Jensen Ackles Compares Countdown Action Scenes, Says Truck Surfing Is A Whole 'Different Ballgame' (WATCH)

It's not easy being LAPD Detective Mark Meachum.

In last week's July 11 episode of Prime Video's Countdown, undercover Hurricane Task Force members sneaked into a ritzy party at the Belarusian consulate, so as to hack its database and see what all Volchek's homeland knows about his decidedly dirty dealings.

In the course of that surreptitious mission, Meachum (played by Jensen Ackles) stumbled into a heated hand-to-hand fight inside the consulate's security station, where all sorts of limbs were thrown, much furniture broken.

In this Wednesday's Episode 6 of the thriller series, Meachum found himself "surfing" atop a trailer traveling at high speed, before leaping onto the pickup truck pulling it.

Which scenario most thrilled Ackles himself, who of course has had his share of action-packed fun on series such as Supernatural and The Boys?

"Oh man, I had a lot of fun with both," Ackles shares in the TVLine video above. Though when all is said and done, straddling the fast-moving trailer was "more exhilarating," he says.

As we noted above, "I've done the hand-to-hand fight scene quite a bit" in other roles, Ackles reminds, and while those are fun, "they're also tricky," in that punches and kicks need to land in such a way that "no one catches an elbow" for real.

Also, "Those are really sweaty days!" Ackles reports with a laugh. "You do three takes and you get drenched."

Meanwhile, keeping one's balance while standing atop a moving trailer, and at times purposely falling, is "a totally different kind of ballgame," Ackles makes clear. "All you've got to do is just hang on," he says — until the scene demands that you get knocked to your knees and nearly slide off the side, all whilst tethered to the stunt vehicle by a thin cable.

"It's like hanging over the side of a cliff and having a buddy hang onto you," Ackles explains, visibly dazzling even Countdown co-star Eric Dane seated next to him in the Zoom. "It was a little nerve-wracking! But it was a lot of fun."

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