- Jared Padalecki spoke to Business Insider about being part of the final season of “The Boys.”
- Padalecki said he’ll share scenes with Jensen Ackles, but added, “I don’t know what we’re doing.”
- Padalecki and Ackles previously starred as brothers in “Supernatural,” which lasted for 15 seasons.
Jared Padalecki doesn’t have many details about his involvement in the fifth and final season of “The Boys,” but he’s teasing an onscreen reunion with “Supernatural” costar Jensen Ackles.
“I don’t know a whole lot about it, which is effing terrifying,” Padalecki told Business Insider’s Caralynn Matassa on Thursday at the 2025 Texas Film Awards, celebrating 25 years of the Texas Film Hall of Fame.
Social media accounts for “The Boys” recently announced that Padalecki and fellow “Supernatural” star Misha Collins will appear in season five of the show. On Friday, a rep for “The Boys” confirmed to BI that Padalecki and Collins will make guest appearances, sharing scenes with Ackles.
There are no details about how Padalecki’s role will fit into “The Boys,” but given the show’s reputation for pushing boundaries, his character’s storyline could go anywhere. At the very least, Padalecki said that he’ll have screentime with Ackles, even though he doesn’t know what it’ll entail just yet.
“Yeah,” he said. “I don’t know what we’re doing. I don’t know if we like, bump into each other. I don’t know much about it. They’re still trying to write and figure out who’s gonna be there. But it’ll be the end of this month.”
It’s no coincidence that more “Supernatural” alums have crossed over to Prime Video’s hit superhero satire series. “The Boys” showrunner Eric Kripke also created The CW’s “Supernatural,” which ran for 15 seasons between 2005 and 2020 and starred Ackles and Padalecki as brothers Dean and Sam Winchester, respectively.
Ackles joined “The Boys” as the foul-mouthed, old-school superhero named Soldier Boy during season three and will be returning as a series regular for season five.
Meanwhile, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, who played patriarch John Winchester in “Supernatural,” made his “Boys” debut as Joe Kessler during season four. It was inevitable that Padalecki would also appear in “The Boys.”
“I know Eric Kripke very well,” Padalecki said. “I know ‘The Boys’ very well. He’s like, ‘Hey, you wanna come play?’ I’m like, ‘Yes, I think?'”
Padaleck thanked his wife, Genevieve Padalecki, for giving him the extra push to say yes to “The Boys.”
“To give credit to my wife, I was like ‘Hey, I think it’s gonna be a weird role. I don’t know what to do,'” Padalecki recalled. “And she was like, ‘You excited about it?’ I was like, ‘Yeah.’ She goes, ‘Then do it.’ I was like ‘OK. You wanna read it first?’ She was like, ‘No, if you like it, then do it.'”
“Only if you get to be in your birthday suit,” Genevieve, who was on the red carpet with him, chimed in.
“I’m sweating now,” Jared said. “Literally my text to Eric Kripke was like, ‘Hey, if I’m getting naked, just give me like a month’s notice to eat broccoli and rice and chicken breasts and all day long just sit there doing push-ups.'”
The actor also knows that his involvement in “The Boys” is exciting for fans, but he still has some nerves about it.
“It’s fucking terrifying for me,” he said.
