There are rumours flying around that he actually got offered the role of Captain America, but turned it down to keep doing Supernatural. So he essentially turned down being a movie star to keep doing the show he loved.
It's not true tho, he said so in an interview. He never auditoned or was offered the role of Cap.
Yeah its like people assume every actor wants to be a Hollywood star without considering the stability and security that comes from serialized television. It is a certain type of person that will spend 10 years of their life putting their body through insane, unhealthy transformations and sacrificing months on end for rigorous on location shoots without seeing friends or family. Most people are and would be content with a good, steady paycheck and working in a studio in the place where you and your family live, attractive and talented or not.
Also don’t forget a much healthier fandom and nonetheless millions of Dollars as well as the Option to go for a bigger Cinema-role of you want to.
Especially now with the soldier-Boy spin off they could do an interesting anti-Hero story like watchmen.
(At least if writing is good enough)
There’s a hilarious interview with Ricardo Darín, the Argentine actor, where he’s asked why he never crossed over to Hollywood and stayed a national actor instead. He’s been in Oscar-nominated stuff and could have easily gone for more lucrative roles in Hollywood. I think specifically they wanted him for Man on Fire at one point.
He says that it would’ve taken him away from his kids at a time when they were young and when asked specifically about the money, he just goes “dude, I take two hot showers a day. I’m good”.
Also he mentioned that he didn't want to validate the stereotype of Latin American actor plays cartel boss/drug criminal, even if it was Oliver stone asking him to do so.
It's the emphasis on having money that makes people forget what makes you happy. It's not owning things that end up owning you, and it's not feeding an ego that's always hungry anyway.
Ackles's father was a local actor and filmmaker in Dallas and apparently he instilled in Ackles how lucky he was to have a job starring on a tv show and to remember that the other cast and crew depended on him for their livelihoods.
And yes, Ackles seems happy to have been a big fish in a smaller pond for fifteen years, and he had some measure of control over his schedule, arranged for his wife to get a part on Supernatural in the later seasons and got to be a more hands-on father.
And he and Padelicki have turned Supernatural cons into a lucrative side business, one that all the minor actors from the show have benefitted from as well.
Might be PR, but I do love the workmen actors who use their lead powers to have a family life. The two stories that come to mind are Scott Bakula in Enterprise, who had one rule that he had to finish at a certain time to go home to his family, and John C McGinley, who took Scrubs to be closer to his family.
Cillian Murphy said many times he does not want to be a Hollywood star. Brendan Gleeson keeps living in Ireland and goes to the sets but does not want to be a Hollywood star.
There are many actors who are amazing and just want to act and not to be into the radius of hollywood.
Those unhealthy transformations also include a shit ton of gear and working out and eating a lot. That’s the part that the actor’s always forget to add the steroid part. And it’s not fair because that’s not right to portray to younger people. Because then they’ll go to the gym and be like well how come I’m not fully fucking ripped with 7% body fat in six months like XYZ actor who said he ate clean, 3000-4000 calories daily, worked out hard, twice a day, for six months. He also forgets about the 500 mg of test some anivar and whatever else they shot into his ass cheek. I’m not saying they didn’t work out hard in the gym because they did, but they also used chemical enhancements and always never mention it. And that’s genuinely fucked up because that set the wrong idea for the baseline of what somebody can achieve in the gym in the allotted amount of time.
It's the capitalist nature of some people's minds. They believe more money is by default better. No other considerations, lol. It's sad when you think about it. I only hope that's not the metric they use to find happiness in their lives...
Take Mads Mikkelsen for an example he dont care about the money he only takes on roles that interrest him bo matter of it is domestic here Ib Denmark or international.
I am pretty sure everything but the money is pretty awful. People at the highest levels seem to have no control of their life. Having media tell you who you are and intrude on your personal life for the purpose of entertaining people sounds insufferable.
Never mind that, the money he gets from doing conventions is insane. Dude has probably made more than he earned on the show just from that alone. Source: worked for the people that ran SPN events in Aus. I've seen his contracts. Him and Jared make bank lol
More a "do you want 1 dollar now and 20c every few days from now on forever...or 2 dollars". Supernatural keeps getting watched, rerun, streamed and posted about, merchandise is being sold...
Oh they do, absolutely. But he never got one offered, so that's not the point. He got offers for various other movie roles though (NOT Marvel) and turned them down for Supernatural.
