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Okay, went ahead and listened to the "I've Never Said This Before Jared and Genevieve Padalecki of Supernatural/Walker" episode and I certainly have some thoughts about it. I'm going to go ahead and like the last time, put in the highlights along with SOME of the transcript in this post. If you want the full transcript, click on the provided link and click on "See Full Transcript".

3:57 Tommy: We have so much to get to God, we don't want to begin. I guess let's begin with the fan favorite show that is sadly coming to an end, which is Walker, and the big series finale is airing on June twenty sixth, and man, people are people are not ready for it. They're not ready for it. So Jared, we'll start with you. You know, how are you processing something like this coming to an end, something that means so much to so many people, including yourself.

Jared: I'm sure, yeah, no, thanks, thank you for the question. Funny enough, this is the first time I've really spoken about it, because I found out on a Tuesday and was asked if I would be willing to share the information with our Walker family and our extended kind of supernatural family come a girls family, this and that people who are tuned into the show. I haven't really had time to really digest it just yet, because two days later I went to Europe and got back four weeks later, essentially, so I haven't really digested it yet. It's heartbreaking. Man. I'm erect. You know, had our final mix and that was a pretty intense session. A lot of tears in the last four weeks, but I think this is important. They weren't for me, you know. They were tears for the amazing cast and crew and their families. And we just had a blast, and we went through pandemic and we went through the strikes and an incredible family not only on screen and behind screen, but the people who view and watch and have talked with the show and asked quiet and express their excitement with it. So I'll get back to you on that next time. But I haven't really had the time yet to sit and digest it. I'm kind of sometimes quick to have perception but slow to have perspective, Like I have to sleep on something, and I'll have to sleep on this a lot. But I'm so proud of the family and the friends that we got to meet and work with, and that'll be everlasting.\

(Perception is the process of interpreting sensory information, while perspective is the overall framework through which we view the world.)

Gen: Think, to sort of echo what Jared's saying, it really has become a family of sorts and for us to work from home, you know, to be able to take the kids to school and then either visit Jared while he's working, show our kids how our lives behave you know, when we're not at a hope to see us. You know, when we're not at home. It's not normal for them to be able to experience that. You know, when Jared was on Supernatural is when the kids we had our children, and then we moved to Austin and Jared would commute once they started school, and so they never really got to experience the day to day. And so it's been a dream because I felt like we didn't sacrifice. A whole lot, which is a I mean, I love the sacrifice in a project, and I love we talk about sacrifice often with our kids, about you know, the sacrifices that we both make in traveling and working for our family. This one was just the ultimate dream because to play a role alongside my husband and my partner and so many different levels and have so much fun with that, but also have truly the dreamiest cast and crew. I mean every cast we worked with, every crew we've worked with, is exceptional. We feel incredibly lucky and blessed to be able to really say that every you know group, it has been incredible but this one in particular for us, just because it was in our backyard and it was a collective that. I mean, they will be family for the rest of our lives, you know, like they have just left an indelible mark on all of us and our kids and our family, and it's just it's been dreaming on so many different levels.

9:05 Tommy: You know, with every new project, with everything that we take on, it's like a new chapter of our lives, right and the Walker chapter for you both, I'm sure you grew a lot, you learned a lot, you discovered a lot. So is there something that you can both think of that you feel like you learned about yourself through doing this series or through being a part of it for you know, the last few years.

