Last weekend at the Comic-Con International in San Diego, we spoke with Jensen Ackles, who is now entering his tenth season as Dean Winchester on The CW’s Supernatural. In the roundtable interview, which you can see below, Jensen talked about directing while acting, but he also spoke at length about what to expect from “Demon Dean.” Enjoy:
“Dean last year – we saw this really tortured guy; this tortured soul,” Jensen said. “He had essentially lost the brother relationship with his sibling. It was very business. He had the guilt of the whole letting Sam being possessed by an angel, so there was a lot riding on Dean’s shoulders last season. It was torturous for him. It was a really, really tough year. So what I wanted to do in contrast for Demon Dean, was I wanted it to be Dean without any of that stuff. So it’s essentially kind of the same guy, but he’s a Dean without any care in the world, so much so that it’s scary how little he cares about anybody and everybody, even himself. Even the car. So is he going to be more comedic? I’m like no, no, no. There’s nothing funny about this at all. He’s so carefree and careless that I think it’s the scariest part about it, to me.”
“It is a 24/7 ‘do what I want to do’,” Ackles continued. “Whether it’s drink, whether it’s female, whether it’s sing karaoke. He does not care, and he doesn’t care that anybody else cares. I just shot a scene where Demon Dean was literally up singing karaoke and the entire bar was booing him, and he was just like ‘I’m gonna sing louder to screw you!’ So, a lot of bar fights, a lot of boos, a lot of babes. That’s Demon Dean.”
Supernatural returns with new episodes on Tuesday, October 7, following the series premiere of The Flash.
