just in bello report - day #2
Warning: at one point there's a POSSIBLE spoiler alert for a question in Jim's panel which Jim didn't answer straight either way. Since it'd be huge, I put a LONG space between the alert and the actual answer, but I'm warning about it now, too. If you DON'T want any spoilers of any kind, skip as soon as you see it. I'm warning now. ;)
So, after the J2 op I went to the Misha panel a good ten minutes before it started and put my underwear where it was handy (I had gone and raided the Chinese shop near my house because I was buying briefs for other people too and I had gone for some lovely women panties made of fake orange lace which I paid exactly one euro. I love Chinese shops, but whatever), then waited for it to start and IT WAS EVEN BETTER THAN THE DAY BEFORE. Report! *takes notes out*
- He got asked what does he like about Castiel and what he doesn't; he said he liked that he's becoming human but not the WAY he's experiencing it. Meaning, he'd have wanted it to be like the way it was in Wings Of Desire when the falling angel got to experience all the joys of being human, while Castiel is experiencing all the negative which is what he doesn't like, even if the orgy scenes were fun. I'll add that at some point he said something in German Wings Of Desire related and at that point I was orgasming because:
a) MISHA HAS SEEN THAT MOVIE;
b) MISHA LIKES THAT MOVIE;
c) I LOVED THAT MOVIE;
d) I'm still trying to finish Dean/Cas fic based on that. Er.
e) MISHA SPOKE IN GERMAN. Language kink, you're my friend.
The interpreter, sadly, didn't even know the Italian title for Wings Of Desire. Then a German girl corrected him on the way he pronounced Rainer Maria Rilke which is what I was talking about in point E. Misha's German accent is excellent, btw.
- A girl from Latvia asked something and he ended up making jokes about their empire being over, but I didn't take notes carefully enough then, I was still flailing over Wenders. Anyway at this point the interpreter tried to translate and managed to say LATVIA instead of Lettonia which would be the name in Italian and got half of the crowd groaning. I don't think she translated anything else during that panel after that and the Wenders failure, also because Misha was like rolling his eyes everytime because I/we/everyone probably understood it better without the translation.
- He got asked if Castiel would switch bodies with Sam or Dean, given the chance, and from what I remember he said that he wouldn't switch with Sam which leaves Dean as the other option even if he didn't say it out loud;
- He defined Castiel as the 'magical angel ferret', and I suspect it was related to the previous question;
- He got asked if fandom sometimes embarrasses him and he said that when we do crazy stuff he doesn't dwell on it and that when we do nice stuff he feels honored so he really doesn't mind and he loves us (that got him a lot of cheering);
- A girl whose hair was braided and almost reached the beginning of her legs asked him how he manages not blinking when he plays Castiel and he answered that in RL he blinks as much as she cuts her hair, and then went over to her and put the braid around her neck twice, lol.
- He got asked why did Cas change that much and he answered for drama value; then he got asked if Cas considers Sam and Dean friends and he said yes without doubts;
- They asked him where he'd like to travel and he said Mongolia and Siberia, then he said he'd love to go to Nepal;
- When asked if he wanted to become a director he talked about his short movie and said that he wants to do some more, the next should be about crappy airport security;
- Then the girl who cosplayed Cas the day before started with the underwear and he got handed TONS of it and he went back to the chair with the bundle in his arms and started to sort through it. He commented about the first four or five and then said he couldn't do that anymore and just left it there but he kept glancing at it. At this point he explained the thing from his side claiming it was an innocent mistake on his part and that it was the wardrobe person putting his underwear in Richard's trailer; anyway, he'll thank Richard and put everything in his drawer so that anyone who opens it will think he has some kind of experimental fetish;
- Premise: for a replacement for the guests who didn't come, they had Kevin Sorbo of Hercules fame, I think because he shares a PR with someone in SPN or something like that, and er, let's say that 75% of the people attending were like WTF KEVIN SORBO? So anyway, this girl asks Misha if he's there because he plays God but no one knows it. Conversation goes more or less like this.
Girl: ... so, is Kevin Sorbo GOD?
Audience: LOL
Misha: you know, when I saw him I had the doubt too. Er, who is he by the way? Was he in some show?
Girl: yeah, he was in Hercules.
Misha: oh, right, Hercules. Uh. So. Was it any good?
First third of the audience: yes!
Second third of the audience: NO!
Third third: ERRRRRRRRRRRRR.
Misha: oh. Right. I get it.
And then everyone started laughing again, but the question didn't get answered.
