The Boys showrunner Eric Kripke is doing his best to include Supernatural alum Jared Padalecki in Season 5 of his violent superhero show. Kripke spoke on the potential for Padalecki’s inclusion during an interview with . He says “it’s fair” to assume that the plan is to include the star, who played Sam Winchester in Supernatural, in some capacity.
Though nothing is concrete yet, only a few more pieces need to fall into place before Padalecki is confirmed to show up. "We both have now seen that it looks like our schedules will line up," Kripke said. "I don't have the role for him yet just because we haven't cooked it up.
We're still really early in the Season 5 break, but it does seem like the planets are aligning. Barring any unforeseen disaster, it seems like it'll happen. Again, I don't know what the character is, I don't know if it's one episode or more, I genuinely know a total of zero about all of that.
I'm not being coy. I really don't know." Fans have theorized about Padalecki’s inclusion for years.
The star worked with Kripke on Supernatural in the past, and The Boys has included its fair share of talent from the paranormal show since it first came to Prime Video in 2019. It wasn’t until recently that , where he went as far as to say that he had already spoken to Kripke about tagging along for Season 5. “I mean, he created Supernatural.
He created Sam Winchester. He created Ruby [Genevieve Padalecki], who I ended up marrying and starting a family with,�.
