Tag: Jensen Ackles

I have seen talking about Jensen and Jared and “myth of personal space” I do not understand? Why is it myth? Is it because of standing close or touching or ? (Sorry for my bad English)

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Your English sounds fine to me!

J2 and the Myth of Personal Space is a funny tag people use because of the things you mentioned plus so much more. There is a whole field of research called proxemics that deals with how we use the space around ourselves. We all tend to keep a bubble of personal space around ourselves. We have a tendency to move away from people who invade our personal space. Unless you’re talking about these two:

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I mean, really you can just look at how they choose to stand and sit. It’s always right next to each other, usually with at least some part of them touching- their arms, shoulders, or knees. 

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And then there’s the constant touching too.“There is a primal reassurance in being touched, in knowing that someone else, someone close to you, wants to be touching you. There is a bone-deep security that goes with the brush of a human hand, a silent, reflex-level affirmation that someone is near, that someone cares.” (That’s from a book by Jim Butcher and it reminds me of them.) 

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So you can see why some people feel like they make the idea of personal space into a myth. They certainly don’t need any.

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Btw- generally speaking, personal space is anywhere from 6-24 inches around you. Anything closer than 6 inches is called intimate space. But they clearly don’t even need that little gap in between them.

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And they’re always so casual about it too. Like it’s no big deal at all or they don’t even notice the’re doing it. They should really be a case study for those proxemics researchers. 

‘Supernatural’ at 200: The Road So Far, An Oral History (Variety, 2014)

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Jared Padalecki (Sam Winchester): They bring us in to the WB lot, and I’m sitting there, and in walks this really pretty dude who I had never seen before. We met and we’re waiting around, and usually in a test situation there are three or four people at least for each character and they’ll do a chemistry read. 

Jensen Ackles (Dean Winchester): It was just immediate chemistry. There was an ease to it. There was a familiarity to it. Once we got into it with each other, it just fell in place and it came… not easy, but definitely a little easier than my experiences in the past. I think the importance of that bond and that relationship was verbalized by Kripke when he sat us down and said, “this begins and ends with you,” and not only how we relate to each other on screen, but also off screen. There was an importance stamped into [that bond] very early on. (X)

Jared Padalecki on the episode that made him “miserable” (from ew.com)

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The show has handled death any number of ways, whether it’s Dean’s emotional plea to bring Sam back to life in season 2, or on the other end of the spectrum, Dean dying over and over for comedic purposes in season 3’s “Mystery Spot,” when the brothers find themselves in a world created by the Trickster.

And yet, the show’s more comedic handling of death resulted in an hour that star Jared Padalecki will never forget. “I feel like all I can do is be totally honest as Sam Winchester, and he’s not a funny guy,” Padalecki says. “The way I treat the death, like ‘Mystery Spot,’ which was a kind of comedic episode, was miserable for me. I was crying day in and day out. I mean it. This is not hyperbole. That was a miserable, miserable, miserable week in my life.”

“I could only treat it like it was reality,” Padalecki says, even surprising co-star Jensen Ackles with his revelation. “I had to treat it like Sam, and Sam would be mortified. When [Dean] kept on getting shot, I was playing, as best as I could, my brother is dead. My brother is dead in my arms. He got shot. A f–king piano fell on him, whatever it was. For me, it was miserable because I was legitimately trying to convince myself that my brother had died from some funny way, but it’s not funny if it’s happened to you.”

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