How different is it to transfer from Sam Winchester who knows what’s going on with supernatural happenings to Friday the 13th where you’re basically running around in the dark?
It was really strange. Also just the idea of going from a TV show to a movie, the nature of the beast. I mean the dates were I shot April 29th in Vancouver, Canada [on] Supernatural and April 30th in Austin, TX for a whole new character, a whole new show. I hadn’t even really met the cast yet, which is okay because my character didn’t really know the cast so I was almost the outsider of the movie. But it was exciting, it’s very different. Every character’s different, you try to make it real and luckily for Sam, he knows what’s going on but there are times when he doesn’t know so you just make it true to the situation.

Now that we’re a couple episodes into this season of Supernatural, I can see why you guys were so excited at Comic Con. Do you feel like you’re running around an amusement park everyday since there’s so much cool stuff going on?
For sure, for sure. We actually did something really cool two nights ago. Jensen [Ackles] and I did the biggest stunt we’ve ever done - they built on [a soundstage] a two-story church and we were shooting this scene on the second floor and there were these big bay windows [filled with] candy glass. Jensen and I actually ran and jumped through the windows and smashed them and landed on a pad and it was like a twelve-foot drop. So before [it's] like your heart’s beating and you’re going, “I’m cool…no, no, no, I’m not scared. Whatever.” And then it’s time to do it. [Right] before, Jensen and I just looked at each other and we were like, [motions bumping fists] “Kick ass” and we went.

The Fist Bump of Empowerment?
Yeah, exactly. I don’t think if Jensen wasn’t there I’d have been as brave, but since he was there I was like, “Naw, I ain’t scared, I ain’t scared. Are you scared, Jensen? I’m not.”

How different is it to transfer from Sam Winchester who knows what’s going on with supernatural happenings to Friday the 13th where you’re basically running around in the dark?
It was really strange. Also just the idea of going from a TV show to a movie, the nature of the beast. I mean the dates were I shot April 29th in Vancouver, Canada [on] Supernatural and April 30th in Austin, TX for a whole new character, a whole new show. I hadn’t even really met the cast yet, which is okay because my character didn’t really know the cast so I was almost the outsider of the movie. But it was exciting, it’s very different. Every character’s different, you try to make it real and luckily for Sam, he knows what’s going on but there are times when he doesn’t know so you just make it true to the situation.

So [Supernatural creator Eric] Kripke’s already killed you both, and your dad who’s over there somewhere [Jeffrey Dean Morgan is being interviewed nearby], and it’s already seeming like Sam and Dean are going to be fighting each other by the end of the season…
I hope so. I’ve been fighting for that for awhile. I think it’s such an exciting dynamic. Going back to Season 1, we did an episode called “Skin” where [Dean] was a shapeshifter and, even though it wasn’t actually him, the dynamic of brother vs. brother and good vs. evil and you’re fighting what you believe to be right but it’s your brother so you’re not gonna do…it was really exciting. Of all four seasons, I still go back and talk about how fun it was to shoot that and how fun it was to watch.

You and Jensen are really close so is it that much harder to do those scenes where basically you have to watch Dean get torn apart and whatnot?
Yeah, we did that yesterday. He sort of talks about his time in Hell and he knocked it out of the park. He did an amazing job, he’s a fantastic actor and always impresses me. Just watching him do it - it was his coverage I didn’t even have a camera on me - I was just watching him and I started to like, tears were rolling down my cheek and I was going, “[fake sniffles and eye wiping] Uh…it’s dusty…something flew in my eye.”

“There are onions behind me.”
“Yeah, I had onions for lunch.” [fake sniffles]

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