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As many of you may remember, BuddyTV had the opportunity to visit the set of Supernatural at the beginning of September. While in Vancouver, we watched the boys film several scenes from the episode "Yellow Fever," where Dean tries to fight his fright sickness. At the time, we had no idea what was going on. We just watched in wonderment and awe as Jensen Ackles, Jared Padalecki, and Jim Beaver joked and went through business as usual.
Now that the season is in full swing, it's time to reflect on where we've come from. During our visit, we interviewed Jim, Jensen and Jared and asked them about their thoughts on the upcoming season. With everything so hush, hush, we didn't get a lot out of them, but that doesn't mean each interview wasn't awesome in its own right.
So who's interview was best? Who let the most slip? Which of the men was the most insightful?
Visit BuddyTV to view videos and vote for your favorite interview!
The nominees for the 2009 People’s Choice Awards were announced on Monday. Supernatural is up for the Favrotie Sci-Fi/Fantasy Show award along with Heroes and Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles.
The ceremony will air on CBS on Wednesday, January 7 and will be hosted by Queen Latifah.
Hey visitors, I've finally uploaded over 3,000 captures of last Thursday night's episode of Supernatural, which now brings the gallery number up to over 76,000 pictures! Enjoy!
Jensen and Jared Attend the Salute to 'Supernatural' Convention
This past weekend in Chicago, Creation Entertainment held the second annual Salute to Supernatural convention, allowing fans to see their favorite stars from the CW series. Aside from Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki, the special event also featured actors Gabriel Tigerman (Andy from season 2's "Simon Said"), Samantha Smith (Mary Winchester), Chad Lindberg (Ash), Charles M. Whitfield (Agent Henricksen) and Richard Speight, Jr. (Trickster).
The CW Source reported all the exciting details from the convention, which was attended by thousands of fans from all around the country. Read on to see what Jensen and Jared had to say about the future of Supernatural, and what life is like now that they live together.
Both Jensen and Jared held separate Q&A sessions during the event, then teamed up to answer some questions together. Here are the highlights from all the various panels:
• Jared revealed that laughter can sometimes be a big problem on the set. He admitted that there were better versions of Dean's girlie scream in “Yellow Fever,” but he was cracking up so much that they couldn't be used in the episode.
• Jensen revealed that Eric Kripke actually planned to make season 4 the final year of Supernatural. Luckily for fans, the show has been doing so well in the ratings this season that he changed his mind.
• Jared mentioned that he worries whenever he sees a script written by Sera Gamble. “It usually means I'm getting naked, crying, or getting naked AND crying,” he joked.
• Jensen's favorite kind of cake? “Chocolate on chocolate. With chocolate in it, and then chocolate sprinkles on top. With a big dish of chocolate on the side.”
• Jared initially wanted to get into acting because a girl he had a crush on was obsessed with Home Improvement's Jonathan Taylor Thomas. Jared was later excited to run into JTT on an audition and learn that he towers over him.
• When asked about his least favorite episode, Jensen admitted that he likes every episode for different reasons. He jokingly added that he only had a problem with this season's “In the Beginning,” because he had to work for an entire week while Jared jetted off to Hawaii.
• An exec from the CW was greatly disturbed by the teddy bear suicide scene in “Wishful Thinking” and wanted it cut from the episode. Jensen's reaction: “Have you WATCHED the show? We have people's eyes bleeding and guts ripped out, and you're worried about teddy bear stuffing on the wall?”
• Jared said that he's happy Sam isn't getting strangled as much this season, as it's hard for him to record dialogue when he's wheezing and lightheaded.
• When asked what career he'd have if he wasn't an actor, Jensen said he'd either be a fisherman, a pro athlete or a male stripper. “There's a career in there somewhere,” he said.
• All the guns on the show are loaded with blanks, but that doesn't stop the boys from unexpectedly shooting each other in the back. “That's what Texas guys do when they're bored,” Jensen joked.
• When Jared was alone on stage, he made a big show about rubbing the microphone under his nose and in his armpits. He then tried to give it to Jensen when he came on stage, but he was too smart to take the mic. "He knows!" Jared said. "I don't, I just trust me instincts," Jensen replied.
• What type of monster would the boys like to see the Winchesters face? Jensen: “Nessie. Done.” Jared: “Any sort of demon or ghost who haunts Hawaii.”
• Neither of the boys have any tattoos, which is something they're thankful for. Jensen revealed that Jamie King, his co-star in My Bloody Valentine 3-D, had to spend nearly three extra hours in makeup to have her nine tattoos covered up. “I'd rather sleep,” he said.
