What's Your Price for (Super)Power?
Our dear and now red-carpet addicted friends over at Tonic.com recently had the opportunity to interview Jared Padalecki and his wife (and former co-star) Genevieve Cortese of the hit CW series Supernatural. The young and dynamic couple is expecting their first child, who is sure to be just as good looking and talented as his or her parents, in early March of 2012. Both actors come from big, generous families but in lieu of gifts, Jared and Genevieve are asking family, friends and especially their fans to donate to the St. Jude’s Children’s Cancer Hospital.
In real life, Jared and Genevieve may not have fire-breathing capabilities or be able to see through concrete walls but that isn’t stopping them from taking a stance against pediatric cancer. The couple is using their influence amongst their many fans and followers to help support the ongoing research taking place at the St. Jude’s facility located in Memphis, Tennessee. But while they are playing hero to the children who need it most the Supernatural actors have still wondered what it would be like to have supernatural powers in their real lives and not just in a studio somewhere in Hollywood.
“I would love to be able to survive underwater,” Jared tells Tonic.com “It seems like we've been able to conquer flying (to a degree) but we still can’t explore the depths of the ocean it’s scary and exciting to me to think about the unknown down there.” Gen was a bit more temporal in approach, asking for the ability to make time stand still “just so i could enjoy things a little bit longer.”
Flying in the sky at the speed of light. Lifting cars above your head. Stretching your limbs for miles on end. Reading the minds of those standing only a few feet away from you. Opening up doors with a hard, single stare. These are the supernatural powers we dream of having when we are little. Giving yourself a supernatural power is too easy for us over here at SoulPancake so we’re going to do what we do best and that’s raise the stakes… significantly. Your vision, your voice, your right leg and your incredibly precious youth. For every Supernatural power you accept you lose one of these four things, chosen at random. Ask yourself this: what good is flying if you can’t see? What good is hearing people’s thoughts if you don’t have a voice to share them with?
