With Supernatural Season 5 now on Blu-ray & DVD, stars Jared Padalecki & Jensen Ackles can kick back & talk about enjoying an Apocalypse-free live. Also out on disc this week: Chuck, Doctor Who, Smallville, Skins, The Office, Criminal Minds and more.
With equal doses of pitch-black, dark humor, sheer terror and historically-based, skin-crawling tales of the paranormal, plus a few nasty demons, a drunk angel or two, shape-shifters, vampires and Lucifer himself (thrown in for good measure), the Fifth Season of the Emmy-nominated Supernatural is unarguably the most deadly witty, shockingly tongue-in-cheek and bloody horrifying season of the series – so far. In Season Five, Jared (Sam) Padalecki and Jensen (Dean) Ackles – the butt-kickin. demon-killing Winchester brothers -- took a little time away from their usual days spent vanquishing demons, dealing with superstitious legends and paranormal killing machines in order to save the world from the Big-A – the Apocalypse. You see, folks, a few of the Lucifer's head demons and a handful of troublesome Archangels may have made poor Sam Winchester believe he had singlehandedly caused Revelation's little biblical boo-boo. Thinking he was getting rid of the poor devil (no pun intended) once and for all by killing Lucifer. In actuality, he had broken the last seal that would free Satan out of the depths of hell -- but was he unknowingly assisted by the bored in Heaven and Hell? This was the season in which all of mankind's destiny depended on the brawn and brains of the Winchester Brothers. But, could they pull through?
Two brothers, their dad's old demon-hunting buddy, Bobby, and Castiel, one fallen angel, are all that stands against the might of Satan and his army. (And, you thought you were having a bad day!) As the Apocalypse grows closer, threatening to turn Earth into a battlefield soaked with human blood, Sam, Dean and Castiel struggle against daunting odds. New foes arise, including the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Old friends depart, consumed by the fearsome wrath of Hell. Through it all, the Winchesters are targeted by demons and angels alike, who warn that each brother has a special and terrible role to play in the coming devastation. Season Five follows Sam and Dean on their most terrifying journey yet, one that may lead them to the only ally strong enough to defeat the Devil: God.
Since its debut on the CW Network five years ago, Supernatural has chronicled the ongoing quest of the Winchester Brothers to avenge the death of their “hunter” parents and to protect humans from the nastiest, most evil demons this side of Hell. In fact, the vampires from Twilight are mere pesky mosquitoes compared to the bad-ass fangers on this Eric Kripke-created series. With the future of the Apocalypse up in the air, Season Six (reported to be the series final hurrah) promises to take the boys back to the good old days of staking vampires, exorcising demons, hunting werewolves and guiding ghosts (usually against their will) towards the light. During a series of chats between shooting, Padalecki and Ackles talk about life on and off the Supernatural set.
Is it weird or kind cool watching yourself getting shot or stabbed on screen?
JARED: “It is, it is, but it’s almost like really cool to watch on screen and kind of really just exhausting to do in life. It’s like a sex scene or something. It’s like, 'Okay, well we can kind of see your breast so kind of lean to the right a little. Okay, yes, okay. Now your neck.' It’s just so calculated it’s almost like, 'Okay, well if you stab like this, then we're not going to see the light shining off the blade, so make sure you stab like that.' And you're like, 'Oh,' and you realize like man, it really takes a lot. It’s not just like, 'All right, go in and stab, and then go like wow!' So, you know, and the hand coming down and it has to look dead. 'Oh the hand flexed a little bit, we could tell you were, so like really keep the hand…' You don’t think about that. It’s a very painstaking process to kill somebody on screen. And especially for a horror series. Filming death takes a long time.”
How do you feel about it, Jensen?
JENSEN: “I agree. The best looking special effects that you see us doing probably took forever to get right. From the make-up, wardrobe, lighting, camera – everything has to be perfect and it has to run perfect all at the same time. Sometimes a demon has to throw you a certain way, so you have to rehearse that scene until the stunt coordinator feels you've got it right. And most of the time you don't. (laughs) So, it's a double-edged sword, the stunts can look really cool when they are done, but ten hours after you started them, I guarantee you are usually really sticky, sweaty and just want to deck the first demon we see.” (laughs)
Do you ever get hurt during the fight scenes or by being thrown around by a zombie or some other nasty creature?
JENSEN: “I usually do, but I never know about it until much later. When you are doing the scenes, your body is being pumped with all this adrenalin that you don't really feel anything that's going on with your body. I usually don't realize that I've gotten banged up until I'm taking a shower. That's when you notice the new bruises, cuts, bumps and scratches. They can get a little nasty, but I've never felt them when they happened. I'm just like standing in the shower thinking, 'Well, here's another nice bruise to add to my collection.' Now, of course, I usually feel it while I'm losing a limb. (laughs) It's a little tough to man-up when that happens.”
