10 Things Jensen Ackles Can’t Live Without

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Jensen Ackles joins GQ to reveal his 10 Essentials. The American actor and musician breaks down his daily essentials: from notes from his kids (“those are tough and beautiful all at the same time”) to his Rolex watch (“I always want to have something on my wrist, if I don’t I feel like something’s wrong with the world”).   ----------  Director: Jeremy Clowney Director of Photography: Eric Brouse Editor: Chris Jones Talent: Jensen Ackles Producer: Camille Ramos Line Producer: Jen Santos Production Manager: James Pipitone; Elizabeth Hymes Talent Booker: Mica Medoff Camera Operator: Chloe Ramos Gaffer: David Djaco Sound Mixer: Sean Paulsen Production Assistant: Shanti Cuizon-Burden Post Production Supervisor: Jess Dunn Supervising Editor: Rob Lombardi Assistant Editor: Billy Ward

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00:00Hey GQ, I'm Jensen Ackles,

00:01and these are the 10 things that I can't live without.

00:10Drowning out the world.

00:13My Apple headphones.

00:14I mean, I'll pick like a song,

00:15and I'll be like,

00:18AI the rest.

00:19Let's see what journey this is.

00:20I'll go from like Tyler Childers to Metallica,

00:24to some jazz.

00:27It just depends on the mood I'm in.

00:28You'll see I've got the small phone.

00:30This is strictly like texting and talking.

00:33It's something I try not to be glued to my face.

00:36And of course, reading, working, communicating, my iPad.

00:41I'm gonna be honest, I just watch movies on it.

00:43That's all I do.

00:44I will download all my scripts onto these.

00:45I can make notes on them,

00:46and it's always just nice to have them on person at all time.

00:50Although I am a bit old school,

00:52I do like getting a hard copy of them from time to time,

00:54and that way I can really mark them up.

00:56But this way I always have them with me.

01:03A case.

01:04No, no.

01:05It's what's inside the case.

01:07A solid pair of sunglasses.

01:11You gotta have sunglasses.

01:12Not just to look cool.

01:14That's fine.

01:15That's what you're into.

01:16But I've got light eyes,

01:17so the sun is a little bit more effective on me.

01:21And it's always nice to have a pair.

01:23These are Jacques Marie Marge,

01:25which are some fancy glasses.

01:28But my wife bought them for me, so I don't know.

01:31If I'm going in, if I'm shopping for some shades,

01:33I will try to find the person working there

01:35that I think has the best sense of style.

01:38And I will try on several and just go,

01:42what do we think?

01:44And when I get thumbs up, that's usually when I,

01:47but man, I will, if I'm running low,

01:50I will, I'll go in and buy like three or four pair,

01:52and then I'm done for like a couple years.

01:55I rotate, you know, between about three or four pair.

01:59I always keep a pair on me.

02:00I lose them, I misplace them, I break them.

02:04I'm not kind to them.

02:05You know, it's always like the drugstore ones

02:07that stick around the longest.

02:09You can't get rid of them.

02:10You throw them out the window down the highway

02:12and then somehow end up in the back seat, so.

02:17An amazing suitcase.

02:19Now I am a, I'd like to say an expert packer.

02:22I could live for close to two weeks

02:24out of this thing right here.

02:25But I've traveled a lot, I continue to travel a lot,

02:28I've tried a lot of different suitcases,

02:30and this is the one that has beat them all.

02:33It's a Ramoa.

02:34Literally, if I see somebody with it, I'm like,

02:36ah, you know, you get it.

02:38They are incredibly sturdy, incredibly well built.

02:41If anything happens to them, you can literally drop them off

02:43at any shop around the world because they are everywhere.

02:45They will fix it on site, get it back to you within minutes.

02:48But it's best feature, in my opinion,

02:50is I can just sit on this thing right in the terminal,

02:53waiting, I don't have to look for a seat.

02:55I can just plop down right on this thing.

02:57It supports my weight.

02:59Thanks, Ramoa.

03:00Keep making what you make.

03:07A pen.

03:07I mean, I've gone through the really nice pens,

03:09the Mont Blancs, or the crosses, or all those things.

03:12Now, just a straight up uniball air.

03:16I mark up my scripts every morning when I show up on set.

03:19This is the pen I reach for.

03:21And I will say I've lost many of these,

03:23and I thought I was losing my mind when I realized

03:26that my kids were taking them out of my backpack

03:28and using them to write me notes,

03:30which brings me to my next thing I cannot live without.

03:36My kids like to surprise me with notes and art.

03:39They'll throw it in my bag before I depart

03:43for wherever I'm going.

03:44These are the latest masterpieces.

03:48This one is from my son.

03:50He drew a die, I guess.

03:53Not dice, but I guess it could be dice.

03:54I don't know, what's the...

03:56Jury's out on that one.

03:57There was thought.

03:58I was like, did you just randomly...

03:59He was like, no, Dad.

04:01That's you and Mom.

04:03Here's the three kids.

04:05And that's Frank, our dog.

04:06His twin sister, she's eight.

04:08That's not bad.

04:09She looked at a stuffed animal and just recreated that.

04:12She's a bit of an artiste.

04:14She also does comic strips.

04:15So sometimes I'll get little comics that are really cool.

04:19This one came with a note.

04:21It said, I love you very much.

04:23I want you to know that I miss you so much when you leave.

04:27I don't ever want you to leave ever, ever, ever again.

04:30Love, Arrow.

04:31Your number one child.

04:34Then she's got all this art stuff on the back.

04:37Those are tough and beautiful to read all at the same time.

04:39My oldest, my 12 year old,

04:41she says this to me every time I leave.

04:43She's like, she looks me in the eye and she's like,

04:45please be safe.