- Misha gives J2 acting tips during takes;
- They asked how many people auditioned for his role and he said he doesn't know and sometimes roles get just offered without auditions (IE, Kurt Fuller got the role offered);
- Someone's phone started to ring and he was like 'please take the call' and then said 'crap, mine isn't turned off too', then got asked about the burger eating in MBV and he said that at the beginning he had regular burgers, then veggie burgers, then that the raw meat was in truth some disgusting not cooked vegetarian thing and that it reminded him of some role of his where he had to eat a lot of lobster and even if he liked it before, he couldn't eat it for years after (I suspect it was Finding Home, but I can't remember exactly if it was lobster he was eating in that);
- He then said he was talking to Jensen some time that morning and that we were apparently the best crowd they had which got him ANOTHER WHOLE LOT of cheering;
- He got asked his first impressions of Italy. He said the first was the hotel which was, in his words, MEH and got him another huge round of cheering (srsly, that hotel sucked. Will say more in part III of the review) but that he loved the ruins when he went to see them and he loves our history and buildings and stuf;
- His only new role coming is Stohenenge Apocalypse which is in his opinion an Oscar runner (it was kind of clear he wasn't being serious but the way he said it, LOL);
- When asked about his favorite scenes and funniest to shoot, he said the one with future Cas when he's in the car with Dean and talks about amphetamines (btw: my favorite f!Cas scene. Misha, your taste is my taste.)
- At some point before, Idk when because I didn't note it but I think it was at the beginning, the person who made the back crash during the J2 panel, whom the day before asked him a question and something about doing embarrassing stuff came out, went and actually said she embarrassed herself like nothing else and said she was the one to make the back crash and he started clapping saying he was impressed and that it was hard to beat (I have a pic of it).
- At some other point someone (I think the presenter) started explaining him how do you say fuck off in the strict Roman way (aka your hand goes up in the air straight as you shout AHO in the other person's face, I can't exactly explain it unless I'm in front of you). First he didn't get how the hand was but then someone from the crowd (me included, we were a bunch) did it and he did it again and I THINK I WAS THIS CLOSE TO DYING because Misha doing stuff I do and saying stuff I say = ME DYING. Picture of that underneath, too.
And then it was sadly over. ;__________;
PICTURES AGAIN!!!
After that, we had the J2 panel which was HYSTERICAL mostly because of Misha crashing it, but I'll get to that point. Thankfully I was at my place for that and no one stole my seat, pfffff.
So, they both come on stage saying HOWDY and everyone was kind of gushing (seriously. Those two one next to the other are... are... too much at once, lol), then Jared said that he was Jensen and Jensen was Jared because clearly they had to start by cracking us up. Whatever. Anyway, they said the right names and then it went right that.
- Someone asked a S5 question and Jensen pretended not to know zilch about it;
- They got asked why all the female characters die; Jensen said they'd like to protect them instead, but they're bad luck for girls he guesses, and Jared agreed;
- I can't read what the hell I wrote next so sorry about that, but I think that Jared did an imitation of something and Jensen answered saying SAMMY and everyone went crazy clapping;
- Jared pretended to be farting after *lol*
- There's absolutely no competition between them re the whole Sam girls/Dean girls debacle; I think Jared said that whenever he reads that he thinks 'uh, well, they'll grow up' (and at that he got a lot of cheer) and that their only legit fangirls are their mothers. Actually, Jared's mom is a Dean girl, but according to Jared, Sam girls always win re SPN, and Dean girls always win re Gilmore Girls, which made us go laughing again. Jared is funny, indeed.
- They got asked which was their respective favorite spoof in Changing Channels. Dialogue:
Jared: NOT the game show. (He then said it was the CSI spinoff and started imitating David Caruso);
Jensen: DEFINITELY THE JAPANESE GAME SHOW because it's one of the few times Dean doesn't get hit (that made us def. laugh again)
- Someone asked Jensen specifically a question and Jared started making snoring noises before Jensen could open his mouth to answer;
- That question was indeed relevant to my interests because the girl wanted to know why Castiel is always invading Dean's personal space. Jensen's answer: 'it's not Cas, it's Misha. He's weird. He doesn't know what personal space is.' -> remember this for later.
- They got asked what do they like about their characters and what they dislike.