Jared, since you did the remake of Friday The 13th, and Jensen did the My Bloody Valentine redux while on separate Supernatural hiatuses, how do you feel about remakes in general? Are you okay with the idea artists tackling originals?
JARED: “I guess it’s my feeling about how songs are remade. Jeff Buckley’s ‘Hallelujah’ is a remake, and now that’s like the iconic version. The I Am Sam soundtrack, it’s a bunch of remade Beatles songs. I’m very into remakes. And I’m very into different artists' depiction of different stories, or ideas or songs, and putting their own spin. And as an actor, every movie I watch, I watch it going, how would I have done this, how would I have done that. I got the chance with Friday The 13th. But I think it would have been different for me if it was a line by line, shot by shot remake. I know there are plenty of remakes and sometimes there are people that think it’s the very first movie, but it’s actually a remake. And they go, ‘Oh, I didn’t realize that was a remake.’ They say Star Wars was a kind of strange remake of The Seven Samurai. But I support the idea of remakes, and I like seeing different artists' spin on different stories. Yeah, I’m a fan of remakes. Obviously, you’re going to have devout fans that will need to be respected, and will say stay true to the original. I think I can speak from Jensen when I say this, but But we're not in any way, shape, or form trying to degrade or insult, or replace the original. We were just retelling the story, we’re told the story and retelling it in a different way.”
Do you ever have any regrets about not going to college, Jensen?
JENSEN: “No, not at all. I know that this is going to sound a little strange, but I feel like I've been going through life college, if that makes sense. The things that I learned in life were really important to me, maybe more than some of the things I would have learned in a class. Don't get me wrong, I'm an avid learner. I read the dictionary and many of the books you have to read to graduate from college, because I wanted to feel like I'm learning some of the same things my friends were learning while they were in class. At the same time, I was trying to get a career going and my friends and I would all exchange stories about what we had learned that day. So, in a lot of ways, I feel like I learned what I would probably have in college.”
If I remember correctly, Jared, you did a scene in Supernatural or Friday The 13th where you tooled out onto the road on a motorcycle. Does that mean you're always riding motorcycles?
JARED: “I don’t actually. I actually, I mean I've been on dirt bikes, and I've ridden motorcycles every now and then like Vespers and stuff like that, but when I found out I was going to be riding in the movie, I stopped in Vancouver on the Supernatural set, and I called a stunt guy that's a buddy of mine. He has like four motorcycles. I was like, 'Hey man, like I'm riding a motorcycle in the movie, want to show me some stuff?' And so he literally brought a bike down to stage and like left it there for me. He was like, 'Listen, when you're not shooting just start it up, ride it around.' We’d get like an hour or two hours in between set ups or something and a few of the guys on set ride also, they kind of gave me advice. One of our camera guys, Jose, gave me a book on like advanced motorcycle techniques and stuff like that.”
Jensen, wasn't your dad an actor? Is that what made you decide you wanted to go into acting, too? JENSEN: “My dad was how I was exposed to acting. He even took me to his agency (in Texas) when I was still pretty young. But, when I think back about it, acting wasn’t something that I really felt a strong desire to do until I was probably in high school. In high school, I could take acting classes,do plays and talk about acting, and I thought, 'You know this is something I might like to do professionally."
What happened next? I mean, you're from Dallas, Texas and not much is going on, in terms of high-paying acting gigs in that part of the country.
JENSEN: “Luckily, this agent thought I could get a lot of work in Los Angeles, but I would have to move to LA. I thought, 'Why not? What have I got to lose?' So, I gave myself six months to get a job – an actual paying acting job that I could survive off of. I really didn't need that long, because in about a week's time, I had already gotten a job. So, I felt like I was meant to be an actor all the time. I just had to make the move.”
Jared, you've done several shows, but nothing as longterm as Supernatural. What do you think you've learned about yourself by doing this series?
JARED: “The thing I learned the most about myself? That I really like to sleep. (laughs) That's the first thing that comes to mind because that's what I'm most deprived of and I found myself — I remember I used to watch my father or something just like go to sleep watching television and I'm like ‘How can you sleep? It's not even dark in here.’ And I could go to sleep right now, here right. Like if you all just started making thunderstorm sounds or something. No. I mean that's sort of a cheesy answer. There's been a lot of self-discovery just both through playing the role and through sort of the nature of the show we shoot. Doing Supernatural, we're in another country (Canada) and living in a hotel. I'm sort of living life like Sam right now. I don't really know what's coming up in the next week or two and living in a place I'm unfamiliar with and away from my friends and family. And you learn a lot about yourself just because you don't have your normal vicees so readily available and you're working so hard. I've actually learned pleasantly that I'm capable of working a lot harder than I thought I was because we're working crazy hours and doing crazy, crazy things. So I found that I am up for it, so that's good.”
Quelle/source: digitaljournal.com
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