SPN Chicon 18--Part 2
Of course Sunday gets its own post! I've done my best to be accurate in what was said :)
Sunday 7/15
Sunday started with Jensen’s photo op. After the hug, he said ‘nice to see you again.’ Now I honestly took this as just something polite he was saying, but when I told the others they were all positive that he must have indeed recognized me. I really have a hard time thinking that gray-haired, older-woman, unremarkable me would be someone Jensen would remember…but everyone pointed out he didn’t say it to anyone else in the group…I don’t know…really???
I do wish I had committed to hugging him all the way, but I was overthinking instead of just going for it…
Jared’s photo op was very satisfying, it was an excellent hug and I love how happy I am in the picture!
Alex Calvert
For being so new, and young by comparison, Alex has a handle on being funny and self-deprecating. Unfortunately a lot of the panel’s questions were about the infamous pranking he has been suffering…but he seemed to be expecting them at this point. He did joke about jello-wrestling Thursdays on set…
He hopes Jack doesn’t change vessels-‘I like my job!’
He remembers watching Scooby-Doo as a kid, and just finding it funny how Shaggy was always hungry…watching it now, as an adult, his reaction is ‘Whoa! There was more going on there!’
His observation about SPN in general is that any time it looks like anyone can relax, something bad happens. (Clearly he’s watched the show.)
He would like an episode about catching a vampire who surfs in Hawaii…
He loves seeing fandom’s support of each other.
He spent his first day on set mostly naked, and was incredibly grateful that was the one day Jared and Jensen were professional!
J2
Jared, Jensen, Misha, and Alex’s girlfriend Jenna brought out a birthday cake for Alex (it was his actual birthday) at the end of his panel and everyone sang. This resulted in J2 being onstage without their usual musical introduction because they went right into talking about the ice cream flavors that Steve Norton (the Louden Swain drummer) had ordered for everyone in the green room.
Jensen had White Tiger Paws flavor-Jared jokes that’s Jensen’s secret Instagram name. Jared had chocolate chip cookie dough, and says as a kid he was taught that eating raw cookie dough would make you sick from the raw eggs, but now he eats raw eggs from his chickens. Jensen demonstrates Jared picking up an egg, cracking it and dripping it into his mouth.
Jared talks about 11 years ago the first SPN con was in Chicago, and ‘I couldn’t be happier to be here today.’
Jensen notices that the entire left side of Jared’s face is covered in glitter. He asks Jared why his face is covered in glitter. Jared: Wouldn’t you like to know. Jensen: What I’m thinking involves a clown…and is risque…
Fan: What are you reading right now? Jared: Episode 1 by Dabb, Episode 2 by Ross-Leming, Episode 3 by Berens… He doesn’t read as much as he used to because when the kids are napping he naps too. Over the summer he read ‘Ranger Games.’ Jensen: ‘Narcos. It’s on Netflix. I’m reading the subtitles. It’s a page turner.’ Jared asks the fan what she’s reading, she says ‘Tales of a Prairie Bitch.’ Jensen: Before White Tiger Paws, my name was Tales of a Prairie Bitch.
Fan: I’m a mom of three. Jared: I’m sorry. Fan: They’re teenagers, older than yours. Which is maybe worse. Jensen: Does it at any point get any better? Fan laughs. What personality traits do your kids have from you? Jensen: Having the twins is an interesting experiment. For example, when they’re eating, Arrow will say ‘mas’ (Spanish for more) while Zepp goes ‘EHHH’ (Jensen waves wildly) so he gets that from me. When they’re done, Arrow will say ‘all done’ while Zepp goes like this (Jensen shoves everything off the high chair tray) and then he looks at me like this (Jensen makes the ‘I dare you’ Dean face.) It’s like he’s saying ‘I know you’re gonna pick it up. ‘
Jared: Tom has an unending appetite for sweets like his dad; Shep is drunk Jared, everything is funny; Odette doesn’t give a shit. He gives the example of Odette touching a plug and he says ‘No, no, no!’-Odette looks at him and goes right back to it. Jared goes on to explain how he tries to play with Odette, make her laugh by tickling her or making funny faces, or dancing around like a monkey, but Odette keeps a straight face and is not amused…’So she’s my wife.’ Jensen interrupts that he was going to say I’ve seen you do that with Gen. Jared and Jensen think Odette and Zepp are similar. There is a picture of the 2 of them in a double stroller with the same unimpressed expressions. Jensen elaborates on Zepp, demonstrating if Zepp was playing with a bottle of water and Jensen told him to stop, he would look and then knock it over with the expression ‘What you gonna do about it, daddy?’
