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Morning, guys!
Got my issue of the new Supernatural magazine in the mail the other day and finally had a chance to sit down and read it last night.
There were a couple of tidbits that caught my attention. The first is from Jensen, talking about how he got into acting. I've read countless interviews with him, but I don't remember him telling the story quite like this, with leaving baseball and playing in West Side Story. I bet he knocked it out of the park as Tony!
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"That transition happened my senior year in high school," states Ackles. "I was playing baseball, and our team was not going to make it to the playoffs and go any further. It was my last year in high school, and the drama teacher had asked me quite a bit to come and be a part of the annual play that they put on, and I'd always responded, 'I can't, I got baseball.' So I thought, 'You know what? I've been doing baseball for three years.'
I went to my coach and said, 'Hey, I think I'm going to cut out early this season and go do the play.' I thought he was going to rip my head off! Surprisingly enough, he was like, 'Good for you! You're only in high school once. Experience as much as you can. You've given me two and a half solid years of your life. Go have fun. I can't wait to see the play.'
Then opening night, I had my whole baseball team in the first two rows. And I'm singing - we did West Side Story and I played Tony. I'm signing this song in the very beginning and the stage lights are bouncing just enough light off into the audience that I could see the first three rows, and I look down and I see all of my teammates looking at me [with expressions that said] 'What is he doing?' But they all came up to me afterward, and said, 'Nice job, man. That was pretty cool.' From then on I thought, 'Wait a minute. I think I can do this."
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The next is from an interview with Jake Abel, about any behind the scenes things he could share:
"I found out from the guys at ADR (automated dialogue replacement) that there's a theory that Eric Kripke controls all. For example, did you know he controls the weather? Yeah. He'll write things in the script like, "There are two clouds in the sky," and then they'll go to film and there'll be two clouds in the sky. It's actually pretty creepy!
So when Kripke wrote that whole opening thing in Swan Song about the assembly of the Impala, he just had this idea of what he wanted, but then it turned out for the crew researching it that there was some actual footage of the Impala being built on an assembly line. Apparently, though, it's really rare that they ever had footage of cars being built at that time, but they had the Impala, the same style and make and everything, being built. It was this super creepy moment for the crew when they were like, "How on Earth…?"
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Ha! Who knew Eric had that kind of power! It IS kinda creepy, isn't it? :-)
Got my issue of the new Supernatural magazine in the mail the other day and finally had a chance to sit down and read it last night.
There were a couple of tidbits that caught my attention. The first is from Jensen, talking about how he got into acting. I've read countless interviews with him, but I don't remember him telling the story quite like this, with leaving baseball and playing in West Side Story. I bet he knocked it out of the park as Tony!
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"That transition happened my senior year in high school," states Ackles. "I was playing baseball, and our team was not going to make it to the playoffs and go any further. It was my last year in high school, and the drama teacher had asked me quite a bit to come and be a part of the annual play that they put on, and I'd always responded, 'I can't, I got baseball.' So I thought, 'You know what? I've been doing baseball for three years.'
I went to my coach and said, 'Hey, I think I'm going to cut out early this season and go do the play.' I thought he was going to rip my head off! Surprisingly enough, he was like, 'Good for you! You're only in high school once. Experience as much as you can. You've given me two and a half solid years of your life. Go have fun. I can't wait to see the play.'
Then opening night, I had my whole baseball team in the first two rows. And I'm singing - we did West Side Story and I played Tony. I'm signing this song in the very beginning and the stage lights are bouncing just enough light off into the audience that I could see the first three rows, and I look down and I see all of my teammates looking at me [with expressions that said] 'What is he doing?' But they all came up to me afterward, and said, 'Nice job, man. That was pretty cool.' From then on I thought, 'Wait a minute. I think I can do this."
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The next is from an interview with Jake Abel, about any behind the scenes things he could share:
"I found out from the guys at ADR (automated dialogue replacement) that there's a theory that Eric Kripke controls all. For example, did you know he controls the weather? Yeah. He'll write things in the script like, "There are two clouds in the sky," and then they'll go to film and there'll be two clouds in the sky. It's actually pretty creepy!
So when Kripke wrote that whole opening thing in Swan Song about the assembly of the Impala, he just had this idea of what he wanted, but then it turned out for the crew researching it that there was some actual footage of the Impala being built on an assembly line. Apparently, though, it's really rare that they ever had footage of cars being built at that time, but they had the Impala, the same style and make and everything, being built. It was this super creepy moment for the crew when they were like, "How on Earth…?"
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Ha! Who knew Eric had that kind of power! It IS kinda creepy, isn't it? :-)
