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“Supernatural” Fate for Texas Artist Boyd Elder’s “Y6 Sunrise” Bull Skull

Actor Jensen Ackles Adds Storied Bull Skull Art Piece to his Texas Art Collection

The saga of “Y6 Sunrise” reads like a sci-fi script: An otherworldly looking art piece – a storied West Texas Hereford bull skull painted by near-mythical Lone Star multi-media artist and raconteur Boyd Elder – survives a harrowing, decades-long journey to hell and back.

Miraculously, the piece lands back safely in the Lone Star State, then winds up the centerpiece in the new Austin-area home of Jensen Ackles, the Dallas-born “Supernatural” TV series star and Texas art collector who grew up in nearby Richmond.

“Y6 Sunrise” was the centerpiece of Elder’s “4×4” exhibit at the Bale Creek Allen Gallery in Austin in mid-2016, where Ackles and his wife, actor Danneel Ackles, originally from Lafayette, Louisiana, first saw the piece on display.

The Ackleses were decorating their newly remodeled home with iconic Texas imagery and agreed “Y6 Sunrise” was the piece de resistance. The purchase price remains undisclosed.

“My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn’t something I wanted to do until high school, when I started taking theater and really liked it. Then an agent found me and wanted me to come out to Los Angeles and give it a shot. I gave myself six months, but it only took me like a week to get a job.”

“What I enjoy most is travelling to different places and meeting new people. For me, it’s all about life experiences, and I’m very grateful that acting allows me so many interesting and fulfilling ones.”

“When we started, we knew the show was going to be hit or miss, and we needed to find a core audience to really make us survive. And I think we’ve been able to do that.”

“Comedy, drama, Westerns, sci-fi… it’s all fine if the story’s compelling and the character is interesting to me. I do like action a lot.”

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Do they believe in ghosts in their everyday life?
Jensen Ackles: “I believe there is something that surrounds us, a certain energy… Yet I’m not one that jumps to the conclusion it must be something supernatural. For instance, if in the night I hear a sinister noise, I think it must be a thief or the wind, not a ghost for sure!”.

Jared Padalecki: “I agree. I don’t believe in ghosts, but if I saw one I would call Dean Winchester!” (He bursts out laughing).

Is there something you share with your characters: personality, clothing…
Jared: “I have a lot in common with Sam. I am a reflective guy, but if action is needed, I am ready to go. As for clothes, Sam is like me, he needs to feel comfortable. In my spare time I wear jeans, a shirt or a t-shirt and (he raises a leg to show his shoes) sneakers.. But when I have to look elegant I slip into my tuxedo! Thanks to this convention I visited Ferragamo’s atelier … I saw some stunning tuxedos!”.

Jensen: “Dean and I share a similar clothing style (he says so looking at his clothes): jeans, t-shirts, combat boots and a few leather cuffs. Clothes are important, because the character starts from there. The mere fact I am wearing unusual clothes turns me into someone else.”

What is fashion for you?
Jensen: “It’s a way to express yourself. Sometimes I see someone particularly well-dresses and I steal some ideas… yet I am not fashionable, my wife is (actress Daneel Harris, Editor’s note) and she suggests me what to wear”.

Jared: “It’s like your business card: what you wear speaks about you. But I don’t follow trends, I wear what I like and I think I look good in it”.

Venice Magazine’s Interview

Venice: Congratulations on another terrific season of “Supernatural” as well as My Blood Valentine 3D. One thing that impressed me about the movie was that the 3D effects aren’t all about things coming directly right at you.
Jensen Ackles: You never want to get to gimmicky. I remember talking to the director and one of the first calls we had he was very clear how this was going to go. He didn’t want to make it gimmicky but he definitely wanted to pay homage to the old throwback horror movies and include some of those great clichés that would honor them.

I love how everything is right in front of you, almost like you can reach out and touch everything. It just has to be the wave of the future.
I’m surprised it has taken this long to catch on. I think with the new technology… I can’t event fathom what i’ts going to be like in the future.

