Welcome again to Tracker, Jensen Ackles.
The Countdown star promoted the newest episode of his Prime Video collection with a video from a TV present set, revealed to be Tracker‘s, with the identify of his recurring character on the CBS drama on the trailer door on Wednesday, July 30. “Good to be again in motion,” he captioned the video. He reminded followers of the brand new episode of Countdown (learn what he needed to say about it right here), inspired them to test it out, “then ultimately, down the street,” with the digicam panning to Justin Hartley‘s character’s identify, Colter, “you possibly can see these guys doing different issues.” See the video under.
Ackles has performed Russell Shaw, Colter’s brother, in two episodes (one per season) thus far of Tracker. The drama follows Colter, a rewardist who travels the nation serving to discover lacking folks. The via line of the collection thus far includes the mysterious dying of their father once they had been youthful. The brothers had been estranged at first of the collection, with Colter even pondering that Russell could have had one thing to do with their father’s dying. As soon as they talked, nevertheless, Russell shared what he knew about that night time, and within the Season 2 finale, Colter began getting solutions about what occurred to their father.
Ackles’ return isn’t a lot of a shock, on condition that earlier this month, he advised TV Insider there was “most likely a superb probability” he’d be again. He additionally spoke with us concerning the similarities between his Tracker and Supernatural characters.
“I’m taking part in the older brother of anyone that I do know very properly, and I get together with very properly. I imply, Justin and I’ve recognized one another for over 20 years, and we’ve been buds and we’ve by no means gotten to work collectively. So it was actually enjoyable for us to get on set,” Ackles mentioned. “Nevertheless it was additionally very straightforward as a result of it’s simply hanging out along with your buddy and we get to have enjoyable and we get to combine it up. And it’s good that he’s an govt producer on it so he could be like, ‘Do you want that phrase? Do you want that line?’ Simply change it, no matter you need.’ So it form provides us slightly freedom.”
He additionally had historical past with showrunner Elwood Reid from his time on Large Sky. “When he trusts his actors, he encourages that,” he shared. “He’s like, ‘Make it your individual.’ He is aware of me properly. He’s clearly Justin’s man, and it’s made it very straightforward. So it’s not simply Justin that I get to go and work and play with. I get Elwood as properly. And there’s some acquainted faces within the crew as a result of clearly it shoots up in Vancouver, which I’ve spent a while there, so I do know that city very properly, and I do know loads of crew members and loads of crew faces, so it’s a little bit form of stepping again into an outdated coat.”
With Ackles filming early on in Season 3’s manufacturing schedule, would possibly Russell be a part of the dialog that Colter must have with their mom (Wendy Crewson) about simply why she requested Otto (Alex Fernandez), who pushed their father off the cliff, for assist?
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Tracker, Season 3 Premiere, Sunday, October 19, 8/7c, CBS
