Jensen Ackles had a hellish time with Jessica Alba back in the day.
The “Supernatural” star, 43, opened up on Jan. 18’s episode of “Inside of You: Michael Rosenbaum” about working with Alba, 40, after he joined the cast of her early 2000s Fox series, “Dark Angel.”
“She was horrible. … I’ve told this to her face,” said Ackles. “I love Jess, which I know kind of contradicts what I just said.
Noting the “immense amount of pressure” on Alba, who starred as an escaped genetically enhanced super soldier, Ackles said he believed it was because he was “the new fresh face on the set” that led him to get “picked on by the lead.”
It was “the worst kind of bickering a brother and sister could do. She had it out for me,” he recalled. “It wasn’t that she didn’t like me. She just was like, ‘Oh here’s the pretty boy that (the) network brought in for some more window dressing ’cause that’s what we need.'”
Ackles recalled deciding to fight “fire with fire” with remarks like, “‘Oh looks like we’re getting b — tch Alba today. Everybody hang onto your nuts.’
“Then she was like, ‘OK, well now I can just be a d — k to him and he’ll be a d — k to me and that’s how we’ll roll.’ And it did build some mutual respect,” he said.
The pair would go on to have some bonding “moments,” like when Alba “just held” Ackles after his grandpa died or when she asked him to stay with her when her boyfriend was out of town and she said she was afraid to stay alone.
Asked whether Alba may have been trying to make something romantic happen, Ackles said he’s thought about it in subsequent years, but “She would’ve kicked me in the n — ts if I’d tried to do anything.”
