people
notice or not, but it's my little inside thing. And
I was like blown away by this, Like what do
you mean? That's crazy? Nobody's ever called me a muse before,
you know, that's fine. And so I all of a
(30:25):
sudden received an invitation from his company to come to
attend the premiere of his movie Nope, and so I
was like sure. So I show up at the premiere
and I met Jordan and he was extremely nice, and
we traded numbers and we started texting each other, and
during those conversations, he asked, you know what my greatest
(30:45):
loss in my career was, like, if there was one
thing that you could have saved or salvage or fixed,
what would it be? And I said, well, there was
this great movie I made twenty years ago, eighteen at
the time that I love so much. Great filmmaker, are
brilliant actors, brilliant you know, all I support. It's like
dark cinema, very much like David Lynch, you know, that
kind of vibe. And he said, well, it sounds amazing,
(31:07):
sounds right up my alley. I'd love to see it.
And I said, well, unfortunately, the only way to see
it would be to come over to my house because
there's no copies in existence. You can't find it, you
can't buy it, you can't rent it, it's not available
on the internet. And he said, what this is crazy,
you know. Okay, fine, I'll come over and watch the movie.
So him and his producing partner Ian Cooper came over
(31:27):
to my house and they watched the film and lo
and behold, he stopped after the film and he turned
to me and he said, this is a cinematic masterpiece
and all of your fans, all of the world needs
to see this film. And I said, from your lips
to God, dear Is Jordan, you know, I have no
idea how that's going to ever happen. But okay, and
(31:47):
he said it's going to happen. This is going to
be your year. You just wait, you'll see, and I
was like, oh, come on, stop it. Well, fast forward
a couple months and I get a text from Jordan
and Ian who tell me that they're putting together a
film festival at or it's like a screening, a film
series of screenings at the Met Center in the Lincoln
(32:11):
Center in New York. Yes. Yes, and so they do
this at the beginning of twenty twenty three and they
had this series of screenings and I show up and
it turns out they used four of my films, and
then The Birthday and all the other films. You know,
they were busy, but they weren't packed. The Birthday was
the only one that sold out, and it sold out
(32:33):
two screenings. So because of that, it got a huge
buzz and a bunch of distributors came and checked it
out and go and behold, we got an offer, and
out of those offers, we finally made a deal. And
I'm happy to say that thanks to Jordan Peele and
Ian Cooper, my most beloved piece of work and the
film that I would say is my tour de force,
This is my you know creme de la creme as
(32:55):
far as acting goes. This film that I want everybody
to see. If you're a fan of mine, and you
really believe you're a fan of mine, see this movie.
It's called The Birthday. It will be out this fall
from Alamo Draft House Cinema. They're going to release it
in about forty theaters, so it's a limited screening release.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
Oh my god, I can't wait to see this.
Speaker 5 (33:14):
Hey, stand by Me open with only three screens, and
now it's the most beloved movie ever, so you never know. No,
it's true. Really, it only opened in three screens.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
Jordan Peel's what an interesting question to you?
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Not giving you accolades for all your work you've done previously,
not asking you we did that too, he did that too, Okay,
But to ask you, what's your biggest loss, what's your
biggest loss, what's your biggest regret?
Speaker 4 (33:37):
That's an interesting, interesting question.
Speaker 5 (33:40):
Yeah. Yeah, So he made he made my dream of reality.
That's all I can say. I owe this man a lot.
I'm so grateful, beyond grateful that this movie is finally
coming out and seeing the light of day. And I'm
so pleased that you're all going to get to enjoy it.
So I hope you do. And yeah, and hopefully we
can circle back and talk about all of this next.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Yees, come back and let's talk to you in the
fall when the movie's out. We would love that.
Speaker 5 (34:03):
I am the comeback king. You know.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Hey, we'll take it.
Speaker 4 (34:06):
We will take the reinvention case.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
That's a great lesson for our listeners. Reinvent yourself over
and over, keep moving forward. That's your Congrats on the movie.
Congrats the Mass Singer. I mean we can talk about that.
Speaker 5 (34:19):
You're promoting that as well, right, well, yes the Mess
Singer is over though, but yes, everybody should always watch
it on Fox every week. Even though even if I'm it.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
You were so cute, you were the seal, You're so cute.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
It was a really cute character than you. Congratulations on everything.
Thank you for taking the time to talk to us.
It's a real treat to meet you and to chat
with you.
Speaker 5 (34:40):
No worries, it was fun.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Good luck on the tour.
Speaker 5 (34:42):
Thanks for everything for having me, and God blessed you
and you guys have a wonderful rest of your day.
Speaker 4 (34:48):
Thank you so much. Buddy.
Speaker 5 (34:50):
All right, guys, bye bye bye.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
How wild was that.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
I mean, yeah, I feel like I've known him my life.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
Well, that's the thing.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
I mean, I think as soon as we knew that
he was going to be coming on and we only
had a really finite amount of time since he's a
in a big press tour today, it was like, where
do we even begin?
Speaker 3 (35:13):
And he very quickly just clearly wanted to.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Talk about Yeah, he shot me, I can't talk.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
I know, I know, I fell talking.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
About stand by Me and Goonies and Lost Boys and Grandma's.
Speaker 5 (35:26):
I can't.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
I cannot have a conversation with I don't care what
is PR team says, well, I need to.
Speaker 4 (35:32):
I needed to ask him about.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
It, and he very quickly told you that that's.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
Not the top of his can you can?
Speaker 2 (35:41):
You and I just talked for one second about like
to work with Rob Ryan or Steven Spielberg, Joel Schumacher,
like as at the beginning of your career.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
I know.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Well I looked at his IMDb page two, and he
did tons of television work in the seventies, like he
was in all different sitcoms things sitcoms.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
As a little child.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Yeah, but he was just like he said, he was
a he's like you know Joey Lawrence, like he was
a seasoned actor at five years old, where he was
literally like do you know, like you said, doing musical
numbers with Dick van Dijk. I mean, he's a prodigy
and it showed in those That's why he was in
hit after hit after hit as a twelve, you know,
(36:21):
thirteen year old in those movies in the early eighties
that changed our lives, Like I don't know a world
without Gremlin's Goonies, stand by Me, Lost Boys, like those
are movies we revisit regularly every single year in our household.
