Jensen Ackles reveals how he felt returning as the iconic 'Supernatural' character on 'The Winchester'
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: It is going to be 20 years since the first episode of 'Supernatural' was released and it introduced us to the dark mythical world of Dean Winchester (Jensen Ackles), and Sam Winchester (Jared Padalecki). Ackles portrayed Dean Winchester from the beginning all the way through 'Supernatural' season 15 before reprising his role on 'The Winchesters'. If you are a true fan, you'd know how Dean and his Chevrolet Impala were a match made in heaven. Regardless, the spin-off series of 'Supernatural,' 'The Winchesters' was initially presented as a prequel to The CW's hit fantasy drama, it soon became clear that with Dean added to the mix, the first season finale revealed the series to in-fact be a sequel, set in a parallel universe to the main events of Supernatural in an alternate 1970s. The spin-off series storyline is set in the 1970s while Dean Winchester narrates the story of how his parents, John Winchester (Drake Rodger) and Mary Campbell (Meg Donnelly), met, fell in love, and fought monsters together while in search of their missing fathers. Safe to say, the series would be toying with the 'Supernatural' universe in unexpected ways.
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'It's weird because we're in a different city'
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Ackles reveals how strange it felt to be back in the role of Dean for The Winchesters. He explains that, while it took some getting used to, his love for Dean as a character helped make the experience regain a level of familiarity.
He said, "It was a mixed bag. It's weird because we're in a different city, filming with a different crew. I'm working with different actors. Having Jim there and having Calvert there, it was almost like we were brought in from another team to come and show these new recruits how to play baseball. [Laughs] Like we weren't on our home turf. But it was a position that we were all very comfortable with jumping into and, how could you not be with playing those characters as long as we all have? It was like Dean was on location."
'We wanted to end this chapter, both on the emotional side with Dean'
Furthermore, 'The Winchesters' Season 2 story details are teased by showrunner Robbie Thompson, though there's no confirmation on the show's renewal. Thompson reveals to TVLine that he already has plans for The Winchesters season 2. The show's second season has been in talks at The CW, but with the network's ongoing changes, there's been no official renewal.
She said, "I’m going to be judicious with my answer because I don’t know what’s going to happen, obviously, [at The CW]. I don’t think anybody does at this point. These are interesting times, as the kids say. We looked at [our first season] as chapters, and this first 13 episodes, whether we were going to get only 13 or 22, we wanted to end this chapter, both on the emotional side with Dean and on the plot side with the Akrida. That was by design, and some of it is exactly what you just said, which was this was the big romance of the, for lack of a better word, meet-cute of it all, and to me, it was an ending [to] that part of the story. In terms of where we can go, the scale of this was, “It’s the end of the world,” and all of the normal hijinks. But that also kind of matches the scale of what you feel when you’re in that young romance, where you’re like, “Oh, my God, it’s us versus the world.” In success in a Season 2, without spoiling anything, we certainly know where we would want to go, and I think maybe you and I even talked about this as well when we spoke earlier [this season], the romance of this was always what was most appealing to me as a writer because I’d never really written much of that stuff in my career. The first act of that is always the meeting and the falling in love and the intensity of that. But then it’s a question of how do you sustain it, and what does that look like, especially in a universe where monsters are real? And so we have an incredible opportunity, given a chance to tell more story, to really get into the meat of what it means to be in a relationship in this kind of context, what it means to sustain love, not just fall in love."
You can watch 'The Winchesters' Season 1 on The CW.
