Jared Padalecki Interview - Friday the 13th at Comic Con

with Rebecca Murray

Transcript: Jared Padalecki Interview - Friday the 13th at Comic Con

Rebecca Murray from About.com Hollywood Movies at the 2008 San Diego Comic Con.

Jared Padalecki - Friday the 13th

Is that really truly the first time you've seen the poster?

Jared Padalecki: "It's really the first. This is the first time I've seen the poster. I have been crazy and all over the place so finally I got a chance to."

Your opinion?

Jared Padalecki: "Bad ass."

Your face isn't on it.

Jared Padalecki: "Maybe I'll add like in a marker just write like, 'Jared Padalecki.'"

Or draw your own face on there.

Jared Padalecki: "If I saw this, I'd see the movie. If I saw my face, I'd be like, 'Nah.' This is so much cooler. Nice. Friday the 13th, nice."

What is the appeal of starring in a Friday the 13th movie?

Jared Padalecki: "I actually got involved in this, I'd been a fan of the other movies that the production company had made – like Amityville Horror and Texas Chainsaw Massacre. And I was actually a big fan. When I did the House of Wax, the director had us watch the Chainsaw Massacre with Jessie Biel. We all sat around and watched it and were like, 'Man, that's really cool.' They paid homage to the original but also did their own thing. It was new and it was raw. It was kind of gritty and earthy. I remember thinking, 'Man, that was a really cool movie. I wish I could have been a part of it.' And then this was years ago, long before they announced they were doing Friday. And then when this came up and I sort of started looking up who's doing it and I saw it was the same company and the same director even. I was like, 'Dude!,' a no-brainer."

Is it that kind of tone, the dirty and gritty, or is it more like the original Friday the 13th?

Jared Padalecki: "It's sort of a mixture. It's not the faded film, I don't think, unless they color treat the film. But it's a lot more real. Like, the original Friday the 13th's pretty cheesy. I love them for what they are but they're pretty campy and corny. This is definitely more a real raw, scary, edge of your seat scare, like real nerve-wracking. Not sort of like, 'Ewww, cool!' I mean there's going to be a lot of 'Ewww, cool kill,' and cool moments, but it's not just about waiting around till the next kill happens. There's some cool stuff that happens."

Does it stick with the original storyline or are you guys revamping it?

Jared Padalecki: "It's sort of a remake and sort of a new revamp. Obviously the original Friday the 13th the killer was not even Jason, it was his mom. So here, as you see from the mask, we're fighting Jason so that's different enough. But also, we go back to Camp Crystal Lake. The outline is there but what happens in the script is a lot different."

Do you actually fight Jason?

Jared Padalecki: "I do fight Jason. I fight him more than once."

How cool is that to fight Jason?

Jared Padalecki: "So cool. So weird. There'd be times when we'd be doing a scene and I'd kind of be like, 'This is so cool,' and then getting back ready to do it. And then Derek, the guy who plays Jason, the actor who plays Jason, is such a physical presence… Like he, I'm not a small guy and he is big. He's taller than I am and just muscular and very coordinated. It's rare to see a big guy who can all of a sudden move and dance around like a butterfly. So there'd be times when we'd be doing a fight scene and I'd have dirt in my eyes, all cut up, and I'd sort of start to fall. He'd just grab me and set me right back up, and then we'd carry on. It was really nice. I've gotten some experience with stunts. I'm on a show that does a lot of stunts."

One of my favorite shows.

Jared Padalecki: "Oh really? Thank you."

I'm a huge Supernatural fan.

Jared Padalecki: "Thank you. I just came from that so that's awesome. We do a lot of stunt stuff there, but it was really an honor to work with somebody who was so versed and so knowledgeable and really watched out and took care of me. So that was really nice."

What was it like the first time you saw the mask on set?

Jared Padalecki: "It was bizarre. The first time I saw the mask on set was actually on Derek, and so that was really weird. We started out shooting exteriors, sort of all the night-time stuff – running through the woods, Jason kind of like stalking through the woods. And it was weird because Daniel Pearl, our DP, had lit the woods in such a way where it was kind of creepy. You're like, 'Ewww, I feel like I'm in a horror movie.' And then all of sudden you kind of look around and there's Derek standing in his get-up with his machete. You're like, 'Man, if he just wandered around for a little bit some little kid would have nightmares for the rest of his life, if he didn't drop dead of fear.' But it was really cool to see. It almost didn't hit you at first. You're like, 'I'm on set. I've seen a lot of cool stuff.' But thinking about it afterwards, it's like, 'Man, that was a cool experience.'"

More on Friday the 13th:

Friday the 13th Photos

Friday the 13th Credits, Poster and Interviews

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