Freestyle Friday: The Jared Padalecki Drinking Game

It’s Freestyle Friday, yo! Yeah yeah, we know, it’s practically Saturday. Shut it. Y’know, we would’ve done this on Thirsty Thursday, but we got drunk and forgot. So um, our bad.

So. Here are the rules. Over the past few days, Big Daddy has done a gazillion and twelve interviews for some movie he’s in… I can’t remember the name of it. Anyway. Please to be having handy a 24 pack case of your beer of choice, a shot glass, and a bottle of Curevo.

Here are your Rules & Regs. Read em’ and GO!…

1. Every time Jared says the word girlfriend take a shot. Take shots two anytime he mentions his girlfriend and Jensen’s girlfriend being girlfriends. Take 3 shots every time Jared gushes about his boyfriend.
2. Every time Jared jokes about making a sequel called Saturday the 14th, take a shot. Take a double shot every time Jared starts talking about cheesy Jason installments, such as Jason Shops at Target.
3. Every time Jared gets asked if he’s seen the original Friday the 13th, drink a beer. (LOL, proper fucked) Take a bonus shot every time he mentions having seen it and The Exorcist in the same night.
4. Every time Jared lies and says he does not have Jensen’s Jason’s name tattooed on his butt, drink a beer. Take a BONUS shot every time Jared lies about googling himself  and his boyfriend on the internet.
5. Every time Jared mentions bears, take 4 shots.
6. Every time Jared mentions dancing on buses with a serial killer in a face mask, take a shot.
7. Every time some old lady who looks like she’s got pickles shoved up her ass tells Clay that his sister’s dead, drink a beer.
8. Every time Jared mentions screaming like a girl, drink a beer.
9. Every time Jared crashes one of Jensen’s dates with Elta, take 5 shots.
10. Every time Jared embellishes the date-crashing story to make it sound like it may have actually happened, drink the whole bottle of tequila. (Instant inebriation, yo)

Y’all might wanna stretch first…

*LAWL. YES, IT’S THAT BIG*

*ALRIGHT, I THINK HE’S READY TO GET THE GAME STARTED*

*AND DON’T FORGET TO SALT & LIME YOUR HANDS, KIDS*

AND WE’RE OFF!

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Q: What’s the secret to acting in a horror film?

A: As a guy, you kind of learn early not to scream in a high-pitched voice because it doesn’t look too good. (DRINK!) You have to scream tough. Then you get ready for some long, crazy nights getting chased and running and hooting and hollering. At least you don’t have to learn a lot of lines.

Q: I’m guessing you saw the original Friday the 13th. (DRINK!)

A: Nearly every kid I grew up with did. I remember the first time was with my friend Eric. We watched both Friday the 13th and The Exorcist the same night and we were trying to act cool. We were like, ‘Oh, that’s not that scary. Let’s go walk in the woods.’ ‘All right, I will if you will.’ ‘But I’m kind of tired.’ ‘Yeah, I’m kind of tired, too.’ (DRINK!)

Q: What does scare you?

A: Not noises in the night because I usually think there’s an explanation like, ‘Oh, the house is shifting.’ But I think a wild animal like a bear would scare me. What’s funny is it almost feels like Derek Mears as Jason is a bear. (DRINK!) He can swim. He can climb trees. He’s faster than you. There’s no escaping him.

Q: Do you ever feel a little silly as an actor doing those scenes where everybody but you knows you shouldn’t be there because Jason is right around the corner?

A: Of course. I’m like, ‘This is the part where the audience is going to go, ‘You’re an idiot. You’re stupid. Don’t go in there.’ But I’m not paid to think. I’m paid to say the lines that are on the page and obey the director. So I just kind of go, ‘Whatever,’ and try and make it real in the midst of people being gagged, beaten, stabbed and having their heads chopped off.

Q: You’ve seen plenty of blood and gore on Supernatural, too. Does it ever get to you?

A: Not after you’ve seen demons bite people’s heads off. We just shot some stuff recently where my shirt is completely soaked in another person’s blood and I sort of forgot how weird it looks. I have to remember I can’t give anyone a hug because I’ve got fake blood all over me. It is interesting when people come in to lunch and they have slit throats or a huge gash on their heads. You’re kind of going, ‘You know what? I’m not that hungry.’ It’s sort of like the horror diet plan.

Q: You’ve gotten knocked around by everybody from Jason to those supernatural forces. Ever been hurt?

A: I’ve had my fair share of injuries. Actually, I broke my hand during season two of Supernatural. When I had the metal pins taken out, I asked if I could have a local anesthetic and watch them do it. That was a little bizarre because they were kind of opening up your hand while you’re sitting there watching. Of course they numb you, so you can’t really feel much. But every now and again they’ll touch a nerve and it will just kind of jolt your arm.

Q: Starting out, did you have to struggle to get the roles you wanted?

