So are you upset and dreading what the writers are writing, or are you looking forward to seeing what Jensen does with what they give him?
I can't read Jensen's mind. I can only go by what I hear him say and what I read that he has said. And reading that article, going in without a predetermined negative mindset, but rather looking at what Jensen actually said, I totally understand what he was saying. Because I've been there. I've had to work with scripts that I had no idea what the heck I'm gonna do with it. I once played a role wherein I didn't figure out how I wanted to play the character until after the play had finished its run. It's why I now look at Jensen as one of my inspirations. Because no matter what he's handed, he either knows or figures out how to make it work.
He's an actor, he's got a job to do, and he's going to do it to the best of his ability. He expressed reservations from a couple of scripts he received months ago, has put on film, and performed splendidly. He brought it up during the shooting of ep 8 because he was asked about it. 6.01 was the context of the conversation, not 6.08. He was asked about what it was like to play domesticated Dean. He was asked about the beginning of the season. The whole article (that I read) was focused on what to expect from the first ep of the season. And he was honest with his answers. Which is one of the reasons I like him.
I had the impression that him expressing his disappointing in writing for his character was his insurance that the writing will improve.
If I understand you correctly, you're saying that Jensen's answer had an ulterior motive, to make the writers take notice and write the character differently. That doesn't sound very professional. I'd hope that if that was Jensen's purpose, that he's already expressed his misgivings to the people who can actually make a difference in the writing.
It's like the guy can't express even a hint of negativity without the fans coming apart at the seams. He's an actor. He loves his character. He loves his job. He respects the writers. And he's going to do great with whatever they give him. He's also human and doesn't like everything they hand him. He doesn't like to have the fake blood in his mouth. He apparently cringes when a script has Dean getting beaten up. He hated hanging from wires to shoot the end of S3. And he didn't agree with a direction Kripke went in "Lucifer Rising." It happens. He works with it, he turns in his performance, and he moves on.
Maybe he is unhappy. I don't know. I hope not. Of course I want him to be happy with his role. But it seems like a lot of fans are looking for something, some signs of doom and gloom and then run with it. That's what it seems like has happened here.
I'm sorry if this seems like I'm ranting at you. I don't mean to be. But it bothers me when fans take a reasonably simple and insightful statement from an actor and read the worst into it.
I'm repeating myself, but what I got from the interview was that he was asked about what it was like to play Dean in a new setting. Jensen read the script and was chagrined that Dean was being written soft. Jensen decided that as long as he was playing the role, Dean wasn't going to go "soft," so he toughened the role up. Which, that combination--with heavy emphasis on Jensen's love of the character and playing the role and what he did with it--struck just the right balance between the two.
That frustration with the early eps does not automatically translate to frustration with the later eps. It might, but it doesn't have to.
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I can't read Jensen's mind. I can only go by what I hear him say and what I read that he has said. And reading that article, going in without a predetermined negative mindset, but rather looking at what Jensen actually said, I totally understand what he was saying. Because I've been there. I've had to work with scripts that I had no idea what the heck I'm gonna do with it. I once played a role wherein I didn't figure out how I wanted to play the character until after the play had finished its run. It's why I now look at Jensen as one of my inspirations. Because no matter what he's handed, he either knows or figures out how to make it work.
He's an actor, he's got a job to do, and he's going to do it to the best of his ability. He expressed reservations from a couple of scripts he received months ago, has put on film, and performed splendidly. He brought it up during the shooting of ep 8 because he was asked about it. 6.01 was the context of the conversation, not 6.08. He was asked about what it was like to play domesticated Dean. He was asked about the beginning of the season. The whole article (that I read) was focused on what to expect from the first ep of the season. And he was honest with his answers. Which is one of the reasons I like him.
I had the impression that him expressing his disappointing in writing for his character was his insurance that the writing will improve.
If I understand you correctly, you're saying that Jensen's answer had an ulterior motive, to make the writers take notice and write the character differently. That doesn't sound very professional. I'd hope that if that was Jensen's purpose, that he's already expressed his misgivings to the people who can actually make a difference in the writing.
It's like the guy can't express even a hint of negativity without the fans coming apart at the seams. He's an actor. He loves his character. He loves his job. He respects the writers. And he's going to do great with whatever they give him. He's also human and doesn't like everything they hand him. He doesn't like to have the fake blood in his mouth. He apparently cringes when a script has Dean getting beaten up. He hated hanging from wires to shoot the end of S3. And he didn't agree with a direction Kripke went in "Lucifer Rising." It happens. He works with it, he turns in his performance, and he moves on.
Maybe he is unhappy. I don't know. I hope not. Of course I want him to be happy with his role. But it seems like a lot of fans are looking for something, some signs of doom and gloom and then run with it. That's what it seems like has happened here.
I'm sorry if this seems like I'm ranting at you. I don't mean to be. But it bothers me when fans take a reasonably simple and insightful statement from an actor and read the worst into it.
I'm repeating myself, but what I got from the interview was that he was asked about what it was like to play Dean in a new setting. Jensen read the script and was chagrined that Dean was being written soft. Jensen decided that as long as he was playing the role, Dean wasn't going to go "soft," so he toughened the role up. Which, that combination--with heavy emphasis on Jensen's love of the character and playing the role and what he did with it--struck just the right balance between the two.
That frustration with the early eps does not automatically translate to frustration with the later eps. It might, but it doesn't have to.
Again, sorry if this seems harsh or ranting.