It was only a year ago that we were talking about Jensen Ackles joining the cast of Smallville as Lana's new love interest Jason Teague.
It was only a year ago that we were talking about Jensen Ackles joining the cast of Smallville as Lana's new love interest Jason Teague.
Now Jensen's moving on to a show of his own, with Supernatural, a series premiering on the WB Tuesday, September 13. He plays a character named Dean, a role which he promises will be a lot of fun.
KryptonSite caught up with Jensen and asked him about his new show and why it would appeal to fans who enjoyed his work on Smallville. "Well aside from the fact that I'm on it? No, just kidding," he joked. "It's got a little Supernatural edge to it. I mean, the title speaks for itself. The cool thing about this is, for Smallville fans, there's been that legacy of Clark Kent, and of Superman, and of those characters. Such a lineage that's gone for so long, and I think that what we're going to do and try to do on this new show is that we're taking actual folklore and actual urban legends, and we're going to explore those. So it's going to be things that you could research and look up on the Net, and actually test us from time to time, and make sure we're keepin' it real."
And what did he think of Jason Teague going bad in the latter half of Smallville's fourth year? "Something had to happen to that poor guy. I mean, he was just like wading in the water for a while," he said. When asked what was up with Jason never even seeing a tattoo on his girlfriend's back after dating for a few months, he had this to say: "It's kinda the running joke on set. It's like, oh, wow, the most unexciting relationship in the history of television."
We here at KryptonSite wish Jensen Ackles the best of luck on his new series Supernatural. For those of you who may be interested in the show, the WB has released two more promo shots which we have added to our Supernatural gallery.
Source: KryptonSite.com