Jared: he likes Sam's struggle, but he hates that Sam is too tall and he can't fit in the Impala (then he told a story about actually losing hair and a piece of scalp because he kept hitting his head against the car when he tried to get in and Jensen confirmed it);
- At that point, craziness started because Misha's voice started coming from some place which wasn't recognizable (he actually was outside the room with a mic) and he told Jared that he's way too tall because Misha himself feels usually like a normal human being but when next to him he's a midget and Jared made a O___O face. He asked whether it was Castiel or God speaking and Misha said 'I'M WATCHING YOU' from outside. Someone screamed at Jared to ask Misha about his underwear and so Jared was like 'WHAT ABOUT YOUR UNDERWEAR, MISHA?' (Before I go on: I had a couple of friends who had a pass which didn't made them get into the room, they could just stay outside and watch through the monitors; they said that Misha had been hanging around them for a while and was spying from the door and they were as cracked up as us)
Then Misha storms into the room, goes on the stage, hugs Jared, goes next to Jensen, TOTALLY INVADES HIS PERSONAL SPACE which shows he had been there eavesdropping for a while and then gets out. I think by then we were all so cracked up we were crying.
- That done, they passed on their favorite and least favorite episodes to shoot.
Jared: his favorite was The End because he got to work just one day (LOL), but seriously, probably 4x09 because since he and Jensen always work together it was more challenging to do scenes mostly on his own, while his least favorite is 3x10 for reasons I didn't write but you can imagine XD
Jensen: his favorite is the Pilot because it set things and he still likes it best, least favorite The End and What Is And What Should Never Be, probably because he totally had to work his ass off on those two lol
Jared also said that he's challenging NOT to work together, and at one point he said that at least Misha wasn't eavesdropping anymore but idk if it was related or not.
- Someone screamed PUDDING with the wrong pronounce and then one of them asked whether someone was pulling their pants down in the back of the room;
- They got asked why using the Colt on angels if they knew it worked just for demons and Jared answered that they're so desperate they'd have done anything, exactly like Castiel (who's as weird as Misha) knows he can't do anything and so ended up searching for God instead;
- They talked about the pudding scene and said that it was Sam supposed to do that but Dean sounded better when it was time to shoot so they switched;
- Someone asked Jared about his farting in the bloopers (I was srsly embarrassed btw but er, he took it graciously) and Jensen was like 'what, you'd like to know what he eats? Good question, I've been wondering for the last five years' which was kind of gold, lol. Anyway he said it just shows how comfortable he feels.
- Someone said thanks re specifying it's not them on Facebook or Twitter because she got stalked by someone pretending to be Jensen or something;
- They got asked their favorite season for the show:
Jared: season 5 because he loves how they wrapped it up and said it was incredibly satisfying for him;
Jensen: season 1, but he likes S5 too, and meanwhile he filled the glasses of water for the both of them (aw).
- I can't exactly decipher what I wrote next but from what I remember they MIGHT have been asked if they liked better to work with Genevieve Cortese, Katie Cassidy or Paris Hilton; Jared said he liked the scene where he killed Paris and Jensen said bingo when Jared said he liked brunettes better, or something along these lines if I'm not remembering crap. If anyone else attending reads this and I'm wrong, please correct me. XD
- Last question was which code names they'd give each other if they were secret agents; Jensen made a joke about that movie with Matt Damon where the agent as 0014 as a code name because it's double 007 but they said they'd think about it and it ended there.
PICTURES!
After the J2 panel I went for the photo op with Jim, who is AWESOME. And welcoming. And duh, he crushes your hip, but I was sorta crushing his, so. And he has the honor of getting my only op where I actually looked like a normal happy human being instead of like I had just seen the second coming or something else. I think I'll post all the ops in the last post so that at least I don't end up cluttering this more than it already is. So, after the op with Jim we had his panel and HE WAS SERIOUSLY SO GREAT I CAN'T EVEN. I think that whoever wasn't already in love with him before he got in went out crazy about the guy, really. He's such fun, even if not on the Misha Collins craziness level, but he also gives serious answers and has the best shirts. I mean, he got out with a shirt that said BOBBY SINGER IS A HUNTER. A HUNTER OF BEAUTIFUL ITALIAN GIRLS. Come on. AWESOME, right? And he came out and took pictures of us with his camera! HOW ADORABLE?
Anyway, report! *takes notes out*
- He said he was happy to be in Italy even if he comes here every eleven years, more or less;
- He started asking people where they were from and did a list of a number of nations, then ended with Zimbabwe and said it was the last he could remember;
- He got asked what was his first impression of Italy and he said he loves it, then he had a conversation that went like this:
Q: are Italian fans crazy?
A: weeell....
Q2: crazier than Misha?
A: Misha is a category of craziness in himself...
