Jensen Ackles reveals his own superstitions are why he forgot to tell Jared Padalecki about the Supernatural prequel series.
✖ As Supernatural fans recall it wasn't long after the long running CW series concluded that news of a prequel TV show was announced with star Jensen Ackles executive producing. What seemed like a potentially special moment was slightly marred though as his co-star Jared Padalecki took to Twitter to ponder why he hadn't been told the project was moving forward.
Speaking in a new interview on the Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum podcast, Ackles was asked about what happened, revealing that at first he didn't tell his co-star because....well, he wasn't telling anyone."I'm extremely superstitious when it comes to a few things...And this is probably something that a lot of actors share – we don't talk about auditions until we got the role," Ackles said.
Ackles went on to note that as things began to progress on the show's development that it all began to move very fast, fast enough that additional parties would begin to become privy to it like the studio, network, and publicists for all involved. This in turn is what lead to the news making its way onto one of the Hollywood trades.
The star revealed he was on the set of The Boys at the time when he learned that the story was going to break, and since the have strict cellphone policy he only had time to come up with a brief statement before returning to shoot the series. After returning from set however he found many"congratulations" emails and texts, with one note from Padalecki.
"I had a long text from Jared, and he was really bummed out, and I just remember my heart just sank," Ackles added."In hindsight, that could have been a step that was avoided. But he did it, and it happened, and we dealt with it. And he and I, we're great.