#jared padalecki a+ acting

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Just a reminder, it's been over a decade since Jared played Gadreel/Ezekiel and premiered as Lucifer. Amazing!

[mishacollins]

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[hexedwinchester]

I wasn't prepared for this.. 😭😭

[sunbleachedf4wn]

jared would've absolutely nailed playing sam giving birth…

[lovealwayssay]

Not to be talking about something that came out in 2010 but Supernatural episode 5.22 Swan Song is, in my opinion, the best episode of television ever. The episode is told with this narration about the Impala, leading to the Impala reminding Sam of Dean just long enough that he can overpower the devil and stop the Apocalypse. The parallel between Sam and Dean and Michale and Lucifer is just beautifully done. How Lucifer asks Michael not to fight him and Michael refuses, only for Lucifer to have to see Dean show up and be there for his little brother. Dean shows up for Sam, even if it means he'll have to watch Sam die, just so he doesn't have to die alone. Dean refuses to fight him even if it means getting killed because he loves Sam. It's contrasted by Michael and Lucifer. Michael refuses to reason with his brother, is willing to kill his brother for an absent father, while Dean is willing to die just so Sam doesn't have to be alone. Sam is able to overpower Lucifer because of this immense difference in their relationships with their brothers. Sam and Dean win, but it doesn't really feel like it. Sam has to choose a fate worse than anyone could imagine, and he does it willingly. And Dean has to go on living, knowing his brother is being tortured beyond anything he can imagine. Its such a beautiful and tragic story.

[fratricideknight]

i was watching 6x22 the other day and something really struck me about jared's acting. when sam first wakes up in the world in his head, he's all innocent bambi on too-long legs with puppy-dog eyes.

soulless!sam is, of course, a semi-emotionless sociopath (kinda), drawing a stark contrast with the other sam piece.

but once sam kills soulless!sam, he acts differently. still sweet and empathetic, but more stoic and hardened.

it's as though soulless!sam's traits have been subsumed into him and blended. it really gives the sense that they're individual pieces of sam, and that the sam before 6x22 wasn't sam in his entirety, either. maybe this was obvious to everyone else but i only just noticed, and ugh, it was just so good!!

[peanutbutterandbananasandwichs]

Just posting this clip because my brain made a connection between it and this ("Acting isn't lying its finding/telling the truth" and "If I want to give him what he deserves I kind of have to go through it as well"). Just interesting stuff to me.

[freakygirlie]

j2 have truly forgotten how the barn scene actually went because they do not do it right at all they are literally just using the barn scene ops as an excuse to hold each other and touch foreheads

[blushingsastiel]

i saw this take on supernatural,,, the person said it was a great move from the writers to move away from the sam storyline to a more dean centric storyline,,, which fine people can have opinions but what really made me do a double take was when this person said it's because the writers finally realized that only jensen could act 😭😭😭 first of all, this is supernatural,,, let's tone it down. and second of all, jared had some great acting. wasn't perfect but he was enjoyable too!!!

[supernaturalconvert]

Acting Climate

Found this very informative article about acting jobs on Deadline. They break it down for the layman what's going on in the industry and why acting jobs in this climate are very hard to come by.

In terms of the fandom, I am especially posting this for folks who have tried to downplay Walker's importance and sort of state that not working or working as a guest star is somehow better than being a lead.

[laf-outloud]

So true!

[not-enough-fandoms]

You know the quote from Winnie the Pooh

"You're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think"?

Well I sometimes think

"Be brave like Jensen, Strong like Jared, and Smart like Misha"

[hexedwinchester]

Kaleidoscopic Expressions

anyone who has paid attention to Jared's expression can see the range of emotions and feelings he is able to express through his acting. A lot of actors express one core/strong emotion when acting but only a great actor can display a magnitude of emotions.. Jared is able to express a range of emotions within a fraction of second and it's truly brilliant 😍🔥

[sounknownvoid]

Sam's "puppy dog eyes" are just him,hurt or ashamed - vulnerable?

We all know (&love) sammy's "puppy dog eyes" - & thanks to dean, we've been told of its amazing powers of persuasion and influence on people... I mean look at the evidence:

How could you possibly say no to this face?... I certainly couldn't ...but maybe that's the point - hear me out..

In "Scarecrow", Dean waxes lyrical about how his brother could give you this "look" and people would just "buy into" whatever it was he was saying at the time...