Then he added that Misha can't be compared to other humans and Jim doesn't do that; also, Misha occasionally kisses Jim and Jim, not being as young anymore, accepts it because he's accept it from everyone at this point;
- He got asked a role which he'd have wanted to play and he said he'd have loved to be in Up In The Air... in place of Vera Farmiga. Then corrected himself and said he wants to work WITH Vera Farmiga. At this point I was fearing Jim/Misha/George Clooney threesomes. But let's not dwell about that.
- He got asked to share a funny story and he answered 'one day, Jared was on set on time'. Everyone cracked. Then he said he doesn't know because SPN is in general a very funny set so nothing stands out.
- Someone asked him to say something in French and he started singing the national anthem;
- Someone else asked him about 5x15 and if he acted from experience completely inappropriate question if you ask me and he said he did but that while he'd have rather not had the actual memories he's proud of his work in that ep and I think half of the room was tearing up;
- Next question brought on the crack again and he was asked to explain the whole Misha/Jim thing on Twitter and he said that they were sitting next to each other on a plane and Misha decided to tell the world stuff so that Jim would pass for a pervert, when in truth Misha is the pervert of the two, but Jim doesn't let that fact get to their friendship;
- Q: how do you handle Jared and Jensen trying to make you laugh during takes?
A: ACTING.
Room cracks up.
- Related to that: Jared tried to make him laugh during a scene in 3x10 where he was on a hospital bed and he talked about serious stuff by moving Jim's toes around but he kept a straight face and now they try harder and harder and he has to try harder and harder every time;
- Whoever asked Misha about super powers the previous day asked Jim the same question. When learning that Misha's answer was x-ray vision, Jim commented that he isn't that dumb after all and that he's an adult male, of course he'd want x-ray, but he'd like also flying or being invisible. Then he talked about playing an invisible character on Lois & Clark if I'm not mistaken.
- Q: should we trust you or Misha?
A: LOOK AT HIM, WHAT DO YOU SAY?
Room cracks up.
- He got asked whether he came up with idjts and the ditchable prom date quote but nada, all writers;
- He got a spoilery question, he grunted when someone said spoilers, then said they had a big party for the finale but that he didn't necessarily like the script much, IF I'm not mistaken;
- POSSIBLE SPOILER, IN THE SENSE THAT HE DIDN'T NECESSARILY CONFIRM THE QUESTION HE WAS ASKED BUT HE HAD A POSSIBLY SUGGESTING REACTION SO IF YOU DON'T WANT TO RISK ANYTHING SKIP THIS. I MEAN IT. SKIP THIS. COULD POSSIBLY BE HUGE IF THE QUESTION'S ANSWER WAS YES.
He got asked if Bobby could be God's vessel since Sam is Lucy's and Dean is Michael's; he kind of totally completely avoided to answer it in a direct manner. He didn't say no though. Not yes either, but still, he avoided it.
END POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT
- Someone asked him how S5 could possibly be the happiest season yet (as Kripke said) when Dean & Sam should be vessels, Bobby's in a wheelchair, God is MIA etc. and Jim answered that Kripke has weird ideas about everything, including what happiness means; he doesn't think S5 is happy at all and actually the happiest was S1, if you ask him;
- He got asked where would Bobby go if he died and which would be Bobby's heaven if he went there (probably it was referring to 5x16 but I can't remember) and he said, in the panic room with Bo Derek.
- He talked a bit more about his book and I can't remember exactly, also because it was things he already said a bunch of times, but I remember it was very touching;
- He got asked Bobby's opinion on Sam since it seems like he's more attached to Dean from what the show suggests, but he answered that it's just because Bobby and Dean get more scenes together and we don't see what happens with Bobby and Sam; he says Bobby loves them both equally and he has a real life approach to their relationship;
- He got asked some advice to go into acting and he said it's discouraging and that you need to be very prepared, also to spend a lot of money, but he wouldn't try to discourage anyone from doing what made him happiest in his life;
- He doesn't know what kripke'd means;
- He then got asked the obligatory fanfiction question (which I hoped would NOT come out, but better Jim than Misha or J2, really) and he said that he reads fic online and someone still needs to explain him while he reads Bobby/John slash (as per that shirt he wore at some con previously), but while he reads Bobby/John, he writes Bobby/you.
Room goes wild with clapping.
- He then advised to buy his book on bookdeposit.co.uk since you don't pay postal expenses since someone asked him where they could find it;
And that was Jim's panel. Here, HAVE PICTURES!
