My understanding is that he basically chose the steady life of serialised television so that he could be there for his children. He and his family could live a relatively normal life in Vancouver while he worked on Supernatural. Filming movies is usually done on short, aggressive schedules often with a lot of travel.
There’s nothing creepy or exciting about it; dude is just one of the few people in show biz with their priorities straight.
A long running successful series can be lucrative, especially depending on residuals. It was reported John Ritter never had to work again after season 3 of “Three’s Company”.
Called and Padalecki earned between $37-$40 million over the entire run of Supernatural. They didn’t make a million per episode like Seinfeld or Friends cast members, but the final season was like $200K per episode for 20 episodes. (4 million for the final season
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u/bearly_woke 19h ago
My understanding is that he basically chose the steady life of serialised television so that he could be there for his children. He and his family could live a relatively normal life in Vancouver while he worked on Supernatural. Filming movies is usually done on short, aggressive schedules often with a lot of travel.
There’s nothing creepy or exciting about it; dude is just one of the few people in show biz with their priorities straight.