Those are the movies you don't turn off when you're
(36:41):
flipping through the channels and they're on, you just leave
it on. And I had to I know that Friday,
the thirteenth part for the final chapter is not It is.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
Not everybody's It's not on everyone's hit list. Literally one
of my favorites.
Speaker 4 (36:56):
I'm going to rewatch that. I don't think I've ever
seen that.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Part four Crispin Lovers in it really good, really good,
And I remember going because the joke in our family
was Brian and I and my brother were huge horror
movie fans, but my dad we would rent them. We
would go to the you know, this was even pre Blockbuster.
There was a little movie rental place in Pennsylvania and
we would rent these horror movies and my my dad, Dad,
(37:23):
you're gonna laugh at this when you listen.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
He knows it though.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
He would take you know, because in all of the
eighties horror movies there were really pretty gratuitous sex scenes
with nudity. Always before those characters got killed, they usually
had sex.
Speaker 4 (37:37):
And what might do We're in a bathroom or something, Yeah, were.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Showering, always a shower, a great shower scene. And my
dad would get the rental. He'd let us watch the
horror movie, but he'd get the rental. He'd preview the
sex scenes. He would dub it. We had a double decker.
He would dub it cutting out the sex scenes. But
it was fine for us to see heads getting cut
off and people like, you know, like axes.
Speaker 4 (38:00):
Going to kill me skip like re edited. Yes, rental movies. Hell, yes,
how did you know how to do that?
Speaker 5 (38:06):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (38:07):
My god. He was like a tech wizard. He's the
one who like got all of my hey dude stuff on.
You know, when he dude came out, it was all on.
Speaker 4 (38:14):
Good parenting right there.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
Well, but like it's okay to get an axe in
the skull, but I can't see boobs. I mean that
was a little bit, yes, a little bit, but because
my dad was like, no, all that's tough's fake.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
I know you guys think that's fake.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
You don't need to see sex and boobs just yet
as ten year olds. But I swear to god, that
was the first one that I got to see in
the theater. And we snuck and my dad and my
dad took us to the We didn't sneak in, he
took us because we were underage. We were twelve years
old when that movie came out Friday, the thirteenth and
Final Chapter, and my dad got his tickets and walked
us in and then he left and went out for
(38:48):
a bite to eat and then came back and.
Speaker 4 (38:50):
He's like, little bird fly, you're on your own. Yes,
you know what.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
The first horror movie I saw and in the theater
and it freaked me out for years was Nightmare and
Elma Street. The first Nightmare on Elm Street I saw
in the theater, and I will never forget it.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
It crushed the best, the best.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
That was the best. Yeah, that came out a little
bit after, but so good.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
Anyway, back to Corey, I liked that he was really
clear about wanting to talk about future stuff, but gave
us a lot of little nuggets about Yeah.
Speaker 5 (39:19):
And you know what he was.
Speaker 2 (39:20):
He's open and honest about that. He's been up and
down and up and down and reinvented himself. It's almost
like similar to Drew's story, you know, like you got
to keep coming back and you can't give up, and
he wanted whatever.
Speaker 4 (39:33):
I'm so happy for him. He's such a talented guy.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Yeah, I mean I was lovelent biscuit back in the day,
and I really I want to check out these I
want to check out the song they did together.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
I'm going to go to his YouTube channel. I'm gonna
look all of this stuff up.
Speaker 2 (39:47):
Yeah, in this movie The Birthday that somehow Jordan look,
you know, Fred Durrist was a fan of Corey Feldman's,
Jordan Peel was a fan of Corey Feldman's, and they
now he's collaborating with both of them.
Speaker 3 (39:59):
It's yeah, well that's what I was saying.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
It's amazing how those those years where you think you're
you know, you're you're sort of at the top, and
then you have your crash, you know, like he said,
he's sort of the wreckage, the hitting rock bottom, and
then but those were it was those moments that formed
some of these relationships that are now, you know, building
(40:22):
a new chapter in his career.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
So I thought it was fascinating. He's so interesting.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
I've been, you know, frantically researching the birthday since we
got his you know, the notes on him, and it
looks insane.
Speaker 3 (40:37):
You've got to look it up, David.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
It's just it's all done sort of like I don't
know how they shot it, but it's all shot like
in real time, like as one continuous shot, like like
the like Hitchcock's the Rope. I don't know if you
ever saw that where there are film breaks, but it's
shot as if it's all happened in one shot.
Speaker 3 (40:56):
Kind of in real time. And it partically. No, no,
none of us has seen it. You can't find it anywhere.
Oh I I've just been reading.
Speaker 1 (41:04):
About it, and apparently it's like the last act of
the movie is like like horrific and scary and a
horror thing, but it's comedic. It's apparently he's doing a
crazy character a lah. Jerry Lewis like, he's really taking
on That's why he's so proud of it, because it's
something he's never done before.
Speaker 4 (41:23):
I was reading a lot six.
Speaker 2 (41:24):
This is so awesome that Jordan Piale can now make
this movie come out.
Speaker 4 (41:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (41:30):
Anyway, well, thanks everybody for listening.
Speaker 1 (41:32):
That was a great, really interesting one, like certainly one
of our Like, like I said, he every single movie
he was in in those years. Those were movies where
I remember seeing him. I'm like, he's so lucky he
gets to be in those movies with all of these
cool actors, like the coolest movies.
Speaker 4 (41:49):
Right, He's one of the greatest.
Speaker 2 (41:51):
I love him And yeah he was part of my
growing up for sure and our listeners. But thank you
for listening to Corey Felman and have a great week,
and you too, Christine.
Speaker 3 (42:02):
Yes, you too. We'll see you all next week.
Speaker 1 (42:06):
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Speaker 2 (42:09):
And please follow us on Instagram at Hey Dude the
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Hey Dude, the Nineties Called with Christine Taylor and David Lasher.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Hey, everybody, welcome back to Hey Dude, the Nineties Called podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
I'm David, Hi David, I'm Christine. Welcome back to the podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Everyone. Yeah, we've got we've got an exciting one today.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Yeah, this is like, this is my childhood.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
You know, Corey Feldman is the guy that was in
every movie when we were in our teens, you know.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I know, I mean movies like you know it just
I can't imagine I can't imagine.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
A childhood without these movies, you know.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Gremlin's, The Goonies, stand By Me, Lost Boys, Dream, A
Little Dream, I mean like and those are all eighties.
