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Supernatural cast on when the show’s at its best

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As for Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki, Padalecki can easily name the scripts that have made him cry — “Heart,” “Sacrifice,” “Bloodlust” and “Baby” all make the list. The common thread is a heartfelt moment between brothers.

Specifically, Padalecki recalls the scene from “Baby” in which Sam wakes up from a nap and tells Dean about his visions. “The weird juxtaposition of what the boys are going through right next to reality is what makes this show what it is,” Padalecki says. “I feel like those situations where we treat the abstract and the fantastical as just part of life is where the show thrives.”

Ackles, after pulling up the scene on his phone for them to watch, adds, “After we did that scene, he and I looked at each other like, ‘We should just do that more often.‘”

“If you’re going to do something that makes a difference, then it has to mean something to you,” Padalecki says. “Scenes like that mean something to me.”

For Ackles, the show’s at its best when it combines a scene like that with a little something else. “I think the show is at its best when it finds a way to blend scenes like that with horror and comedy,” he says. “I think the show is truly at its best when it doesn’t take itself too seriously, then it does take itself seriously, then it gets scary as s—. In my opinion, that’s when we’re in the pocket.” 

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So their answer is brothers episodes about brothers doing brother stuff in a brotherly brother way. Brothers. 

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Supernatural: Jensen Ackles, Jared Padalecki say art imitates life with Mary’s return

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JARED PADALECKI: And I’ll speak for Samantha as well really quickly because I think it’s an important tangent. The first couple of episodes [of season 12] see me getting tortured and I think [Dean’s] dead, he doesn’t know where I am. I was talking to Samantha, who’s a friend, and she’s like, “It’s been really weird, because I’ve been a part of this show since day one.” She was a part of Supernatural before we were a part of Supernatural. I’ll give the credit to the writers in a sense because they’re able to figure out how it might feel and it’s probably weird for Samantha and Mary to now be part of something that they…

ACKLES: They were only talked about. They were never really physically a part of.

PADALECKI: I revert back to when I was 22, or however old I was when I did the show, and Sam didn’t want to be in this life and didn’t want anything to do with it. There was a part where Jared didn’t want to be moving to Vancouver and working 18-hour days and getting on the phone for New York interviews at 6 a.m. and then flying down for a photo shoot. Life imitated art, and I feel like that’s one of the reasons why Supernatural has gone so long is because our writers are savvy enough and smart enough to realize hey, we have an opportunity to mirror what somebody might go through. So they’re really woven that into the story line with Samantha and I told her, “That’s just good writing because Mary would feel weird after not being here for 33 years and being with her sons and living in a bunker.” It took us a long time to find peace in the bunker, and so for Mary to do it…

ACKLES: It is art imitating life, life imitating art in the fact that we really love Samantha, we’ve gotten to see her, we have a great fondness of her and relationship with her, but to have her around all the time, it’s like, oh wow. Off set, [it’s] fantastic, awesome. But it’s really the chemistry on set — you never really know how that chemistry is going to play itself out when you start really working with somebody and start really talking about the dialogue, really start talking about the movement of the scene. Jared and I, we’ve been doing this consistently for a long, long time. There is a silent language that he and I have.

PADALECKI: The language of love…

ACKLES: Let’s not do that.

PADALECKI: Okay yeah, I’m sorry. Can you rewind? [Laughs]

ACKLES: Is there an edit button?

Finishing each others sentences and the language of love. Okay, guys.
source: ew.com

Jared Padalecki on the episode that made him “miserable” (from ew.com)

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The show has handled death any number of ways, whether it’s Dean’s emotional plea to bring Sam back to life in season 2, or on the other end of the spectrum, Dean dying over and over for comedic purposes in season 3’s “Mystery Spot,” when the brothers find themselves in a world created by the Trickster.