What in your character resonates with you personally? Jared says they are different than Sam and Dean, they are very blessed, their parents are still married, they grew up in the same area, there’s not a lot in common with being possessed by Lucifer…Jared likes to understand why someone does something. One thing he appreciates is Sam’s academic approach, his research skills, which Jared has too, although Jared would not like having to spend 2 weeks straight in the bunker researching. Jensen said Dean’s confidence has resonated with him. Dean doesn’t walk into any room afraid, whether it’s monsters or people. ‘I know the effects of lack of confidence early on…’ so Dean’s confidence has helped him.
Fan is nervous about going off to college, what advice can they give for her ‘new season?’ Jared: When this new season is over you will be better than you are today-even if it sucks, in hindsight you will see how it made you grow. There will be peaks and valleys, peaks are fun, but valleys will make you better than the peaks. Jensen: Your parents may not appreciate this, okay, first of all, study hard, get good grades…but don’t let your grades dictate what you learn. Jared: Like Samuel Clemens said, “Don’t let schooling get in the way of your education.” Jensen: That’s what I said! I didn’t want to plagiarize!
A nervous fan struggles with her question. Jared gestures at Jensen: I know, he’s handsome, isn’t he?
Jared: This is a neat life hanging around people with similar passions. We care about Sam and Dean a lot, and we care about y’all a lot. I hope we get to keep exploring Sam and Dean for a while. The more I learn about Sam and Dean the more I learn about Jared and Jensen. Jensen: And I concur.
Fan: If Sam and Dean weren’t Michael and Lucifer’s vessels, how would they fight the apocalypse? Jensen: Dean would get in a tank. Sam would get in a tank top. Jensen starts imitating Sam trying to distract Lucifer with his tank top ‘What you gonna do about it, Lucifer?’ while Dean yells ‘Get in the tank, Sam!’ Jared laughs at how Jensen acted being Jared. Jensen: You’re like Gaston, you’re all torso!
Fan asks if Jensen was the only one who got to ride the mechanical bull in ‘Regarding Dean.’ Jensen: That was an actual bar in Maple Ridge. It’s called Roosters. Better than cocks. Jared: But is it? Jensen: Enough about Roosters! Jensen says he and his stunt double were the only people who got to ride the mechanical bull. The stunt guy had to ride it for almost 2 minutes-you’re supposed to ride for 8 seconds-and complained for the next 4 days. Jensen: You really have to grip tight with your legs. I did ride it for quite a while. Jared cracks up. Jared asks if it bruised the insides of Jensen’s legs then adds ‘Jensen has surprisingly durable inner thighs.’
Did they think it was funny Gabe was brought back just to die again? Jared says to never rule anyone out. He loved Gabriel’s arc and they love Rich as a director. And it was a cool way for him to go.
A fan is nervous because this is her first convention. Jensen: This is Jared. It’s like his 87th convention. He’s nervous, too. Jared waves like a happy kid. Fan asks them to reenact their favorite episode. Jared turns his chair so they are sitting in the front seat of the Impala. Dean is driving, adjusts the mirror. Sam is on his phone. ‘I found something. Bodies with their eyes burned out in Duluth.’ Dean: We’ve got a tail.’ Sam: Lose him. Dean: It’s just toilet paper. Jensen: That’s it.
Jared remarks it feels weird to sit normally in a chair so Jensen turns his around and twists himself on it like Jared does, then mocks flinging his hair back. Then he says he’s going to need help getting out, and Jared helps him get his legs unstuck.