I know this is a nineties podcast, but he worked
NonStop through the nineties as well, and he's just kind
of taking off, like having this sort of new next
chapter in his career, which is really exciting. What was
your favorite? I know what your favorite? Y?
Speaker 4 (01:02):
You know Corey feldon scene with about his father.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
You know, listen, I his work moved me when I
was when I was a kid, Like I really you know,
connected with his performances and of course you know coonies.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
You know, no, no, next level. Yes, yes, The Lost Boys.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
I mean we just showed Quinn The Lost Boys like
last year or the year before or something.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Oh really does that hold off?
Speaker 3 (01:32):
It's oh, it really holds up.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
I mean it's such a period piece, like the Wardrobe,
it's so eighties, like it's so late.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Eighties and Patrick.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Yeah, just it's it's such a damn good movie. Yeah,
I just feel like And also I saw I don't
think I ever saw it, but they did make a
sequel to The Lost Boys that he was also in
or produced I think he produced, which I never saw.
But anyway, we're we're very much looking forward to talking
(02:02):
to him. We don't have a huge window of time,
so we're going to do our best to get a
lot of questions in. He's in a press junket today.
If any of you are Mass Singer fans, he was
just ousted on the Mass Singer. The big reveal happened,
and apparently Jenny McCarthy.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Can I you must have watched it, because you watch
every one of these shows.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
I love all the shows, but I don't watch them
all in real time.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I've got everything recorded so that I can kind of
go back and like watch highlights.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
I'm not I can't. I can't stand on top.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Of all of them at all times, but I do
have them on record.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
What'd you say he was a seal or something?
Speaker 3 (02:40):
He was a seal? This really cute little like fur creature.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
And you know, we've had other guests on this show
who have been on the mass Singer.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
So we got to talk to them about that.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
I don't know if we'll have a chance to ask
him about that stuff because now that now he's off,
he's off, he's off, so so.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Now the big reveal.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
But apparently Jenny McCarthy guessed him from the first time
he came out, and she kept saying because they give clues,
that's the thing they sing. But they also the key
is their very sort of obscure clues, so if you
queue into those clues, and one of the clues he
gave was that he had partied with Jenny at some
(03:20):
point in the nineties, or he had spent an evening
with Jenny in the nineties or something like that, And
Jenny apparently just guessed.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Him from his first performance, and she was right.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
People other people thought it was going to be Macauley Culkin.
Other people thought it was going to be Haley Joel Osman.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
It was funny. I read all.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
No, Jenny spent a night with him.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Yes, but it was nothing, No, it was nothing. They
were both there. Apparently they were both married to other people.
But anyway, it looks like he's here, the legendary Corey Feldman.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Yeah, let's go with Corey Feldman.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Dude, uck Corey.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Welcome, dude.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
This is iconic. This is iconic, dude.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
That's so cool. Things.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Oh, bro, I know we're probably all the same age around,
but I feel like I grew up with you.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
I feel like I know you.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
So you're twenty two as well, all of us.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
We're all still in our twenties, right exact?
Speaker 5 (04:19):
I know I am. I mean I wear a proof
of it every day.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
There it is. Yeah, you see that?
Speaker 5 (04:25):
You see it? Can you see it? You can see it? Right? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Fantastic.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
I don't know, I don't know if you can see it.
Let me get a little closer. You can see that?
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Oh yeah, twenty two baby.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
That's it. That's me. That's my religion. That's where I live.
I live in the land of twenty two all the time,
which would put us writing about nineteen ninety one. I think, right,
so there you go.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Yes, yes, I think we need to jump in, right, like.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
Yeah, you can jump jump on in, jump on in.
What you got for me, Lay it on me, throw
it on the line. Let's do this thing.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Okay, the scene you want to go, because I have
he's got the biggest IMDb page I've ever seen in
my life.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
It's so true, it's so true.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
I mean, listen, we'll get to the masked singer because
that's so exciting and that all just happened, and I
want we want to hear all about that.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
But do you mind going back?
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Because, like David said, you are a part of just
all of us growing up, like the most iconic films.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
I'll be honest with you. I know you guys are
a nineties podcast, but I'm really not in talking about
the same stuff I've talked about a million times. I've
done that interview. So I like to talk about what's new,
what's fresh, what's exciting, what's current, what's relevant. Definitely, as
much as possible, I'd like to stay focused on that stuff.
(05:45):
Once in a while, we can, we can dip, but yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Yeah, can we at least give you some kudos for
some of the iconic work that you did as a
kid that would literally like changed our lives.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
And I think we just because we get.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
This cam you must.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
If you must, we must, we must.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
And by the way, I'll get it out of the
way very quickly because it's it's not one of the typicals,
but it probably is for a certain genre as the
like I am the biggest horror movie fan and I
really cannot wait to talk to.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
You about the birthday.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
But Friday the thirteenth, the Final Chapter Game, that was
the first horror movie I got to see in the
theaters and you're amazing at it, and I just wanted.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
To say that I just needed to do that.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
It's one of the best ones in the franchise. I'm
sorry just saying it. It's I think it's the best.
I think it tops one and two.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
I appreciate that. Thank you. You know, to me, the
Part three was the best, but only when it was
in three D, so you don't have it.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
D They would hand you the glasses.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
Right of course, of course, you know, you know, David,
they still do that now, No, no, yes, yes, it's
a real thing.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
The glasses have just gotten better. They've just got a
little more secure.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
You don't know this, David, really, no, dude, I haven't
been to a movie theater in five years.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
Wow. Yeah, okay, David, you know, right five years ago,
right before COVID, the biggest thing in cinema was actually
three D movies. That's when it kind of came back,
and that's when it was really really big. Now it's
a little less. But yeah, So, I mean I think
that the advancements, as you were saying, in technology, that's
helped with you know, the the what do they call it.