Jared: Yeah, God, great question. So Walker was hatched in twenty nineteen and my trailer season fourteen of Supernatural because we Jenson and I had talked about season fifteen the next year being the last season of Supernatural, and I was sort of like, well, maybe I retire, like I've been doing TV like Gilmore Girls. It was gonna be a twenty year career. I was like, cool, I missed my family. I'd like to get to know them. Then COVID happened in twenty twenty, and so I was down here with Jen and our kids. We still had about two or three weeks to shoot Supernatural to wrap it up, but we knew Walker was coming next. I'm coming in Austin, and so I had a lot of time to think and spend time with the family, and a lot happened. And I hate talk about myself, but this is a funny situation because like Gilmore Girls for five years, I left to do Supernatural, and then Supernatural we knew it was ending season fifteen. We announced it, Hey, this could be the final season. But Walker was kind of like the rug got pulled out. So I always had a job coming up, something to work for, and so I think one of the things that I'm realizing and I'm still kind of fresh into it because it's been less than a month since finding out we're not come. It's weird because this time, you know, mid June, I'm always not working. That's a strange way to say it, but it's usually like, oh, we're prepping for the next season. So yeah, it's time off. Kids are in summer, I'm home, we're traveling here maybe hopefully. So it hasn't really hit yet. I think once like August, September, October come around and I'm like, why am I not like memorizing lines to go to work. Then it'll probably hit again, you know. But it hasn't really hit. But I feel life goes on and it's not always how you expect. And so, kind of to your prior question about our thoughts on the finale, it occurred to me that if Walker ended after any episode in the four seasons, I'd be satisfied, you know, because the writers, the brilliant writers behind the scenes every episode wonderfully. Like we weren't writing to have some big, oh my gosh, like what's happening next, Like it's what's right for the characters. So it just felt like this is life, and we're going to go through life, and this is this episode, this is the next. But it wasn't like we were trying to trick people into got to tune in next week, got to tune in the following week. It was sort of like, hey, here's here's a week in the life of the Walker family. Their friends, their colleagues, et cetera. And so to some extent, I'm kind of right now thinking about life in general, and sometimes, you know, it goes longer than you'd expect. Sometimes it doesn't go as long as you'd hope, and just kind of do your best along the way because you never know. And I think we all did our best. So I'm trying to hang my hat on that.

Gen: Gosh, I learned I mean on every job. I think, at every adventure in life, you know, or every fork in the road or project. I think, no matter what, I hopefully you continue to learn from it. And I think particularly with this one. You know, we met on Supernatural, which filmed in Vancouver, got married, started a family. My career took a back seat while we had kids, and you know, Jared was working, and then when our kids started school, I was really full time in Austin and he would commute from Vancouver to Austin. And I had a set way of life and a certain structure to things and the way that the kids were being raised, and you know. That particular flow and for me, Walker was sort of all encompassing because it really incorporated our family life into our work life, and then on top of that, as our kids have grown up a bit more, it's also given me more space to find more creative pursuits as well. So I think within that Walker space, I've been able to play again as far as my acting is concerned, have a voice. We co produce, although that's really your line and share with Walker, but yeah, I mean, he's so generous with saying that he's the lines there of producing Walker. But yes, it's been I've sat and been part of those meetings and privy to those meetings, and sort of to preface that, I'm kind of one of those people that feels like they have to go to college to like have some sort of voice in a situation like I have to go to college. I have to get my masters to be able to be a producer, you know, even though I've also been in this industry for I guess twenty twenty years I guess. But I think what this has done has been like a really gentle introduction for me into the other side of things and the inner workings of production and what goes into it and also you know, which has been really nice and that I say it it's gentle because I've been able to watch and be a part of these meetings and now you know, we're also in the process of producing projects together that we're sort of bringing to life, the seed to the next chapter, next chapter, but also to be able to wear the hat of a mother and producer and heart and so as you. But it's just I didn't I wasn't in that place before. I believe, you know, I would jump into supernatural here and there, but I didn't really do anything other than that. I just didn't have the space and we just didn't have you know, our marriage and our family really comes first, so we had to make sure that that was intact and really strong in that, you know, in order for that, you know, for me to be able to do other things or you know, find projects or wherever. We had to really make that was really solid and our kids were really solid. So for Walker, it just developmentally for me, was just a way for me to feel confident in really expanding my wings, so to speak.

16:15 Tommy: But something that came to mind when you both were talking is that you've both been in this industry for most of your lives. You've grown up in front of people essentially right, You've been working, working, working, and even gen even though you've taken breaks to you know, raise your family. You've been doing it like you've been doing it from an early age too, So how the hell did the two of you grow up on TV and in the spotlight? Because I would be a hot mess.

