LOS ANGELES - Jared Padalecki knew better than to count on his new drama being picked up by a TV network. "Young MacGyver" never made it on the air.
"From the 'MacGyver' pilot having so much buzz and then not going, you kinda learn that in this business you've just got to do your work and put it out there and it's done," Padalecki said. "If more work comes your way, great. If it doesn't, there's other stuff."
So it came as a happy surprise when "Supernatural" was picked up by the WB for the fall season. "Supernatural," which also stars Jensen Ackles ("Smallville"), traces two young, good-looking brothers who fight evil ghosts.
Playing a ghost hunter couldn't be any stickier for Padalecki than his role in the movie "House of Wax."
"They ended up not using wax because wax doesn't look like wax on camera. Or something," the 22-year-old actor told reporters recently, according to AP Radio. "They ended up using a cold food preservative, sort of a jelly, watery substance that rinsed off."
Padalecki is familiar with working on television.
"The week or two before I was going to go back home and start school, I got a little show called 'Gilmore Girls,'" he said. "It was a four-episode guest star. And four episodes turned into one season, turned into three, turned into four, turned into five."
"Supernatural" will follow "Gilmore Girls" on Tuesday nights.
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