(07:33):
It's not polaroid, it's a polarization. Polarization, So that's how
they're doing it now with the LED you know, liquid
clear cell glasses where they actually are moving. There's actual movement,
so it's not like the old days, you know, where
it was just you know, a little red and blue
plastic piece of film.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Yeah, like kind of like the eclipse glasses that we all.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Right, right, right exactly. That was the old school stuff
right then we grew up with as kids. But now
you get like the nice hard plastic ones and they
actually a lot of them actually have little motors in
them with little batteries and they're shutter screens, so it's
actually shuddering at like three hundred and fifty clicks per
second or something that.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Would bring me back to the theater for sure. I've
never seen that.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
You gotta do it, you got to and now with that,
But these days they've got four D movies. Why am
I telling them that this is incredible?
Speaker 1 (08:25):
You have a podcast, for God's sakes, go with.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
The I'm stuck in the dude.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
We've got four DX, okay forour DX is like it's
like cinema sense around where you literally, I'm not even joking,
the seats moved, they blow stuff at you, they put
smoke in the theater, they put different fragrances in the theater,
they spray water on you. You never know what's gonna happen.
Immersive experience, Immersive experience. It's called four it's called four
(08:56):
D X, and you can find it in a lot
of the big cinema films that are out now. Like
I think the last one I just saw with that
wash Boy, was it Doune Too or what was another
big one that just came out. Oh maybe no, it
wasn't Ghostbusters, But anyway, you know, yes, they do it
with a lot of the recent films and it's a
(09:18):
lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Actually, dude, I would be remiss for our listeners at
least to talk about the way you started your career.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
I mean, Rob Ryaner, stand By Me.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Steven Spielberg, Gooni's and Gremlins, Joel Schumacher and Lost Boys.
I mean, do you look back and go, like, do
you realize how insane that is the quality of the
people that you worked with to start your career.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
But that wasn't the start of my career. That was
about that you.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Were doing sitcoms in this in the late seventies.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Right, hold on, you were How old were you in
stand by Me? How was that at the beginning of
your career?
Speaker 5 (09:57):
That was ten That was literally ten years into my career. Man.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Yeah, by the way, you still isn'tful as ever too,
that's the thing.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
I appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
But you have had such contevity.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
Yeah, well, it's I think it's already here and it's
also and how we treat ourselves. He still can't get
over the fact that it was ten years into my
career that I did. He's still he doesn't know where to.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Go with that.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
I don't want to hear about your commercial work. And
you know when you were a baby. But like you know,
stand By Me, we had Jerry. Jerry O'Connell is a
good friend of mine. We've had him on here and
just the I.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
Mean trying to say that the work that I did
before stand By Me was was meaningless or insignificant.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
No, it all bilds.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
We have we have twenty five minutes with you.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
I I know you do, but I don't care about
I talked about it a million years ago. I know
you're talking about these movies that I've talked about three
million times. So anyway I'm trying to make is the
point I'm trying to make is I started my career
with a McDonald's commercial. Okay, so that was actually the
very first thing that I did that was Yes, it
(11:08):
was just a commercial, but that commercial happened to win
a Cleo Award for Best Commercial, and it also happened
to play for ten years as one of the most
classic beloved commercials McDonald's ever made.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
It was so great about that commercial.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
Nothing, No, to be honest, it was a piece of crap.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
No, it was.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
It was it was some little kid coming down the stairs,
you know, looking for a gift certificate or something. But anyway,
the point of it is is that I did that
in the beginning. But there was a lot of what
I would call huge achievements before stand by me, such
as getting to work with the great Dick Van Dyke.
Now that's something that was an amazing accomplishment at only
(11:51):
five years old. Okay, so let's start there. I got
to do a musical number with Dick Van Dyke at
five years old.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
I got to right there.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
Yeah, I got to do my first real acting scene
with Chloris Leachman, the Academy Award winner. When I was
like six years old. I got to work with Malcolm
McDowell of a Clockwork Orange and Mary Steamberge and two
of the most esteemed actors in the history of cinema
when I was seven years old. I started a Disney
(12:22):
film when I was eight years old. So, yes, there
was a lot of career to cover. If you want
to be nostalgic.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Is my point, Yes, yes, wow, I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
And you obviously were a natural, like you just worked
NonStop from that age till now.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Yeah, how did you get how'd you get into it?
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Man?
Speaker 4 (12:40):
At such a young age.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
I did two TV series before I was twelve years old.
I'd already done two TV series that were both national shows.
I'd already had I don't know, three or four number
one hits by the time I got to stand by me.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Yeah, you were a seasoned veteran.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
By the way, exactly.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Oh you know how I met Jerry O'Connell.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
Okay, I did.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
We did a burger can commercial together.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (13:08):
Oh nice.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Yeah, my first job ever was a burger Can commercial.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
So we all have fast food in common.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
Oh wow, that is funny. That is funny. Small, small, small,
crappy world we live in, Okay. But yes, well I
stayed very far away from those places now. And it
is ironic that my first job was, I don't know,
I guess as a puppeteer for the meat and dairy industry,
(13:35):
considering my whole life's mission is to be vegetarian and
help people not kill animals for food. So kind of
ironic that I would have started off in that regard.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Good for you, Good for you. That's incredible, That is incredible.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
Well, I guess we all find ourselves somewhere along the way.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Yeah, and I hope that as we, you know, go
on these journeys that we learn new things about ourselves
and we make changes, and it just feels like you
have constantly reinvented yourself.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
We have to if you s stagnant. If you stay stagnant,
nobody's gonna care, right, that's the bottom line.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Absolutely. But you not only you know, I think of
you as just You've always been such a.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Good actor, just so so so good, so real in
everything you do. And yeah, no, I mean it. Really
(14:43):
You're an author, you're a producer, you're a musician, you're
now officially a masked singer.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
Alum, Yes, there you go. I think my greatest achievement,
if you will, is really being a good dad. That
to me is the thing I'm most proud of. That's
the thing, that's the thing that gets me. And then
I would say second greatest achievement maybe is the fact
(15:10):
that I'm an ambassador for Child USA and the work
that I've done to help change laws to protect children
in the industry and children at large. We have actually
gotten open to look back windows and change the statute
of limitations into states, both California and New York. So
that to me is my greatest achievement as a human
(15:30):
being outside of being a dad. Now, career wise, I
don't feel we're there yet, but I feel that we
are working on a steady path to rebuilding what was
a once broken career to the point where now we
can have much more of a solid, illustrious, potential career
in the future. So I kind of had to deal
with the wreckage of my past, get that uncovered, discovered
(15:53):
and discarded, move it out of the way, and now
looking towards the future. And with that there's a lot
of exciting things I have to talk about that are
coming up. So as much as I do love looking back,
I also love looking forward because I'm somebody who you know,
thrives on moving forward, as you said, reinventing, you know,
(16:15):
because we all you know, and trust me, there's a
lot of artists out there who get stuck in the
in the pigeonhole of never progressing, of never looking past
whatever their biggest accomplishment was and priding themselves on that
and kind of resting on that. Laurel, I am the
opposite of that, as I'm sure you've seen in the
few minutes of that with me. But you know, I
(16:37):
really like to move things forward, and I like to
focus on what's next and what's coming. And there's so
much great stuff coming and I'm so excited that. You know,
it's not just about the mass singer, but I am
doing the biggest tour of my life this summer. I'm
going to be doing it. What's right, speaking of nineties,
I mean, you don't get a bigger money in a
nineties band than.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
That non brand for us, Yes, that's right, exactly.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Tell us how this came to be? And are you
friendly with the band or is did this just.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
All I hate? Those guys are the worst? Are you
kidding me? I'll probably be throwing darts at them every
time they're.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Not looking every night, dude.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
Yeah, no, No, Fred and I you know we're we're
We're intimate. Let's just say that, you heard. I love it.
