Jensen Ackles just dropped a major bombshell.
In a new appearance on Michael Rosenbaum’s Inside Of You podcast, Jensen candidly revealed that he and Jessica Alba did not get along when her co-starred with her on Dark Angel. The 43-year-old Supernatural and The Boys actor stated that during that time, Jessica was “horrible” to work with!
It all began when Michael asked how it was working with Jessica on set back in the day and if she was cool to work with, to which Jensen replied:
“No. She was horrible.”
His blunt answer stunned Michael who asked him if he was kidding, but Jensen doubled down on his declaration:
“No. I’ve told this to her face.”
Jensen then went on to speak in more detail about their working relationship on the series, which debuted in 2000 and ran for two seasons. He said of their friction-filled relationship:
“I love Jess, which I know kind of contradicts what I just said. She was under an immense amount of pressure on that show. She was young. She was in a relationship, and that was rocky and causing some undue stress, I believe, on set.”
Jessica was 19 when Dark Angel premiered.
He continued by saying:
“I was the new fresh face on the set who wasn’t really there in season 1. I came in for one episode, but then they wrote me in as a series regular for season 2. And I was the new kid on the block and I got picked on by the lead.”
So how did she pick on him? Jensen likened it to the worst type of sibling bickering:
“She had it out for me. It wasn’t that she didn’t like me. She was just like, ‘Oh, here’s the pretty boy that network brought in for some more window dressing ’cause that’s what we need.’”
Jensen added that he decided to play fire with fire:
“Very quickly I was like, ‘What the f**k? What did I do?’ So, very quickly I was like, ‘Fire with fire.'”
He also shared that eventually, he and Jessica “did build some mutual respect” and he cited two instances showing that they managed to get past their rough start. The first instance he shared was Jessica inviting him to her home to keep her company because she was not comfortable being alone at the time. The other instance was when Jensen’s grandfather passed away:
“My grandfather died while I was shooting and she literally just walked into my trailer and held me for a half an hour. So, it was that kind of a relationship.
And, again, if she walked in, we’d be all hugs. But she didn’t make it easy on me on set.”