A: One time I had some friends over my house and I had like maybe 30 or 40 scripts in my room. This girl was like, ‘Oh, my God. Is that how many scripts you’ve auditioned for?’ And I was like, ‘Follow me.’ And I took her out to the garage where there were boxes and boxes full of maybe 500 scripts. I said, ‘That’s how many auditions I’ve done.’ But I’m still considered successful. I’ve never had to do anything else other than act and I’ve made a good living.

Q: Ever Google yourself?

A: When I started playing Dean on Gilmore Girls, I had long hair and then they cut it. That’s when I found out about how people talk about you on the Internet. I went online and someone was like, ‘Dean got his hair cut and he looks cute.’ The next person was like, ‘He looks like an idiot. It’s ugly.’ And I was like, ‘That’s kind of mean. Why would somebody say that?’ I just don’t think people should say hurtful things about you on the Internet. So I don’t go there much anymore. (DRINK!)

http://www.nj.com/celebrity-news/index.ssf/2009/02/jared_padalecki_resurrects_a_k.html

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Q: You and Jensen Ackles have dualing slasher movies now. How weird is it that your ‘Supernatural’ co-star had a horror movie come out right before yours?

Jared: I know, yeah. When we found out that we were coming out on February 13th and his movie is obviously called My Bloody Valentine, we were like “Oh, man, I hope they don’t go up against each other” because we’re buddies and it’s not like it’s really going to affect anything but it’s like, you know, I don’t really want the stigma but, luckily, his already came out and did tremendously. Now, it’s my turn. (DRINK!)

Q: Both of them are good. Did he say to you, “But mine is in 3-D”?

Jared: Well, we actually went and saw it opening night. Bizarrely, for one of the rare times of the year, we each had a day off and his girlfriend was in town and Kerr Smith, who is in the movie also, was in town. (DRINK!) So, we actually snuck into the theater, put the little glasses on and we got to thinking later, “You know what? I’ll bet you the people behind us were like ‘These glasses are amazing! It’s like they’re right here!’” [laughs] So, it was a lot of fun. It’s a really fun movie. If you haven’t seen it, it’s a lot of fun to go see. I’m giving him a shameless plug. (DRINK AGAIN, DAMMIT!)

Q: Has he seen yours yet?

Jared: I haven’t even seen mine because I’ve been working. Every time they have a screening, it’s like “Oh, I have this.” Every time they’re like “Hey, you comin’ to the party tonight?”, it’s like “Well, it’s Thursday. I’ll probably be working till 3 A.M. in Vancouver.”

Q: How hard is it when Derek is such a nice guy to look at him in the mask and really be scared? After meeting him, I wasn’t scared of him at all.

Jared: Derek’s an awful man. No, Derek is incredible. I think, if it had been maskless, like if he just played like ‘Here’s a big dude and he’s gonna kill you’ without the stigma of Jason….that’s the second time I’ve used that word (stigma) in probably ten years. I’ve used it twice in the last five minutes. If he hadn’t had the mask and the physicality, then I would have been like, “Oh, Derek, you’re not gonna hurt me. You could kill me but you’re too nice.” I’d probably kick him in the shin and he’d be like “Man, you know, leave me alone!” But, he’s tremendous from what I’ve seen. I sort of get to cheat and I have lines and I can use my facial expressions and stuff like that and he just expresses so much with his movement and he’s so capable that it was really easy to get there and, plus, they call “action” and you’re looking at Jason and you’re like “Ha, ha! I grew up watching you. Let’s fight.” So that’s really cool. But, it was really comforting to work with him because we had a couple of fight scenes, as you know, like the one in the barn. I had mud in my eyes and I couldn’t wipe my eyes so most of the takes, like the second take, I had sand and stuff and I couldn’t really see anything so I’d slip and he’d pause, holding me and pull me back up and I’m 220 pounds and he’s like “I gotcha,” back on my feet, “Thank you.” He’s really a cool guy but I can’t wait to see his performance.

Q: The original series wasn’t much on character and acting, were you concerned about that?

Jared: (laughs) What? What do you mean?

Q: Were you surprised that there was so much to do in this one? Or, did you have any thoughts before you got the script?

Jared: Before I got the script, honestly, my thought was “Man, I really like Friday the 13th” and I’d seen “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” [re-make] that they had done and I loved it. Before we started shooting “House of Wax,” we watched it and Joel Silver said, “Listen, this is kind of what we’re doing. We’re trying to re-make an old classic and make it new and fun and modern and sexy and scary.” We watched it and all of us were like “That’s a really good movie.” It was really well-shot, really scary, really real. The characters are fun. You kind of felt for them and you could identify with them. You’re like, “Ah, I get it.” They actually had arcs which is nice because I love just the cheesy horror for the sake of horror, death for the sake of death, like “Ah, fun, crazy. Let’s wait for the next kind of kooky death.” But, it’s kind of fun as an actor to go like “Hey, kill me, fine. That’s cool. Make it fun.” But give me something to do. Give me something to make it real for myself so I’m not just running around going “All right. When is it my turn to die?”