And yet, the show’s more comedic handling of death resulted in an hour that star Jared Padalecki will never forget. “I feel like all I can do is be totally honest as Sam Winchester, and he’s not a funny guy,” Padalecki says. “The way I treat the death, like ‘Mystery Spot,’ which was a kind of comedic episode, was miserable for me. I was crying day in and day out. I mean it. This is not hyperbole. That was a miserable, miserable, miserable week in my life.”

“I could only treat it like it was reality,” Padalecki says, even surprising co-star Jensen Ackles with his revelation. “I had to treat it like Sam, and Sam would be mortified. When [Dean] kept on getting shot, I was playing, as best as I could, my brother is dead. My brother is dead in my arms. He got shot. A f–king piano fell on him, whatever it was. For me, it was miserable because I was legitimately trying to convince myself that my brother had died from some funny way, but it’s not funny if it’s happened to you.”

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From EW’s fb stream with the writer of the Supernatural article

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Samantha Highfill: I chatted with Mark and Misha on set… and then after the shoot, I got to go to dinner with Jared and Jensen. We ate steak- people keep asking me what they ate and I’m like “What do you think? We ate steak. It was delicious. It was amazing.”- and we talked about everything. My favorite part of it is that they know each other so well- it’s 12 years, they’re actually really good friends- that just watching them kind of make fun of each other and banter or Jared reaching across the table to steal steak sauce from Jensen… They’re brothers in so many ways and I just literally got to sit back and watch it happen and maybe occasionally ask a question about the show. They’re everything you want them to be.  

Entertainment Weekly on the stars favorite episodes

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As for Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki, Padalecki can easily name the scripts that have made him cry — “Heart,” “Sacrifice,” “Bloodlust” and “Baby” all make the list. The common thread is a heartfelt moment between brothers.

Specifically, Padalecki recalls the scene from “Baby” in which Sam wakes up from a nap and tells Dean about his visions. “The weird juxtaposition of what the boys are going through right next to reality is what makes this show what it is,” Padalecki says. “I feel like those situations where we treat the abstract and the fantastical as just part of life is where the show thrives.”

Ackles, after pulling up the scene on his phone for them to watch, adds, “After we did that scene, he and I looked at each other like, ‘We should just do that more often.’”

“If you’re going to do something that makes a difference, then it has to mean something to you,” Padalecki says. “Scenes like that mean something to me.”

For Ackles, the show’s at its best when it combines a scene like that with a little something else. “I think the show is at its best when it finds a way to blend scenes like that with horror and comedy,” he says. “I think the show is truly at its best when it doesn’t take itself too seriously, then it does take itself seriously, then it gets scary as shit. In my opinion, that’s when we’re in the pocket.”

http://www.ew.com/article/2016/09/08/supernatural-cast-favorite-episodes

Entertainment Weekly article about whether SPN should end with episode 300…

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“If we don’t make it to 300, I think Ackles and I will both be truly bummed,” Padalecki says. “When we get to 300, I think Ackles and I will think it might be time to say bye. There’s a chance that changes, but we certainly do not take it for granted that we’re going to make it to 300.”

At this moment, all they know is that they still love these characters. “I feel I’ve learned a lot from my friend Sam. I’ve learned a lot from my friend Dean. I want to tell that story as well as possible as long as possible, but I don’t want it to get too long in the tooth,” Padalecki says.

Ackles chimes in: “I feel like if I ever show up to set and I feel like I don’t care, or if I feel like he doesn’t care, then that’s the canary leaving the mine. To this day, I have not really ever sensed that from myself or him… They’re paying us to bring that little bit of magic to what they wrote, and I still feel that magic today. The day that I don’t feel that magic will be a very sad day, and I hope that day never comes. I’d like to get to 300 before that day comes.”

For now, there’s still plenty of gas left in the Impala’s tanks. Speaking of which, the only thing that’s certain about Supernatural’s end is Baby’s fate. “He gets Baby,” Padalecki says of Ackles. “I get Baby Two.”

Ackles makes one correction: “No, you’ll get Three. Two is stunt. It’s beat to s—.”

http://www.ew.com/article/2016/09/06/supernatural-jensen-ackles-jared-padalecki-show-ending?