SUPERNATURAL Star Jared Padalecki Didn't Know About THE WINCHESTERS Spinoff and He's "Gutted"
Update: In a recent update Padalecki says he talked to Ackles and says that things are good between he and Ackles. He shared on Twitter: “@JensenAckles and I had a great talk, as we do often, and things are good. The show is early in the process with miles to go. We’ve travelled a lot of roads together, and sometimes those damn roads have bumps. Bumps don’t stop us. Once brothers, always brothers.”
Original article follows:
Yesterday the big new hit that Supernatural star Jensen Ackles was developing a spinoff series titled The Winchesters with his wife Danneel Ackles. The show will center around Dean and Sam Winchester’s parents, and Ackles will return to reprise his Dean Winchester character as a narrator of the new show.
I thought it was a little odd that Supernatural’s Jared Padalecki wasn’t mentioned. I thought for sure he’d be involved, after all, he and Ackles had a close working relationship over the course of 15 seasons. Well, it turns out that Ackles didn’t even tell Padalecki about the project.
Padalecki took to Twitter to reveal that he’s had “no involvement whatsoever” in the show and yesterday’s announcement was the first he heard about it. He also says he was “bummed out” and “gutted” that he’s not involved.
He wrote, “Dude. Happy for you. Wish I heard about this some way other than Twitter. I’m excited to watch, but bummed that Sam Winchester had no involvement whatsoever.” When asked by a fan if his tweet was a joke, Padalecki replied, “No. It’s not. This is the first I’ve heard about it. I’m gutted.”
Padalecki sent out another tweet which has since been deleted, at Robbie Thompson, the Supernatural co-executive producer who is writing the new series. In that Tweet he said, “Et tu brute? Wow. What a truly awful thing you’ve done,” it read. “#Bravo you coward.”
So, Padalecki was completely blindsided by this news and is obviously upset. You’d think that Ackles and Padalecki would have talked about this at some point and Ackles would have wanted to include him in some way, but that’s Hollywood for you. You never really know what things are like behind the scenes.