So that was exciting to read the script and then exciting to sit down with Brad Fuller and everybody and talk about “Hey, we’re trying to make it real. We’re trying to plug into the reality.” It’s so funny because we were filming a movie about a guy who’s immortal and he’s going to go kill everybody in the woods but we’d sit down and they’d be like “This doesn’t feel real.” [laughs] And you’re like, “Well no, it doesn’t feel real. This is Jason Voorhees. It’s not real.” But, sometimes we’d pause for like thirty minutes and we’re like “Listen, this is where the audience is watching it and they’d start to laugh and get up and leave because it’s so bullshit.” So we’d sit down and fix it. They were like “Let’s make it real. This wouldn’t happen. None of this would happen but this really wouldn’t happen.” So, that was nice to be a part of.

Q: You’re from San Antonio. Were you familiar with any of the Texas locations you worked in?

Jared: Austin is my favorite city.

Q: Were you the tour guide for everybody when they were goofing off there?

Jared: Kind of. I still was doing “Supernatural” for the first two weeks of principal photography on “Friday the 13th” so they’d been there a while in the city but some of my best friends live in Austin. A really close friend of mine, Logan, he’s got a boat. We go wake boarding. My sister was graduating from college there. I was actually enrolled at UT Austin. Austin was always my favorite city. I was south of Dallas where my brother and his wife had a kid. It was great. The location was perfect for me. If I didn’t work that summer, I would have probably been in Austin hanging out with my friends so it was like cool! What an amazing opportunity. Austin’s awesome for those of you who haven’t had a chance to see it. I know you’d like it.

Q: You don’t just have to contend with Jason in this. You also have to deal with douche bag Travis [Jared bursts out laughing]. He’s the best cinematic douche bag in the last century.

Jared: That’s so funny.

Q: Your scenes were great with him. Did you guys improv some of that?

Jared: A little bit, yeah. What’s funny is, maybe it’s my fault for being jaded by Hollywood, but I saw a picture of Travis and I saw his resume. I hadn’t really seen a lot of his work and I was like “Oh, he’s gonna be a douche. He plays a douche. He’s gonna be a turd.” And then I met him and he’s like the coolest, most down-to-earth guy. He was talking about how he still gets his hair cut at Supercuts but his agent got mad at him. He was like, “Quit getting your hair cut at Supercuts!” He was like “Why, man? Like it’s five bucks!” He’s just that guy and we’d go work out and he was just a total, total rad guy. So, I learned. I had the pleasure of being humbled many times. As soon as someone’s like “Great. He has three names? He must be a turd.” (LOLOL, CHAD MICHAEL MURRAY?? I’LL DRINK TO THAT.) But then he was really cool so it was nice to get along. We had fun. After the takes we’d be like “Cool, man. That’s kind of fun.” We were kind of playing with each other, but I’m excited to see his character having heard that he’s the biggest douche bag character in a long time. He gets a lot of good audience reaction. He does have a good death. That must be really fun for the audience.

Q: You open the day before Valentine’s Day. Do you make a big deal out of Valentine’s Day? Do you do special things?

Jared: My plans are to hermit that weekend. I get kind of funny. I think I’m going to stay in my room with blinders on so nobody can see me and I can see nobody. (O RLY? HOLED UP IN YOUR ROOM WITH JEMSEM, EH? KINKY, PADALECKI.)

Q: A lot of people can relate to that so why do you avoid Valentine’s Day?

Jared: Well, it’s not just about Valentine’s Day. Just the fact that my movie is coming out but I don’t know about Valentine’s Day. I think it’s nice to do romantic, nice things all the time, not just for a day. It feels contrived.

Q: What are you afraid of in life?

Jared: Bears. Bears are scary. They can climb trees. They can bite. They can scratch. I think bears scare me. (DRINK!)

Q: They’re Godless killing machines.

Jared: They’re Godless killing machines, yeah. I’ve never used that phrasing but I’ve always thought that.

Q: It’s Stephen Colbert.

Jared: Is it really? (DRINK AGAIN FOR THE EPIC FAIL THAT IS JARRUD PADALICKY NOT KNOWING ABOUT COLBERT-ISMS)

Q: When you were a kid and you saw “Friday the 13th,” were you one of the ones that cheered after every kill?

Jared: I wasn’t a cheerer. (LOL, CLEARLY HE’S BEING MISTAKEN FOR JENSEN ACKLES) From what I can remember in my short movie-going experiences, I think cheering’s pretty recent. I think you used to be like [hiding his face a bit] “Ooooo.” But now it’s like “Yeah!!” Maybe that’s speaking on the generation or something. I would just go like “Oh, that was cool.” No out loud cheering. Maybe this time.

Q: Travis’s death got the biggest cheer.

Jared: Yeah? Good. He deserves it for douche bag of the Century.