It's something about that big white beard. It just gets
me in all the right places, if you know what
I mean. But exactly seriously though, no, but no. The
triple the matter is Fred and I actually met at
(17:39):
the infamous Playboy mansion all the way back in the
nineties when Olympiscuit was at the key.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Of the Midsummer Nights Dream Party.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
I don't know if i'd say the peak, because I
feel like they're pretty much peaking right now. I mean,
they just played what was It Athens and they had
like two hundred thousand people singing every single word to
Break Stuff with only a drum beat being played. Wow,
they weren't playing the song. They were just playing a
drum beat and the entire two hundred thousand insynchronicity saying
(18:12):
word for word every song of Break Stuff. So you
don't get a bigger callback to the future than that.
But I would say they are definitely on top of
their game right about now. That's number one, even if
it was an old song rehash. But I know they
have some new stuff out as well, and Fred is
a genius, so everything they do is great. But here's
the other side of it. So Fred and I met
(18:33):
at the Playboy Mansion back in the nineties, and you know,
at the time, he mentioned to me that he was
a fan of my music. He's like, we got to
work together. Let's do something together. I don't care if
it's a song and album, a movie. We gotta do something.
And I was like sure. So we traded numbers and
you know, we kind of kept in touch through the years,
and it took about a decade before we were both
(18:55):
able to kind of lock our schedules into place and
find each other literally, like you know, kind of on
and off, on and off, on and off, to the
point where he'd be like, Yo, man, let's get together,
and I kind of got pissed. I was like, yo, dude,
if you're gonna just flake on me every time we
talk about day together, this is He's like, you want
to fight about it. I was like, yeah, let's go, dude,
And that kind of like broke the ice. And ever
since we've been friends. So what happened was, you know,
(19:19):
at some point, I think it was like, Okay, screw it,
we just got to do this. We just got to
you know, write a song together. And we did. From
my Angelic to the Core albums, so the album that
I produced, which was actually my most successful album to date,
which happens to be offline right now. Good timing on
that one. But because of the fact that there were
(19:40):
some copyright issues apparently with a couple of the the
sketches we did these like comedy sketches in between the
songs to help it tell a story and give a narrative.
And so some of the sketches that we did back
when we made them, these laws didn't exist. But now
all of a sudden, there's no laws that have come
(20:00):
into play that if you use background music from another
sample and that sample was you know, actually made by
humans and not AI, that they can find you and
they can make a copyright strike and shut down your
entire album because.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Of the fat gas cap is like a mafia.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
Yeah, it's insane. So this much of it, there's like
two seconds of this much material in like three or
four different songs throughout the album that are you know,
sketches between the songs, and we had our entire album
removed because of it. So but that said, on that album,
Angelic to the Core, which you can buy, by the way,
the physical copy on CBT, Like I think Amazon, what's
(20:42):
the name of your band? It's just me. It's just me,
but the tourists called Loserville. Yeah, but it's Corey Felman.
It's that's it. It's just me, Okay, anyway, got it anyway,
So my first top forty Billboard hit was on that album.
It was called go for It. It's a song I
did with Snoop Dogg Okay so on that same album,
was also in a song with Fred and that song
(21:04):
is called Seamless and it's a great song. It's Fred
and I. We wrote it together, we produced it together.
It's kind of like a perfect blend if you took
Limp Biscuit and Corey Feldman and matched them together. That's
exactly what the sound is. And we have Scott Page,
the great Scott Page of Pink Floyd Fame, playing sax
on it. So it's a really great song. You definitely
(21:25):
should check it out. Even if it's not available today,
we will have it back up and running within the
next two weeks, I assure you. So it's all being
worked out. It will be back up online. But you
got to hear that. And then also go to my
YouTube page if you want to see an early performance
of me with Limp Biscuit. Because through the years since
Fred and I have been friends, we've done all sorts
(21:45):
of things together, from telethons for autism to live performances,
and there is a great performance from Fred and I
on stage at the House of Blues where we cover
Michael Jackson and that's a lot of fun. So you
got to check it out.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Wait wait, wait, wait, wait wait, hold on, go back, okay,
cover Michael Jackson songs.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
Yeah, well a song, a song, one song?
Speaker 4 (22:09):
Which song?
Speaker 5 (22:10):
I don't want to give it away, but go on
my YouTube channel. Oh, my YouTube channel right now, it's
under Corey Fellman. Just look it up on YouTube Corey
Felman channel and then look up the lymp Biscuit House
of Blues video that I put up and you'll love it.
