A Bloody Good Time: ‘Friday The 13th’ Cast Gets Goth

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When Friday the 13th was first released in 1980, the teen slasher with little money and no bankable stars became an instant cult phenomenon. But then Jason Voorhees was hacked to bits in the fourth installment of the franchise, reborn a year later, relocated to Manhattan, sent to Hell and pitted against Freddy Krueger. Its cast -- with the exception of Kevin Bacon -- disappeared into the ether. With today's release of the highly anticipated remake, blockbuster daredevil Michael Bay intends to awaken the dead, and catapult four young campers into the spotlight. But can Jared Padalecki, Danielle Panabaker, Amanda Righetti and Travis Van Winkle hack it in Hollywood? They ain’t out of the woods just yet.

Former Abercrombie & Fitch model Travis Van Winkle‘s a long way from his old gig. He explained to us his specific way of preparing to “die” in the movie… “The one thing that I really tried to think about the most was, if you have a machete in your lungs, how would that affect the air that came out of your mouth? How would that affect the way that you breathe? How long would you last if your lungs got basically sliced open? I tried to work on recreating that in my trailer and in my own time, but how do you prepare to die your own death? I listened to soft music, to get me in that mindset of “I’m dying.”

Amanda Righetti - memorable to many of us for playing Aunt Haley on The OC - talks about interacting on set with the remake’s Jason, actor Derek Mears. “There were certain times, the first day when he walked out in the whole garb, I definitely got chills up my spine. It was really creepy. Once he put that mask on, he totally would just be Jason. He was in it.”

Danielle Panabaker was the only one we talked to who had tried on the infamous mask. “My younger cousins came to visit the set with my aunt and her friend. The adults knew the original mythology behind Friday the 13th and my little cousin—who is about eight-years-old— was just sort of tossing around the hockey mask lightly and had no idea what she was doing. My aunt was like, ‘Put that down, you have no idea.’ She was clueless to the iconic weight of it”

Supernatural actor Jared Padalecki discusses the process of seeing his own movies. “’ve snuck into—I think—every movie that I’ve been in, usually right as they’re about to leave the theaters, a couple weeks or couple months after they’re released. I’ll go with a buddy and go in after the credits have started and sit in the back. That’s usually the only way I’ll watch the movie.”

Photography by Patrick Fraser. Styling by Paul and Isabelle at Artmix Beauty.