Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki’s Friendship Over the Years

Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles' shut friendship is sort of supernatural.

The actors met for the primary time whereas they had been each auditioning for Supernatural in 2005. To their shock, no one else confirmed as much as check out for the present.

“These community auditions are terrifying,” Padalecki admitted on The Discuss in 2018. “So we met, and we … had been sitting within the room like, ‘The place is all people?' And so we're type of ready for different individuals to point out up.”

Whereas Padalecki and Ackles had been ready, they received to chatting with one another and located that that they had quite a bit in frequent, together with their Texas roots and their mutual love of the Dallas Cowboys.

Ackles mentioned, “They introduced us in, that they had us learn collectively in entrance of the executives after which they requested us to step outdoors — after which they mentioned, ‘We're simply gonna swap some issues up, we would like you to do one thing totally different … simply kidding, you guys have the components.'”

Ackles and Padalecki went on to play brothers Dean and Sam Winchester, respectively, in all 15 seasons of the WB/CW sequence, which led to 2020. Their self-proclaimed “brotherly bond” developed each on and off display screen, with the pair remaining shut after Supernatural's conclusion.

Now, Ackles and Padalecki are set to reunite (together with Supernatural costar Misha Collins) within the fifth and ultimate season of Prime Video's The Boys.

Preserve scrolling for a better take a look at Ackles and Padalecki's friendship timeline:

2005

Ackles and Padalecki starred collectively on Supernatural for 15 years.

“You're speaking about two younger guys who unexpectedly received thrown collectively, moved away from their lives, [were] put up in Vancouver, Canada, and simply informed: ‘You're each going to be working your asses off for the subsequent 15 years,'” Ackles informed Men's Health in 2025 whereas reflecting on their friendship. “That created a bond early on, and it's advanced as we've grown up and matured in our actual lives. What began out as a few buddies of their 20s moving into slightly an excessive amount of hassle, having slightly an excessive amount of enjoyable on set, has now advanced into two fathers with six youngsters between them. We've grown into males. We've received wives, kids and mortgages. We've received lots of duty outdoors of simply exhibiting as much as work on time. And we did all that collectively.”

2007

Padalecki informed TV Information that he and Ackles work nicely collectively as a result of they're “actually good buddies.”

“That's been most likely the perfect factor about Supernatural. Within the final three years of my life, I've spent extra time with Jensen Ackles than with another human being and vice versa. Fortunately, we get alongside very well and we're very related guys,” he continued. “We're each from Texas, we each love our households, the identical type of music and the Dallas Cowboys. It's been an enormous blessing to work with someone who's easygoing on set and who I'm buddies with.”

2013

In a joint interview with The Telegraph, Ackles mentioned that regardless of continuously spending time with Padalecki at work, they nonetheless wished to spend time collectively outdoors of their Supernatural filming schedule.

“9 months a 12 months, we're caught with one another actually 24 hours a day, seven days per week as a result of we're engaged on the present. Even doing stuff for ourselves in between isn't potential. We're continuously collectively,” he mentioned. “And even once we're not truly working collectively in the course of the 9 months, or the opposite three months out of the 12 months for that matter, we all the time discover ourselves selecting to hang around and be collectively.”

Padalecki added, “One of the best half about Jensen and my relationship is it's gonna be that means once we're on the present and never. I imply, sadly for him, he's caught with me for all times now and that's essential. However look, brothers and sisters, for that matter, generally battle. Or worse … they will't get alongside in any respect. Between Jensen and me, there have by no means been any points and I feel that's moderately particular.”

2021

In June 2021, followers feared that there was a rift between Padalecki and Ackles when the previous informed followers he was “gutted” that he wasn't informed concerning the Supernatural prequel sequence, The Winchesters, being in improvement. (Ackles and his spouse, Danneel, government produced the sequence, which aired on The CW for one season from October 2022 to March 2023.)

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“Dude. Completely happy for you. Want I heard about this a way apart from Twitter,” Padalecki wrote to Ackles by way of the social media website, sharing a report concerning the present from Deadline. “I'm excited to look at, however bummed that Sam Winchester had no involvement in anyway.”

Nonetheless, Padalecki later clarified that he and Ackles had been on good phrases.

“@JensenAckles and I had a fantastic speak, as we do typically, and issues are good,” he tweeted. “The present is early within the course of with miles to go. We've travelled lots of roads collectively, and generally these rattling roads have bumps. Bumps don't cease us. As soon as brothers, all the time brothers.”

Ackles retweeted the publish and added, “Love you @jarpad … Miss these talks. I forgot how a lot face time we all the time used to get. And I miss that too. I do know you're busy … as am I, however you're nonetheless my brother. I miss you, pal.”

2025

Padalecki and Collins are set to affix Ackles within the ultimate season of The Boys.

“It was bizarre,” Ackles informed People of getting his former Supernatural costars visitor star on his present. “It was like inviting my buddies over to someone else's home for dinner. I used to be like, ‘Pay attention, guys, don't make me look unhealthy. I received to remain right here.' They had been superb. I can't wait to speak extra about it as a result of it was fairly an expertise.”

Ackles additionally opened as much as Males's Well being about his “brotherly bond” with Padalecki.

“We nonetheless speak on a regular basis; we nonetheless see one another on a regular basis,” he mentioned. “He's on my brief listing of the individuals I can name if I ever want something, and I'm on his as nicely. I don't know many individuals who may have facilitated that type of relationship for that a few years. I'm very grateful it was him.”