Part 2 of the TV Guide interview with JA is up - but part 2 is spoilery. An Excerpt:
TV Guide: Do you have a thing for vintage cars now, since you practically live on screen in that old Impala?
Ackles: I do, though not necessarily muscle cars. I'm more into four-wheeling. I just sold a '73 Bronco, all tricked out for off-roading. But after driving the Impala around so much, I'm getting the feeling of that good old muscle car, so I'm kind of in the market right now. I'm going to try to write into my contract to get one of these Impalas, so when the show's over, maybe I'll scoop it on up and get it styled.
Here is the Q&A w/o the spoilery stuff:
TV Guide: You've added a couple of hot new female characters to the show, Ruby and Bella. Eric Kripke [the show's creator] said he's looking to see what chemistry that will bring. Will it be meet-cute, hate each other and then romance each other?
Ackles: I don't know. They tried to do that with Jo [Alona Tal] last year and the audience [reaction] was, "No, no, we just want this to be about the boys."
TV Guide: How do the boys feel about it?
Ackles: We're begging for new characters! I look at a show like Heroes and I laugh. You guys have no idea. Those characters are probably working two or three days a week, whereas Jared and I are in every single scene of each episode. If we get a scene off, we're laughing.
TV Guide: I hear it's a tough shoot.
Ackles: It is. We're going 14, 15 hours a day Monday through Friday. We shoot nights, out in the cold, the rain. I read an interview that Matthew Fox gave about working on Lost in Hawaii and he said, "It's great. I only work two or three days a week. I spend time with my family at the beach." I wanted to kill myself.
TV Guide: You did a stage play this summer, right?
Ackles: I played Daniel Cassidy in A Few Good Men. Lou Diamond Phillips played Colonel Jessup. I hadn't been on stage since high-school musicals 11 years ago. It was back in Dallas, so I got to go home and put on a show for my whole family and friends.
TV Guide: How'd you do? Would you do it again?
Ackles: I would, but not for a little while. It was a lot of work.... If you remember the movie, Tom Cruise was in every scene. To memorize 125 pages of a play was a little daunting. But we made it happen.
TV Guide: You don't like to talk about your life, but you're single, right?
Ackles: I'm not married. [Laughs] I've been dating somebody for about a year. She's an actress.
TV Guide: Who is it then?
Ackles: [Laughs] I don't know if I should tell you. She's an upcoming actress. She's not known. She's good people. She comes from a very similar home. Louisiana. We've got that in common. It works well.
TV Guide: What's happening with all the demons you released from Hell?
Ackles: We're doing our best to fight 'em.
TV Guide: So who or what is pulling the strings now? There's someone above the Crossroads Demon, true?
Ackles: The Crossroads Demon is not someone with the utmost power. There's definitely a lot more — we use the term "celebrity demons" — that have now been released.
TV Guide: In what way are you most like Dean? Are you a sarcastic guy?
Ackles: Dean and I share a few qualities. Sarcasm is definitely one of them. Where we differ the most is the short temper before getting into a big confrontation. But when push comes to shove, I can easily turn into Dean.
TV Guide: Do you have a thing for vintage cars now, since you practically live on screen in that old Impala?
Ackles: I do, though not necessarily muscle cars. I'm more into four-wheeling. I just sold a '73 Bronco, all tricked out for off-roading. But after driving the Impala around so much, I'm getting the feeling of that good old muscle car, so I'm kind of in the market right now. I'm going to try to write into my contract to get one of these Impalas, so when the show's over, maybe I'll scoop it on up and get it styled.
TV Guide: Anything more about the show?
Ackles: It's another thrill ride this season. We're really hitting our stride. If the audience likes what they've seen in the last two seasons, it's a little more intensified version of the same. I'm real proud of it.
TV Guide: And you're hoping you don't die, or at least come back in some spectacular fashion.
Ackles: Please write to Kripke. Tell him not to kill me.
Ackles: Please write to Kripke. Tell him not to kill me.
::is overcome with the adorableness::
Ackles: Please write to Kripke. Tell him not to kill me.
It's not like Minear where we have, you know, access.
Um, bad choice of showrunner there.
It's not like Minear where we have, you know, access.
We should get him here! He'd like us!
(Mostly?)
...maybe we should get Sera Gamble instead.
We should get him here! He'd like us!
On the board or in the thread or on the show? 'Cause done, ??, and NOOOOOOOO!
Besides, I'd fear for Bobby's life with Tim on our show. Or worry he'd make me like Gordon (before tragically killing him, of course) or some such madness.
...maybe we should get Sera Gamble instead.
The FanFic thread might never be the same...
So if Minear were the showrunner and not Kripke - Dean would be a dead dog.
Multiple times. So, really more like a cat.
Except we like Dean already. Minear's more the "Make you love 'em and then brutally rip your heart out. By brutally ripping their heart out, often times."
(No idea what SPN just morphed into a mental Minearverse for me. But there you go... Maybe it's the killing without much remorse.)
Last night we had a Hunter's Moon. I wish that SPN had incorporated that into an episode.
I mean, we just think it means that the moon is bright for people hunting game but it could mean that the moon is bright for people hunting supernatural entities.
Thanks for the plot bunny, sumi!!