Honestly, when you first heard about this project did you ever think, “Do we really need to remake this movie?”
Well, it’s been something I’ve just vocalized to my friends, and some of my peers. ‘Geez, are we that hard up for original ideas these days that we continue to do remakes or steal ideas or shows from other countries? Is the writing that lackluster these days?’ But when you think about it, and what really hook, line, and sinkered me with this was the fact that it had a cult following but it wasn’t a huge, huge movie. My Bloody Valentine was not a blockbuster, smash hit. It wasn’t like a Friday the 13th or Nightmare on Elm Street.

I’m old and I’m a horror guy, but who else remembers the original?
Right, it’s a select few that latched onto those unique little horror movies, and this is one of those. And I think that was unique in itself, and throwing all this modern technology onto it and using the 3D format, I was interested from the get-go.

There’s a scene at the hospital where your character says he’s not selling the mine and Kerr Smith pops out from behind a curtain and everyone laughs because it’s so ridiculous.
And even in the very beginning when Tom Atkins turns and he’s framed with the heart on the window, there’s just the right amount of mozzarella shredded over the movie that people will understand that it’s not trying to take itself too seriously and that it’s a nice throwback movie done in a way where you can sit back and enjoy it. It’s like a ride.

Probably because you’re in it, but when your character first arrives back in town you can’t help but think this is a job for the Winchester brothers.
Yeah. [laughs]

Actor Jensen Ackles shares his spooky experiences of playing a spirit-slaying Supernatural brother

Supernatural’s one of the spookiest shows on TV, with a fresh demon or murderous monster appearing each week, but after a lifetime of watching Horror films star Jensen Ackles thought he was immune to being spooked. That was until the show filmed an episode in a disused asylum…

“That episode, Asylum, was actually filmed in an abandoned mental institute and it was so spooky the art department didn’t have to do anything to it,” he says, “It was a huge five-storer building, completely deserted and not used. We were filming on the third floor and when they called ‘lunch’ the whole crew started walking towards the stairwell, so I took a shortcut down the back stairs. So I went down it was just completely dark, and there was this long, long hallway with little light at the end of it, it was really freaky. I walked a little faster, and then I was running past all these rooms. So that was a little freaky. It made all the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.”

Even after a jet-lagged night hoofing lager in a British pub Supernatural’s ghost busting brothers Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles incite out horniness. Alone in a London hotel room axm ask the Texan pair to bump us in the night like gay “spirit people”. For some reason they refuse.

Young US stars par-excellence, Jared, 24, and Jensen, 28, breeze into our plush room the very definition of nonchalant lust appeal. Even more gallingly, they’re blissfully unaware of just how hot they are. It’s hard to think about anything other than sex, so we barely bother.

You two came second in an internet poll of sexiest fellas on Tv, just behind Patrick Dempsey form Grey’s Anatomy…

Jared: You mean we were beaten by Dr. Mcdreamy?

Jensen: Hey, it’s flattering to come behind him.

There’s a joke there… Anyway, do you get hit on by many gay fans?

Jensen: That hasn’t happened to me, at least not that I’m aware of.

Jared: That happens in Los Angeles, but it’s not like they come up to me and say: “I’m gay, do me!” It’s more like: “I really like the show and my boyfriend likes it too”. I had one guy come up to me and say: “Can I have your autograph? My boyfriend is gonna be so jealous.” They don’t proposition me, but then I don’t get proportion but girls either.

JENSEN ACKLES | Born: March 1, 1978, Dallas, Texas. Latest project: Plays one of two brothers in the WB’s Supernatural who investigate the eerie mystery behind their mother’s violent death.

First big break: Days of Our Lives.
With my first big paycheque, I bought: A truck.
Favourite on-screen romance: Kristen Kreuk [in Smallville].
If you weren’t an actor, you’d be: An aeronautical engineer.
You’re stranded on an island with a Jessica. Which one do you pick: Biel, Alba or Simpson? Gotta go with (former Dark Angel co-star) Alba.
The craziest thing you´ve done for your art: I did a scene (in Supernatural) in a small room filled with 60,000 bees. Hell yeah, I got stung.