Jared: Well we are hot messes, or at least we're messes. You're hot, we're messages. A fair question. I think what's funny is that these days, and with our kids, we have a twelve year old boy, a ten year old boy, seen year old girl, we're seeing how rapid things are happening with like social media and everybody has a device and people are growing so rapidly. I think for Gen and me both, it was kind of like I joke that I'm like that twenty four year overnight success. Like it was slow, like when Gilmore Girls, I was seventeen years old in two thousand, left college to do four episodes of a show, and I'm doing eighty or something, but there was no Netflix, there was no streaming app there was no DVR yet, Like we were recording it on vhs, like on a v to go back and try and watch. So it was very slow, Like I didn't get recognized until probably season two or three of Gilmore Girls, so I was like able to pay my bills. I wasn't driving fancy cars. I'm not driving in fans cars now. But I'm saying like I was a working actor at the time. But by no means was it like, Okay, this is going to be a viable job for me to do. Like we'll see, and we'll see. I'll get back to because something she said and we've talked about just today makes me think of that. But it happened really slowly. And then I think because of the shows we've done, the movies we've worked on, it's not like somebody in the street sees us and goes like, oh, you were part of that scandal blah blah blah blah, take a picture. Like people either don't know who the hell we are and don't give a shit and we're human beings, or they're like, hey, I love that show you did. Hey, my daughter and I watched Gilmore Girls and we bonded. Hey, my brother and I watched Supernatural and we bonded. Hey, my family watches or wildfire Walker or whatever. So it's not like when someone comes up to take a picture or say hi, it's not like, hey, someone said you're famous. Let's do a picture so I can get some likes on social media. It's like, hey, that scene where you talk to your brother or father or son or friend or whatever, like it meant a lot to me, and I thought about it and that it meant something, and so I feel like our level of fame or a celebrity, however you would try and quantify or measure that has been commensurate with the work we've put into it. So people don't come up to us and say like, hey, I here a you're famous. They come up and say like, hey, I love that show you did, Like I bonded with some other human being over some project you did. And that makes me think about like bands I loved growing up, or sports teams or TV shows or movies, and it's like, oh, you look that too, like let's talk and you get to meet somebody. And so it wasn't like we, you know, blasted into infamy like some kids these days that I feel for the teenagers and twenty some things that all of a sudden are enormously famous and their life changes and they haven't been to really gradually deal with it, you know. The progression of it. The in Criminal Progression.

Gen: I will say, I literally came out of college and got a lead of a TV show and I had never been on TV, which is crazy. It's so crazy, and I'm so that really was for me. I'm so grateful to Lloyd Segen and Sean and Michael Piller who believed in me, because I don't know who else would hire some person who's never been on TV before. But I'm so grateful because I was so I was so lucky, but I was so green. And I also at the time thought I've made it, like, you know, I'm number one on a call sheet, and then I ate some humble pie because I got right off of Wildfire, and then I was back to auditioning again, you know. So I'm really grateful for those experiences because that, you know, this industry is full of humble pie. And I think it's a lesson that we teach our kids often or echo it and repeat it often, which is kindness is free. So you know, on Wildfire, you know, I'm still I'm grateful that I wasn't a little shit, but I definitely, you know what, I thought, I was pretty cool being number one, and I'm grateful for the relationships that I have. I just feel like it's allowed me to be open because every experience, in every situation is so different, and you know, to if we're a bunch of carnies and just to be a part of that circus together and you know those orbits, and it's just it's really it's really special.

33:47 Tommy: All right, So here's the million dollar question, and it involves both of you because as a family, you make these decisions, right, Yeah, obviously everyone and their mother asks you, Jared about a Supernatural reboot, and I believe you've said, if and when the time is right, you might entertain it. So would that be something you really would think about doing, even if that means it would take on the next five years of your life assuming it's a success, because everyone who watched the original would be tuning into this. Is that something as a family you both would be ready for and wanting to make happen? Jared: "I will say to this, I don't want to do another fifteen years of Supernatural. I don't want to do another five years of Supernatural. I am dying to do a reboot of Supernatural, akin to like the Gilmore Girls reboot. You know, it's like, here are four one and a half hour episodes. We'll shoot it in three months. I think Jensen and I both said in twenty twenty, we love to revisit these characters this world. Give us five years, which is next year. And I see him often, we talk often. I think he and I are both really eager to do it. We love the characters, we grew up together. I've met my wife on the show. I'm certain I'll put the flannel on again and place in Winchester. Not for like a linear television kind of situation that I'm not interested in, but something that can be strained and not take nine months out of the year, ten months out of the year for the next five six years of my life. Yeah, I can't wait." Gen: "Yeah I am. I mean I would. That show has been such a gift for a family. I mean, I met my husband, we started a family. Uh, you know, it's such a great story, the writers, the actors, everyone involved, the crew. You know, it was amazing. So I would I would definitely be on board. I think again, like with Jared's saying projection wise, like what does that mean and what does that entail? But you know, like it would be so fun and especially the fan base too. It's given us family that yeah, or the family, So I would be really excited about it, right."

