Jensen Ackles Says THE BOYS Season 5 SUPERNATURAL Reunion Was "Disgusting" and "Outrageous"
The Soldier Boy actor Jensen Ackles sat down with Entertainment Tonight and spilled on what it was actually like filming with his Supernatural brothers Jared Padalecki and Misha Collins for The Boys’ final season.
Ackles admitted he went into it with a knot in his stomach. "I was nervous to have them on. Not in a bad way – I wanted them to do good. They're family to me.
“We spent almost two decades together… It's like watching your son go up to bat for the first time. That's how I felt. Of course they did great. We had a great time."
Sweet, right? Sure. But then he kept talking, and things took a dark turn: "It was disgusting, it was outrageous. I think there were multiple days where we looked at each other like, 'What are we doing?' But we're used to Kripke's universes, so it wasn't that shocking.
“Having us together, it was weird working on camera with them playing different characters than we're used to playing. That was a little tricky; it took us a few takes to shake that out."
Three Supernatural veterans, reunited on a super violent and graphic superhero show, staring at each other mid-scene wondering what their lives have become.
Padalecki previously teased at Creation Chicago that his role was "unlike" anything from his "past 25 years of this wild career."
Then there’s showrunner Eric Kripke, who created both Supernatural and The Boys, who clearly had the time of his life with it.
He told Entertainment Weekly, "They show up in episode 5. What I love about what they're doing is they're just such douchebags. It's great. I mean, Soldier Boy is no treat either, but they're just really not morally upstanding dudes. It's a blast to watch them play that. It was just so much fun."
Kripke built his career writing morally complicated men doing terrible things for complicated reasons, so when he says he loves how much of a douchebag someone is, take it as the seal of approval it is.
The Boys Season 5 is now streaming on Prime Video.