So anyway, that's we'll use that as a teaser to
get us to the tour. But anyway, so the tour
is the first time that we've ever toured together. So
(22:33):
he called me up with this idea. Uh. Actually it
was the end of last year. I was about to
do this crazy sold out show at House of Blues
in San Diego. I was just about to go on stage,
and I get a text from him saying, hey, man,
how come I haven't heard back from you about the
offer I sent? And I'm like, offer, what are you
talking about? And then at the same time I see
my manager saying, hey man, I've got this offer from
(22:54):
lymp Biscuit blah blah blah blah blah. So I'm like, okay, yo, bro,
I'm about to go on stage. It's a crazy show
here today, it's sold out, it's packed. I got to
get out there. But as soon as I come off stage,
I promise I'll have a look at everything and I'll
get back to you over the weekend. He's like, Okay,
I'm on my way to Japan right now, doing you
know olymp Biscuit Japan Tour or something like that, so
(23:15):
you know, when I land, let's talk. And so we
did and it turned out, yes, this was it. It
was Low Serve Ill and that's what we call it.
By the way, Low serve it right right, Low Serve Ill.
You can, by the way, you can come and get
tickets to not only see the show, but you can
come and see me backstage after the show at Low
(23:38):
Servi Ill if you go to my website, Coreyfelman dot
net where we are selling VIP tickets and passes specifically
for Low Serve Ill. So it's gonna be a lot
of fun, a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Congrats that is thank you. Great story. And by the way,
you know you talked about just always looking forward, but
how great is it when you have these relationships that
formed or birthed at a period of time at a
different chapter in your lives, right and.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Then in the nineties, in the nineties.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
And you know, we've had a lot of musicians on
who were huge in the nineties and are having a
massive resurgence because of the nostalgia. But it's also a
sort of window and way in to their new music.
Like you said, you'll you beg to differ that they're
that Limbiscuit is going to is peaking now right like
they're they're selling out and this is your biggest tour date,
(24:34):
you know, So I feel not.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
Only that, but you got to look at the fact that,
I mean, here's one for you that everybody told me
my whole life. You'll never have a successful music career.
It'll never happen. Nobody's ever going to take you seriously
because you're an actor first and that's the way people
know you. And with that, I said, screw you. I'll
keep going no matter what I'll about. And you know what,
it took me until I until age forty to get
(24:58):
my first top forty Billboard hit, And everybody thought at
that time, you can't get a top forty Billboard hit
at age forty, So who would have ever thunk that
at this point I would have three Top forty Billboard
hits under my you know whatever you want to call it,
backpacker or shoulder strap or whatever, but they're in there.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Your next song should be called Top forty at forty.
Speaker 5 (25:24):
There you go, there you go, exactly know I mean,
I mean, I think I did. I think I did
what I thought, at least was inconceivable and undoable as
a child or as a young man, I thought, well,
you know, once you hit thirty five, you're done. You
know you're done. You can't possibly have a pop career.
And you know, my music is more successful and bigger
than ever. So I've been very, very grateful for the
(25:46):
tremendous love and support that we've gotten through the years.
There's been a lot of hate too, you know. I
guess I'm grateful for that as well, because without the haters.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
With the territory, you're exactly right.
Speaker 5 (25:55):
Yeah, yeah, as Fred ask, limb Biscuit, Bred and limb
Biscuit would not exist if there were not hit. The
reason they are as big as they are is because
of the haters. So it's it's pretty crazy, and the
same thing can be said for me. I mean we
did the Today Show. We made history. More people watch
that performance than anything at any time in the history
of the Today Show. It was over a billion views
(26:17):
within a day, so I mean it was historical.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
When did you guys perform?
Speaker 4 (26:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (26:21):
When was twenty sixteen?
Speaker 4 (26:23):
Okay, okay, okay, because we've had Carson Dally's a good
friend of ours, and he was on the show and
he talks about the TRL days and how important that
was for music in the nineties, and he talks about
Fred Durst, how he and Fred and Justin and Brittany
how they started sort of like a movement in music,
and Fred Durst was a big part of that conversation.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
Absolutely, of course.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
And Carson is, you know, now the host of the
Today Show, so he's like moved with his audiences grown
up right.
Speaker 5 (26:54):
Well, when I did when I did the Today Show
in twenty sixteen, Carson had a segment on the show,
so that's kind of where he was at that point.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
But yeah, that's full circle.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
And we did two performances on The Today Show. So
the first one was such a big deal that they
actually had to bring us back and do it again.
So it was pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Sick Yeah, Corey, we're getting a note that we need
to wrap it up because we know you're in a
big press day, but I really want to talk to
(27:34):
you about The Birthday. And this story is phenomenal. How
Jordan Peel, this relationship that you have with Jordan Peel,
and how like tell me about that he was a
fan of yours and then.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
You've told him about it.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
And please please tell the story of this, of this
film and it's coming just before we have to go.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
Right coming to theaters, coming to theaters this fall. So excited, Okay,
So speaking of progress, move upward and onward, and then
still with a little bit of a callback, here is
the perfect film for all of us that we can
all get along and find the median right here in
the middle ground of everything we've talked about today, which
(28:14):
is a film in and of itself that is an
antiquity and yet a brand new piece of IP and
that is called The Birthday. And The Birthday is a
film noir, brilliant piece of cinematic lovely filmmaking by a
genius filmmaker by the name of Johannio Mera from Spain.
(28:34):
He's a writer and directed and we shot this movie
back in two thousand and six, two thousand and five. Yes, yes,
it's never seen the light of day. It's never been
released in America, it's never been released in most of
the world. Only released in two countries back in two
thousand and six. And at the time that it came out,
(28:58):
it was hailed and regarded as an incredible achievement in filmmaking,
both cinematically and from an acting standpoint. I won a
Best Actor awarded Luxembourg, and I also we won Best
Art Direction and Best Screenplay at the Seachas Film Festival
in Spain the year that it originally was supposed to
be released, but the powers that be shut it down
(29:20):
and silenced the movie and stopped it from coming out.
I think out of the fear that it would have
given me too much of a platform potentially would have
led to you know, award nods and things like that.
