Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorSupernatural‘s Jensen Ackles has joined the Season 3 cast of the Amazon’s The Boys.Ackles announced the news Monday morning on social media. “I keep wondering what I’ll do….when @cw_supernatural finally ends this year,” Ackles wrote on Instagram. “Then it hit me.”Ackles will portray Soldier Boy – the original Superhero.
After Soldier Boy fought in World War II, he became the first super celebrity, and a mainstay of American culture for decades.Ackles will reunite with Supernatural creator Eric Kripke for the role.“When I was a child, I had a crazy, impossible dream — to provide Jensen Ackles with gainful employment,” said The Boys showrunner and executive producer Kripke in a statement.
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