After that we were kinda beat and so ended up going back to the city where me and _izu_ had dinner at ecstaticagony's who's actually an awesome cook <3333 ;) and then we got home at midnight or something and then there's still day three but it took me all day to write this and so day 3 is for tomorrow along with random pictures also of my autographs and ops, overall impressions and whatever else, not forgetting the Jen/Misha picture lol. I fear catching up with the FL. Also, if I end up spamming you with the Lost review too, sorry. I really am. Forgive me. ;)
So, after the J2 op I went to the Misha panel a good ten minutes before it started and put my underwear where it was handy (I had gone and raided the Chinese shop near my house because I was buying briefs for other people too and I had gone for some lovely women panties made of fake orange lace which I paid exactly one euro. I love Chinese shops, but whatever), then waited for it to start and IT WAS EVEN BETTER THAN THE DAY BEFORE. Report! *takes notes out*
- He got asked what does he like about Castiel and what he doesn't; he said he liked that he's becoming human but not the WAY he's experiencing it. Meaning, he'd have wanted it to be like the way it was in Wings Of Desire when the falling angel got to experience all the joys of being human, while Castiel is experiencing all the negative which is what he doesn't like, even if the orgy scenes were fun. I'll add that at some point he said something in German Wings Of Desire related and at that point I was orgasming because:
a) MISHA HAS SEEN THAT MOVIE;
b) MISHA LIKES THAT MOVIE;
c) I LOVED THAT MOVIE;
d) I'm still trying to finish Dean/Cas fic based on that. Er.
e) MISHA SPOKE IN GERMAN. Language kink, you're my friend.
The interpreter, sadly, didn't even know the Italian title for Wings Of Desire. Then a German girl corrected him on the way he pronounced Rainer Maria Rilke which is what I was talking about in point E. Misha's German accent is excellent, btw.
- A girl from Latvia asked something and he ended up making jokes about their empire being over, but I didn't take notes carefully enough then, I was still flailing over Wenders. Anyway at this point the interpreter tried to translate and managed to say LATVIA instead of Lettonia which would be the name in Italian and got half of the crowd groaning. I don't think she translated anything else during that panel after that and the Wenders failure, also because Misha was like rolling his eyes everytime because I/we/everyone probably understood it better without the translation.
- He got asked if Castiel would switch bodies with Sam or Dean, given the chance, and from what I remember he said that he wouldn't switch with Sam which leaves Dean as the other option even if he didn't say it out loud;
- He defined Castiel as the 'magical angel ferret', and I suspect it was related to the previous question;
- He got asked if fandom sometimes embarrasses him and he said that when we do crazy stuff he doesn't dwell on it and that when we do nice stuff he feels honored so he really doesn't mind and he loves us (that got him a lot of cheering);
- A girl whose hair was braided and almost reached the beginning of her legs asked him how he manages not blinking when he plays Castiel and he answered that in RL he blinks as much as she cuts her hair, and then went over to her and put the braid around her neck twice, lol.
- He got asked why did Cas change that much and he answered for drama value; then he got asked if Cas considers Sam and Dean friends and he said yes without doubts;
- They asked him where he'd like to travel and he said Mongolia and Siberia, then he said he'd love to go to Nepal;
- When asked if he wanted to become a director he talked about his short movie and said that he wants to do some more, the next should be about crappy airport security;
- Then the girl who cosplayed Cas the day before started with the underwear and he got handed TONS of it and he went back to the chair with the bundle in his arms and started to sort through it. He commented about the first four or five and then said he couldn't do that anymore and just left it there but he kept glancing at it. At this point he explained the thing from his side claiming it was an innocent mistake on his part and that it was the wardrobe person putting his underwear in Richard's trailer; anyway, he'll thank Richard and put everything in his drawer so that anyone who opens it will think he has some kind of experimental fetish;
- Premise: for a replacement for the guests who didn't come, they had Kevin Sorbo of Hercules fame, I think because he shares a PR with someone in SPN or something like that, and er, let's say that 75% of the people attending were like WTF KEVIN SORBO? So anyway, this girl asks Misha if he's there because he plays God but no one knows it. Conversation goes more or less like this.
Girl: ... so, is Kevin Sorbo GOD?
Audience: LOL
Misha: you know, when I saw him I had the doubt too. Er, who is he by the way? Was he in some show?
Girl: yeah, he was in Hercules.
Misha: oh, right, Hercules. Uh. So. Was it any good?
First third of the audience: yes!
Second third of the audience: NO!
Third third: ERRRRRRRRRRRRR.
Misha: oh. Right. I get it.
And then everyone started laughing again, but the question didn't get answered.