04:47And I'm like, what?

04:49You're killing me, kid.

04:50I don't know what she thinks is gonna happen to me.

04:52Maybe she's seen too many supernatural episodes.

04:54She thinks some monsters or demons are gonna attack me.

04:56But it is very sweet.

04:57And it's, again, it's very hard to read,

04:59but also very heartwarming to read.

05:01So, ah, kids.

05:07This doesn't cut itself.

05:08And I've been through tons of these,

05:10trying to find a good beard trimmer.

05:12This is the latest find by Manscaped.

05:15You guys nailed it with this one.

05:17This does everything I need it to.

05:19It's like highly adjustable.

05:21It can give you a fade if you need to.

05:23It can trim out some lines.

05:25This is something that goes with me everywhere.

05:27This next one has a little bit of a story.

05:30There's no markings on it.

05:31I don't know what it is.

05:33Eric Dane sent me to his, what would, not a, not a, what, what's a, like a face, facialist, maybe?

05:43Dermatologist?

05:45Maybe it's a dermatologist.

05:46I don't know.

05:47Eric Dane's like, hey, you gotta go see this lady.

05:49She's fantastic.

05:50She's gonna hook you up.

05:51And she's like, you fly a lot, don't you?

05:53I can see it.

05:53And I'm like, what?

05:55There's like a roadmap on my face.

05:56And she's like, here, take this face oil, put it on when you get on a plane.

06:01Your skin's gonna love it.

06:02There's literally no markings.

06:03I don't know what this is, but hey, doctor's orders.

06:08Between my wife and any makeup artist I've ever worked with, the resounding note is hydration,

06:16hydration, hydration.

06:17So, La Mer, expensive, yes.

06:21Does it work?

06:22Yes.

06:23I, I think it does.

06:25I don't know.

06:26Maybe not perfect for me.

06:27I don't know.

06:28I don't know, but it works and it means the C. Isn't La Mer French for the C?

06:33God, I hope I'm right on that.

06:35That'd be so cool.

06:37It's just like wiping the C all over your, that sounds bad.

06:43It literally doesn't leave my wrist.

06:45A timepiece, something to tell time.

06:47I have an affection, some might call an obsession, with mechanical watches.

06:53I have a number of them that I rotate between.

06:56This one is my vintage Submariner, 5513, for any of those nerds out there.

07:01I always keep a watch on, even if I'm on set playing a character, I usually always pick

07:07out a watch because I always want to have something on my wrist.

07:10If I don't, I feel like something's wrong in the world.

07:13It's a mildly obsessed way.

07:15I like having it.

07:16Plus, it's like really the only thing for a guy, jewelry-wise, other than if you're married,

07:23that you can really kind of get away with and play with.

07:26It's something that I will forever have and, you know, it's dad's watch.

07:30It's very important.

07:32Some supplements, some fuel for the road.

07:35I keep a bag of this stuff called Optimize Minerals.

07:40Started taking it, I don't know, maybe about a year ago.

07:43It's a great kind of electrolyte blend of good stuff.

07:48Usually it's the first thing I put on my stomach in the morning is a big, big, tall glass of

07:51water with this in it.

07:53And it does the trick on a multitude of levels, if you know what I mean.

07:57I always have some sort of protein bar in my bag.

07:59Usually a couple of them, different ones.

08:01Today I've got Quest.

08:03Cookies and Cream's the best one, I think.

08:04I usually will always have some sort of snack in my bag in case the airplane food just isn't

08:10up to par.

08:11My favorite flavor, not a candy bar, although it kind of tastes like a candy bar, which

08:15is why I like it.

08:18I did not buy it.

08:19There's a friend of mine, some of you may know, Jared Padalecki.

08:22He has an affinity for winter headgear, beanies, toques, if you're from Canada.

08:29I was headed to the airport and I was like, man, I wish I had one of those just so I could

08:32pull it down over my eyes and go to sleep because I'm dead tired.

08:34He reached into his bag and tossed me one of his beanies.

08:39I think I've had this for a year and it stays in my bag and anytime I'm on the plane, I can

08:45just throw it on, throw it over my eyes and I'm out like a light.

08:48I've washed this because, you know, otherwise I would smell like him and that's, that's

08:53not necessary.

08:54Did I wash it?

08:57I washed it.

08:58I don't know.

09:01Got to have a travel bag in order to make sure I know it's my bag and not somebody else's

09:06bag.

09:07I like to put just a little something on it just so I can recognize it and it won't

09:11get lost.

09:12I've got a couple of pens that I have acquired from various shows.

09:15You might recognize that guy.

09:18That is a 1967 Chevy Impala, a little show I did back in the day.

09:23Also on this side, you've got the boys.

09:27Now it says Finn, which means the end.

09:31This is the season five pen that was made up for the boys.

09:34Phil Segrecia, who also did Supernatural, also does the boys.

09:38He makes these up, he makes one every season, gives them out to cast and crew.

09:42So I've got a collection of these, but I usually like to put them on my bag somewhere as just

09:47a little identifier, knowing that it's mine, knowing that it's not going to get mixed up

09:52with anybody else in the airport because I highly doubt that they were on both Supernatural

09:56and the boys.

09:57Although I think there have been a few people that have.

10:00So all of those essentials that you saw, all of that stuff goes in here and it is over

10:05my shoulder wherever I go.

10:07Those things are all with me.

10:09They help me feel like I got a little piece of home with me.

10:13I know that whatever I'm facing that day, I've got the things that I need to face it.

10:16All right GQ, thank you for having me, talking about my 10 essential things that I cannot

10:20live without.

10:21Be sure to watch Countdown, out now on Prime Video.

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