Sterling K. Brown is pictured attending the 3rd Annual Academy Museum Gala at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on December 03, 2023 in Los Angeles, California.Photo:Kevin Winter/WireImage
Kevin Winter/WireImage
Sterling K. Brownhas nothing against dying onscreen — especially if it’s for something he deems as “fun.”
The actor, 47,revealedwhich of his various onscreen death scenes was his favorite while onThe Drew Barrymore Showon Monday.
“That was a good time,” he said of his four-episode stint on the hit sci-fi series in 2006 and 2007 as Gordon Walker. “That was fun.”
HostDrew Barrymorethen said she’d never played a vampire onscreen, which prompted Brown to remind her of one of her more recent roles on Netflix’sSanta Clarita Diet.
Sterling K. Brown and Jared Padalecki on season 2 of ‘Supernatural’.Everett Collection
Everett Collection
“Drew Barrymore, I know your work, you were a vampire, what are you talking about?” theThis is Usalum said.
“I do love flesh-eating,” the 49-year-old actress jokingly replied.
“You had so much blood – you had so much fun in that,” Brown added of Barrymore’s role as Sheila, a realtor who suddenly transforms into a flesh-eating zombie — while looking and feeling better than ever.
“Did you know they kept coming onto the set and telling me, ‘Less blood. You can’t use this much blood,’” Barrymore recalled a memory from her days on set of the Netflix show, which wascanceled after three seasons. “They were like, ‘Dial it down.’”
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Though Barrymore momentarily forgot about her role as a flesh eater onSanta Clarita Diet, which concluded in 2019, she told PEOPLE it was a “really fun” and “liberating” role at the show’s premiere in 2017.
At the time of the show’s premiere, Barrymore had justsplit from her husband Will Kopelmanafter four years together, and said that she found similarities between her life and her character’s.
“She’s going through like a real feminist empowerment moment, albeit, it’s inappropriate,” she said of Sheila. “But it was really fun to be her, and she totally gave me a wakeup call in my own life.”
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After the show was canceled following season 3, Barrymore, who also served as an executive producer on the show, said in a statement toDeadline, “It was an honor to get to do something so delightful. Of all the characters I’ve ever been, Sheila Hammond is one of my favorites.”
Timothy Olyphant, who also executive produced the show and starred as her husband onscreen, similarly mused, “I loved working on this show.”
As for Brown, despite enduring many onscreen deaths throughout his acting career, he has garnered a memorable onscreen presence in the years since he first appeared onSupernatural.
(L-R) Sterling K. Brown as Gordon and Katie Chapman as a unnamed girl on ‘Supernatural’.Sergei Bachlakov/The CW
Sergei Bachlakov/The CW
Brown won anEmmy,Golden Globeand fourScreen Actors Guild Awardsfor his role as Randall Pearson inThis Is Us, which concluded in 2022 after six seasons. He also received Emmy nominations for his roles onBrooklyn Nine-Nine,The Marvelous Mrs. MaiselandAmerican Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson, for which he won in 2018.
He iscurrently up for his first Academy Awardfor his role inAmerican Fiction.
source: people.com
