• 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.

• Murray Bartlett said that season two of "Nine Perfect Strangers" has "great twists and turns."
• The actor said that he plays a former children's TV host who has a puppet.
• Season two was filmed in Munich and Bartlett said it has a "gothic" aesthetic.

After memorable turns in "The White Lotus" and "The Last of Us," Murray Bartlett is returning to the small screen for season two of Hulu's hit drama series "Nine Perfect Strangers." This time, he'll have a companion with him.

"I'm an ex-children's TV host, and I have a puppet," Bartlett told Business Insider's Caralynn Matassa of his character while attending the Sundance premiere of his new film "Opus."

"It's an amazing cast, there's some great twists and turns in the story this season, and we shot in the most beautiful locations," Bartlett added."It's kinda gothic this season."

"Nine Perfect Strangers" is based on author Liane Moriarty's New York Times bestselling book of the same name. Season one stars Nicole Kidman as a mysterious health guru named Masha Dmitrichenko, who runs a boutique wellness retreat called Tranquillum House and welcomes nine guests hoping for a total transformation.

The eight-episode first season of "Nine Perfect Strangers" made a splash on Hulu upon its release in August 2021, setting a record as the most-watched Hulu original ever — drama, comedy, limited series or unscripted — on premiere day and after five days on the streamer.

"Nine Perfect Strangers" was renewed for season two in June 2023, with Kidman confirmed to return as Masha. Season two centers on guests at a new retreat location in the Swiss Alps.

"Swiss Alps and crazy!" Kidman, who also serves as an executive producer, told Deadline in April. "Hold on tight, cause it's going to get wild!"

Bartlett told BI that season two of "Nine Perfect Strangers" was filmed in Munich and Austria.

"It was so beautiful, we had a really fun time," he said.

In addition to Bartlett, season two includes a host of new characters played by Henry Golding, Mark Strong, Lena Olin, Annie Murphy, Christine Baranski, Dolly De Leon, Maisie Richardson-Sellers, King Princess, Aras Aydin, and Lucas Englander.

The release date for season two has not been announced.

• Netflix's "American Primeval" is inspired by the true story of the Mountain Meadows Massacre.
• The massacre is depicted in episode 1 and is the inciting incident for the main characters' journey.
• The real-life tragedy took place in 1857 in Utah. 120 people were murdered.

Netflix's dark new Western series, "American Primeval," draws inspiration from a real-life American tragedy to depict the harsh landscape of the West in the 1800s.

The six-episode limited series, released Thursday, focuses on the clashes between Native Americans, Mormons, settlers moving West, and the U.S. government through the lens of two people experiencing the conflicts in real time: Sara (Betty Gilpin), a mother going West with her son, and Isaac (Taylor Kitsch), a mountain man who grew up among the Shoshone tribe who's tasked with transporting her there safely.

While Sara and Isaac are fictional characters, many of the events in "American Primeval" are rooted in history. Case in point: the first episode's bloody massacre is a dramatization of a real incident that occurred in Utah.

The Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857 claimed the lives of 120 men, women, and children in southern Utah

In September 1857, emigrants traveling from Arkansas to California were attacked and murdered on a wagon trail by about 50 or 60 local Mormon militiamen with assistance from Paiute Indians in Mountain Meadows, Utah. Seventeen children who were 6 years old or younger were spared.

The Mountain Meadows Massacre stemmed from a feud between the Latter-day Saints (more commonly referred to as Mormons) and the American government that was later known as the Utah War.

The Mormons, led by Brigham Young, feared that they would be attacked by US troops and driven off the land, so they created their own army called the Nauvoo Legion.

Despite multiple people being involved in the massacre and subsequent cover-up, John Doyle Lee, a militia major, was the only person who faced severe punishment.

Lee and Isaac Haight, who was also involved in the tragedy, were excommunicated from the church in 1870. Lee was later convicted and executed for his involvement in the massacre. He was sentenced to death by firing squad and executed at the massacre site in 1877.

In 'American Primeval,' the massacre is the inciting incident that drives the plot

In the first episode, Gilpin's character Sara Rowell scrambles to protect herself and her son Devin (Preston Mota) when the group they're traveling with is attacked by Mormon soldiers disguised as Native Americans. Sara and Devin are about to be killed, but they're saved by Isaac, who hides them in the woods and helps them get away on horseback.

The brutality of the scene, which also depicts a man getting partially scalped, sets the stage for the rest of the season, and is a key part of the season's narrative.

"The Mountain Meadows Massacre did happen … and it became, for our narrative purposes, an inciting incident of conflict for our cast of characters," executive producer Eric Newman told Tudum, Netflix's editorial site.

Sara, Devin, and Isaac are doggedly pursued by the Mormon soldiers who want to cover up their part in the attack.

"It was driven by the Nauvoo Legion, but we have to understand that they perceived it as a threat," writer and executive producer Mark L. Smith added. "They were coming in to defend their world. It is just another step — a very violent step — in the lengths that they went to."

"American Primeval" is now streaming on Netflix.