“Friday the 13th” opens in theaters on February 13th.

http://www.moviesonline.ca/movienews_16385.html

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We were on set watching you get your face smashed into the bus glass. Was that you?

Padalecki: Yeah. Do you know that really cut me up?

Really?

Padalecki: It was my forehead. That was actually funny, because they were doing that head-through-the-bus-window thing, and I was, like, how is this staying? And they’re like, “Well, there’s … an inch of clear plastic or whatever [underneath]. … So make sure you don’t hit it.” I was like, “OK.” And so we kind of did it, and I hit it, and … I knew my face was going to smash the glass. It was candy glass or whatever. Everybody did it before me to appease me and ease my concerns. But then we did it, and I was like, “I think [touches his forehead for blood] … ” And … they … looked at me. I had fake blood all over me anyway, and they’re like, “No, no, no, you’re good.” And I was like, “You’re sure? … OK, whatever.” And sure enough, we go back and wash, and I have like a little gash on my forehead. Yeah. So I cried and, you know, I sued, I sued for a sequel. Saturday the 14th? Comes out next year [laughs]. (DRINK!…LOLOLOL, PUSSY.)

Did you do a lot of your own stunts?

Padalecki: I didn’t. And that wasn’t even so much a stunt. That was just sort of stage fighting. My stunt guy, Chris Gant, is just awesome, and he did the stuff that really required guts and know-how. … To steal from, I think Harrison Ford, “I run, jump and fall.” You know what I mean? Like, I’ll turn my head, but getting thrown around and smashing through this and getting thrown into that, that they have paid guys for that are a lot tougher than I am. …

Did you see the original Friday the 13th? (DRINK!)

Padalecki: I did. I saw the original, actually, when I was in middle school. A buddy of mine who, we sort of liked to camp and liked scary stories. It was kind of a group of like three or four of us. Like trying to scare each other. It was kind of the time of life, you know, you’re in middle school, and you’re like, “Yeah, like let’s tell scary stories,” and stuff like that. Um, and we actually watched that and The Exorcist in one night, so, yeah. … (DRINK!)

I guess what sort of excited me about trying to scare myself back then is kind of what excites me about seeing a scary movie now. It’s just that really quick instant where you know you’re safe, but it’s kind of fun to entertain the idea of you know, of being in grave danger. …

There’s a question in the film of ultimately who lives and who dies.

Padalecki: Yeah, yeah, see, that’s good. I like that it kind of kept everybody guessing. We were just talking about that. You know, when it kind of gets down to the core of people that are left, and … who’s going to live, who’s going to die, you’re not really sure, and I like that.

I like that, because this movie’s been done so many times. Not just Friday the 13th, but horror movies in general with a scary killer like Jason Voorhees, but it’s easy to go like [points], “OK, gone, goner, goner. Maybe, going to live for sure. His name’s above the title, he’s going to live or whatever. George Clooney, he’s going to live.” But, no, … I like the level of [actors] that they used. … We’ve all worked, and … we know our way in front of a camera, but it’s not like, oh, well, you know, Jake Gyllenhaal’s in it, he’s going to live. Yeah. …

Working with the director, Marcus Nispel?

Padalecki: He has to be the cop, he has to be the cop, and he works hard, I guess is what it is. It’s like, “Slow down. I want to take it easy a little bit.” But he’s a hard worker, and … you almost lose yourself for a second, but yeah, the three of them [Nispel and producers Brad Fuller and Andrew Form] really were a joy to work with. That sounds like such a cheesy [thing], like, “They were a joy to work with,” but they were really fun. It was fun to go out drinking, and it was fun to … be there. …

Did any of your ideas make it into the film?

Padalecki: [joking] No, they were all shot down. No. Probably. Even little things, like blocking changes. Like, “Well, what if I’m not here right there, because I’m doing this?” Or … “Why would I say this when … ?” But, yeah, … it was just minor changes. …

One of the ideas with horror movies and movies in general, you have these red herrings. … “What is this?” Like, “Why would I pick up a dead fox? Can’t I just look at the dead … ?” You know? It’s like, let’s not do that. … And the writers were great, and they were like, “All right, well, give us a chance to think,” and voila! They’d come back, and you’re like, “Perfect, let’s do it.” So it was a really fun process. …

What was it like to act in such an iconic movie?

Padalecki: It was great. It was fun, when you think about it, but essentially no different. … When I go to work, I try to just do my work, you know? …

Ultimately, as exciting as it is to be a part of an icon of a franchise, it’s also really frustrating [that] there are people that are just going to not like it for the sake of not liking it. … There are people that are just going to be so loyal to … the original, they’re going to be like, “I don’t want to see that, bulls–t, Michael Bay and Jared, and he’s a pretty boy with blah, blah, blah.” So whatever. Like, I try to take the good with the bad, and I do my work, and I just hope it turns out well. (LOL. I LOVE IT WHEN HE ACKNOWLEDGES THAT HE IS A PRETTY PRETTY PRINCESS.)

http://scifiwire.com/2009/02/friday-the-13ths-jared-padalecki-not-a-d-bag.php
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Jared Padalecki is no stranger to the supernatural. Starring as Sam on the CW’s popular genre show SUPERNATURAL, he and his onscreen brother Dean (Jensen Ackles) battle monsters, creatures and ghostly figures on a weekly basis.