- Misha gives J2 acting tips during takes;
- They asked how many people auditioned for his role and he said he doesn't know and sometimes roles get just offered without auditions (IE, Kurt Fuller got the role offered);
- Someone's phone started to ring and he was like 'please take the call' and then said 'crap, mine isn't turned off too', then got asked about the burger eating in MBV and he said that at the beginning he had regular burgers, then veggie burgers, then that the raw meat was in truth some disgusting not cooked vegetarian thing and that it reminded him of some role of his where he had to eat a lot of lobster and even if he liked it before, he couldn't eat it for years after (I suspect it was Finding Home, but I can't remember exactly if it was lobster he was eating in that);
- He then said he was talking to Jensen some time that morning and that we were apparently the best crowd they had which got him ANOTHER WHOLE LOT of cheering;
- He got asked his first impressions of Italy. He said the first was the hotel which was, in his words, MEH and got him another huge round of cheering (srsly, that hotel sucked. Will say more in part III of the review) but that he loved the ruins when he went to see them and he loves our history and buildings and stuf;
- His only new role coming is Stohenenge Apocalypse which is in his opinion an Oscar runner (it was kind of clear he wasn't being serious but the way he said it, LOL);
- When asked about his favorite scenes and funniest to shoot, he said the one with future Cas when he's in the car with Dean and talks about amphetamines (btw: my favorite f!Cas scene. Misha, your taste is my taste.)
- At some point before, Idk when because I didn't note it but I think it was at the beginning, the person who made the back crash during the J2 panel, whom the day before asked him a question and something about doing embarrassing stuff came out, went and actually said she embarrassed herself like nothing else and said she was the one to make the back crash and he started clapping saying he was impressed and that it was hard to beat (I have a pic of it).
- At some other point someone (I think the presenter) started explaining him how do you say fuck off in the strict Roman way (aka your hand goes up in the air straight as you shout AHO in the other person's face, I can't exactly explain it unless I'm in front of you). First he didn't get how the hand was but then someone from the crowd (me included, we were a bunch) did it and he did it again and I THINK I WAS THIS CLOSE TO DYING because Misha doing stuff I do and saying stuff I say = ME DYING. Picture of that underneath, too.
And then it was sadly over. ;__________;
PICTURES AGAIN!!!
After that, we had the J2 panel which was HYSTERICAL mostly because of Misha crashing it, but I'll get to that point. Thankfully I was at my place for that and no one stole my seat, pfffff.
So, they both come on stage saying HOWDY and everyone was kind of gushing (seriously. Those two one next to the other are... are... too much at once, lol), then Jared said that he was Jensen and Jensen was Jared because clearly they had to start by cracking us up. Whatever. Anyway, they said the right names and then it went right that.
- Someone asked a S5 question and Jensen pretended not to know zilch about it;
- They got asked why all the female characters die; Jensen said they'd like to protect them instead, but they're bad luck for girls he guesses, and Jared agreed;
- I can't read what the hell I wrote next so sorry about that, but I think that Jared did an imitation of something and Jensen answered saying SAMMY and everyone went crazy clapping;
- Jared pretended to be farting after *lol*
- There's absolutely no competition between them re the whole Sam girls/Dean girls debacle; I think Jared said that whenever he reads that he thinks 'uh, well, they'll grow up' (and at that he got a lot of cheer) and that their only legit fangirls are their mothers. Actually, Jared's mom is a Dean girl, but according to Jared, Sam girls always win re SPN, and Dean girls always win re Gilmore Girls, which made us go laughing again. Jared is funny, indeed.
- They got asked which was their respective favorite spoof in Changing Channels. Dialogue:
Jared: NOT the game show. (He then said it was the CSI spinoff and started imitating David Caruso);
Jensen: DEFINITELY THE JAPANESE GAME SHOW because it's one of the few times Dean doesn't get hit (that made us def. laugh again)
- Someone asked Jensen specifically a question and Jared started making snoring noises before Jensen could open his mouth to answer;
- That question was indeed relevant to my interests because the girl wanted to know why Castiel is always invading Dean's personal space. Jensen's answer: 'it's not Cas, it's Misha. He's weird. He doesn't know what personal space is.' -> remember this for later.
- They got asked what do they like about their characters and what they dislike.
Jared: he likes Sam's struggle, but he hates that Sam is too tall and he can't fit in the Impala (then he told a story about actually losing hair and a piece of scalp because he kept hitting his head against the car when he tried to get in and Jensen confirmed it);
- At that point, craziness started because Misha's voice started coming from some place which wasn't recognizable (he actually was outside the room with a mic) and he told Jared that he's way too tall because Misha himself feels usually like a normal human being but when next to him he's a midget and Jared made a O___O face. He asked whether it was Castiel or God speaking and Misha said 'I'M WATCHING YOU' from outside. Someone screamed at Jared to ask Misha about his underwear and so Jared was like 'WHAT ABOUT YOUR UNDERWEAR, MISHA?' (Before I go on: I had a couple of friends who had a pass which didn't made them get into the room, they could just stay outside and watch through the monitors; they said that Misha had been hanging around them for a while and was spying from the door and they were as cracked up as us)
Then Misha storms into the room, goes on the stage, hugs Jared, goes next to Jensen, TOTALLY INVADES HIS PERSONAL SPACE which shows he had been there eavesdropping for a while and then gets out. I think by then we were all so cracked up we were crying.