Elsewhere too, it's remarked upon, by Dean, about how no one can resist the power of the "puppy dog eyes" - thing that strikes me though is the language used - its almost framed like its a "manipulative tactic", something that Sam deliberately uses to his advantage somehow and is a weapon in his personal arsenal to disarm and influence people....ie "mere mortals" - the language is almost ominous and sinister...from dean.

Similarly when he talks about how sam is the one more easily able to coax whoever they're interviewing on cases to trust them, persuade them gently with his demeanour to divulge information that they'd perhaps otherwise not have shared...again framed almost like a "secret power" of Sam's....by Dean.

But then, watch the actual show and the actual times those 'puppy dog eyes' are shown by sam - he'd usually hurt or bewildered or ashamed and guilty and scared - yes, even soulless sam coz y'know he was still an actual person... if it IS a tactic it usually seems to be to try and get other person to stop hurting him or to show that he's hurting (the point of facial expressions) in hope the said person will stop - which BTW, note how he blanks in later seasons instead and stops showing his vulnerability any more?...

and whenever he's been able to convince people to share information and to trust them - it's been because he employed EMPATHY n understanding and cared about the situations these "normal" people found themselves in...ie he simply treated these folks as normal human beings caught in a bad situation and showed them some consideration,thoughtfulness amd kindness.....and that's all.

Contrast to whenever dean has been on his own (or when soulless with him instead) - he has a hard edge to him and gives off some pretty angst n downright scary vibes- not too mention, he's usually pretty suspicious or scoffing at the "civvies" in his demeanour - prolonged contact with sam has taught him to moderate himself/his approach but it's not his "natural" state with folks...

And that brings me to the point I'm trying to make on this post...

What if dean, struggling with his own "complex feelings" and being unable to ever deny sam anything coz of his own love n conditioning reads Sam's wounded look as a manipulation- a way to explain away his own "weakness" ( coz remember in john & dean's world vulnerability & love is a weakness is not what a "man" does) - ie "sammy made me do it with his bewitching eyes" instead of "I love my brother so much I can't deny him anything" is more palatable to dean.... and also, because his feelings frightened him and he's scared of the (perceived) hold sam has on him - he thinks sam MUST know of his effect on dean and MUST be using it on purpose....because conflict/threat&it's defusal & disarmament of said threat or weaponising their tools/themselves, is what they do.

And then, to further justify it to himself, he points to the interviews with civilians and how sam is able to persuade them too - so it's not just him, samm DOES have these "powers of persuasion"-bordering on ahem, the supernatural...but it's just sam being a decent human to these folks...

Just like everything else Sam's been blamed for or, something ominous being made of something he does or is - maybe those "famous" puppy-dog eyes of his are just sam looking actually, genuinely hurt,wounded,betrayed? - but it's so much easier to deflect and dismiss as a manipulative tactic so that no reparations or even acknowledgements need to be made and so no accountability required to be taken - which is after all, "dean special power"?....

it strikes me everytime, how much of our views of sam are molded and informed by dean's POV in the narrative of supernatural....

I'm beginning to wonder if we've ever actually seen sam as he was in the story at all - from an objective standpoint, let alone his own POV (which I'm sure would be far darker of himself and also inaccurate?)...

[nym-wibbly]

who in the three main spn actors gave the best performance?

Yowch! That's like trying to figure out if apples beats oranges beats bananas, you know? Beyond subjective preference, how do you even start? I can't think of a single actor on Supernatural - main, recurring, or shortlived, gore-coated guest-victim - who didn't nail whatever material they were handed. The casting was spot on from start to finish, the direction was generally superb, and I think when a show gains that level of reputation among actors (and crew) as an opportunity to do good work, everyone levels up just that bit more to do it justice.

Misha Collins was the only one of the three whose other work I already knew going in. Still is, really, on account of me spending most of the summer watching Supernatural and not having time for anything else. So I can gauge his role(s) on Supernatural against his other work - see what technique and energy he carries from role to role, his unique actor's toolkit if you like, and how that evolved throughout the show's long run, vs what he created for and from Castiel specifically.

I can see more of what he's trying to do in a given scene because of that familiarity with his other work. I'm not in a position to do the same for Jared Padalecki or Jensen Ackles, so I don't even want to try comparing that fruitbowl!

Honestly, I'd be much more interested in what they (and maybe the directors) have to say about each other's performances—and their own. Actors usually just have to get on with it on the day, no time to do anything else, but their benefit-of-hindsight analysis is something I usually enjoy a lot.

[positivexcellence]

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