Sterling K. Brown Deems 'Fun' Onscreen Death on “Supernatural” His 'Favorite' Among His Roster

The Oscar-nominated actor talked to Drew Barrymore about his time on the hit sci-fi series from 2006-2007

Sterling K. Brown has nothing against dying onscreen — especially if it’s for something he deems as "fun."

The actor, 47, revealed which of his various onscreen death scenes was his favorite while on The Drew Barrymore Show on Monday.

“As a Black actor, you die a lot on screen, real talk,” he joked as he began to answer the question. “But my most favorite one was on Supernatural, where I became a vampire hunter. And I needed to die. But then I got bit by a vampire and so I had to die by being beheaded.”

“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.”

Host Drew Barrymore then said she’d never played a vampire onscreen, which prompted Brown to remind her of one of her more recent roles on Netflix’s Santa Clarita Diet. 

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

“I do love flesh-eating,” the 49-year-old actress jokingly replied.

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“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 was canceled after three seasons. “They were like, ‘Dial it down.’”

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Though Barrymore momentarily forgot about her role as a flesh eater on Santa 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 just split from her husband Will Kopelman after 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 to Deadline, "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."

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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 on Supernatural.

Brown won an Emmy, Golden Globe and four Screen Actors Guild Awards for his role as Randall Pearson in This Is Us, which concluded in 2022 after six seasons. He also received Emmy nominations for his roles on Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson, for which he won in 2018.

He is currently up for his first Academy Award for his role in American Fiction.

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