So it’s no surprise that Padalecki is now battling the biggest, baddest supernatural entity of all, Jason Voorhees, in the new big screen FRIDAY THE 13th remake (which opens this Friday, which is Friday, February the 13th).

In the film he plays Clay, a good old boy searching for his missing sister near Camp Crystal Lake. It doesn’t take long before he’s going mano y mano against old hockey mask while trying to save the lives of a bunch of disposable, sexually promiscuous teens in the process.

iF spoke with Padalecki, who relished his latest big screen turn and who also expresses excitement for Sam’s current turn to the dark side on SUPERNATURAL. Here’s what he had to say …

iF MAGAZINE: I’m sure it helps starring on a show dealing with supernatural things on a weekly basis, so when you’re facing off against someone like Jason in FRIDAY THE 13th, you can ground it more believably than most actors.

JARED PADALECKI: I take it seriously. People do horror and they think “ooh, now it’s time to go, ‘oh let’s go here, people, know I’m going to die anyway.’” Ultimately, if you lose reality, it becomes a joke. You have to find the reality. Even if it’s “what in this room?” you don’t want the audience going “he’s the next to die” and it’s just a set-up for “here’s where the machete goes through the head.” I haven’t had to do it, because I am the Jason of SUPERNATURAL. Having seen 78 episodes of SUPERNTURAL, you can see when the guest stars or co-stars are telling the audience that they’re about to die and when they’re just making it real.

iF: We’ve seen how you deal with Jason in the FRIDAY THE 13th movie, if Jason was on your show, how do you think Sam and Dean would deal with him?

PADALECKI: I think nothing scares them. I think Sam, with his newfound demonic powers, might give that shot and if that didn’t work, shotguns man. If you can’t kill him, be sure to keep him away. That’s my point.

iF: Rock salt wouldn’t stop Jason.

PADALECKI: Rock salt would piss him off.

iF: You mean shot guns with shells.

PADALECKI: Yes, full-on like elephant bullets — like stopping an elephant in his tracks. Then we would probably run.

iF: Is shooting a film tougher than TV?

PADALECKI: Television is fast paced and you have to shoot eight pages a day. With film, even if you’re shooting LORD OF THE RINGS – that took eighteen months. I shot SUPERNTURAL for four years and it will probably go for a fifth. It’s day in and day out. And because SUPERNATRURAL is just myself and Jensen Ackles, we’re in it all day. I wrapped at 12:30 this morning and got on a flight at 7:00. A movie, you have more time to delve into it and more time to find it. In TV, you have “eight pages today and it’s almost lunch and we haven’t finished four, so now we have to pick up the pace.” When I did FRIDAY THE 13th, I had the script in February and didn’t start shooting in May. So I had all of March and April to think of ideas, flesh him out and play with him  before I was even shooting. With SUPERNATURAL, we just finished up with Episode 17, and I haven’t read Episode 18 and I start shooting it at 7:00 on Monday. That’s just the way it happens. You’re like “I have eight pages, I’ve never read.” One thing I loved about this movie. If something didn’t work or something felt kind of fake, they were like “hey, we’re stopping right here, cut the cameras, you guys go on break, because we’re going to figure this out and make it work.” Whereas on TV, we don’t have time to figure it out, “so just make it work. We’ll just cut around it.” Here it was like, “we’re going to put this on a massive screen in front of thousands of people, and we want them to watch this over and over again. Let’s make it great and not fill in the blanks.” And there are times on every TV show, where you’re treading water. The writers need a break and actors need a break, so you make a fun episode or an offshoot. I do like movies a lot better. The process is a lot more actor friendly, [with FRIDAY THE 13th] even at forty days and even that month and half with those long, exhausting night shoots with the fights, blood and water. SUPERNATURAL is nine months of that.

iF: I was worried about truncated season of SUPERNATURAL last year because of the writer’s strike, but it’s come back even stronger this year.

PADALECKI: We’ve been really proud of this season. [Creator] Eric [Kripke] was up this weekend and said that Episode 6 this year was where Season 4 was supposed to start, because he had stories he needed to tell last year he couldn’t because he lost six episodes.

iF: It’s ironic that both you and Jensen Ackles have two horror movies out at the same time.