- That done, they passed on their favorite and least favorite episodes to shoot.
Jared: his favorite was The End because he got to work just one day (LOL), but seriously, probably 4x09 because since he and Jensen always work together it was more challenging to do scenes mostly on his own, while his least favorite is 3x10 for reasons I didn't write but you can imagine XD
Jensen: his favorite is the Pilot because it set things and he still likes it best, least favorite The End and What Is And What Should Never Be, probably because he totally had to work his ass off on those two lol
Jared also said that he's challenging NOT to work together, and at one point he said that at least Misha wasn't eavesdropping anymore but idk if it was related or not.
- Someone screamed PUDDING with the wrong pronounce and then one of them asked whether someone was pulling their pants down in the back of the room;
- They got asked why using the Colt on angels if they knew it worked just for demons and Jared answered that they're so desperate they'd have done anything, exactly like Castiel (who's as weird as Misha) knows he can't do anything and so ended up searching for God instead;
- They talked about the pudding scene and said that it was Sam supposed to do that but Dean sounded better when it was time to shoot so they switched;
- Someone asked Jared about his farting in the bloopers (I was srsly embarrassed btw but er, he took it graciously) and Jensen was like 'what, you'd like to know what he eats? Good question, I've been wondering for the last five years' which was kind of gold, lol. Anyway he said it just shows how comfortable he feels.
- Someone said thanks re specifying it's not them on Facebook or Twitter because she got stalked by someone pretending to be Jensen or something;
- They got asked their favorite season for the show:
Jared: season 5 because he loves how they wrapped it up and said it was incredibly satisfying for him;
Jensen: season 1, but he likes S5 too, and meanwhile he filled the glasses of water for the both of them (aw).
- I can't exactly decipher what I wrote next but from what I remember they MIGHT have been asked if they liked better to work with Genevieve Cortese, Katie Cassidy or Paris Hilton; Jared said he liked the scene where he killed Paris and Jensen said bingo when Jared said he liked brunettes better, or something along these lines if I'm not remembering crap. If anyone else attending reads this and I'm wrong, please correct me. XD
- Last question was which code names they'd give each other if they were secret agents; Jensen made a joke about that movie with Matt Damon where the agent as 0014 as a code name because it's double 007 but they said they'd think about it and it ended there.
PICTURES!
After the J2 panel I went for the photo op with Jim, who is AWESOME. And welcoming. And duh, he crushes your hip, but I was sorta crushing his, so. And he has the honor of getting my only op where I actually looked like a normal happy human being instead of like I had just seen the second coming or something else. I think I'll post all the ops in the last post so that at least I don't end up cluttering this more than it already is. So, after the op with Jim we had his panel and HE WAS SERIOUSLY SO GREAT I CAN'T EVEN. I think that whoever wasn't already in love with him before he got in went out crazy about the guy, really. He's such fun, even if not on the Misha Collins craziness level, but he also gives serious answers and has the best shirts. I mean, he got out with a shirt that said BOBBY SINGER IS A HUNTER. A HUNTER OF BEAUTIFUL ITALIAN GIRLS. Come on. AWESOME, right? And he came out and took pictures of us with his camera! HOW ADORABLE?
Anyway, report! *takes notes out*
- He said he was happy to be in Italy even if he comes here every eleven years, more or less;
- He started asking people where they were from and did a list of a number of nations, then ended with Zimbabwe and said it was the last he could remember;
- He got asked what was his first impression of Italy and he said he loves it, then he had a conversation that went like this:
Q: are Italian fans crazy?
A: weeell....
Q2: crazier than Misha?
A: Misha is a category of craziness in himself...
Then he added that Misha can't be compared to other humans and Jim doesn't do that; also, Misha occasionally kisses Jim and Jim, not being as young anymore, accepts it because he's accept it from everyone at this point;
- He got asked a role which he'd have wanted to play and he said he'd have loved to be in Up In The Air... in place of Vera Farmiga. Then corrected himself and said he wants to work WITH Vera Farmiga. At this point I was fearing Jim/Misha/George Clooney threesomes. But let's not dwell about that.