What was their favorite prank? Jensen says the pie in Misha’s face, Jared seconds that. Then Jensen remembers another one. They saw Sebastian Roche as they were walking through the Vancouver airport to catch their flight. Seb was sitting in one of the airport mini-massage spas, in a chair getting his back massaged with his face in the donut on the chair. Jensen tells Jared to be Seb and he has Billy (guitarist) be giving the massage. Jensen then enthusiastically re-enacts Jared sneaking up and taking over the massage and then explains that Jared slid his hand into Sebastian’s pants but Sebastian just went ‘Ohh’-Jensen says he was on the floor laughing, finally Seb heard him and looked up, saw Jared, and just put his face back. Retelling this story had both boys nearly doubled with laughter. (Follow-up note-after this story made it to the internet, on Monday Sebastian tweeted that he remembered Jared had such soft hands.)
How would Jared and Jensen handle the Supernatural world? Jared: “I’m a large man but I can fit into small spaces.”
The crowd starts laughing-it takes a minute for both of them to register the unintended innuendo and they both crack up. Finally Jared says ‘I’d hide.’ Jensen: I’d have no problem kicking in the door…no idea what to do when the door’s open…unless he got to the Impala’s trunk first, then he’d have a game, he’d grab the rocket launcher.
Is there a room in the bunker we haven’t seen yet that they’d like to see? Jared says a steam shower. Jensen says they’ve shown the showers, it’s like a locker room. Jared didn’t remember that Dean had had a shower scene. Jensen: I showered-I was dirty. Jared says in the first episode this season we see the exercise room. It’s not treadmills with TVs, it’s elementary 1950s fitness. Jensen points out that we’ve seen the outside door to the bunker, and we’ve seen people enter the bunker on the upper level, but we’ve never seen the hallway between the 2 doors. How long is it? Does it meander? Do you ride in a mining cart? Jared: Is there 2 ½ miles of scuba diving? Jensen mentions how he filmed a movie in a coal mine (My Bloody Valentine,) but it wasn’t a working one. They did go to a working mine, though, and to get to the work areas you get on a motorized cart on a track, and the tunnel is only 5 feet high, so you have to lay on your back and ride through this tunnel for 2 miles. Nope.
Scariest monster? Jensen legitimately did not like the dolls in ‘Playthings.’ I was like, ‘Haunted for real, that one winked it me.’ Jared was freaked out by the Apocalypse world vampires in the cave. They were played by very expressive stunt men who really made their bodies move expressively and growled and it was legit spooky. Jared: ‘I did not love the leviathans.’ Then he pokes fun at vampires being pale and beautiful and ‘you can’t see me in the light.’ Jensen looks at Jared like ‘WTF are you talking about?’
Fan asks when did they first know they were in love with their wives. Jared has to clarify does she mean when they were their wives or when they were their fiancées, or dating? Jared says he can’t say exactly when-Jensen says he knows when-Jared whispers something that makes Jensen bend over laughing. Jensen realized he was in love with Danneel when they were in their second week of filming ‘Ten Inch Hero.’ They carpooled down together for the hour drive, and his reaction was ‘Oh, no’ because he was dating someone else, but that had started to fizzle. He’s dated a few times and there’s a feeling ‘I really like this person’ that fades away-that hasn’t happen with Danneel….not to say it won’t…It was on those rides I realized she was going to be a problem for me.
Jared: After a few months we went to lunch and then dinner, and we went to lunch the next day and Gen was ‘you can’t tell anyone we’re dating.’ She didn’t care about Jared being on a TV show. Jensen: You were the lucky one in that scenario. Jared: Once I got to know her it was pretty quick and he knew she’d be the right girl.
Last question! If they could change anything that’s happened to the characters on the show? Jensen: I’d change the fight scene between Lucifer and Michael to take place on the ground instead of looking like a marionette fight. He goes over to Rob and the two of them bat their hands ridiculously at each other. Rich: That’s going to be an interesting gif to explain…Jared wishes there’d been more Demon!Dean and he hopes we see a lot of Michael!Dean. When it comes to Sam, Jared takes a lot of comfort for both Sam and for Jared in not being able to change the past. Then he adds he wishes they could have more Chuck and Gabe too.
Jensen gets distracted by the glitter on Jared’s face again, asks the audience who was wearing glitter and rubbed Jared’s face?
Ruth and Alex come out with Misha who is carrying a birthday cake for Jared (his birthday was the Thursday after the con.) It is a replica of Boba Fett’s helmet. After everyone sings Happy Birthday, Misha feints shoving the cake in Jared’s face. Rich: Do it! He would so do it to you! Misha looks at Jared, takes the candles off, Rich is still saying to do it so Misha starts to shove the cake toward Jared’s face and Jared bends down into it, then reacts triumphantly with a mouth full of cake.
