Jared Padalecki has discovered his subsequent undertaking!
The actor, 42, shall be showing on season 3 of CBS’s Fireplace Nation in a visitor position, PEOPLE can affirm. This information comes simply three months after The CW hit Walker, a reboot of Walker, Texas Ranger starring Padalecki, was canceled.
Deadline was the primary to report the information.
Padalecki shall be enjoying Camden, a “SoCal firefighter and maverick with a surfer swagger who’s a power to be reckoned with and instantly acknowledges Bode’s (Max Thieriot) uncooked expertise,” for 3 episodes.
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Fireplace Nation follows a younger convict named Bode, performed by creator Max Thieriot, who joins a jail launch firefighting program to work with the native station to combat harmful wildfires. His mission for redemption involves a head when he’s assigned to work in his hometown of Edgewater in Northern California, the place his life fell aside 5 years earlier than.
Along with Thieriot, the sequence additionally stars Stephanie Arcila, Billy Burke, Kevin Alejandro, Diane Farr, Jordan Calloway and Jules Latimer.
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The Supernatural alum introduced the cancellation of Walker on Instagram on Might 21.
“It’s a troublesome piece of reports to make certain, however we’re SO grateful for the #WalkerFamily that has been constructed, each on set and off,” added the actor, who additionally government produced the present.
“It has been a singular honor to be part of the forged and crew (and fandom!) that helped #Walker inform the tales that we advised. I’ll ceaselessly smile on the years I received to spend with the forged and crew and studio and community and fandom that made this all potential. Til we experience once more. 🤠❤️” he concluded.
Padalecki, who additionally appeared in Gilmore Women, has been open in regards to the stunning finish to Walker after the sequence finale aired in June. In an interview with Variety, he stated that he might sense a cancellation probably coming when modifications throughout the community had been taking place.
“I really feel like The CW that I used to be part of final yr will not be The CW that I used to be part of underneath [former chairman and CEO] Mark Pedowitz for that complete, nearly 20-year stretch [that I worked with the network],” he stated.
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He additionally defined that he was advised they had been “getting into a unique course,” and shifting away from scripted tv.
“They’re simply altering the community round, the place it’s probably not going to be a TV community as a lot because it’s going to be, ‘Right here’s one thing enjoyable for an hour that you just’ll by no means watch once more, however hopefully you watch it. And it’s low cost!,’” Padalecki advised the outlet.
“And I hate to say that, however I’m simply being trustworthy,” he continued. “I imply, f— it. They’ll’t fireplace me once more. I’m simply being brutally trustworthy. I believe it felt to me like they had been in search of very easy, low cost content material that they might replenish time with.”
