How was the transition from daytime soap opera to prime time?
Jensen Ackles: It’s been good. To be honest, with the soap opera’s daytime format, you really learn a lot very quickly. It’s almost like boot camp. Within the week you either know your lines, hit your mark, find your light or you just sink. So it’s kind of like tossing someone who doesn’t know how to swim into a pool and seeing if they’re going to survive. Sink or swim. I think that early on (I think I was 19 when I started on Days of our Lives) it taught me a lot about the technical aspects of acting. You know, making sure I could see the camera and that the camera can see me, making sure I feel the light, learning pages and pages of dialogue a day. That’s daytime (soap opera). So all that training in that format from television really got me ready for pretty much anything. So when I was done there and moved on to prime time, it was a pretty seemless transition. I knew the technical aspects and that’s one thing that – and (co-star) Jared’s (Padalecki) very good at it too – our camera
