Le squee is coming
At last! New SPN is at hand!!! I'm incredibly exited! Gonna-do-voice-exercises-to-squee-all-the-better levels of exited! I am so ready to love whatever is on tonight it's a little creepy. I mean, it could be completely incoherent and I'd still probably love it as long as there's enough light to see the boys. I am a mindless junkie asking for a fix. I just hope this doesn't turn out to be one of those really sad episodes that put you through the grinder and leave you a weeping mess at the end, because I'm feeling a tad vulnerable ATM. ;-P
So, flisties, have you seen THAT TRULY GLORIOUS SCENE THAT WAS CUT FROM HEAVEN & HELL?
It's a crying shame they cut it. It's a great performance by both of them, it has gorgeous cinematography, it gives some critical character and plot points. This is also where those promo photos I couldn't place were from. I knew there was something missing from that episode!
It must have been a case of the "but where do we put it?". You can't put it after Sam and Dean's Impala scene of ultimate angst, it ruins the emotional arch. You can't really stick it between the barn scene and the final scene, again, it shakes all the emotional arch. Thank god we have it on the net. BTW, completely canon even if it didn't air with the episode, right? ;-)
Now, to help ya'll get through the next few hours without crumpling down in the final stretch and going insane, would you like the two new Misha interviews with the spoilers cut out? darksilvercat was a total babe and did these for us spoiler-free fans!
Great news for fans of Misha Collins. The Supernatural star revealed in an exclusive interview with BuddyTV that Castiel will not only play a big role in the final eight episodes of this season, but he is also in the final stages of signing on as a series regular for Supernatural season 5.
In our interview with Misha Collins, we also spoke about what's in store for Castiel this season, his interactions with fans, whether he'll finally get to wear something other than a suit and trenchcoat, getting into trouble with Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles, his grandmother's reaction to his shocking and disturbing guest appearance on Nip/Tuck, and the possibility of more than just five seasons for Supernatural
There are eight episodes left in season 4 of Supernatural, and Misha Collins will be in six of them playing a fairly substantive role.
“I had no idea I was going to be wearing this costume for so long,” Collins said. “I probably honestly would've given a little bit more thought to what I was wearing, maybe requested a slightly better fitting or nicer suit.”
Collins also revealed that although nothing is absolutely official, “I've been told that I am coming back as a series regular.” He added that for season 5, Collins would likely appear in 17 of the 22 episodes, so Castiel isn't going anywhere anytime soon.
While it will be nice for Collins to finally get a series regular gig after spending more than a decade as a TV guest star, it could be short-lived since Supernatural Eric Kripke has said that there is a five-year plan for the series. Misha Collins, however, has some reasons to be skeptical. “I really don't know what the inner workings are, but I don't think that that's necessarily the final word.”
Does this mean a Supernatural season 6 is still a possibility? Perhaps.
Off screen, Collins also entered hallowed ground this past weekend by attending his first ever Supernatural fan convention in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. “I actually enjoyed myself,” Collins said. “Other than having fairly severe hand cramps from having to sign my name so many times. I definitely learned that I need to make my signature as simple as possible.”
The Supernatural set is notorious for pranks, but according to Collins, Jared and Jensen have toned down the scale a bit, though they still get into trouble.
Finally, Supernatural fans may have been a bit traumatized by a recent episode of the FX drama Nip/Tuck where Misha Collins guest starred as a yoga instructor who possessed the ability to gratify himself through bending. While Collins usually tells his grandmother about all his TV appearances, he left this one out, though he says she still found out about it.
Luckily for Collins, his grandmother confused FX with FOX News and missed the whole thing. “I narrowly escaped my grandmother's eternal damnation,” he said.
And the second one:
Misha Collins, who plays the angel Castiel on The CW's Supernatural, told SCI FI Wire that he will return as a series regular now that the show's been picked up for a fifth season and promised that his winged character will kick some ass in the near future. Collins also offers us a few spoilers for the rest of this season.
Following is an edited version of our exclusive interview with Collins. Supernatural airs Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
Well, the show has been picked up for a fifth season, and you are now going to be a series regular. How does that feel?
Collins: Good, good. It feels great to be a series regular. I mean, you get more money for starters (laughs). Which never hurts. And I'm excited to have a job lined up for next year and not have to wonder where my next meal is coming from.
You're moving to Vancouver, Canada, where the show shoots?
Collins: Yeah. I'm actually looking forward to moving to Vancouver. I've lived in Los Angeles for 10 years, and it feels like a good time to spend a little time out of the city. I love Los Angeles, and I'm sure I'll miss it, but I'm also kind of hankering for a change. It feels like everything is moving according to plan.
Your character, Castiel, is accused by Anna (Julie McNiven) of not being able to feel real emotion, but he seems to have a real affection for Dean (Jensen Ackles). How do you work with that sort of dichotomy?