6 Questions with Jensen Ackles

As ghost buster Dean Winchester on the WB hit Supernatural, Jensen Ackles can sniff out evil in a heartbeat. But in real life, he’s got a nose for what’s sexy: “I love the smell of shampoo on a girl’s hair,” says the former Days of Our Lives actor, 27. Ackles, a Texas native and one of PEOPLE’s Sexiest Men of 2005, filled us in about what else makes him weak in the knees.

What’s your type?
Me and my buddies say, “Someone who gets it.” Gets sarcasm, gets high-brow humor. Ultimately, someone who you can pal around with and also be intimate with. Someone who can laugh at your jokes – it may sound cheesy, but someone who can be your best friend as well as your lover.

What’s the sexiest thing a woman can wear?
I’m into a casual-dressing girl: blue jeans and a tank top is super sexy. But the sexiest thing on a girl – when I see it I’m like, oh my God – is these little tight boxers. Don’t get me wrong – g-strings are fine – but those cover a little, to where it’s just enough.

Do you and costar Jared Padalecki ever go out carousing?
I do my best to corrupt the little guy, but sometimes I’ve got to respect his relationship (with actress Sandra McCoy).

How about the fan love? Any wild moments?
Sometimes if you’re in the wrong place at the wrong time and you walk out of a bar and a guy’s girlfriend recognizes you and the guy doesn’t like it too much and starts hollering at you – that can get tricky. That happened to Jared and me a couple of months ago.

What’s your hidden talent?
I have a buddy of mine who’s a musician and I play guitar and sing quite a bit with him.

What’s the best present you’ve ever given a woman?
I would say it was a black pearl ring that I designed for her. The pearl I picked up in Tahiti at a market and fished through a bowl full of these pearls until I found my favorite one. The worst gift that I ever gave a girl was a suitcase for Christmas. As in, “I can’t think of anything to give you, but here’s a new suitcase.” Afterward, I was like, “What were you thinking, idiot?”

Fresh Faces

JENSEN ACKLES
Age: 27
His character: Supernatural’s Dean Winchester, a cocky ghostbuster.
He reminds us of: Brad Pitt – 15 years ago when he was still a TV actor.
Otherwise known as: Daytime heartthrob Eric Brady on Days of Our Lives.
Loves: Westerns. “I’m from Texas, [and] I would have to do an old-fashioned gun-slinging Western. Not many of those get made these days, but this is close.”
Married: Er, nope.
Quote: “Other shows scare you with what they don’t show. We definitely show it. I never know what I’m going to do each week. Like, I just got a script called ‘Bugs’ and when I got to the set, [executive producer Eric Kripke] said, ‘You aren’t allergic to bees, are you?’ I just thought, ‘Uh-oh’.”

Jensen Ackles and Ty Vaughn

Jensen Ackles: plays Eric on Days of Our Lives
His buddy: Ty Vaughn
Friends since: seventh grade, when Ty moved to Jensen’s school in Dallas; they now live together in Los Angeles

How did you meet?
Jensen: We were in study hall and weren’t supposed to talk. I was making jokes and Ty just chimed in and made me laugh and from then on…
Ty: …he kinda took me under his wing.

How is a guy friendship unique?
Jensen: I think feelings are more understood between guys. You don’t have to talk, you just know; girls want to open up more.

What makes you friends?
Jensen: Humor is a real big thing with us.
Ty: Major sarcasm!

What do you do for fun?
Ty: We sit on the couch and play Nintendo. That’s about it! [Laughs.] We’re pretty competitive, though.
Jensen: We also go to the basketball court down the street. We both love sports.

If you had a problem, would you talk about it or breeze over it and go play basketball?
Ty: Well if there’s a death in the family or something, you’ve definitely got to console your best friend.

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