PADALECKI: It is exciting. His movie being called MY BLOODY VALENTINE, and my movie coming out February 13, when we found that we were like, “Oh dude, I hope they don’t come out on the same day.” It’s nice. It’s rare for us to have a day off, and we both had that Friday off [when his movie came out]. His girl and he were going on a date, and I was like “no, we’re seeing your movie.” (DRINK!) We put little goggles on and snuck in after the movie started. Kerr Smith, who is also in the movie, he was in town shooting a pilot. So the four us, Kerr and Jensen’s girl saw the movie and we were joking afterwards, the guy behind us must have been going “these goggles are amazing, they’re right there.”

iF: Do you ever want to play the bad guy?

PADALECKI: Hopefully I’ll get a chance on SUPERNATURAL, that’s what I’m hoping, it might go down that way.

http://www.ifmagazine.com/feature.asp?article=3252

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Marcus Nispel ducks into our press room at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills on this Saturday afternoon extending handshakes and introductions. Five minutes prior to our interview, I overhear him talking in the hallway with actor Jared Padalecki about a new gardening technique, backing up rumors that he’s a man who likes his “organics.” (LAWL) A real gardening nut. A real salt of the Earth type. But this one has a history in music videos and is, of course, known for remaking Tobe Hooper’s classic The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. This week, audiences will see his take on Friday the 13th.

The director admits he was taken aback by the casting of Supernatural’s Jared Padalecki. “He’s considered a superstar, which means you don’t get to meet them really before you make the deal. When he walked through the door I thought, he’s bigger than Jason! (TRUFAX) We had to deal with that. Then when Danielle [Panabaker] came through the door, I was like, okay we need apple boxes. One has to be bigger, one has to be smaller.”

http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=9540

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» EXPRESS: With the movie coming out this week, it sounds like you have a pretty hectic schedule right now.
» PADALECKI: I absolutely do. Usually, I live a more relaxed life, but it’s been a crazy couple of weeks. I was filming “Supernatural” in Vancouver yesterday, then flew out to New York to do some photo shoots and stuff for the movie today, and then I go to L.A. tomorrow.

» EXPRESS: That sounds exhausting.
» PADALECKI: It’s crazy, but it’s nice, too. I love the saying, “If you want to hear an actor [complain], give him a job.” So, here I am, with so much stuff to do, complaining about how busy I am.

» EXPRESS: Have you had the chance to see “Friday the 13th” yourself?
» PADALECKI: I’m actually the only member of the cast and crew who hasn’t seen it. I live and work in Vancouver for nine months a year, so when they’ve done screenings in Los Angeles, I’m usually in Canada filming.

» EXPRESS: You must be looking forward to it.
» PADALECKI: I’m just going to wait for the premiere, when I’ll be surrounded by my family and all of my friends, to see it for the first time. But from the clips I’ve seen, it’s going to be a good movie. I get chills watching it.

» EXPRESS: Are you a horror film fan?
» PADALECKI: Well, I’m not saying I have Jason’s face tattooed on my butt or anything, (DRINK!) but I do love scary movies. They always make for a fun night.

» EXPRESS: How does filming a movie compare with shooting a network show?
» PADALECKI: It’s a totally different vibe. On the show, our season shoots for nine months. It’s a really long run. You get exhausted. There, I’ll get the script on Monday and shoot on Tuesday. But for “Friday the 13th,” I got the script in February and didn’t shoot until April. There was more of an opportunity to work on the character and the lines.

» EXPRESS: Despite your post-”Gilmore Girls” roles, I imagine fans must still really remember you as Dean.
» PADALECKI: There’s definitely a devoted following for “Gilmore Girls,” so I still get a lot of [fan response]. But that’s kind of what you want to do as an actor- put out characters that will stick with people for years. I haven’t played Dean for five years, but people still tell me how much they enjoyed it. (DEEEEEEEEEEEEEAN!!! *RAEPS HIM*)

» EXPRESS: So, you’ve played the brooding boyfriend and the horror hero. What would you love to do next?
» PADALECKI: I would love to be the bad guy in a Western. Unfortunately, they’re not making a lot of those nowadays.
I think you could bring it back. Can you ride a horse?
I’m not great at it, but I can. I’m from Texas, after all.

» EXPRESS: Do you like getting dressed up and going to big premieres?
» PADALECKI: It’s part of the job. Instead of showing up in a uniform, I have to show up in a nice sweater or shirt. (…AND SHOW EVERYONE MY TREASURE TRAIL)

» EXPRESS: That doesn’t sound too bad.
» PADALECKI: It comes with the territory, like signing autographs, taking pictures or getting recognized at dinner. If those are the worst things that come with a job, then it’s not too bad.

http://www.expressnightout.com/content/2009/02/jared_padalecki_horror_hero_and_object_o.php

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LOS ANGELES—Jared Padalecki was getting tired of living in a downtown Vancouver hotel with two large dogs. (At 6′ 4″, the Texas-born actor, nicknamed Sasquatch, takes up a lot of room himself.) So, a year ago, after three seasons of costarring in the locally shot series Supernatural, he decided to pack up and move south, to Kerrisdale. He bought a house in the leafy neighbourhood, and he says, in a Los Angeles hotel room, that he feels better than ever about his adopted hometown.