• Now that the guys live together, who takes the longest to get ready in the morning? Jensen: "I'm going to write a book and call it Waiting on Jared." Jared replied: "I have my dogs that I have to let out, it's my house that I have to lock up, I work out in the morning..." Jensen cut him off, saying, “And I'm waiting in the car. Jared is the girl.”
Below you'll find two videos of the Jensen and Jared panel, courtesy of YouTube user cloudyvisions. You can find many more clips from the event by visiting her profile here.
Supernatural's Return Date, and a Bit of Casting News
Dealing with ghosts, bullies, and zits Supernatural's last pre-hiatus episode airs on the CW this Thursday, November 20, 9/8c. The TV Addict has a first look at the episode, titled "Heaven and Hell." Then it's time for the show's usual winter break, while fans of the horror drama, which is notorious for going into hiatus with a cliffhanger or at least game-changing revelations, are left to speculate, discuss, and wait. The show will return on January 15, 2009.
The January 30 episode, TV Guide reports, will be titled "Afterschool Special" (in keeping with Season 4's theme of using titles like "Are You There God, It's Me Dean Winchester" and "I Know What You Did Last Summer"). Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean Winchester (Jensen Ackles) look into a haunting at their old high school. We get flashbacks to the Winchester brothers as teenagers. Sam runs into trouble with some bullies, older brother Dean watches his back – as he always has.
Colin Ford, who provided a spot-on young Sam Winchester in Season 3's "A Very Supernatural Christmas," will reprise his role. Brock Kelly, who has appeared on Days of Our Lives (where Jensen Ackles was once Eric Brady), will portray teenaged Dean.
‘Sweeps Weeks’ is upon us in ‘television land’ and that means that TV series are pulling out heavy hitting first run episodes for audiences to delve into and to entice advertisers to spend their money on buying ad spots during the shows. This past week’s episode of the hit CW Network series Supernatural titled I Know What You Did Last Summer swept into the fray with a powerful storyline about how Sam Winchester (Jared Padalecki) dealt with his grief over losing older brother Dean Winchester (Jensen Ackles) to death as Dean made good on his deal with a crossroads demon that came due at the end of season 3. The episode also introduced us to Anna Milton, a woman who hears ‘angelic conversations’, which makes her target of interest for angel and demon alike. We also got to meet up with the newest demon ‘big bad, Alastair (Mark Rolston) who seems to know Dean from the older Winchester’s time spent in hell.
Despite being pre-empted in many areas by CW Affiliates choosing to air Football instead, I Know What You Did Last Summer still garnered an impressive 3.91 overnight rating which means that Supernatural continues to hit its stride and continues to gain audience approval and viewer-ship in what is considered a very ‘killer’ Thursday night time slot. Just goes to show that those Winchester brothers are kick ass tough and they have what it takes to ‘go the distance’ (cue Eye of the Tiger Music’).
Supernatural continues on into ‘Sweeps Week’ with an episode titled “Heaven and Hell,” which will air on Thursday the 20th at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on The CW and will be the last original episode of 2008! Additional new episodes of “Supernatural” will resume airing on Thursday January 15, 2009 (The day before Jensen Ackles’ big screen horror movie My Bloody Valentine: 3D opens nation wide in select theaters).
Heaven and Hell is the the second half of a two-part episode bloc, which began with I Know What You Did Last Summer and resumes right where the story left off with Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) struggling to save the mysterious Anna Milton (guest star Julie McNiven). As Anna starts to remember her past, the brothers begin to understand the reason behind Castiel and Uriel’s (guest stars Misha Collins and Robert Wisdom) desire to see her dead and ignoring the angels’ orders, they attempt to help her recover an important part of her past so she can be saved. Meanwhile, Alastair (guest star Mark Rolston) and his demons continue to try to get to Anna and the Winchesters before the angels can. Also guest starring Genevieve Cortese as ‘Ruby’ and Traci Dinwiddie as ‘Pamela Barnes.’ The teleplay for “Heaven and Hell” was written by Eric Kripke from a story by Trevor Sands and was directed by J. Miller Tobin.
Previews for Heaven and Hell indicate that viewers might get to see more of the scenes that Jensen Ackles filmed at the end of season 3 of Dean being strung from what look like meat hooks as he was being tortured in hell.
At Comic Con 2008 over the summer, I had the chance to ask Jensen Ackles about filming these scenes and what kind of special effects were involved in them and even though Jensen and I had a different idea of what I was asking about (he thought I was asking if things were done with CGI), his answer was more than I could have asked for in terms of descriptiveness and willingness to share the details with readers.
“A lot of that wasn’t visual effects, a lot of that was real,” Ackles told me as he grimaced slightly in remembrance of the process. “Especially when I was getting killed and I was getting bruised up, I had a full body suit on and blood was flying everywhere, I had to wear that thing for six hours – it was like … I don’t know if you’ve ever had corn syrup blood on you… but it’s real tacky and sticky and I had that thing on for six hours… it’s not fun.”