Rob and Rich
Rob threw himself a surprise 40th birthday party. For his 21st birthday his friends hired a stripper dressed as a cop. Rich has the idea for Rob’s 50th to have a cop dressed as a stripper yell ‘Surprise, you’re under arrest!’
They reminisce about cartoons they watched as kids. Rich loved Bugs Bunny, and finds as an adult they are brilliant. He recalls in a Knights of the Round Table bit there was ‘Sir Osis of the Liver’ which went right over his head as a kid. Rich also loved ‘Johnny Quest’ and he had a crush on Maria of ‘Sesame Street.’ He was crushed when she married Luis.
Rich appreciates how the SPN set is a very supportive team when he is directing. He really liked the fact that when he played Loki and Gabe he had ideas about those characters and the director-himself-went along with the actor’s ideas.
Rob’s guilty-to-watch TV show is ‘The Bachelor.’ If he were on it his songs would be ‘Cool if I Come Over’ and ‘Hallelujah.’
College advice? Go to class and stay off drugs.
How does Rob feel about playing God? He has respect for the concept of God, and ‘It’s weird, I know, right?’
Rob brought up that Rich is such a director that he even directs casual Instagram photos. And when Rob compiled the Tough Mudder video a few years ago, he sent it to everyone for approval. All the others emailed back they loved it, but the 2 directors-Jensen and Rich-sent pages of notes. Jensen’s had things like ‘Let’s circle back on the sequence…’
Rich misses mix tapes and he’s currently in the process of digitizing ones he has.
When he is sad, Rob plays sad music to sink in to it fully so he can get over it.
Rich’s son Frank had a sleepover at the Padaleckis when he was 6. Gen asked what he wanted for breakfast and he said he liked pancakes but he should have oatmeal with flax seeds. And he couldn’t have regular milk, could he have breastmilk…what he meant was rice milk…
Then we got the ‘It’s the End of the Con as We Know It’ song, and other than waiting for a couple of friends to get autographs, it was another con for the books.
Sunday 7/15
Sunday started with Jensen’s photo op. After the hug, he said ‘nice to see you again.’ Now I honestly took this as just something polite he was saying, but when I told the others they were all positive that he must have indeed recognized me. I really have a hard time thinking that gray-haired, older-woman, unremarkable me would be someone Jensen would remember…but everyone pointed out he didn’t say it to anyone else in the group…I don’t know…really???
I do wish I had committed to hugging him all the way, but I was overthinking instead of just going for it…
Jared’s photo op was very satisfying, it was an excellent hug and I love how happy I am in the picture!
Alex Calvert
For being so new, and young by comparison, Alex has a handle on being funny and self-deprecating. Unfortunately a lot of the panel’s questions were about the infamous pranking he has been suffering…but he seemed to be expecting them at this point. He did joke about jello-wrestling Thursdays on set…
He hopes Jack doesn’t change vessels-‘I like my job!’
He remembers watching Scooby-Doo as a kid, and just finding it funny how Shaggy was always hungry…watching it now, as an adult, his reaction is ‘Whoa! There was more going on there!’
His observation about SPN in general is that any time it looks like anyone can relax, something bad happens. (Clearly he’s watched the show.)
He would like an episode about catching a vampire who surfs in Hawaii…
He loves seeing fandom’s support of each other.
He spent his first day on set mostly naked, and was incredibly grateful that was the one day Jared and Jensen were professional!
J2
Jared, Jensen, Misha, and Alex’s girlfriend Jenna brought out a birthday cake for Alex (it was his actual birthday) at the end of his panel and everyone sang. This resulted in J2 being onstage without their usual musical introduction because they went right into talking about the ice cream flavors that Steve Norton (the Louden Swain drummer) had ordered for everyone in the green room.
Jensen had White Tiger Paws flavor-Jared jokes that’s Jensen’s secret Instagram name. Jared had chocolate chip cookie dough, and says as a kid he was taught that eating raw cookie dough would make you sick from the raw eggs, but now he eats raw eggs from his chickens. Jensen demonstrates Jared picking up an egg, cracking it and dripping it into his mouth.
