After Tracker’s second season finale dug deeper into the difficult Shaw household historical past and revealed that Colter’s mom was chargeable for his father’s demise, Season 3 will probably proceed to open up these wounds on the 2025 TV schedule. This hopefully means bringing again Colter’s siblings, together with his brother Russell, who’s performed by Jensen Ackles. Even amid his busy schedule with Prime Video’s new crime drama Countdown and the upcoming The Boys prequel Vought Rising, he’s nonetheless making time for Tracker. Having appeared in a couple of episodes in earlier seasons, Ackles is opening up about what it’s actually like working with pal Justin Hartley.
It might be stunning to know that Hartley and Ackles have really identified one another for fairly a very long time, and it’s really one of many the explanation why the Supernatural star is enjoying Russell within the first place. Whereas the 2 have been each on Smallville, Ackles’ character Jason Teague was lengthy useless as soon as Hartley’s model of Oliver Queen/Inexperienced Arrow got here round, they have been nonetheless on The CW on the similar time and had probably grow to be shut by way of the varied occasions they attended collectively.
For Ackles, he loves working with Hartley and enjoying his brother after realizing him for therefore lengthy, as he informed TV Insider:
I’m enjoying the older brother of any individual that I do know very properly, and I get together with very properly. I imply, Justin and I’ve identified one another for over 20 years, and we’ve been buds, and we’ve by no means gotten to work collectively. So it was actually enjoyable for us to get on set. Nevertheless it was additionally very simple as a result of it’s simply hanging out together with your buddy, and we get to have enjoyable, and we get to combine it up.
Though it’s nonetheless bizarre to see Ackles enjoying an older brother to somebody apart from Jared Padalecki, it has been enjoyable to see his dynamic with another person in spite of everything these years. And it’s higher realizing how lengthy Ackles and Hartley have identified one another, which is why they make an awesome staff, even with their strained on-screen relationship. However that’s not the one purpose why Ackles loves working with Hartley on Tracker:
And it’s good that he’s an govt producer on it, so he may be like, ‘Do you want that phrase? Do you want that line?’ Simply change it, no matter you need.’ So it sort offers us a little bit freedom.
It’s been thrilling to see Jensen Ackles and Justin Hartley painting brothers. And now that Colter is aware of what he is aware of about his dad, it’s laborious to foretell how issues will go down with Russell as soon as he is aware of, particularly because it was thought for a very long time that he had one thing to do with their father’s demise. It’s unknown what number of episodes Ackles shall be showing in for Season 3, nevertheless it feels like he’s trying ahead to working with Hartley once more and exploring extra concerning the Shaw household.
With Ackles saying there’s “most likely probability” he’ll be coming again for Season 3, there’s nonetheless the query of whether or not or not Melissa Roxburgh will make an look as Colter and Russell’s sister, Dory. Similar to Ackles, Roxburgh has been fairly busy along with her personal present, The Searching Occasion, which is coming again for Season 2 this fall on NBC. It could be laborious to convey her again, even for only one episode, however nothing is off the desk but.
If something, followers will be capable to look ahead to most likely seeing Russell Shaw again on their screens come Season 3 this fall, and he and Colter have loads to compensate for. Tracker Season 3 premieres on Sunday, October 19 at 8 p.m. ET on CBS. In the meantime, the primary two seasons are streaming with a Paramount+ subscription.