Emma
01-10-2006, 06:00 PM
<img src="http://www.fanbolt.com/forums/images/avatars/supernatural/supernatural09200531.jpg" width="85" height="85" vspace="5" hspace="5" align="right" border="0" alt=" Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Supernatural, WB"> Jensen Ackles never had an audition like the one he had for the WB’s “Supernatural” (Tuesdays at 9 p.m. on WLVI, Ch. 56).
“It was kind of funny because it was a very in-house situation,” Ackles said during a recent telephone interview from the set. The actor, who plays witty older brother Dean Winchester on the eerie series, had done his time on the WB, spending a season as a bad-boy boyfriend on both “Dawson’s Creek” and “Smallville.”
“Once they started kicking the script around and tossing around names, my name came up. The director of the pilot was also very familiar with me. He and I have known each other for many years, and it was kind of an agreement that I was one of the top choices for one of the roles. I basically went in and read for the director, whom I knew, and he said, ‘Yeah, done great, OK, you’re in.’ . . . Usually you’re fighting to bring notoriety to yourself. You want them to remember you; you want them to know who you are when you go in, and a lot of times you have to fight for that. In this circumstance, it was already done. I just went in and waved hi to a bunch of familiar faces.”
The Dallas native fell in love with acting during high school.
“I was pretty into sports when I was growing up. Of course, that’s the thing to do when you’re in Texas. Theater was something I just did on the side; it was an elective, because you have to take an art elective, and I didn’t know how to draw, and I thought, ‘Well, I can make an idiot of myself - that will be easy.’ ”
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Source: BostonHerald
“It was kind of funny because it was a very in-house situation,” Ackles said during a recent telephone interview from the set. The actor, who plays witty older brother Dean Winchester on the eerie series, had done his time on the WB, spending a season as a bad-boy boyfriend on both “Dawson’s Creek” and “Smallville.”
“Once they started kicking the script around and tossing around names, my name came up. The director of the pilot was also very familiar with me. He and I have known each other for many years, and it was kind of an agreement that I was one of the top choices for one of the roles. I basically went in and read for the director, whom I knew, and he said, ‘Yeah, done great, OK, you’re in.’ . . . Usually you’re fighting to bring notoriety to yourself. You want them to remember you; you want them to know who you are when you go in, and a lot of times you have to fight for that. In this circumstance, it was already done. I just went in and waved hi to a bunch of familiar faces.”
The Dallas native fell in love with acting during high school.
“I was pretty into sports when I was growing up. Of course, that’s the thing to do when you’re in Texas. Theater was something I just did on the side; it was an elective, because you have to take an art elective, and I didn’t know how to draw, and I thought, ‘Well, I can make an idiot of myself - that will be easy.’ ”
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Source: BostonHerald