- He got asked to share a funny story and he answered 'one day, Jared was on set on time'. Everyone cracked. Then he said he doesn't know because SPN is in general a very funny set so nothing stands out.
- Someone asked him to say something in French and he started singing the national anthem;
- Someone else asked him about 5x15 and if he acted from experience completely inappropriate question if you ask me and he said he did but that while he'd have rather not had the actual memories he's proud of his work in that ep and I think half of the room was tearing up;
- Next question brought on the crack again and he was asked to explain the whole Misha/Jim thing on Twitter and he said that they were sitting next to each other on a plane and Misha decided to tell the world stuff so that Jim would pass for a pervert, when in truth Misha is the pervert of the two, but Jim doesn't let that fact get to their friendship;
- Q: how do you handle Jared and Jensen trying to make you laugh during takes?
A: ACTING.
Room cracks up.
- Related to that: Jared tried to make him laugh during a scene in 3x10 where he was on a hospital bed and he talked about serious stuff by moving Jim's toes around but he kept a straight face and now they try harder and harder and he has to try harder and harder every time;
- Whoever asked Misha about super powers the previous day asked Jim the same question. When learning that Misha's answer was x-ray vision, Jim commented that he isn't that dumb after all and that he's an adult male, of course he'd want x-ray, but he'd like also flying or being invisible. Then he talked about playing an invisible character on Lois & Clark if I'm not mistaken.
- Q: should we trust you or Misha?
A: LOOK AT HIM, WHAT DO YOU SAY?
Room cracks up.
- He got asked whether he came up with idjts and the ditchable prom date quote but nada, all writers;
- He got a spoilery question, he grunted when someone said spoilers, then said they had a big party for the finale but that he didn't necessarily like the script much, IF I'm not mistaken;
- POSSIBLE SPOILER, IN THE SENSE THAT HE DIDN'T NECESSARILY CONFIRM THE QUESTION HE WAS ASKED BUT HE HAD A POSSIBLY SUGGESTING REACTION SO IF YOU DON'T WANT TO RISK ANYTHING SKIP THIS. I MEAN IT. SKIP THIS. COULD POSSIBLY BE HUGE IF THE QUESTION'S ANSWER WAS YES.
He got asked if Bobby could be God's vessel since Sam is Lucy's and Dean is Michael's; he kind of totally completely avoided to answer it in a direct manner. He didn't say no though. Not yes either, but still, he avoided it.
END POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT
- Someone asked him how S5 could possibly be the happiest season yet (as Kripke said) when Dean & Sam should be vessels, Bobby's in a wheelchair, God is MIA etc. and Jim answered that Kripke has weird ideas about everything, including what happiness means; he doesn't think S5 is happy at all and actually the happiest was S1, if you ask him;
- He got asked where would Bobby go if he died and which would be Bobby's heaven if he went there (probably it was referring to 5x16 but I can't remember) and he said, in the panic room with Bo Derek.
- He talked a bit more about his book and I can't remember exactly, also because it was things he already said a bunch of times, but I remember it was very touching;
- He got asked Bobby's opinion on Sam since it seems like he's more attached to Dean from what the show suggests, but he answered that it's just because Bobby and Dean get more scenes together and we don't see what happens with Bobby and Sam; he says Bobby loves them both equally and he has a real life approach to their relationship;
- He got asked some advice to go into acting and he said it's discouraging and that you need to be very prepared, also to spend a lot of money, but he wouldn't try to discourage anyone from doing what made him happiest in his life;
- He doesn't know what kripke'd means;
- He then got asked the obligatory fanfiction question (which I hoped would NOT come out, but better Jim than Misha or J2, really) and he said that he reads fic online and someone still needs to explain him while he reads Bobby/John slash (as per that shirt he wore at some con previously), but while he reads Bobby/John, he writes Bobby/you.
Room goes wild with clapping.
- He then advised to buy his book on bookdeposit.co.uk since you don't pay postal expenses since someone asked him where they could find it;
And that was Jim's panel. Here, HAVE PICTURES!
After that we were kinda beat and so ended up going back to the city where me and _izu_ had dinner at ecstaticagony's who's actually an awesome cook <3333 ;) and then we got home at midnight or something and then there's still day three but it took me all day to write this and so day 3 is for tomorrow along with random pictures also of my autographs and ops, overall impressions and whatever else, not forgetting the Jen/Misha picture lol. I fear catching up with the FL. Also, if I end up spamming you with the Lost review too, sorry. I really am. Forgive me. ;)