Jared talks about 11 years ago the first SPN con was in Chicago, and ‘I couldn’t be happier to be here today.’
Jensen notices that the entire left side of Jared’s face is covered in glitter. He asks Jared why his face is covered in glitter. Jared: Wouldn’t you like to know. Jensen: What I’m thinking involves a clown…and is risque…
Fan: What are you reading right now? Jared: Episode 1 by Dabb, Episode 2 by Ross-Leming, Episode 3 by Berens… He doesn’t read as much as he used to because when the kids are napping he naps too. Over the summer he read ‘Ranger Games.’ Jensen: ‘Narcos. It’s on Netflix. I’m reading the subtitles. It’s a page turner.’ Jared asks the fan what she’s reading, she says ‘Tales of a Prairie Bitch.’ Jensen: Before White Tiger Paws, my name was Tales of a Prairie Bitch.
Fan: I’m a mom of three. Jared: I’m sorry. Fan: They’re teenagers, older than yours. Which is maybe worse. Jensen: Does it at any point get any better? Fan laughs. What personality traits do your kids have from you? Jensen: Having the twins is an interesting experiment. For example, when they’re eating, Arrow will say ‘mas’ (Spanish for more) while Zepp goes ‘EHHH’ (Jensen waves wildly) so he gets that from me. When they’re done, Arrow will say ‘all done’ while Zepp goes like this (Jensen shoves everything off the high chair tray) and then he looks at me like this (Jensen makes the ‘I dare you’ Dean face.) It’s like he’s saying ‘I know you’re gonna pick it up. ‘
Jared: Tom has an unending appetite for sweets like his dad; Shep is drunk Jared, everything is funny; Odette doesn’t give a shit. He gives the example of Odette touching a plug and he says ‘No, no, no!’-Odette looks at him and goes right back to it. Jared goes on to explain how he tries to play with Odette, make her laugh by tickling her or making funny faces, or dancing around like a monkey, but Odette keeps a straight face and is not amused…’So she’s my wife.’ Jensen interrupts that he was going to say I’ve seen you do that with Gen. Jared and Jensen think Odette and Zepp are similar. There is a picture of the 2 of them in a double stroller with the same unimpressed expressions. Jensen elaborates on Zepp, demonstrating if Zepp was playing with a bottle of water and Jensen told him to stop, he would look and then knock it over with the expression ‘What you gonna do about it, daddy?’
What in your character resonates with you personally? Jared says they are different than Sam and Dean, they are very blessed, their parents are still married, they grew up in the same area, there’s not a lot in common with being possessed by Lucifer…Jared likes to understand why someone does something. One thing he appreciates is Sam’s academic approach, his research skills, which Jared has too, although Jared would not like having to spend 2 weeks straight in the bunker researching. Jensen said Dean’s confidence has resonated with him. Dean doesn’t walk into any room afraid, whether it’s monsters or people. ‘I know the effects of lack of confidence early on…’ so Dean’s confidence has helped him.
Fan is nervous about going off to college, what advice can they give for her ‘new season?’ Jared: When this new season is over you will be better than you are today-even if it sucks, in hindsight you will see how it made you grow. There will be peaks and valleys, peaks are fun, but valleys will make you better than the peaks. Jensen: Your parents may not appreciate this, okay, first of all, study hard, get good grades…but don’t let your grades dictate what you learn. Jared: Like Samuel Clemens said, “Don’t let schooling get in the way of your education.” Jensen: That’s what I said! I didn’t want to plagiarize!
A nervous fan struggles with her question. Jared gestures at Jensen: I know, he’s handsome, isn’t he?
Jared: This is a neat life hanging around people with similar passions. We care about Sam and Dean a lot, and we care about y’all a lot. I hope we get to keep exploring Sam and Dean for a while. The more I learn about Sam and Dean the more I learn about Jared and Jensen. Jensen: And I concur.
Fan: If Sam and Dean weren’t Michael and Lucifer’s vessels, how would they fight the apocalypse? Jensen: Dean would get in a tank. Sam would get in a tank top. Jensen starts imitating Sam trying to distract Lucifer with his tank top ‘What you gonna do about it, Lucifer?’ while Dean yells ‘Get in the tank, Sam!’ Jared laughs at how Jensen acted being Jared. Jensen: You’re like Gaston, you’re all torso!
