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Supernatural star Jared Padalecki is just a big softie
AT SIX foot four inches tall and weighing in at 220lbs, most of it muscle, Supernatural star Jared Padalecki is a formidable presence both on and off screen.
But the man who battles all kinds of paranormal nasties with fists, knives, guns and even the power of his mind, on the cult TV show, reveals he is soft as a marshmallow inside when it comes to animals – and even cried at Marley & Me.
He was persuaded to watch the hit movie about a family and their disobedient dog by co-star Jensen Ackles, whom he noticed was looking suspiciously red-eyed after seeing it while the pair were flying back from Australia.
“I’ll admit it,” says Jared. “It totally got to me. I’d read the book and it was fantastic. If you haven’t seen it and you want to cry...”
Jared, who was in Birmingham recently to attend fan convention Asylum 3, dedicated to the show he stars in, is devoted to his dogs Harley, a mastiff, and Sadie, a German Shepherd. During holidays he even insists on driving them all the way from Vancouver, where the series is filmed, to his native Texas, after a friend warned him about the number of pets that die during flights. Even though he has been working solidly as an actor since he was a teenager, Jared enjoys stopping at the most run down motels en route.
“I like the cheapest hotels, the $39 specials where it smells like someone has been smoking 15 packs of cigarettes a day and you go ‘ewww, gross’. Awesome!
“It is fun to stay in places you’d never stay in. I wouldn’t if I was by myself but with the dogs laying next to me growling at the door every time someone walks past, they’re not going to rob my room, they’ll rob the next place.”
Staying in no-tell motels is something he has in common with his character in Supernatural, Sam Winchester. Raised on the road with his older brother Dean (Ackles) by their late father John (Grey’s Anatomy star Jeffrey Dean Morgan), the brothers have been trained to fight everything from ghouls to ghosts, werewolves to wendigos ever since their mother was killed by a demon when Sam was a baby.
Though Sam gave up hunting monsters to go to college, he was dragged back into the fray by Dean. In the fourth season finale, which airs on ITV2 tonight, they face their toughest challenge yet as they try to stop a demonic plot to raise the Devil.
The story has allowed Jared to play a much darker Sam, as he has become a semi-vampire, drinking the blood of demon-possessed humans to try to become as powerful as the creatures they are fighting.
“I like Sam being a badass,” says Jared. “I’ve played the good guy for a while. When Supernatural started I was kind of the clean one but Sam has grown up. If we’d gone through 82 episodes of killing demons, ghosts and spirits and almost being killed by them and Sam was still like ‘hey guys, what’s up?’, I’d be a little worried but he’s been weathered by war.”
Jared has been taking acting classes since he was 12 but got his big break as gawky teen Dean Forester in Gilmore Girls.
After that he made a flurry of movies, but got tired of working away from home for long periods. He decided to settle down in Los Angeles and concentrate on TV work, then got Supernatural and had to move to Vancouver.
He and fellow Texan Jensen bonded so well that the latter bunked down in Jared’s guest room bedroom after the apartment he had been renting fell through. Jensen admitted it was also to support his co-star after he broke off his engagement to actress Sandra McCoy. However, Jensen is planning to rent his own place when they return to film series five.
“We’ll still hang out,” says Jared. “But it’ll probably be better not living together because we’d always be like ‘What’re you doing?’, ‘Nothing’, ‘Let’s have a beer’, then we’d stay up way too late when we had to get up early the next morning.”
Last year Jared was too busy filming Friday the 13th to attend Asylum. While he enjoys meeting the show’s loyal fans, he is occasionally left speechless by the depths of their adoration,
“The weirdest thing I have seen is someone had a tattoo of mine and Jensen’s faces. At first I thought it was fake. Then I realized ‘That’s me. In 30 years that’s going to be there’. That was eye-opening.”
Supernatural's Jensen Ackles has given fans a sneak peek at what to expect when the show returns next year.
The fourth series, which ends its run on ITV2 on Sunday, has seen Ackles' wise-cracking Dean and Jared Padalecki's brooding Sam trying to stop all Hell from breaking loose, and speaking to E!News recently, Ackles believes the war between Heaven and Hell is set to continue into the next series, with the Winchester boys stuck right in the middle.
"I don't think we're necessarily going to be the focal point of anybody's hunt," says Ackles. "We're going to lend whatever help we can to Castiel and the angels to do their job. But what that is, I don't know."
Whether the boys will be the focal point of the approaching Apocalypse or not will also depend on whether the brothers patch things up and how Sam will cope with his addiction. "That demon stuff is still coursing through his veins, and he's got that to deal with," says Ackles.
At a fan convention in The UK, Jared Padalecki recently said his best guess is that ‘Supernatural’ will be back for a Sixth Season next year. He and Jensen Ackles also had a few other comments about the possibility. We take a look at the facts, including Eric Kripke’s contract situation, and ask you to share your thoughts about the saga.
The Geek Files recently published a report from the UK ‘Asylum 3′ Convention, at which both Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki appeared to sign autographs and participate in organized talks to discuss “Supernatural” and take questions from the audience - while there, the duo expressed their thoughts about the possibility of a sixth season to The Geek Files - and when asked, Jensen Ackles commented that “We find out around January time if the show is going to be picked up again for another season.”