Describing the scene of Dean hanging in hell, Jensen Ackles elaborated on this process as well. “In the hell scene, I was actually hoisted up about 13 feet in the air with wires connected to my wrists and my ankles, and one to my belt,” He says, pointing to the areas of his body where the hooks were attached to Dean. “Just splayed out like that and trying to hold myself up was difficult. The hooks were real and they were digging into my skin and with having spent four hours in prosthetics, getting those hooks put into my , you know, back, my stomach, yeah I wish they did all that with CGI,” Ackles finished his answer with a rueful smile.
So while we are waiting for more scenes of Dean’s time in hell and finding out what happened to him while he was there, Eclipsemagazine.com readers can check out the advance teaser clips so generously provided for us by Warner Bros. Television and then tune into the CW Network this coming Thursday November 20th to watch Heaven and Hell at 9PM EST.
Every week, Jared Padalecki fights off demons, ghosts and ghoulies as Sam Winchester on The CW's Supernatural. But a few summers ago he was fighting off demons of a different kind - the demons of doubt - as he took on role of a young painter in Thomas Kinkade's Christmas Cottage. It's new this week on DVD and I'm here to tell you all about it.
Thomas Kinkade's Christmas Cottage is a semi-autobiographical film that delivers the traditional, 'you have more blessings than you think' message with a family struggling to make ends meet and an artist struggling to find himself.
Thomas Kinkade is known as The Painter of Light and I'd say he's singlehandedly responsible for putting art into the average home. His stores in malls across America have made him a household name but Kinkade didn't always have it so easy. Raised by a single mother in the '70s, Thomas was the man of the house from an early age and it was fate that took his talent for painting and turned it into a life's dream.
In the film, Thomas (Padalecki) is a college student who comes home for the holidays only to learn that his mother, (Marcia Gay Harden) is about to lose the family home. He and his brother (Smallville's Aaron Ashmore) decide to get jobs to help stave off foreclosure and it looks like it's going to be a pretty rotten Christmas for all.
Thomas takes the job of painting a holiday mural for the town's resident marketing maven (Chris Elliot). He goes into it begrudgingly, seeing himself more as an "artist" than a "painter" but he soon sees the work as a real opportunity to give something back to the town that raised him.
The real heart of the movie comes from Peter O'Toole who plays Thomas' mentor, Glen. Suffering from arthritis and possibly the early stages of Alzheimer's, Glen has nearly given up - on painting and on life. But Thomas and gallery owner Ed Asner both feel that Glen has one more painting in him if only he can find the inspiration to get it done.
Rounding out the cast of Christmas Cottage is a wonderful grouping of familiar faces including Charlotte Rae, Geoffrey Lewis, Richard Moll and Richard Burgi who plays Thomas' off-the-wall dad. These characters take us on a journey through a small town Christmas and it's great fun to watch (when it isn't horribly sad.) Moll is engaged in a holiday decorating war with the neighbors, Rae is the church pianist who is in a world of her own and Lewis is a man broken by the death of his son in Vietnam. Like I said, great fun when I wasn’t crying.
As with most holiday movies, things go from bad to worse until everyone in town needs a lesson in the true meaning of Christmas, which comes, of course, from Thomas' painting. Yes, it's cliche and predictable but you can do that in a Christmas movie - it's actually expected.
What isn't predictable is the relationship between Thomas and Glen. Jared Padalecki and Peter O'Toole come together in several emotional scenes. O'Toole struggling to do the simplest of things for himself, Padalecki feeling the burden of seeing his hero, his mentor, crushed by the effects of old age, it's difficult to watch at times and yet, so poignant.
I was particularly touched by this movie because I'm one of those people who feels like we don't pay enough homage to those who went before us. I was excited to see people such as Rae and Lewis and Asner - TV staples still doing what they do best. And I had to wonder how much of Glen's tremors and frailty was acting on O'Toole's part and how much was really O'Toole. It's funny. I watch Padalecki every week on Supernatural, but seeing him in this film, it reminded me of how young he really is and how much of a career he still has a head of him.
In the Christmas Cottage DVD special features, Jared talks about an early meeting with O'Toole, where the man looked him right in the eye and told him that he was a good actor. Jared says the compliment nearly drove him to tears then he laughs and says maybe O'Toole was just saying that in order to get him to relax. I don't think so. I think O'Toole saw in young Jared, what Glen saw in young Thomas -- the heart and soul of a true artist.
Thomas Kinkade's Christmas Cottage is only available on DVD and it hits stores this week. Pick up a copy for the true artist on your holiday gift list.
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