We recently had the chance to connect with Mario Corona and have shared our conversation below.
Hi Mario, thank you so much for joining us today. We’re thrilled to learn more about your journey, values and what you are currently working on. Let’s start with an ice breaker: What do the first 90 minutes of your day look like?
We are so close to the World Cup, that I’ll answer this question as a live football match:
1′ I open my eyes and wake up. See the time.
4′ Do a small routine that consists of drinking water and listening to a daily coaching.
10’Make my bed and set for the new day.
17’I prepare a milkshake if I need to go quick, eggs if I stay longer.
33’Do my room and fold my clothes. I score a habit!
45’End of the first half, brush my teeth and listen to music.
53’Sometimes I go to the piano and play the music I listen to. Sometimes I compose a little.
78’I go to the computer and check emails, then a new idea for a scene or a movie hits me!
82’I write that idea, I perform it, say the dialogue, have fun with it.
90’Time to hit the road!
Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
Hello everyone, peers included! my name is Mario Corona and I am a bilingual actor and host. I recently started writing and also Directed my first shortfilm in LA, a sci-fi we did for the Collaboration Filmmakers Challenge, founded by Joe Greases in 2012, and it is called The Line. We ensemble a good team of nice people and collaborators and started working on the project within a period of two weeks. As a filmmaker you had to collaborate with others and that is rewarding .I am still writing more and learning about this exciting process to take it in and have continuity
Thanks for sharing that. Would love to go back in time and hear about how your past might have impacted who you are today. What breaks the bonds between people—and what restores them?
I believe there are questions for the intellect and others for the spirit. This profound, yet simple question could be the key to understanding humanity to an individual-social level, but also represents the opportunity of becoming a better humanity in general. Mistrust, lies, betrayal, ego, misunderstandings, lack of interest, apathy, are disintegrators of such broken bonds that seem irreparable, some of them might be, while others could take years. But I feel that in order to restore them back, you must restore yourself first. Ergo, I consider time, a key element to that. Because fighting back also means winning yourself, restoring yourself, and then such bond with the other, so what you do specifically with that time, will give you clarity, insight, and restores values that the other person can recognize, then accept and understand where are you in any given situation.
When you were sad or scared as a child, what helped?
I was 4 when a cub lion attacked me. I was scared, crying desperately. But when my mom took me with her safe arms and locked us in the nearest bathroom, while the big cat was being distracted by the staff of this place, then I felt safer in my short life at the time, but released myself and cried in front of a big mirror looking at myself covered in blood.
I was walking with mom and another person on the street, when I told my mom that I needed to go to the bathroom, she quickly took me to the nearest place, a night club.
When I entered this big dark room, everything happened so quickly and all I remember is three images, like frames in a movie: A doberman-like-silhouette approaching me menacingly, the cat all over me, and my mom and me looking at this mirror, while a man was yelling: don’t come out yet M’am!
They finally caught him and later I learned they put the poor feline down. All for the show business, as they had this lion to amuse people, and by the time I arrived to the room, they were washing its cage, and that explains why the lion was loose.
8 years later another big event happened, but this time it literally shook my city, Mexico City. It was the morning of September 19th, 7:19am, it was a Thursday, and the ground started shaking, I was again with my mom and my brother, and together we witnessed one of the biggest and probably longest earthquakes in the history of Mexico, 8.1 and one and a half minute that felt like forever.
These type of events mark you and have a large impression in your life across time, like cinema, it stays forever. I remember where I was, the time and what I felt, but definitely less scary when you’re accompanied by your beloved ones.
I think our readers would appreciate hearing more about your values and what you think matters in life and career, etc. So our next question is along those lines. What do you believe is true but cannot prove?
Afterlife, or maybe some hidden sector in the universe having all of us when we leave this world. The sensawanda.
I was 24 when my dear brother Ernie passed, it took us by surprise, but somehow I knew he’d be extremely well, forever.
A week before his passing, a dear auntie passed, immaculate, never got married and had no kids, and my brother was there, I look him in the eye and felt something, no goosebumps, but felt something unnatural, like a call, dunno. A week later it happened but I don’t relate that ‘call’ to his passing, maybe something for the good happened, I am not quite sure. But I believe, because I have felt his kindness still manifests around me, like he still listens while I thank him for everything, I got a job that wanted, for instance, but most accurately, his brief presence in moments, dreams, delivering a message full of blessings that I am grateful for.
I have been thinking about this subject ever since he passed, and I sometimes write about it, in words, images, reflections and music, like a testimony. I recently wrote an outline for a possible film or series, and accompanying this idea, miniature work that can bring us an effective dose of fantasy.
Before we go, we’d love to hear your thoughts on some longer-run, legacy type questions. If immortality were real, what would you build?
If immortality were real, this planet would be overpopulated and there wouldn’t be room to build things for everyone, in the sense of the question. But if we all were able to build up things, then it would be based on a system based on merits to select the people able to build. If I was one of those, then I’d choose more people to give back what we took from nature, our planet deserves it now, many more species were here first, and there would be no need to build anything else, but the path for them to live.
Contact Info:
- Instagram: @mario_corona_
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mario-corona-6518a91/
- Youtube: Mario Corona
- Other: imdb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1708588/
Image Credits
Hola México Film Festival by Alison ‘Sprezzatura’ Flanagan
Headshot by Teren Mabry
Quake by Mario Perez de Alba Alemán
