Sterling K. Brown Deems ‘Fun’ Onscreen Death on Supernatural His ‘Favorite’ Among His Roster

Sterling K. Brown doesn’t mind dying on screen — especially if it’s for something he considers “fun.”

The actor (47) revealed which of the various death scenes on screen was his favorite while he was there The Drew Barrymore Show on Monday.

“As a black actor, you often die on screen, real conversation,” he joked as he began to answer the question. “But he was my favorite Supernatural, where I became a vampire hunter. And I should have died. But then I was bitten by a vampire and had to die with a severed head.”

“It 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.”

Host Drew Barrymore then said she had never played a vampire on screen, prompting Brown to remind her of one of her more recent roles on Netflix The Santa Clarita Diet.

Sterling K. Brown and Jared Padalecki in ‘Supernatural’ Season 2.

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“Drew Barrymore, I know your work, you were a vampire, what are you talking about?” the This is us the alum said.

“I like to eat meat,” the 49-year-old actress answered jokingly.

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“You had so much blood — you had so much fun doing it,” Brown added of Barrymore’s role as Sheila, a real estate agent who suddenly transforms into a flesh-eating zombie — while looking and feeling better than ever.

“Did you know they kept coming to the set and telling me, ‘Less blood. You can’t use this much blood,’ Barrymore recalled of her days on the set of the Netflix series, which was canceled after three seasons. “They were like, ‘Put it down.'”

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Drew Barrymore in ‘Santa Clarita Diet’.

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Although Barrymore forgot about her carnivore role for a moment The Santa Clarita Dietwhich ended in 2019, told PEOPLE that it was a “really fun” and “liberating” role on the 2017 series premiere.

At the time of the show’s premiere, Barrymore had just split from husband Will Kopelman after four years together and said she found similarities between her life and her character’s.

“She’s going through a real feminist empowerment moment, even though it’s inappropriate,” she said of Sheila. “But it was really fun to be her, and she totally woke me up to my own life.”

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After the series was canceled after its third season, Barrymore, who also served as an executive producer, said in a statement to Deadline“It was an honor to do something so wonderful. Of all the characters I’ve ever been, Sheila Hammond is one of my favorites.”

Timothy Olyphant, who also executive produced the show and played her on-screen husband, similarly said, “I loved working on this show.”

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As for Brown, despite suffering many on-screen deaths throughout his acting career, he has developed an unforgettable screen presence in the years since he first appeared on Supernatural.

(LR) Sterling K. Brown as Gordon and Katie Chapman as the unnamed girl in ‘Supernatural’.

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Brown won an Emmy, a Golden Globe and four Screen Actors Guild Awards for his portrayal of Randall Pearson in the film This is us, which concluded in 2022 after six seasons. He also received Emmy nominations for his roles on Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The wonderful Mrs. Maisel and American Crime Story: The People vs. OJ Simpsonfor which he won in 2018.

He is currently fighting for his first Oscar for his role in American fiction.

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