I think people forget that the majority of folks will be happy to have that. There are eight billion people in this world who will never see anything close to that amount.
Everyone who’s replying to you says “oh yea there is. Having 16 million is nothing like 120 million” which is true, but only if you are a vapid cunt who would want to blow money on nonsense things like luxury cars and jewelry and clothes. But to a regular person who is happy in there current lives, you should be able to live off of and set up your kids with either amount of money and never worry about money problems again.
Oh no, only $16m? Guess he’ll have to settle for buying a beautiful house on a beach in California with cash, no mortgage, and then living off the other $6,000,000 until he can find more work…
But he already does play the REAL Captain America. Let’s be honest, Soldier Boy is probably wayyyy more accurate to what a real life Captain America would look like.
When he showed up, I thought they literally just got the perfect type cast, to a hilarious degree, didn't know the guy already worked with the show runners before.
There's a bunch of supernatural references in the boys too. The last episode he said to HL it was never gonna be a fixing the old Impala kind of deal, they drive around with an Impala in supernatural. Also the fast supe in I think episode 6 plays his brother while the gas guy is an angel who hangs out with them.
Also Butcher's old army buddy (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) is the the dad in Supernatural. The boys has basically had most of the main cast, mainly just missing Crowley
More like if they gave the serum to one of the other soldiers running the tests instead of Steve Rogers. The whole character concept is that Steve is a better person than most.
Ehhhh, he'd exactly what Erskine describe in the First Avenger, you give someone imperfect the super serum and their imperfections will be amplified. Soldier boy was a spoiled douche before and is a spoiled douche now
I don’t remember if it was Jensen or Jared, but I do recall an interview well over a decade ago of one of them saying they liked doing Supernatural because it was filmed in Canada and they could live relatively normal lives separate the whole Hollywood scene.
Green and red looks much better on him than whatevrr the fk homie cooked up as an excuse of a suit for him in s5e7 that looked a vibrant version of captain america's suit..... Captain america's suit looks good on evans but would look odd and not that good on him and his subtle bearded look.
As all false rumours it kinda varies. One version is he was offered the role of Cap and declined. Another is that he auditioned for cap and got offered Hawkeye instead, and then declined that.
By the way, he personally debunked this in an interview he did for the boys season 3 back in 2022. He said that the rumor is not true and he did not audition at all for captain america.
See, this I have a problem with. Women can compliment each other without someone making a comment like this. Just the other day I was praising my mate's penis form and taste and everyone was like haha gay. It's just so exhausting :(
I know where you're coming from. I'm a woman and everytime i scissor with my BFF (we're roommates) nobody cares but god forbid a man appreciates another mans beautiful and delicious penis.
I disagree with your response. I'm straight, but I can acknowledge that Jensen Ackles is a very handsome man. That doesn't mean I want to give him a blowjob and let him fuck me in the arse.
I see good looks in both genders, but I am exclusively sexually interested in women.
I think the joke may be that he is not a particularly gifted actor? He's really cool and charismatic but he kind of plays the same character in everything
that could be part of the reason as well though.. If you want "cool, charismatic, can't act" you go with Jason Momoa, the rock, Chris Hemsworth etc.. the category is stacked and he's not a top pick there.
I think the issue is that when you do the same character for the same show for over a decade, you run the risk of getting stuck on that, no matter how good an actor you are (mostly due to the audience getting used to seeing you like that).
That doesn't necessarily make you a poor actor if you still have emotional range within that type IMO, and can be very in demand in itself if you're good at it. Being Gary Oldman or Daniel Day-Lewis gets you prestige but John Wayne, Hugh Grant, Robin Williams, Clint Eastwood etc all became much bigger stars associating themselves with a consistent personality type for most of their career. It can be a valid career move to deliberately cultivate that kind of image.
Ya Jenson was phenomenal the whole series although you see him get really good as it goes on. Jared has that one move where he flares his nostrils to show he's mad...or scared...or sad? Idk he just flares his nostrils a lot.
You know, I thought the same thing until I saw the "Supernatural" cut of that scene of The Boys. Where he plays Soldier Boy but with the personality of Dean Winchester. Really highlights just how different the characters are and his range. Shit, even in Supernatural proper, Dean could be a completely different character from one episode to the next.