Collins: Yes, how do you explain the homoerotic tension(laughs)? ... I think that it's sort of, by the transitive property, he's beginning to feel emotion ever so slightly. That's my answer to the question. By his proximity to Dean, some of Dean's human properties are beginning to rub off on Castiel. And he's starting to feel, and I think that he doesn't really know how to interpret the feelings.
I wondered if something like what happened to the character Anna will happen to Castiel. Do you think it's possible that this could result in a situation where he would decide not to be an angel anymore (like Anna did) if he gets too close to Dean and his human emotion?
Collins: I have no idea what they're going to do next year, but since they've established that angels can fall and feel emotion and have real human experiences, it stands to reason that they're at minimum going to flirt with that possibility with Castiel. It seems like it would heighten the dramatic tension nicely. And it would be really fun to play that as an actor, experiencing that for the first time. Feeling emotion.
There's this great Wim Wenders movie, Wings of Desire, ... the Nicolas Cage movie City of Angels was sort of a remake of that German movie. In Wings of Desire, Bruno Ganz, who is the actor in that film, he's an angel who falls and then begins to feel human emotion and goes through a transformation. And watching him go through that transformation is so cool, and playing that myself is an exciting prospect, so I hope they go in that direction. That would be really fun.
So are we going to get to see your wings? Not just the shadow of them?
Collins: I have a suspicion that the wings, ... there is no way that they would fail to disappoint. And, you know, since we've just seen them as shadows, no one knows what they really look like. Maybe they're actually only three inches tall (laughs).
Now, you don't want people to think you have small wings ...
Collins: No, no.
That would be embarrassing.
Collins: I would be trying to find wing enlargement.
I'm sure someone has that on the internet.
Collins: That's right.
So, unlike the vampires in Twilight who seem to have no enemies, there are creatures that can beat you. So will we see any new powers from Castiel? Will there be more ass kicking this season?
Collins: Yeah, you know, it's funny. For all of Castiel's near-omnipotence, in the fights that he's had so far, he's gotten his ass kicked. [SPOILERS]
[MORE SPOILERS]
[THE EPIC SPOILER OF EPICNESS PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED IN THE OTHER INTERVIEW]
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He's got an incredible grasp of fanservicing, doesn't he? And it's all the more amazing if you consider that this is the first job where he's had to exercise that!
Ah, Misha *dreamy sigh*
I do not, however, approve of the idea of going beyond five seasons. Yes, I love Show to an embarassing extent but I want to keep to the planned overarching story timeline, I don't want them to stretch it out. The fact that there was always a precise end this is going for is what makes this show special to me (ok, ok, among other thing obviously ,-P)
However, I never said anything against spinoffs!!! *evil laugh*.
So, flisties, have you seen THAT TRULY GLORIOUS SCENE THAT WAS CUT FROM HEAVEN & HELL?
Click to viewIt's a crying shame they cut it. It's a great performance by both of them, it has gorgeous cinematography, it gives some critical character and plot points. This is also where those promo photos I couldn't place were from. I knew there was something missing from that episode!
It must have been a case of the "but where do we put it?". You can't put it after Sam and Dean's Impala scene of ultimate angst, it ruins the emotional arch. You can't really stick it between the barn scene and the final scene, again, it shakes all the emotional arch. Thank god we have it on the net. BTW, completely canon even if it didn't air with the episode, right? ;-)
Now, to help ya'll get through the next few hours without crumpling down in the final stretch and going insane, would you like the two new Misha interviews with the spoilers cut out? darksilvercat was a total babe and did these for us spoiler-free fans!
Great news for fans of Misha Collins. The Supernatural star revealed in an exclusive interview with BuddyTV that Castiel will not only play a big role in the final eight episodes of this season, but he is also in the final stages of signing on as a series regular for Supernatural season 5.
In our interview with Misha Collins, we also spoke about what's in store for Castiel this season, his interactions with fans, whether he'll finally get to wear something other than a suit and trenchcoat, getting into trouble with Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles, his grandmother's reaction to his shocking and disturbing guest appearance on Nip/Tuck, and the possibility of more than just five seasons for Supernatural
There are eight episodes left in season 4 of Supernatural, and Misha Collins will be in six of them playing a fairly substantive role.
“I had no idea I was going to be wearing this costume for so long,” Collins said. “I probably honestly would've given a little bit more thought to what I was wearing, maybe requested a slightly better fitting or nicer suit.”
Collins also revealed that although nothing is absolutely official, “I've been told that I am coming back as a series regular.” He added that for season 5, Collins would likely appear in 17 of the 22 episodes, so Castiel isn't going anywhere anytime soon.
While it will be nice for Collins to finally get a series regular gig after spending more than a decade as a TV guest star, it could be short-lived since Supernatural Eric Kripke has said that there is a five-year plan for the series. Misha Collins, however, has some reasons to be skeptical. “I really don't know what the inner workings are, but I don't think that that's necessarily the final word.”