Fan asks if Jensen was the only one who got to ride the mechanical bull in ‘Regarding Dean.’ Jensen: That was an actual bar in Maple Ridge. It’s called Roosters. Better than cocks. Jared: But is it? Jensen: Enough about Roosters! Jensen says he and his stunt double were the only people who got to ride the mechanical bull. The stunt guy had to ride it for almost 2 minutes-you’re supposed to ride for 8 seconds-and complained for the next 4 days. Jensen: You really have to grip tight with your legs. I did ride it for quite a while. Jared cracks up. Jared asks if it bruised the insides of Jensen’s legs then adds ‘Jensen has surprisingly durable inner thighs.’
Did they think it was funny Gabe was brought back just to die again? Jared says to never rule anyone out. He loved Gabriel’s arc and they love Rich as a director. And it was a cool way for him to go.
A fan is nervous because this is her first convention. Jensen: This is Jared. It’s like his 87th convention. He’s nervous, too. Jared waves like a happy kid. Fan asks them to reenact their favorite episode. Jared turns his chair so they are sitting in the front seat of the Impala. Dean is driving, adjusts the mirror. Sam is on his phone. ‘I found something. Bodies with their eyes burned out in Duluth.’ Dean: We’ve got a tail.’ Sam: Lose him. Dean: It’s just toilet paper. Jensen: That’s it.
Jared remarks it feels weird to sit normally in a chair so Jensen turns his around and twists himself on it like Jared does, then mocks flinging his hair back. Then he says he’s going to need help getting out, and Jared helps him get his legs unstuck.
What was their favorite prank? Jensen says the pie in Misha’s face, Jared seconds that. Then Jensen remembers another one. They saw Sebastian Roche as they were walking through the Vancouver airport to catch their flight. Seb was sitting in one of the airport mini-massage spas, in a chair getting his back massaged with his face in the donut on the chair. Jensen tells Jared to be Seb and he has Billy (guitarist) be giving the massage. Jensen then enthusiastically re-enacts Jared sneaking up and taking over the massage and then explains that Jared slid his hand into Sebastian’s pants but Sebastian just went ‘Ohh’-Jensen says he was on the floor laughing, finally Seb heard him and looked up, saw Jared, and just put his face back. Retelling this story had both boys nearly doubled with laughter. (Follow-up note-after this story made it to the internet, on Monday Sebastian tweeted that he remembered Jared had such soft hands.)
How would Jared and Jensen handle the Supernatural world? Jared: “I’m a large man but I can fit into small spaces.”
The crowd starts laughing-it takes a minute for both of them to register the unintended innuendo and they both crack up. Finally Jared says ‘I’d hide.’ Jensen: I’d have no problem kicking in the door…no idea what to do when the door’s open…unless he got to the Impala’s trunk first, then he’d have a game, he’d grab the rocket launcher.
Is there a room in the bunker we haven’t seen yet that they’d like to see? Jared says a steam shower. Jensen says they’ve shown the showers, it’s like a locker room. Jared didn’t remember that Dean had had a shower scene. Jensen: I showered-I was dirty. Jared says in the first episode this season we see the exercise room. It’s not treadmills with TVs, it’s elementary 1950s fitness. Jensen points out that we’ve seen the outside door to the bunker, and we’ve seen people enter the bunker on the upper level, but we’ve never seen the hallway between the 2 doors. How long is it? Does it meander? Do you ride in a mining cart? Jared: Is there 2 ½ miles of scuba diving? Jensen mentions how he filmed a movie in a coal mine (My Bloody Valentine,) but it wasn’t a working one. They did go to a working mine, though, and to get to the work areas you get on a motorized cart on a track, and the tunnel is only 5 feet high, so you have to lay on your back and ride through this tunnel for 2 miles. Nope.
Scariest monster? Jensen legitimately did not like the dolls in ‘Playthings.’ I was like, ‘Haunted for real, that one winked it me.’ Jared was freaked out by the Apocalypse world vampires in the cave. They were played by very expressive stunt men who really made their bodies move expressively and growled and it was legit spooky. Jared: ‘I did not love the leviathans.’ Then he pokes fun at vampires being pale and beautiful and ‘you can’t see me in the light.’ Jensen looks at Jared like ‘WTF are you talking about?’
