EVERY SUPERNATURAL FAN.. JUST. WATCH.
guhhh so sad, but i love them
EVERY SUPERNATURAL FAN.. JUST. WATCH.
guhhh so sad, but i love them
The sequence was miserable for Ackles, who spent four hours in make-up having the various hooks and other prosthetics applied. Wired cuffs around his wrists and ankles, as well as a harness around his waist, were used to lift him 13 feet into the air in front of a green screen. To his discomfort, the harness slipped, causing its buckle to continuously dig into his hip throughout the scene’s three or four takes. The actor, who “had tears rolling down [his] face” as he was lowered down, deemed it the most physical pain he has endured for a single shot.
But look how happy he is.
This was while makeup was still being applied:


Then they hoisted him up. Once they hoisted him up, Jensen knew that anything that necessitated taking him out of the harness meant having to re-do the make-up or reset the shot. There’s a reason they called him “One-take Jensen” on Dark Angel. He and Jared fool around a lot and have fun, but he’s a professional and he wants to get the scene done.
Here he is after they hoisted him up.


The scene looked like he was being held horizontal to us due to the way they filmed it, but he was hanging as above. So the whole time he’s hanging there, the harness (the brown belt-thing in the second shot above) had slipped and was digging in. Gravity did the rest. His arms were in the cuffs, it’s not like he could re-situate himself or do anything else without ruining makeup/prosthetics.
The timing of the lights we saw flashing made it where the scene kept needing to be re-timed, hence the third and fourth takes. No one knew how badly Jensen had been hurting until they brought him back down, likely because he waited until then to mention it. He knew if he asked to come back down, they’d lose a days’ worth of filming.
Jensen, oh. my. god. I wish half the people I worked with were anywhere near that professional.
Bobby: Still,knowing how much you love flying the friendly skies,I guess a 9-hour plane trip was no picnic.What’d you do?Drink your way through it?
Dean:I was fine.
Sam:No,he white knuckled his way through four puke bags.
Dean:Well,at least I was sober.
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Episode 4 Season 6
COME AT ME, BRO.
YOU WANT A PIECE OF THIS MOOSE? BRING IT ON BITCH
