Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki had their massive fanbase abuzz last year when they seemed to have some misunderstanding relating to a brewing project connected to their show, Supernatural — and now, Jensen is shedding light on what actually went down.
If you can recall, it was announced that Jensen was involved in a Supernatural prequel series. After the announcement, Jared took to social media to state that he was “gutted” to hear about the show and that his character was not part of it.
Jensen and Jared starred as Dean and Sam Winchester on the hit series for 15 seasons, and had always seemed to have a very close relationship off-screen as well, which is why their fans were all surprised at what happened.
In a recent appearance in Michael Rosenbaum’s Inside Of You podcast, Jensen finally spoke about the incident and explained why he initially did not tell Jared about it:
“[I’m] extremely superstitious when it comes to a few things. And one of those is — and this is probably something that a lot of actors share — we don’t talk about auditions until we got the role. [It’s] an unwritten rule that you just don’t talk about s*** until it’s a done deal…
[This] was my first venture into producing and creating content, and I didn’t wanna jinx it at any cost, so I shut up about it. Only the people that had to know knew.
I definitely had people that I was excited to tell. Jared being number one on that list…”
He revealed that the project was leaked, hence people finding out about it a little earlier than anticipated — including Jared, who sent him a long message after the announcement:
“[After the news broke] I had a long text from Jared, and he was really bummed, and I just remember my heart just sank.
In hindsight, that could have been a step that was avoided. But he did it, and it happened, and we dealt with it.”
Jensen went on to share that they quickly patched things up:
“He and I, we’re great. I wish he had just called me and said, ‘Yo, dude, why didn’t you tell me you’re doing this?’ And I would have been like, ‘Oh, okay, yes, I’ve been working and this has been happening and it’s way early in the process. It’s not even a done deal, we don’t even have an outline.
I just didn’t wanna talk about it or tell people and jinx it. And he totally got it. He understood, and he was like ‘Ah, I probably shouldn’t have done that.’”
