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In real life do you have anything in common with your character?
Yeah. We’re both tall. I’m just kidding. A little bit. I’m sort of maybe socially I’m a little bit more extroverted than Sam, but I’m very much - I’m very sort of logical with my reasoning, like instead of Dean like “The hell with it. Let’s go shoot it.” I’m very much more “Why?” And it’s funny because I had a tough time just being in Vancouver and being away. And I actually broke down to Jensen one day. I was like “Man, I miss my girlfriend. I miss my house. I miss like going home and sleeping in my own bed. Like why are we doing this? What’s going on? Why? Why?” And Jensen was like “Well, this is just the way it’s going down right now” and I remember thinking “Wow. That’s really like Sam and that was really like a Dean answer.” And so we just sort of like laughed it off and went back to work. I just really had a tough time and I was like - and the nature of filming. We like are working long hard hours and we’re working - we don’t really have like stages that we go to all the time. We do, but we’re like two days out of eight and then we’ll be here or we’ll be there or it’s an hour away and it’s raining and it’s miserable. You’re like “I just want to go somewhere sunny and take my shirt off and jump in the pool or something.” But it’s just like cold and damp and your bones are cold. And I remember sort of struggling with it and Jensen being like “That’s what we’ve got to do.”
Do you know your fans by name?
I don’t know if I know their names but I do know - I definitely know them. I’ll be like I signed like 19 pictures for you. You can’t possibly need any more.
You auditioned for the part of Clark Kent in Superman Returns and you didn’t get it. Did you regret it?
You know what? I regret it in the sense that it’s a character that I would have loved to have played but I thought that Brandon Routh who got the job did a great job. I’ve thought he did a great job. I thought he was the right man for the job. I thought it was a lot of fun to watch and it was a lot of fun to watch him because I really liked what he did with the character. It’s a tough character. It’s been played so many times by so many people in so many different genres and mediums that it would be tough to really decide what to do. That’s why it would have been exciting for me. It would have been another fun challenge, another fun character to explore but Brandon certainly was the right man for the job. On the flipside, when I tested for Superman it was going to be directed by a man named McG who ended up not doing Superman but he ended up producing a show the next year called Supernatural. So my meeting - in my head I think, “Well, that’s the reason I tried out for Superman was to meet McG and then get Supernatural”. I think the world has a funny way of working things out. I think that’s the way it worked out.
Did you know Jared before you worked on this project?
I didn’t.
You didn’t. So what was your first impression?
My Lord he’s huge. No. It was good. We actually met at the network read, so we had to - we had to read for the network, all the executives. We got in a room about this size with like maybe about 25 executives sitting on one side of the room and then just us standing, performing. But I met him there at the WB offices and, you know, it was - we hit it off right away. He’s from Texas. I’m from Texas. We have very similar background. We like the same music, you know. We grew up in a very similar way. So it was very - it was very easy, you know. We kind of fell into a rhythm very quickly.
LJ: Ackles & Padalecki, Interview Transcript #02
I look right in the camera and I’m like what am I doing? What exactly - it is three in the morning on a Friday night and here we are, you know, dealing with fairies. What in the world? This is not a profession. This is a circus.