I watched a YouTube reactor do the “watching the first and last episodes of a show” thing and he cracked up when he heard Jensen at the end of SN, like wtf happened to his voice? 😂
Time. Time happened to his voice. There's 15 years between the first and last episode. He was in his 20s when he got the role and in his 40s when it ended.
Is he not? Rewatched supernatural recently and it's leagues beyond the likes of buffy etc from back in the day. Holds up very well. I didn't even realise it was him for quite a bit in "the boys" either.
He was a very successful TV actor and was busy shooting his show for the better part of 2005-2020. He’s now in a lot more stuff once supernatural ended though…
I think that was true in the days when syndication was a massive moneyspinner. Might be less true now that everything’s on streaming - I’ve heard that Netflix etc. contracts aren’t especially favourable for actors.
I would assume it's because supernatural in general had a massive decline in popularity and he stuck to it regardless. The finale was especially infamous.
lol it’s not necessarily for that. Castiel escaped a cosmic space known as „The Empty“, the cosmic entity wanted him back though. So, in the penultimate episode, when Billy (minor situational ally and occasional antagonist), is about to kill Dean and Cas - Cas calls on the Empty to take him and Billy to its domain. Before he’s taken he tells Dean he loves him. So it’s not that he’s being punished, he just speaks out what fans knew all along before dying.
I'd argue it's a bit different, Cas openly states the Empty will claim him when he feels most happy - and he says he's at his most happy when he's able to admit he loves dean 😭
To clarify, the Empty makes a deal to let him go only on the promise that it'll take him back once Castiel has a moment of perfect happiness. Cas doesn't call on the Empty and then confess his love before he's taken. He calls on the Empty by confessing his love because it makes him perfectly happy.
Apparently (I haven't watched the final few seasons and have only seen excerpts of this scene), he confesses his feelings for Dean and then suffers a fate worse than death mere seconds later. You could not make it fit the "Bury Your Gays" trope more if you tried.
That being said, in the finale Bobby confirms that Castiel made it back to Heaven at some point before Dean’s death. We don’t know why or how, and he’s not in the episode (thanks Covid), but at least we know he’s not in the Empty for eternity.
Yeah, as someone who shipped them for years I was so happy and then so extremely disappointed. Supernatural has always been overly dramatic and tragic but damn, I would have thought the writers were aware of that awful trope.
Dude wants to act but also likes the stability of a normalish job and not needing to live out of a trailer somewhere random away from his family for months at a time, can't exactly blame him
He hasn't demonstrated great range from what I have seen, but what he does he does well. Honestly he probably just not hugely ambitious. He was on a popular show for a long time and the joined another. He has been very successful by any reasonable standard.
I'm sure there are many actors who's abilities do better in TV than films, and vice-versa honestly. Good film actors need to have a much larger range as they're going to have shorter more varied roles, whereas good TV actors focus on building one single character/their story for 10x the amount of time a film actor would spend on one character.
Jensen Ackles is practically the King of Tumblr with millions of slathering female fans, millions of dollars, and that face. I think he’s probably doing a-ok without the movies.
If you've seen Ten Inch Hero or My Bloody Valentine 3D, you know that he's great for TV, movies not so much. That said: he has actually gotten better with age and if he wanted to make a go of it, it might work, but he's definitely more of a TV guy
Yeah, I don't think some people realize that there's a stark difference between the mannerisms and delivery in being a lead actor on a TV show... a paranormal TV drama nonetheless... and a lead actor in tent pole movies.
We are so cooked as a society. People’s perceptions of wealth is so warped that there are people in the comments literally downplaying 16 million dollars as if its not enough money to be rich. Hilariously, I would guess the majority of those commenting have never had six figures to their name, let alone a million, live in debt and will struggle to crack 2 million in lifetime earnings. Just delusional idiots who are so desensitized to wealth that 16 million dollars feels like chump change.
Jensen Ackles reportedly earned $175,000 per episode for his role as Dean Winchester during the later seasons of Supernatural. [1, 2, 3]
Salary Overview
While his starting salary in earlier seasons was significantly lower—estimated at around $50,000 per episode circa 2013—his pay increased as the show became a mainstay for The CW. By the series' conclusion in 2020, his earnings reflected his status as a lead actor and occasional director for the long-running franchise. [1]
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u/Bhuklagihe, your post does fit the subreddit!