Already was going that direction, and so they just shut
it down. They just stopped it. They never allowed it
to come out in America. And fast forward eighteen years later,
(29:43):
I'm watching you know TV one day, or actually I
don't watch TV. So it was a friend of mine
that sent me a link and said, you know, watch this,
and I watched the link, and the link was Jordan
Peel on Seth Myers talking about how much of a
fan he is of mine. And this was when he
was doing publicity for whatever film I had out at
the time. He's saying, oh, man, I love Corey Felm
(30:04):
and he's like, my muse, and I do all these things,
you know in my films that are little easter eggs
in honor of him, and I don't know if people
notice or not, but it's my little inside thing. And
I was like blown away by this, Like what do
you mean? That's crazy? Nobody's ever called me a muse before,
you know, that's fine. And so I all of a
(30:25):
sudden received an invitation from his company to come to
attend the premiere of his movie Nope, and so I
was like sure. So I show up at the premiere
and I met Jordan and he was extremely nice, and
we traded numbers and we started texting each other, and
during those conversations, he asked, you know what my greatest
(30:45):
loss in my career was, like, if there was one
thing that you could have saved or salvage or fixed,
what would it be? And I said, well, there was
this great movie I made twenty years ago, eighteen at
the time that I love so much. Great filmmaker, are
brilliant actors, brilliant you know, all I support. It's like
dark cinema, very much like David Lynch, you know, that
kind of vibe. And he said, well, it sounds amazing,
(31:07):
sounds right up my alley. I'd love to see it.
And I said, well, unfortunately, the only way to see
it would be to come over to my house because
there's no copies in existence. You can't find it, you
can't buy it, you can't rent it, it's not available
on the internet. And he said, what this is crazy,
you know. Okay, fine, I'll come over and watch the movie.
So him and his producing partner Ian Cooper came over
(31:27):
to my house and they watched the film and lo
and behold, he stopped after the film and he turned
to me and he said, this is a cinematic masterpiece
and all of your fans, all of the world needs
to see this film. And I said, from your lips
to God, dear Is Jordan, you know, I have no
idea how that's going to ever happen. But okay, and
(31:47):
he said it's going to happen. This is going to
be your year. You just wait, you'll see, and I
was like, oh, come on, stop it. Well, fast forward
a couple months and I get a text from Jordan
and Ian who tell me that they're putting together a
film festival at or it's like a screening, a film
series of screenings at the Met Center in the Lincoln
(32:11):
Center in New York. Yes. Yes, and so they do
this at the beginning of twenty twenty three and they
had this series of screenings and I show up and
it turns out they used four of my films, and
then The Birthday and all the other films. You know,
they were busy, but they weren't packed. The Birthday was
the only one that sold out, and it sold out
(32:33):
two screenings. So because of that, it got a huge
buzz and a bunch of distributors came and checked it
out and go and behold, we got an offer, and
out of those offers, we finally made a deal. And
I'm happy to say that thanks to Jordan Peele and
Ian Cooper, my most beloved piece of work and the
film that I would say is my tour de force,
This is my you know creme de la creme as
(32:55):
far as acting goes. This film that I want everybody
to see. If you're a fan of mine, and you
really believe you're a fan of mine, see this movie.
It's called The Birthday. It will be out this fall
from Alamo Draft House Cinema. They're going to release it
in about forty theaters, so it's a limited screening release.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
Oh my god, I can't wait to see this.
Speaker 5 (33:14):
Hey, stand by Me open with only three screens, and
now it's the most beloved movie ever, so you never know. No,
it's true. Really, it only opened in three screens.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
Jordan Peel's what an interesting question to you?
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Not giving you accolades for all your work you've done previously,
not asking you we did that too, he did that too, Okay,
But to ask you, what's your biggest loss, what's your
biggest loss, what's your biggest regret?
Speaker 4 (33:37):
That's an interesting, interesting question.
Speaker 5 (33:40):
Yeah. Yeah, So he made he made my dream of reality.
That's all I can say. I owe this man a lot.
I'm so grateful, beyond grateful that this movie is finally
coming out and seeing the light of day. And I'm
so pleased that you're all going to get to enjoy it.
So I hope you do. And yeah, and hopefully we
can circle back and talk about all of this next.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Yees, come back and let's talk to you in the
fall when the movie's out. We would love that.
Speaker 5 (34:03):
I am the comeback king. You know.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Hey, we'll take it.
Speaker 4 (34:06):
We will take the reinvention case.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
That's a great lesson for our listeners. Reinvent yourself over
and over, keep moving forward. That's your Congrats on the movie.
Congrats the Mass Singer. I mean we can talk about that.
Speaker 5 (34:19):
You're promoting that as well, right, well, yes the Mess
Singer is over though, but yes, everybody should always watch
it on Fox every week. Even though even if I'm it.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
You were so cute, you were the seal, You're so cute.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
It was a really cute character than you. Congratulations on everything.
Thank you for taking the time to talk to us.
It's a real treat to meet you and to chat
with you.
Speaker 5 (34:40):
No worries, it was fun.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Good luck on the tour.
Speaker 5 (34:42):
Thanks for everything for having me, and God blessed you
and you guys have a wonderful rest of your day.
Speaker 4 (34:48):
Thank you so much. Buddy.
Speaker 5 (34:50):
All right, guys, bye bye bye.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
How wild was that.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
I mean, yeah, I feel like I've known him my life.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
Well, that's the thing.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
I mean, I think as soon as we knew that
he was going to be coming on and we only
had a really finite amount of time since he's a
in a big press tour today, it was like, where
do we even begin?
Speaker 3 (35:13):
And he very quickly just clearly wanted to.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Talk about Yeah, he shot me, I can't talk.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
I know, I know, I fell talking.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
About stand by Me and Goonies and Lost Boys and Grandma's.
Speaker 5 (35:26):
I can't.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
I cannot have a conversation with I don't care what
is PR team says, well, I need to.
Speaker 4 (35:32):
I needed to ask him about.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
It, and he very quickly told you that that's.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
Not the top of his can you can?
Speaker 2 (35:41):
You and I just talked for one second about like
to work with Rob Ryan or Steven Spielberg, Joel Schumacher,
like as at the beginning of your career.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
I know.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Well I looked at his IMDb page two, and he
did tons of television work in the seventies, like he
was in all different sitcoms things sitcoms.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
As a little child.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Yeah, but he was just like he said, he was
a he's like you know Joey Lawrence, like he was
a seasoned actor at five years old, where he was
literally like do you know, like you said, doing musical
numbers with Dick van Dijk. I mean, he's a prodigy
and it showed in those That's why he was in
hit after hit after hit as a twelve, you know,
(36:21):
thirteen year old in those movies in the early eighties
that changed our lives, Like I don't know a world
without Gremlin's Goonies, stand by Me, Lost Boys, like those
are movies we revisit regularly every single year in our household.
