Jared Padalecki Talks About Friday the 13th

by Cynthia on October 31st, 2008

If you look around the net today, you’ll find dozens of interviews and articles about the new Friday the 13th movie starring Jared Padalecki of Supernatural. Not to be outdone by all of them, I present to you some of my favorite quotes from the Friday panel at this past summer’s Comic Con.

It’s interesting to note, that unlike the fans who packed the house for the Supernatural panel, the Friday the 13th panel was not only light on attendees, even the ones that came weren’t easily swayed making for some awkward moments.

Jared and Derek Mears (Jason) did their best to liven the crowd up with a little humor. Jared went for the usual “Thursday the 12th prequel” gag while Mears went straight for the female fans in the audience.

“Have you guys seen Jared with his shirt off?”

To which Jared adds, “by shirt he means pants.”

Okay, now the Supernatural fan girls are happy let’s see what we can do for the Friday fans.

On Derek’s Portrayal of Jason

Jared Padalecki: [Derek is] an absolutely incredible Jason. I’ve seen the movies and just from having filmed with him, there’s a whole new level of scare than just ‘grrrrr, I’m big and I’ve got a weapon.’ It feels very real. It’s not just like, ‘there’s this slow walking guy that’s going to find us’. Now you feel like, ‘oh my god, this guy’s the real deal and he’s after me!’

It’s a very real, raw scare, it’s not like, argh I’m going to turn around and he’s going to be there. It’s like the difference between fighting a hippo and fighting a lion. The lion’s going to get me wherever I go, it’s not like ‘ah I’ll just get out of the water.’

On the Physical Demands

Amanda Righetti: It was physically and emotionally demanding but going into it I kind of looked on it as an endurance game, knowing what was going to be asked of us as actors. What you don’t realize is how much your body can take. When you’re in it you don’t feel it, and then you wake up the next day and you realize how many times you were thrown around the day before and how your body’s suddenly not working in the same way that it was the day before.

Jared: There were times when I know I woke up and I was sore and I was like, ‘who kicked my ass?” ‘Oh yeah, I filmed yesterday.’ It’s not like, ‘Oh my life is so bad, I’m in a movie, but when you go from doing one fight scene and you’re just dead and you want to sleep and you’re shooting from like 6 pm to 6 am so you wake up at noon because the sun’s coming in and you’re like, ‘I’m not rested enough,’ and the sun’s up and so I’m up and then you know that you’re going to shoot another 12 hours of running around and fighting and Derek’s a big guy um so… yeah, its very physically demanding.

Derek Mears: I was really impressed by you two, a lot of times they had stunt doubles, where lots of times they didn’t want to use stunt doubles and I physically manhandled each of them and beat the crap out of them. They were down and they were all ‘let’s keep going, man’ we were like ‘we can get your double’ and they were ‘oh no no no no it would look better with me so let’s do it.

And Derek Sums it All Up

Derek : What I’m really excited about is that the script is actually smart, it’s not just a regular slasher film. Doesn’t dumb it down, you see the guy walking around killing a bunch of people. It basically takes the best parts of two through four, kind of puts them all together, it brings the series back to reality where you understand what Jason’s actually doing.. .and that it’s. It’s pretty intense.

Friday the 13th opens on Friday the 13th of February, 2009.

Photos by CBoris

Tags: comic con, Friday The 13th, Jared Padalecki

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