“I spent so much time in Vancouver, and I was renting and wasting money, and I had a house here that no one was living in and I thought, ‘You know what? I am going to be here for a while and I am going to buy a house and I am going to try and commit to the work up here.’ When you are working and you can only think of being somewhere else, it makes for a miserable life. So I decided to commit to the work and enjoy the city, and staying up there for the weekends is great. I went to Whistler with my girlfriend (DRINK!) a few weeks ago, and I love the classic restaurants and just going for a jog along the seawall. I felt the same way when I first got to L.A. from my hometown, San Antonio. I always felt like I was working. I couldn’t relax here. I need to stay in Vancouver now when I am not working so that I can feel like I can relax.”

Padalecki works a lot. In fact, he arrived in Los Angeles from Vancouver just two hours before he was scheduled to do interviews to promote the film Friday the 13th. He had worked on Supernatural until 12:30 a.m. that morning and taken the first flight out. In the film, which opens when you would expect it to (Friday [February 13]), he plays the lead role of Clay, a man in search of a sister who disappeared along with four friends while on a camping trip. Padalecki says that he wasn’t particularly interested in doing the movie until he was told that the list of people involved included the producers of several successful horror remakes and Michael Bay, who had directed Transformers.

“I got a script from my manager, and he said, ‘Listen, I want you to read this because you have a meeting tonight with the producers. I opened it up and it was Friday the 13th and I said, ‘Haven’t they made this, and a lot of this?’ And he said it’s the guys who put together [the recent remakes of] Amityville and Hitcher and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. When I first signed on to do House of Wax, [producer] Joel Silver said, ‘I want you to see what people are doing with the genre these days,’ and showed us Texas Chainsaw. We all watched it and we thought that it was better than it needed to be. It was real, and a lot of horror films don’t want it or care for that. I liked the character.…At the meeting, I was told I could have it, so I went back to Vancouver and learned how to ride a motorcycle for the role. I finished Supernatural on April 28 in Vancouver and I was in Austin the next day to start shooting Friday the 13th.”

Padalecki’s TV show has been on the CW network and its predecessor, the WB, since 2005. He plays Sam Winchester, a young man whose mother was killed by demons when he was a child. His father vows revenge and goes hunting for the demons. When he disappears, his sons (Padalecki and Jensen Ackles) take up the hunt. Padalecki says that as the series, created by Eric Kripke, finishes up its fourth season, the cast and crew are anxiously wondering about next season.

“We are in the process of waiting for either a season-five pickup or cancellation,” he says. “We think we will be picked up but have five episodes left—which amounts to a quarter of the fourth season—still to shoot. But I think it’s also up to Eric. He likes to get stuff done, and he is not going to keep doing the show just to do the show. He doesn’t want Sam and [brother] Dean to be in wheelchairs shooting ghosts. I have had a lot of fun with it and I love working in Vancouver, but it’s not in my hands at this point.”

http://www.straight.com/article-200881/friday-13th-star-feels-lucky-vancouver

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Superstitious people beware: Friday the 13th is upon us, and to make the day some already dread just a little creepier, the remake of the iconic horror film of the same name will be premiering that night. North by Northwestern had a chance to talk to one of the film’s stars, Jared Padalecki, in a conference call that covered everything from classic horror to — a little morbidly — how he might want to die.

As a spin-off, how do you think the new Friday the 13th will separate itself from the rest?
Well, Jason got a little… cheesy, toward the number 12 of his installments. I mean, it was like “Jason Goes to the Moon,” “Jason Shops at Target,” “Jason and the Muppets.” (DRINK!) What started out kind of scary and like a horror movie ends up getting really cheesy and campy. Which is fine — that has it’s time and place, but I don’t think that time and place is with Jason Voorhees at Camp Crystal Lake. So the guys who put together the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake and the Amityville Horror remake and the Hitcher remake, they’re also behind the Friday the 13th remake. So if you see any of those, you see how they’re kind of new and sexy and hip and scary, but they still pay homage to the originals. That’s what they’ve done, from what I can tell; I know they were trying to. The word on the street is that they’ve done it really well and made it for a new generation.

The guys who wrote this film also wrote Freddy vs. Jason and they seem like fanboys. Is this a fanboy film that puts the original in the context of the rest of the series?
I don’t think it’s a fanboy film necessarily. Obviously the writers, like you said, are familiar with the character, are familiar with the franchise and the story, and in the first one the villain is the mother and the kid’s like some six-year-old dude who jumps out of the water at the very end. Then Jason becomes a lumbering, not really scary guy. It’s like, “Ah, that fat dude? I could just run away from him, he’s not gonna catch me.” But our Jason, played by Derek Mears, is like fit and capable and he feels like a guy who could have survived in the woods for however many years. He’s like a pit bull with a machete chasing you down, so you just feel like there’s no escape. It certainly pays its respects to the franchise, but we definitely were trying to make a new movie. So the most accurate way I think I’ve heard it described is a “re-imagining” of Jason Voorhees and Friday the 13th.