Fan asks when did they first know they were in love with their wives. Jared has to clarify does she mean when they were their wives or when they were their fiancées, or dating? Jared says he can’t say exactly when-Jensen says he knows when-Jared whispers something that makes Jensen bend over laughing. Jensen realized he was in love with Danneel when they were in their second week of filming ‘Ten Inch Hero.’ They carpooled down together for the hour drive, and his reaction was ‘Oh, no’ because he was dating someone else, but that had started to fizzle. He’s dated a few times and there’s a feeling ‘I really like this person’ that fades away-that hasn’t happen with Danneel….not to say it won’t…It was on those rides I realized she was going to be a problem for me.
Jared: After a few months we went to lunch and then dinner, and we went to lunch the next day and Gen was ‘you can’t tell anyone we’re dating.’ She didn’t care about Jared being on a TV show. Jensen: You were the lucky one in that scenario. Jared: Once I got to know her it was pretty quick and he knew she’d be the right girl.
Last question! If they could change anything that’s happened to the characters on the show? Jensen: I’d change the fight scene between Lucifer and Michael to take place on the ground instead of looking like a marionette fight. He goes over to Rob and the two of them bat their hands ridiculously at each other. Rich: That’s going to be an interesting gif to explain…Jared wishes there’d been more Demon!Dean and he hopes we see a lot of Michael!Dean. When it comes to Sam, Jared takes a lot of comfort for both Sam and for Jared in not being able to change the past. Then he adds he wishes they could have more Chuck and Gabe too.
Jensen gets distracted by the glitter on Jared’s face again, asks the audience who was wearing glitter and rubbed Jared’s face?
Ruth and Alex come out with Misha who is carrying a birthday cake for Jared (his birthday was the Thursday after the con.) It is a replica of Boba Fett’s helmet. After everyone sings Happy Birthday, Misha feints shoving the cake in Jared’s face. Rich: Do it! He would so do it to you! Misha looks at Jared, takes the candles off, Rich is still saying to do it so Misha starts to shove the cake toward Jared’s face and Jared bends down into it, then reacts triumphantly with a mouth full of cake.
Rob and Rich
Rob threw himself a surprise 40th birthday party. For his 21st birthday his friends hired a stripper dressed as a cop. Rich has the idea for Rob’s 50th to have a cop dressed as a stripper yell ‘Surprise, you’re under arrest!’
They reminisce about cartoons they watched as kids. Rich loved Bugs Bunny, and finds as an adult they are brilliant. He recalls in a Knights of the Round Table bit there was ‘Sir Osis of the Liver’ which went right over his head as a kid. Rich also loved ‘Johnny Quest’ and he had a crush on Maria of ‘Sesame Street.’ He was crushed when she married Luis.
Rich appreciates how the SPN set is a very supportive team when he is directing. He really liked the fact that when he played Loki and Gabe he had ideas about those characters and the director-himself-went along with the actor’s ideas.
Rob’s guilty-to-watch TV show is ‘The Bachelor.’ If he were on it his songs would be ‘Cool if I Come Over’ and ‘Hallelujah.’
College advice? Go to class and stay off drugs.
How does Rob feel about playing God? He has respect for the concept of God, and ‘It’s weird, I know, right?’
Rob brought up that Rich is such a director that he even directs casual Instagram photos. And when Rob compiled the Tough Mudder video a few years ago, he sent it to everyone for approval. All the others emailed back they loved it, but the 2 directors-Jensen and Rich-sent pages of notes. Jensen’s had things like ‘Let’s circle back on the sequence…’
Rich misses mix tapes and he’s currently in the process of digitizing ones he has.
When he is sad, Rob plays sad music to sink in to it fully so he can get over it.
Rich’s son Frank had a sleepover at the Padaleckis when he was 6. Gen asked what he wanted for breakfast and he said he liked pancakes but he should have oatmeal with flax seeds. And he couldn’t have regular milk, could he have breastmilk…what he meant was rice milk…
Then we got the ‘It’s the End of the Con as We Know It’ song, and other than waiting for a couple of friends to get autographs, it was another con for the books.