Jensen Ackles Talks 'Countdown,' Working With Eric Dane and 'The Boys' Season 5

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00:00Hello sir, how are you?

00:02Good to see you.

00:03Good to see you.

00:04Congratulations.

00:05I appreciate it.

00:06So, I heard your knees took a beating with all the action, that's what your creator told

00:10me.

00:11Well, I would say that to him just so that he would, you know, lighten up a little

00:15bit.

00:16He said you insisted on doing the stunt work.

00:18I know, I won't stop doing it.

00:20I'm a sucker for it.

00:21It's fun.

00:22I grew up loving those kind of movies and those kind of TV shows and, I mean, I was,

00:26you know, I was a fan of the A-team and, and, and, and, the A-team you said.

00:31Oh, yeah.

00:32You know, I love, I love the, you know, the diehards and love the, you know, the Indiana

00:36Joneses and, and the lethal weapons and, and so any opportunity I can to, I get to kind

00:43of play in that world and, and, and kind of honor.

00:46Shoot guns.

00:47Yeah, yeah.

00:48Chase bad guys.

00:49Have fun with the guns?

00:51Is it weird?

00:52Um, you know, I've, I've had, I'm comfortable, I've had enough training, like, like real world

00:59training with them to be, to be respectful, uh, safe and, and, uh, able to handle it, uh,

01:06you know, properly.

01:07But, uh, yeah, I know, I know he gets nervous.

01:09Some people get really nervous around him.

01:10I don't, I don't really get that nervous about him.

01:12What's it like going face?

01:13I get nervous with other people.

01:15Depending on who, right.

01:17Um, what's like going face to face with Eric Dane?

01:20I mean, he's a, he's a, a titan when, when the cameras are rolling.

01:24Um, I did find myself sometimes becoming a wallflower and forgetting that I had lines

01:28because I was just watching his performance and, um, he is, uh, yeah, the, the, the strength

01:34and the stillness that he, that he brings to this character, um, it, it kind of took me

01:39back at first.

01:40I was like, oh, what, what, what, what is this?

01:42What does he, and, um, and no, it was just, it was, it was great.

01:46It was, it was an honor to, to get to work with him, uh, even, an even greater honor to,

01:51to become his friend.

01:52What's it like seeing him face this diagnosis, being public about it, to raise awareness?

01:56Proud, proud as hell of, of how he's handling it with such six, you know, grace, uh, dignity.

02:01Um, you know, I, I, I had no doubt that he was gonna, that he was gonna handle it this

02:07way and, and I, I couldn't, couldn't be more proud of, of, of him.

02:10And, um, you know, he knows, he knows I love him and I, I support him and, and, and anything

02:15he needs, so.

02:16I love that.

02:16Okay.

02:17A little transition.

02:18The boys.

02:19Yes.

02:21So you're doing season five in your head, you get a script, you're like, really?

02:26They're doing that?

02:29Yeah.

02:30Every, every script.

02:31Yeah.

02:32I mean, there's, there's things I'm still talking about now that I had to do that I still

02:35can't believe I had to do.

02:36Yeah.

02:37But that is the boys.

02:38How, is there ever a time where they have to convince you to do something or you're

02:42like, I'm in, whatever you want me to do?

02:45I mean, I kinda, I kinda know what I'm in for when I, when I crack that script.

02:50Um, so I, I'd say if anything, there was just maybe some massaging of, of, of how.

02:55Massaging?

02:55The boy, I see, careful.

02:57See what I did there?

02:58Um, yeah, they, we, you know, we, we, we try to, we try to do the best we can, but,

03:02uh, you know, at the end of the day, Kripke and his crack team of writers, they, uh, they

03:06come up with some really, they're just sick people.

03:08They're just sick people.

03:10And, uh, and I, I, I questioned how I got involved with such sick people.

03:15And, and then I see it on screen and I'm like, ah, it's entertaining.

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