Does this mean a Supernatural season 6 is still a possibility? Perhaps.
Off screen, Collins also entered hallowed ground this past weekend by attending his first ever Supernatural fan convention in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. “I actually enjoyed myself,” Collins said. “Other than having fairly severe hand cramps from having to sign my name so many times. I definitely learned that I need to make my signature as simple as possible.”
The Supernatural set is notorious for pranks, but according to Collins, Jared and Jensen have toned down the scale a bit, though they still get into trouble.
Finally, Supernatural fans may have been a bit traumatized by a recent episode of the FX drama Nip/Tuck where Misha Collins guest starred as a yoga instructor who possessed the ability to gratify himself through bending. While Collins usually tells his grandmother about all his TV appearances, he left this one out, though he says she still found out about it.
Luckily for Collins, his grandmother confused FX with FOX News and missed the whole thing. “I narrowly escaped my grandmother's eternal damnation,” he said.
And the second one:
Misha Collins, who plays the angel Castiel on The CW's Supernatural, told SCI FI Wire that he will return as a series regular now that the show's been picked up for a fifth season and promised that his winged character will kick some ass in the near future. Collins also offers us a few spoilers for the rest of this season.
Following is an edited version of our exclusive interview with Collins. Supernatural airs Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
Well, the show has been picked up for a fifth season, and you are now going to be a series regular. How does that feel?
Collins: Good, good. It feels great to be a series regular. I mean, you get more money for starters (laughs). Which never hurts. And I'm excited to have a job lined up for next year and not have to wonder where my next meal is coming from.
You're moving to Vancouver, Canada, where the show shoots?
Collins: Yeah. I'm actually looking forward to moving to Vancouver. I've lived in Los Angeles for 10 years, and it feels like a good time to spend a little time out of the city. I love Los Angeles, and I'm sure I'll miss it, but I'm also kind of hankering for a change. It feels like everything is moving according to plan.
Your character, Castiel, is accused by Anna (Julie McNiven) of not being able to feel real emotion, but he seems to have a real affection for Dean (Jensen Ackles). How do you work with that sort of dichotomy?
Collins: Yes, how do you explain the homoerotic tension(laughs)? ... I think that it's sort of, by the transitive property, he's beginning to feel emotion ever so slightly. That's my answer to the question. By his proximity to Dean, some of Dean's human properties are beginning to rub off on Castiel. And he's starting to feel, and I think that he doesn't really know how to interpret the feelings.
I wondered if something like what happened to the character Anna will happen to Castiel. Do you think it's possible that this could result in a situation where he would decide not to be an angel anymore (like Anna did) if he gets too close to Dean and his human emotion?
Collins: I have no idea what they're going to do next year, but since they've established that angels can fall and feel emotion and have real human experiences, it stands to reason that they're at minimum going to flirt with that possibility with Castiel. It seems like it would heighten the dramatic tension nicely. And it would be really fun to play that as an actor, experiencing that for the first time. Feeling emotion.
There's this great Wim Wenders movie, Wings of Desire, ... the Nicolas Cage movie City of Angels was sort of a remake of that German movie. In Wings of Desire, Bruno Ganz, who is the actor in that film, he's an angel who falls and then begins to feel human emotion and goes through a transformation. And watching him go through that transformation is so cool, and playing that myself is an exciting prospect, so I hope they go in that direction. That would be really fun.
So are we going to get to see your wings? Not just the shadow of them?
Collins: I have a suspicion that the wings, ... there is no way that they would fail to disappoint. And, you know, since we've just seen them as shadows, no one knows what they really look like. Maybe they're actually only three inches tall (laughs).
Now, you don't want people to think you have small wings ...
Collins: No, no.
That would be embarrassing.
Collins: I would be trying to find wing enlargement.
I'm sure someone has that on the internet.
Collins: That's right.
So, unlike the vampires in Twilight who seem to have no enemies, there are creatures that can beat you. So will we see any new powers from Castiel? Will there be more ass kicking this season?
Collins: Yeah, you know, it's funny. For all of Castiel's near-omnipotence, in the fights that he's had so far, he's gotten his ass kicked. [SPOILERS]
[MORE SPOILERS]
[THE EPIC SPOILER OF EPICNESS PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED IN THE OTHER INTERVIEW]
+++++
He's got an incredible grasp of fanservicing, doesn't he? And it's all the more amazing if you consider that this is the first job where he's had to exercise that!
Ah, Misha *dreamy sigh*
I do not, however, approve of the idea of going beyond five seasons. Yes, I love Show to an embarassing extent but I want to keep to the planned overarching story timeline, I don't want them to stretch it out. The fact that there was always a precise end this is going for is what makes this show special to me (ok, ok, among other thing obviously ,-P)
However, I never said anything against spinoffs!!! *evil laugh*.