What did you do to prepare for your role, and how hard was it to pretend to be scared when you already knew what was happening?
Well for my role, I actually filmed Supernatural until April 28 and I filmed Friday the 13th on April 29, so there was really no time to change over. So what I do, when I’m preparing for a role, I just really try to familiarize myself with the script as much as possible and try to get some idea of what the director’s doing and what the editors are going to do and what kind of movie they’re making. I don’t want to play it cheesy and campy and then everybody else play it real. I want to know what movie I’m making, what story I’m a part of. It was really important to me because what I really liked about the Texas Chainsaw remake and Amityville and Hitcher was that, as wacky as the stories were, they were based in reality. The tried to make like a scary documentary, not just like, “Hey, we’re watching a horror movie.” So I really just tried play the reality of the moment and just make my character as real as possible.

Is Derek Mears a method actor? Is he Jason off screen?
No. Not at all. In fact, one scene we were filming on top of a bus we had a fight and I don’t remember what happened, the camera messed up or I missed a line, and so kind of in the middle of the take before they even called cut we just started dancing. It was like five in the morning and I was all beat up and I was like, “I’m having a danceathon with Jason Voorhees on top of an overturned bus.” (DRINK!)

What was it like working with the rest of the cast?
It was really fun. It was kind of a young, hip cast and everybody had a lot of different things to offer, different backgrounds. It was nice and everybody was having a good time and we were in awesome Texas. (LAWL, AWESOME TEXAS) One of the important things about this movie is the actors — we all felt equally a part. It wasn’t like this guy’s the lead and this guy’s the tenth lead. It was like hey, we’re all the lead and we all have to carry this boat, help this movie remain real. Because if one guy or one girl does a crappy job then you’re like “Ahh, I’m watching a crappy horror movie.”

What was the most enjoyable part of being in this movie?
I was a fan of the movie, I’m a fan of the franchise, I’m a fan of the genre. For me, my role specifically, I get to go head-to-head with Jason more than once. It was really cool having grown up watching this movie and watching Jason Voorhees and never thinking you’ll be part of it until all of the sudden there you are on set, fighting Jason.

There’s a lot of buzz about the death scenes in the film. Do you have a personal favorite?
My favorite, without giving too much away, is when Jason kills a police officer. Whenever anybody knocks on a door or rings a door bell, for whatever reason you always approach the little eye hole with trepidation. There’s always a wonder of what’s behind that door. So in the movie, I go to answer the door and I see Jason pop up behind the police officer and shove a fireplace poker through his head, through the door.

You’ve been in a lot of movies in the horror genre, is there anything you find particularly exciting or challenging about making horror movies?
No. I mean, there’s definitely a technique to acting scared because they’re about to roll camera and you’re supposed to be running from Jason and as they’re about to roll film, your hair stylist comes up and fixes your hair and your make up artist comes over and covers up a zit on your forehead. So it’s hard to be scared. One good thing about acting in this genre is that my acting has very little to do with what makes the movie scary. I’m there and I’m well-lit and I have make up on and people are getting paid to bring me coffee and it’s pretty posh job, but then once I do my work, then that’s where the magic happens… there’s so much done after my work is done that I feel like an audience member when I’m watching it.

How do you find acting in film is compared to TV?
I prefer working in film. You get more time to devote to your character. I fly to Vancouver tomorrow to shoot Supernatural and I have no idea what I’m shooting tomorrow. I haven’t seen the script… with film, I got this script in February, I didn’t shoot it until the end of April, so I had time to familiarize myself with the character and get some idea of what I wanted to do. Also, with film, there’s a definite start and a definite stop. With TV, there comes a time where you’re like, “I have to go on autopilot right now” because you’re doing it for nine months. With film, you can go pedal-to-the-metal the whole time.

What’s it like filming a death scene?
That’s a trick question so I’ll move on to the next one. I’m smarter than the average bear, brother.(DRINK!…SRSLY, WHAT IS IT WITH HIM AND BEARS?)

What makes Jason so un-killable as a character?
I think with any of these iconic movies the villain is such a huge part and for me, what makes Jason so exciting is the mask and the size. He does have any cheesy one-liners. He doesn’t talk. You don’t see his face. He’s just this huge guy who lives in the woods — which is scary enough — and you don’t feel like you can reason with him.

Would you like to play Jason?
You know, I thought I would like to, but seeing what Derek went through, I don’t think I would like to be.

If you could be murdered by Jason Voorhees, how would you prefer he do it?
Machete, man. That mug’s gotta machete me. You want the icon to kill you, he’s gotta be in his mask and he’s gotta have his machete and I think machete to the head would probably be a way I wouldn’t mind.

http://www.northbynorthwestern.com/2009/02/22526/friday-the-13th-star-jared-padalecki-talks-horror-films-and-death-scenes/

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