Padalecki Shares Horror Secrets

Jared Padalecki is no stranger to bringing the supernatural to life for audiences. 

The actor has worked for four seasons as Sam Winchester on the CW’s hit series “Supernatural” and starting tomorrow, he’ll take on one of the granddaddy’s of horror, Jason Voorheis in the relaunch of “Friday the Thirteenth.”

But how do you keep it real when you’re facing minions from hell or a pyscho is a hockey mask?  Padalecki told iFMagazine the secret is “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,'” he said. “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.””

And while Padelecki enjoys his work on the hit “Supernatural,” he did find some big differences between working on it and working on “Friday the Thirteenth.”

“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,” he said. ” I do like movies a lot better. The process is a lot more actor friendly.”

“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.”” Padelecki continued.

As for what might happen if a crossover happened between his two current projects, Padalecki says that the Winchester problems would have no problem taking on Jason.

“I think nothing scares them,” he said.  “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.”