36:35 Tommy: "The one item that your partner would take on a deserted island, not kids, not people, not each other?" Jared: "I think Jen would take something to read. Let's say a book" (ended up ultimately saying a Bravo the streaming device). Gen: "He's got a treble fan" (to which Jared said that's right, best present). Also, It's a travel fan that we got him for Yeah, Father's Day last year. He needs one white noise when he sleeps like it doesn't matter where we are. He never asked permission. He just turns it on, so we've all gotten used to it. So he he needs the white noise. But he also runs really hot. So in our house we did a remodel and I never put any fans in and he was very bummed out. So I ended up getting him a travel fan that he can use." Jared: While we're by the way. We have no association. I don't even know what the company is. Venti Venti. This is. I literally have not gone to bed without this in years since you got it.

Tommy: All right, next question, I feel this is a fun one. Who takes the longest to get ready? Jared: Me hands down you. It's trying to get chairs out. Yeah, I mean, but in fairness, she does not take a long time get ready. But I like, I haven't showered today, I have a beanie on and time out. Gen: So I'm usually getting myself ready and plus three best so I take the lion's share of that, and then like I'm worry, I'm warning, and I'm like I'm putting shoes on children.

40:22 Tommy: All right, one more, let's go with this. Okay, if your partner would perform one song live at Madison Square Garden, what song would they choose? Jared: Oh God, she would do "Baby Got Back". Gen interjected and talked about a dance recital she wanted to do in 7th grade to that song but her mom didn't record it thankfully and implied that her mom did not go to one dance recital she [did?] do). Jared ended up saying Clay Pigeons by John Prine. Tommy answered with Jersey Boy by Bon Jovi and Jared talked about a movie he made with him 21 years ago [Cry Wolf for those who do not know].

43:10 Tommy: We have come to that point of the show where I ask every single guest who comes on, what is one thing that you have never said before? So whatever you're comfortable with sharing. I know you guys over the years have done so many interviews and have talked about so many things, so it might be challenging, but can you think of anything that you have never said. Jared: Before, never said before. I've been proudly open about my own relationship with mental health, and that Always Keep Funding campaign has been a great help for me, and I think for many others that have expressed that it's helped them. So I'll say this. It was twenty fifteen, at a really low moment. I was open about going back and going to therapy and going to a clinic, but I was letting my thoughts kind of take over and go into a place of like dramatic suicidal ideation, and called my wife and she said get home. And so at home, went to a clinic for a couple of weeks and looked into it and haven't been suicidal since, not not for a moment that hadn't been said. There are still highs and lows that we talked about earlier, like you're not you're a human, I'm a human, She's a human. Everybody who's listening to this presumably as a human going to be a human. So there are highs and lows, and I don't know about what I have never said, but I will say this for now, as I said here today, today's a low just and I'm fine, nothing to worry about, but there's a lot of I have a lot of sadness about Walker the family, and again my tears aren't for myself. But I know I'll be fine because I'm talking to you about it. I talked to Jen about it, I talked to my friends about it. And so just to please please be open, please share, Please find somebody, whether it's a friend or professional, and speak and speak your truth. And just because you're low now, you know, meet with triumph and disaster and with those two imposters just the same, I know the other shoe will drop. And I have friends I love, a new friend I love, and family I love. So just excited to be up there, be open, and something you said earlier or Jen said earlier, will see just those two words or one contraction and one word, but we'll see, you know, something seems great, might not be. We'll see something seems terrible. We'll see. Like keeping an open mind and looking to tomorrow, looking to next week, next month, next year has helped a lot. So just that, just thinking about like, hey, we'll see.