Those are the movies you don't turn off when you're
(36:41):
flipping through the channels and they're on, you just leave
it on. And I had to I know that Friday,
the thirteenth part for the final chapter is not It is.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
Not everybody's It's not on everyone's hit list. Literally one
of my favorites.
Speaker 4 (36:56):
I'm going to rewatch that. I don't think I've ever
seen that.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Part four Crispin Lovers in it really good, really good,
And I remember going because the joke in our family
was Brian and I and my brother were huge horror
movie fans, but my dad we would rent them. We
would go to the you know, this was even pre Blockbuster.
There was a little movie rental place in Pennsylvania and
we would rent these horror movies and my my dad, Dad,
(37:23):
you're gonna laugh at this when you listen.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
He knows it though.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
He would take you know, because in all of the
eighties horror movies there were really pretty gratuitous sex scenes
with nudity. Always before those characters got killed, they usually
had sex.
Speaker 4 (37:37):
And what might do We're in a bathroom or something, Yeah, were.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Showering, always a shower, a great shower scene. And my
dad would get the rental. He'd let us watch the
horror movie, but he'd get the rental. He'd preview the
sex scenes. He would dub it. We had a double decker.
He would dub it cutting out the sex scenes. But
it was fine for us to see heads getting cut
off and people like, you know, like axes.
Speaker 4 (38:00):
Going to kill me skip like re edited. Yes, rental movies. Hell, yes,
how did you know how to do that?
Speaker 5 (38:06):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (38:07):
My god. He was like a tech wizard. He's the
one who like got all of my hey dude stuff on.
You know, when he dude came out, it was all on.
Speaker 4 (38:14):
Good parenting right there.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
Well, but like it's okay to get an axe in
the skull, but I can't see boobs. I mean that
was a little bit, yes, a little bit, but because
my dad was like, no, all that's tough's fake.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
I know you guys think that's fake.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
You don't need to see sex and boobs just yet
as ten year olds. But I swear to god, that
was the first one that I got to see in
the theater. And we snuck and my dad and my
dad took us to the We didn't sneak in, he
took us because we were underage. We were twelve years
old when that movie came out Friday, the thirteenth and
Final Chapter, and my dad got his tickets and walked
us in and then he left and went out for
(38:48):
a bite to eat and then came back and.
Speaker 4 (38:50):
He's like, little bird fly, you're on your own. Yes,
you know what.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
The first horror movie I saw and in the theater
and it freaked me out for years was Nightmare and
Elma Street. The first Nightmare on Elm Street I saw
in the theater, and I will never forget it.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
It crushed the best, the best.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
That was the best. Yeah, that came out a little
bit after, but so good.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
Anyway, back to Corey, I liked that he was really
clear about wanting to talk about future stuff, but gave
us a lot of little nuggets about Yeah.
Speaker 5 (39:19):
And you know what he was.
Speaker 2 (39:20):
He's open and honest about that. He's been up and
down and up and down and reinvented himself. It's almost
like similar to Drew's story, you know, like you got
to keep coming back and you can't give up, and
he wanted whatever.
Speaker 4 (39:33):
I'm so happy for him. He's such a talented guy.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Yeah, I mean I was lovelent biscuit back in the day,
and I really I want to check out these I
want to check out the song they did together.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
I'm going to go to his YouTube channel. I'm gonna
look all of this stuff up.
Speaker 2 (39:47):
Yeah, in this movie The Birthday that somehow Jordan look,
you know, Fred Durrist was a fan of Corey Feldman's,
Jordan Peel was a fan of Corey Feldman's, and they
now he's collaborating with both of them.
Speaker 3 (39:59):
It's yeah, well that's what I was saying.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
It's amazing how those those years where you think you're
you know, you're you're sort of at the top, and
then you have your crash, you know, like he said,
he's sort of the wreckage, the hitting rock bottom, and
then but those were it was those moments that formed
some of these relationships that are now, you know, building
(40:22):
a new chapter in his career.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
So I thought it was fascinating. He's so interesting.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
I've been, you know, frantically researching the birthday since we
got his you know, the notes on him, and it
looks insane.
Speaker 3 (40:37):
You've got to look it up, David.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
It's just it's all done sort of like I don't
know how they shot it, but it's all shot like
in real time, like as one continuous shot, like like
the like Hitchcock's the Rope. I don't know if you
ever saw that where there are film breaks, but it's
shot as if it's all happened in one shot.
Speaker 3 (40:56):
Kind of in real time. And it partically. No, no,
none of us has seen it. You can't find it anywhere.
Oh I I've just been reading.
Speaker 1 (41:04):
About it, and apparently it's like the last act of
the movie is like like horrific and scary and a
horror thing, but it's comedic. It's apparently he's doing a
crazy character a lah. Jerry Lewis like, he's really taking
on That's why he's so proud of it, because it's
something he's never done before.
Speaker 4 (41:23):
I was reading a lot six.
Speaker 2 (41:24):
This is so awesome that Jordan Piale can now make
this movie come out.
Speaker 4 (41:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (41:30):
Anyway, well, thanks everybody for listening.
Speaker 1 (41:32):
That was a great, really interesting one, like certainly one
of our Like, like I said, he every single movie
he was in in those years. Those were movies where
I remember seeing him. I'm like, he's so lucky he
gets to be in those movies with all of these
cool actors, like the coolest movies.
Speaker 4 (41:49):
Right, He's one of the greatest.
Speaker 2 (41:51):
I love him And yeah he was part of my
growing up for sure and our listeners. But thank you
for listening to Corey Felman and have a great week,
and you too, Christine.
Speaker 3 (42:02):
Yes, you too. We'll see you all next week.
Speaker 1 (42:06):
Thanks for listening. Make sure to subscribe and give us
five stars
Speaker 2 (42:09):
And please follow us on Instagram at Hey Dude the
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