Justin Hartley revealed that Supernatural alum Jensen Ackles will painting his estranged brother on the hit CBS drama collection, Tracker.
Hartley, 47, who portrays Colter Shaw, shared the thrilling casting information with followers in a video posted by way of Instagram on Thursday, April 25.
“It’s been an amazing response, we’re thrilled and over the moon,” the This Is Us alum started after thanking followers for supporting the present in its first season. “I’ve slightly bit of stories for you. We’ve been speaking about Russell Shaw, my brother, all season, [with] this household drama that’s been occurring between Colter and Russell.”
He continued, “We lastly got here up with what I feel is the proper casting selection. This particular person knocks it out of the park each time.”
Earlier than his reveal, Ackles, 46, may very well be heard tapping on one thing within the background. After Hartley repeated the phrase “knocks it out the park each time” whereas wanting visibly irritated, he flipped the digicam to the Days of Our Lives alum, who was taking part in an arcade sport.
“We agreed to do that collectively, however he’s in the course of one thing,” he joked earlier than ending the video by posing with Ackles.
“I had an excessive amount of enjoyable mixing it up with you, Hartley. Let’s do it once more,” Ackles wrote within the feedback part of the put up.
Followers couldn’t comprise their pleasure upon listening to the information, with one social media person writing, “That is BRILLIANT casting, Jensen and you might be positively minimize from the identical material of awesomeness.” One other added, “So excited! Greatest casting selection for positive and also you two can have superior display brother chemistry.”
Ackles is slated to make his Tracker debut within the Might 12 episode.
Although that is Hartley and Ackles’ first time working collectively, Tracker reunited Hartley together with his This Is Us costar, Jon Huertas.
Whereas talking completely with Us Weekly earlier this month, Huertas, 54, opened up about directing an upcoming episode of the collection and the way Hartley – who additionally serves as producer – made his time on the Tracker set really easy.
“As a result of Justin and I had this historical past collectively, it was like we simply fell in lockstep once more from after I directed him on This Is Us [and] after we labored collectively in scenes as stepfather and stepson,” Huertas shared. “We fell into that rhythm so naturally that it was simple. It made it very easy.”
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He continued, “Justin has such a deal with on his character [Colter Shaw] and I really feel like the author of the episode [Sharon Lee Watson], the showrunner Elwood [Reid] and Ken Olin actually in prep bought me deep sufficient into the story in order that Justin and I aligned when it got here time to start out filming.”
Tracker airs on CBS Sundays at 9 p.m. ET. New episodes stream the following day on Paramount+.