45:43 Tommy: Yeah, and Jim, before we get to you, Jared, I think that it's so important and more and more people talk about that. And you brought up something specifically that I do want to touch on a little further because I don't think a lot of people would feel safe or often enough to reveal that. And you mentioned a clinic, and I presume that's a place you actually went for a period of time to get some help. And I don't know, I don't know if you if you've talked about that before or not, but I thank you for that because I don't think people there's such a stigma surrounding that. Still, there's a huge stigma around mental health still. I mean, I've lost a friend to her mental health struggle, which was a horrifying time in my life, and I don't think people talk about that enough, but people certainly don't talk enough about going to a place to actually get the help. So thank you for sharing that and for people listening who might feel like that's something they could never bring themselves to do, even though they might need to do that.

Jared: Say, Well, first, I don't think everybody needs it. I got to a place where I needed it. I needed a full reset. I had spent you know, fifteen years in this industry where I was. You know, when you go to an audition or a red carpet, they don't want like, Jared, how are you doing today? Oh? Man, today was rough and like I didn't sleep. They want like, oh, it's great, like excited to be here, excited to be you know. So I had done that for so long, trying to focus, Like we talked earlier about like what's best for the person who's talking to me as opposed to like just being honest. And there's a time of place. I don't wear it as a scarlet letter, Like it's not like I'm shameful, Like, hey, I see a therapist. I've been to a clinic. I like wear proudly, like I put it on my face and like tell everybody like yeah, dude, if you're not in the situation where you need that degree of help, then don't seek it. But I needed a surgeon, not literally, but you know what I mean, Like, yeah, I needed it, and here I am, and I've never been. Like I said, today's a hard day. It's been a hard month since we found out, But I'm in a great place with my wife, our children, my friends, my family, and so I'm certain without Jen and without my time spent really going like Okay, these feelings and thoughts are real feelings and thoughts, but they're not reality, Like how do I put those over there? And like, Okay, I'm feeling really excited, that's going to change. I'm feeling really down, that's gonna change. I'm feeling really anxious. That's going to change. So just to look seek help, open up, even if you don't think you need it. Like even if you're doing it, like, hey, you're fit, you're healthy, why not talk to a nutritionist? Why not get a personal trainer to show you how to properly do the squads? Like why not, like we spend all this time, you know, we have financial planners. If you're fortunate not to have a job, you have prospit trainers or Orange theory or whatever showing you how to properly do a row, Like why not look at your brain? Like you live in your brain? You know, we don't have a brain. We are a brain and our body just follows, So why not, Like it seems so silly to not want to look into it, but not silly. I don't want to want to make it sound flippant, but if you have the opportunity, there are a lot of resources out there, so please, please please please look into it. And it's great, it feels great, that's a great work.

49:10 Gen: I'm not going to mention where what city hotel is a more fun one. We went to bed and did what married couples do or couples do, and in this particular hotel room was not a configuration that I was quite used to. And I wake up. And I realized that the door is closing on me. And I'm in the hallway of the hotel and I'm butt naked. No, I'm asleep, he's he's sleep. I don't know where I am, but I just know that the door just clicked and it kind of hit me in the butt, and I'm like, where am I?

(long story short, Jared didn't wake up to the door, had to go down the stairs to the Lobby to get an employee after finding something to cover herself with, and then they unlocked the door for her.)

Oh geez, where do I start? I mean a lot of this is the same old we're pretending to be a happy couple charade. They just have to takl about how they met on Supernatural every interview they do together. Gen talks about how grateful she is for Supernatural because she met her husband, has her kids, her house, her lifestyle. Yeah Gen, we get it you love your lifestyle. But can someone please explain something to me: WHY is it that in the middle of the Texas heat, they did NOT have ceiling fans installed when the renovated last year? Also, if you know your husband runs hot, WHY would you not install fans only to turn around and "bum him out" as he put it? Way to tell us you don't care about your husband's comfort, let alone anyone else's. Good grief....

Gen, please tell me you're joking about STILL putting your shoes on your children. PLEASSSSSSSSSSE tell me you're joking! I just can't wrap my head around this one. Also, the kids are all still in therapy along with Gen and Jared, just like she said back in November 2020 on another podcast she did. Also, please for the love of God DON'T insert Gen into the Supernatural reboot. Just don't....

#anti gen #jared padalecki #bearding #reboot

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