Eric Dane has been referred to as a “whole stud” by his Countdown costar Jensen Ackles amid Dane’s ALS battle.
“[Eric] has such a command of scenes and the set simply in his stillness and the way simply his quiet management, and it’s one thing that he brings from off set too,” Ackles, 47, instructed People in an interview printed Thursday, June 19. “I imply, he does that when the cameras aren’t rolling.”
He went on, “There’s only a quiet management to [Eric] that I actually realized from. So to get to combine it up with [him] on display, I needed to convey it.”
Prime Video’s procedural drama Countdown, which debuts Wednesday, June 25, takes place within the aftermath of a Division of Homeland Safety officer’s mysterious homicide. LAPD detective Mark Meachum (Ackles) steps as much as lead a joint process pressure with Particular Agent Nathan Blythe (Dane) in hopes of fixing the case.
Eric Dane’s Euphoria costars are in his nook amid his battle with ALS, together with fellow actor Colman Domingo. “I haven’t been in a position to communicate with him but,” Domingo, 55, instructed Individuals on Friday, April 11, on the NBCU Emmy Luncheon. “I simply received the information yesterday, too.” Dane, 52, introduced a number of hours earlier on Thursday, […]
Countdown showrunner Derek Haas was additionally stuffed with reward for Dane, citing the actor’s pure inclination as a “chief” as a key element for his character.
“In case you spend 5 minutes with that man, he’s a frontrunner. He’s very clever,” Haas stated. “He additionally, when he walks right into a room, each head turns his approach. And when he speaks, you shut your mouth and also you pay attention.”
The Countdown showrunner added, “That’s actually what I used to be going for with Nathan Blythe … whenever you do a tv present, versus a restricted sequence or a film, you actually begin to merge the actor and their very own persona with the character that you just wrote.”
Dane made a uncommon purple carpet look for Countdown’s premiere alongside his rumored girlfriend, Janell Shirtcliff, at Concord Gold Theater in Los Angeles on Wednesday, June 18. (Dane continues to be technically married to Rebecca Gayheart, as she filed to dismiss their 2018 divorce petition earlier this yr. Gayheart and Dane share daughters Billie, 15, and Georgia, 13.)
Eric Dane and Janell Shirtcliff in June 2025. Robin L Marshall/Getty Pictures
“[Janell and Eric] had been holding palms and at one level, rubbing one another’s backs,” an eyewitness solely instructed Us Weekly. “Janelle appeared to know a few of Eric’s costars, however Eric was additionally introducing her to different visitors. She appeared excited to assist him on his huge night time and match proper in.”
Dane thanked his “loving household” and expressed his need to maintain appearing when he introduced his ALS prognosis in April. In response to the Mayo Clinic, ALS is a degenerative “nervous system illness that impacts nerve cells within the mind and spinal twine.” With no identified treatment, ALS sufferers steadily lose management of the muscular tissues for speech, motion and consuming.
Dane stated in April he was “trying ahead to returning to the set of Euphoria” earlier than filming on season 3 started that very same month. He has since mentioned the bodily toll of ALS throughout a poignant interview with Diane Sawyer for Good Morning America.
“I’ve one functioning arm. … My left aspect is functioning. My proper aspect, [which is my dominant side], has fully stopped working,” he defined. “[My left arm] goes. I really feel like perhaps a pair, a couple of extra months and I received’t have my left. … I’m fearful about my legs.”
Nonetheless, Dane credited his physician Advantage Cudkowicz with serving to him to take care of “a way of hope” regardless that ALS is incurable.
“I’m very hopeful. I don’t suppose that is the top of my story. I’m fairly resilient,” he declared. “I simply don’t really feel like, in my coronary heart, that that is the top of me.”