Jensen Ackles Looks Ahead to Directing Post-SUPERNATURAL

SUPERNATURAL star Jensen Ackles stepped behind the camera for the Thursday, November 7 episode, but the occasion was a bit bittersweet—it was his final time directing the series he’s worked on for 15 seasons. (“Atomic Monsters” marks his sixth occasion behind the camera.)

“I’m just grateful for the opportunities that come my way,” Ackles says in the video below. “When I first directed it wasn’t because I had negotiated it in my contract or because I demanded it…I literally went to them and I was like, ‘You’ve seen my interest. You’ve mentioned that this is something that you thought I could do…I would only do this if you had the confidence in me to do it, and you trusted me enough to do it. If you do, I will do everything I can to make it a great episode. If you don’t, I completely understand it’s a very difficult task.’ And they were like, ‘No, no, you get an episode.'”

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SUPERNATURAL: Jensen Ackles Shares His Influence on the Final Season

As SUPERNATURAL heads into its 15th—and final—season, the series has a lot already planned. After all, the way it wraps up has already been plotted (and run by original series stars Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki). But the writers are leaving room for the actors to weigh in on some things along the way. Read more

SUPERNATURAL: Jensen Ackles on Directing His Final Episode of the Series

Jensen Ackles has directed a handful of episodes of SUPERNATURAL during the show’s run, but his upcoming season 15 hour is an important one: it’s the last one he’ll direct of the series before it signs off in 2020.

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The SUPERNATURAL Team Teases a Satisfying, Worthwhile Series Finale

As SUPERNATURAL heads into its 15th season, the cast and creative team are already prepping for the end—literally.

With the decision to bring the series to a close made before they wrapped season 14, the writers were able to craft the final year’s arc with a specific conclusion in mind…and have already pitched the idea to stars Jensen Ackles (who plays Dean) and Jared Padalecki (who plays Sam).

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DAWSON’S CREEK: Jensen Ackles and Busy Philipps Participate in LIVE WITH KELLY AND RYAN’s ‘Reboooot’

DAWSON’S CREEK may be gone, but it hasn’t been forgotten.

As part of LIVE WITH KELLY AND RYAN’s Halloween special, the duo “rebooooted” the show…with help from a few of its original stars.

Jensen Ackles (who played CJ in the drama’s final season) and Busy Philipps (Audrey, who joined the show in season 5) reauditioned for the series…and helped Kelly Ripa and Ryan Seacrest with their own takes on various roles from the show.

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SUPERNATURAL: Jensen Ackles on the Challenges of Portraying Michael

After 13 seasons of playing Dean Winchester—albeit, sometimes with a demonic twist—SUPERNATURAL star Jensen Ackles faced a new hurdle when he had to portray Michael (in Dean’s body) to kick off season 14.

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PaleyFest: SUPERNATURAL Stars Tease ‘Scoobynatural’

Zoinks! SUPERNATURAL is crossing over with SCOOBY-DOO in the March 29 episode of The CW series.

“Scoobynatural” had its world premiere at Tuesday’s PaleyFest, and fans weren’t the only ones watching the hour for the first time—series stars Jared Padalecki (Sam), Jensen Ackles (Dean), Misha Collins (Castiel), and Alexander Calvert (Jack) also saw the finished product.

The installment was a long-time in the making, with Padalecki, Ackles, and Collins recording their part of the episode over a year ago. “The three of us got in the booth together,” Ackles recalled during the PaleyFest panel. “There were a lot of cameras, so you’ll see it in the special features [on the DVD].”

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SUPERNATURAL: Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki on the Darkness, Unlikely Partnerships, and More

With Darkness (and Amara) loose in the world, the Winchester brothers are in for quite the fight on SUPERNATURAL. But for the first time in seasons, the duo is actually working in tandem from the start.

“They’re essentially not inflicted with anything, they’re both intact; granted they’re scarred and bruised from a life of hunting and fighting,” Jensen Ackles (Dean) told reporters in the video below. “But they’re not fighting for each other anymore, they’re fighting a common target.”