And would he want to return for a sixth season? “I have to. I have a six-year contract.”
Okay, so it may seem that Jensen isn’t very excited about the prospect of a sixth season - but he (and Jared too) has already commented this year about the strain of working so much and so long on the show, which is understandable considering he and Jared are on screen in almost every scene of every episode.
When Jared was asked about his plans for after the fifth season wraps, he answered “Supernatural Six. My best guess is that Supernatural will go beyond season five.”
In the past, “Supernatural” creator Eric Kripke has said on multiple occasions that the “road-map” for the show has always been 5 seasons:
“..we sort of have this 5-year map. And Jared and Jensen like the idea of a 5-year map because we work them so hard.”
The other important factor is that Eric Kripke does not have a contract in place to specifically produce a Sixth season of the show, so in theory a new season could be made without it’s creator on board, but that scenario is extremely unlikely. In fact, I think it’s common sense to understand that wouldn’t happen. No way. If a Sixth season is meant to be, Kripke will be given an extended deal or it will be branched to include Supernatural alongside other projects.
The reason that this is news would be that up until recently, the assumption was that the fifth season would be the last, and both stars seemed to be more than happy to wrap up the story and go out with a bang - it wasn’t that long ago that the series wasn’t even secure for a fourth or fifth season to start with, but the success of S4, both critically and via improved ratings, has of course changed the dynamic.
Should the show return for a Sixth season? Isn’t the obvious answer ‘yes’ if everyone is on board with Eric Kripke and he has a solid plan to continue the story? What do you think? And please, be respectful of each others opinions.
Why, when cake bakers, crab hunters, antique appraisers and house flippers warrant their own reality shows, doesn't the woman who applies baby oil to stars like Jared Padalecki have camera crews trailing her 24/7?!?
Get ready to re-live the horror when Friday the 13th arrives on Blu-ray and DVD on June 16th from Warner Home Video in the extended Killer Cut with even more suspense, wild times, and more of the infamous killer Jason Voorhees. From the producers of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, comes a chilling reimagining of the classic horror film.
Searching for his missing sister, Clay Miller heads to the eerie woods of legendary Crystal Lake, where he stumbles on the creaky remains of rotting old cabins behind moss-covered trees. And that’s not all. Against the advice from locals, Clay pursues what few leads he has with the help of Jenna and a group of college kids who are up for a getaway weekend. But little do they know, they’ve entered the domain of one of the most terrifying specters in American film history--the infamous killer who haunts Crystal Lake, armed with a razor-sharp machete...Jason Voorhees.
From Director, Marcus Nispel (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) Friday the 13th stars Jared Padalecki (TV’s Gilmore Girls, TV’s Supernatural), Danielle Panabaker (TV’s Shark, Sky High), Amanda Righetti (Role Models, TV’s The O.C.), Willa Ford (TV’s Dancing with the Stars) and Derek Mears as Jason.
On June 16th, Friday the 13th will also be available ON DEMAND through Digital Cable, Satellite TV, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 game consoles and it can be downloaded for rental or purchase on iTunes and Amazon Video On Demand. The Killer Cut will be available exclusively for purchase on iTunes, PlayStation 3 game consoles and Amazon.
Welcome back to Crystal Lake in a chilling re-imagining of the classic horror film "Friday the 13th." Searching for his missing sister, Clay Miller (Jared Padalecki) heads up to the eerie woods of legendary Crystal Lake, where he stumbles on the creaky remains of rotting old cabins behind moss-covered trees. And that’s not the only thing lying in wait under the brush. Against the advice of police and cautions from the locals, Clay pursues what few leads he has in the search for his missing sister, Whitney (Amanda Righetti), with the help of Jenna (Danielle Panabaker), a young woman he meets among a group of college kids up for an all-thrills weekend. But they are all about to find much more than they bargained for. Little do they know, they’ve entered the domain of one of the most terrifying specters in American film history--the infamous killer who haunts Crystal Lake, armed with a razor-sharp machete...Jason Voorhees.
Special Features: · Theatrical Feature Film (98 min) · Extended Feature Film (109 min) · Bonus Features o Rebirth of Jason Vorhees - An in-depth look at the reintroduction of a Horror Legend. Hear from cast and crew as they detail the development of this new Jason, from the early "sack head" Jason, through the development of the new "hockey mask" look. o Additional Scenes
Supernatural: Season Four Blu-ray Release Date and Cover Art
Warner has chosen September 1 as the launch date for season four of Supernatural on Blu-ray Disc after the set has been up for pre-order at Amazon without a release date or any additional information since April 19.
Finalized details reveal Supernatural: Season Four starring Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles on Blu-ray will span four discs and be presented in 1.78:1 1080p video and 5.1 Dolby Digital audio.
The DVD version, releasing day-and-date, will share bonus features with Blu-ray as follows:
* The Mythologies of Supernatural: From Heaven to Hell - Three section featurette gallery bridging Heaven, Purgatory and Hell to examine key mythological precepts * Commentary on 3 Key Episodes by Executive Producers and writers * Extended/Unaired Scenes * Gag Reel
Supernatural: Season Four on Blu-ray will include a slipcover as seen below. You can pre-order the set for $55.99 at Amazon.com by clicking here.
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