‘Supernatural’ star Jensen Ackles jumps from one Eric Kripke show to another. The actor joins the cast of ‘The Boys’ in its third season, Ackles and Amazon Prime Video announced Monday.
“I keep wondering what I will do …. when this year finally ends @cw_supernatural,” Ackles wrote on Instagram. “Then it hit me.”
Ackles will portray Soldier Boy aka the original superhero in the streaming drama. After Soldier Boy fought in World War II, he became the first super-celebrity and a major figure in American culture for decades.
“When I was a kid, I had a crazy, impossible dream – to win Jensen Ackles,” Kripke said in a statement. ‘I’m happy to say that dream is true. Jensen is a great actor, an even better person, smells like hot chocolate candy cookies, and I consider him a brother. As Soldier Boy, the fiercest superhero, he will bring so much humor, pathos and danger to the role. I can not wait to be with him again, and bring a ‘Supernatural’ to ‘The Boys’. ‘
“The Boys” was renewed for a third season ahead of the second, which launches on Sept. 4. On Amazon. The show is based on the best-selling comic book by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson and was developed by Eric Kripke, who also serves as showrunner. Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and James Weaver of Point Gray Pictures also produce executive products, along with Original Films Neal H. Moritz and Pavun Shetty, as well as Phil Sgriccia, Craig Rosenberg, Rebecca Sonnenshine, Ken Levin and Jason Netter. Ennis and Robertson also produce production leaders together with Michael Saltzman.
Ackles is currently starring on “Supernatural”, which created Kripke in the early aughts and first launched on the World Cup network in 2005. It was planned to kick off its 15th and final season in May of this year , before the coronavirus pandemic forced a shutdown. Now it’s on course to wrap up on the CW this fall. Ackles’ previous appearances include “Devour”, the remake of the big screen “My Bloody Valentine” and the independent rom-com “Ten Inch Hero”. On the small screen, he is also known for “Smallville”, “Dark Angel”, “Dawson’s Creek” and “Days of our Lives”, for which he received three Emmy nominations for Daytime and in 1998 won a Soap Opera Digest Award.
Ackles and his wife Danneel Ackles are now active in fundraising for various social interests, including his “Supernatural” co-star Misha Collins’ Random Acts, as well as Creative Action, a nonprofit art-based youth development organization that is creative learning provides programs for youth in Central Texas; OutYouth, an organization that provides a safe space for all sexual orientations and gender identities and The Birthday Party Project, and organization that throws birthday parties for children in homeless shelters.
See Ackles’ announcement below:
