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Kurt Fuller just wanted to play a good guy.

For everyone who knows Fuller for his time in the popular horror action series Supernatural, you know he didn't exactly get that chance. The thing is, though, Fuller actually went into the role of the villainous angel Zachariah believing himself to not only be the hero, but to not die in a "spectacular" way by the time the series was up. 

That's one of the many things we learned when we sat down with Fuller at C2E2 2025. The actor was there, among other reasons, for a special reunion with his Psych castmates (Fuller has played coroner Woody Strode in both the series and the TV-movie followups), but since we knew there were more than a few Supernatural fans in our readership, we just had to ask him about his time fighting the Winchesters.

"When I first got Zachariah," Fuller begins, "I called my wife and I said, 'Hey, I'm playing a good guy! Because I didn't play that many good guys up until just about those years. I said, 'I'm playing a good guy; he's actually a good angel in this show that has a lot of bad guys. Maybe I won't get killed!'"

Fuller is referring to the fact that, in many of the heel roles he's played and seen others play over the years, the last time they're seen is a rather theatrical demise.

"I once put a reel together of all my deaths," Fuller tells Popverse, "And it was a very long reel. It was all my dying, and [I] always die in spectacular ways." 

You can imagine, then, how excited Fuller was with the prospect of actually surviving a series, but very soon into filming for the character, he started to get a whiff of antagonism.

"By about the third episode," Fuller says, "He was clearly going to the dark side, or was already always on the dark side."

But did that stop Fuller from still having fun with the role? Not in the least.

"I had decided that Zechariah thought he was very funny," the Evil actor expands, "Very entertaining, and that he really lived by wit, dry wit, insulting with. So I just kept playing him as a guy who just wants people to laugh. He wants people to go, 'Oh, that was really good. Oh, that was really funny.'"

"Because if you're already bad," Fuller concludes, "You don't have to play bad. You're already doing bad things, so you might as well do something else that adds dimension to the character."

Dimension, as Supernatural fans will surely agree, is not something that Zachariah lacks. And along the lines of what Fuller was saying, there are more than a few times where, despite how heinous of a being he is, that thorn in the Winchester's side does get a well-earned laugh from the audience.

You can watch Popverse's full interview with Supernatural star Kurt Fuller below: 

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