“They’re fighting alongside each other,” Jared Padalecki (Sam) added.

“They’re fighting alongside each other, and it’s been a while since we’ve seen that,” Ackles continued. “I’m really excited about that dynamic, back together. That unit that’s back together, as opposed to previous seasons when Dean had the mark, and Sam was doing things behind his back…having those motivations over the past several seasons, and now having that gone…it’s two brothers in a car, driving down a highway, with a common goal and common purpose.”

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SUPERNATURAL: Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles on the Meaningful Sam-Dean Scene, Special Return in ‘Baby’

[Warning: this post contains spoilers for the SUPERNATURAL episode, “Baby.”]

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SUPERNATURAL’s Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki Welcome LUCIFER and LEGENDS OF TOMORROW Stars to Their Lot

Students returned to school over the past few weeks, but odds are good they didn’t get a welcome as cool as the one SUPERNATURAL stars Jensen Ackles (Dean) and Jared Padalecki (Sam) had for their new lot mates.

While a good number of shows currently film in Vancouver, SUPERNATURAL has been the only television show to regularly shoot at its studio for the past decade — but that changed with this current season.

To welcome the casts of CW’s LEGENDS OF TOMORROW and Fox’s LUCIFER to the studio, Ackles and Padalecki had a hilarious “Welcome Freshman Class” banner made, and posed this week with the new kids on the block.

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SUPERNATURAL: The Cast and Producers Recall Their First Days on the Show

SUPERNATURAL’s 200th episode is finally here, and to celebrate the occasion, I asked many of the key players for their memories of their first days on set.

Take a look at what they had to say…

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SUPERNATURAL 200th Episode: The Cast and Producers Tease ‘Fan Fiction’

We’re just one day away from SUPERNATURAL’s 200th episode, and the hour — which SUPERNATURAL showrunner Jeremy Carver called “a love letter to the fans” — is one of the most meta-filled installments of the series.

I spoke with SUPERNATURAL stars Jensen Ackles (Dean) and Jared Padalecki (Sam), as well as executive producers Carver, Robert Singer, and Adam Glass about what’s in store in “Fan Fiction”…

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SUPERNATURAL: Jensen Ackles Teases ‘Soul Survivor’: ‘Things Get a Little Messy’

SUPERNATURAL star Jensen Ackles returns behind the camera to direct Tuesday night’s episode, “Soul Survivor,” but the hour is also a big one for his character, Dean, as Sam’s fight to remove the demon from his brother amps up. And, naturally, things don’t go totally as planned, so, as Ackles teases in the video below, “things get a little messy.”

Check out what else Ackles previewed about the hour…

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SUPERNATURAL’s Jensen Ackles on Demon Dean: ‘It’s Scary How Little He Cares’

Demon Dean will be causing trouble during SUPERNATURAL’s tenth season, and there’s nothing he holds sacred — not even Dean’s beloved Impala.

At Comic-Con, SUPERNATURAL star Jensen Ackles (Dean) talked with reporters about the havoc his “new” character will be causing…

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SUPERNATURAL at Comic-Con: Live-Blog

SUPERNATURAL is returning to Comic-Con to celebrate its tenth season, and its stars and executive producer will be on hand in Hall H to talk about the show.

I’ll be live-blogging everything that goes down starting at 10 AM PT, and in the meantime, here’s the official panel description..

“Series stars Jared Padalecki (Friday the 13th [2009]), Jensen Ackles (My Bloody Valentine 3D), Misha Collins (Ringer), and Mark A. Sheppard (Battlestar Galactica), along with executive producer Jeremy Carver (U.S. version of Being Human), return to Hall H to answer questions from the audience about what’s in store for the tenth season of this exciting series, including their upcoming 200th episode! Fans will also be treated to an exclusive video presentation featuring series highlights, as well as a portion of the special features from the upcoming Supernatural: The Complete Ninth Season DVD and Blu-ray release on September 9. The tenth season of Supernatural will premiere this fall in its Tuesday time period at 9/8c on The CW. The series is produced by Wonderland Sound and Vision in association with Warner Bros. Television. ”

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