Jared Padalecki did not mince terms when criticizing The CW for its “cheap content” technique.
The actor, 41, a longtime fixture of the network’s primetime lineup, starred on the criminal offense drama Walker for four seasons until eventually its cancellation in May perhaps. The CW aired the show’s ultimate episode on Wednesday, June 26. The very same working day, Wide variety posted an interview with Padalecki in which he unleashed his legitimate thoughts about his previous employer.
“I experience like The CW that I was a aspect of last calendar year is not The CW that I was a section of beneath [former chairman and CEO] Mark Pedowitz for that total, nearly 20-year stretch,” Padalecki informed the outlet. “They’re just modifying the network all over, wherever it’s not genuinely likely to be a Television set network as a great deal as it is heading to be, ‘Here’s a thing pleasurable for an hour that you are going to by no means observe once again, but ideally you look at it. And it’s inexpensive!’ And I hate to say that, but I’m just getting sincere. I signify, f—k it. They just can’t fire me all over again. I’m just currently being brutally truthful. I feel it felt to me like they were being seeking for really straightforward, low cost written content that they could fill up time with.”
Late very last month, Padalecki discovered in an emotional social media put up that Walker had been canceled.
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“Howdy y’all,” he wrote on May well 21. “It is with a weighty coronary heart that I share this information with you. #Walker will not be airing on #CW for a fifth year. It’s a challenging piece of news to be absolutely sure, but we are SO grateful for the #WalkerFamily that has been crafted, equally on established and off.”
Walker — a reboot of the 1990s drama Walker, Texas Ranger — premiered on The CW in January 2021 with Padalecki in the titular function as Cordell Walker and also serving as the show’s govt producer. It followed Cordell’s return residence just after a two-yr undercover assignment investigating the death of his spouse, Emily Walker, who was played by Padalecki’s authentic-everyday living spouse, Genevieve Padalecki. (Married considering that 2010, the pair share a few young children: Thomas, 12, Shepherd, 10 and Odette, 7.)
“We’re just about a month [removed] from the announcement that we weren’t picked up all over again, so it is type of funny how existence imitates artwork, or art imitates daily life,” Padalecki informed Assortment. “What Cordell went by in the finale and what I’m likely via now are mirrors. I’ll be 42 upcoming month. Am I ready until finally I’m 60 and I have 800 episodes of tv or something? I have to are living my daily life now. … I think, ironically, in seeking to tell any individual else’s story for so prolonged, I have understood that my story has worth too.”
