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Here is the entire transcript of the Supernatural session. Grab a tall cup of coffee and enjoy!
PAUL McGUIRE: We're going to get started with the
afternoon portion of the program. Thank you all for
coming. Sincerely, thank you for sticking around for
"Supernatural" and "Everybody Hates Chris." We'll get
things started with a clip from "Supernatural" in a
moment. "Supernatural" has, certainly, among the
toughest time slots in television. Still manages to
hold onto a devoted, hardcore following. If you don't
believe me, just check out the over 20,000 blog sites
devoted to Jared and Jensen and hundreds of videos on
YouTube.
(Applause.)
There's the YouTube users there. Click.
This year the series has delved deeper into the
mythology, introducing a whole new world of hunters,
exploring the brothers' destiny and the meaning of John's
dying words to his son. All that and Playboy's current
covergirl, "Battlestar Galactica"'s Tricia Helfer as a
guest star. Pardon the inadvertent FOX [NBCU's SCI FI]
plug there.
QUESTION: Why isn't she here? Is she going to be at
the party?
PAUL McGUIRE: We'll see. I don't know. After your
behavior earlier today, Tom [Jicha], I'm not sure.
(Laughter.)
Anyway, the show also did a great number last night
following "Smallville"'s big ratings. So again, it's a
terrific show. We're very proud of it. And let's take a
look at a clip before we meet the panel. Thanks.
(Clip shown.)
Great clip for a great show. Please welcome executive
producer Eric Kripke and stars Jared Padalecki, Jensen
Ackles, who got up -- well, maybe just didn't even go to
sleep, to get down here today and be with you, and
executive producer Bob Singer. They'll take your
questions now. Thank you.
ROBERT SINGER: Not all at once.
JENSEN ACKLES: Yeah. Got to get me one of those
jackets.
JARED PADALECKI: You can borrow mine.
QUESTION: Hello. For the producers. As the series
goes on, what is the balance -- is the balance going
to change between standalone and arc? It certainly
looks like we're getting into deep waters with Sam's
character as far as what the big secret is.
ERIC KRIPKE: Right. No, I mean, I think -- I think
we'll kind of continue a similar balance we had
probably towards more of the second half of season 1.
I think, you know, we have -- we think standalones are
kind of our bread and butter and just have enjoyable,
scary stories. But every three or four episodes, we
have, like, a big mythology episode where we really
move the ball forward. We'll continue with that. I
think the mythology episodes, second half of season 2
especially, get pretty big. And every time we have
one, I think something pretty major happens. But
rather than having just sort of -- you know, it
becomes numbing after a while if, every week,
something big happens. And we like to save it for a
really big movement forward and really do it when we
can do it.
QUESTION: Right next to her, actually, same spot.
You guys seem to like to use actors from "Buffy the
Vampire Slayer," "X-Files," recognizable faces. And
then they just said that Tricia Helfer is coming on.
Any more guest stars that we can count on? Actually,
are you guys bringing Amber Benson back for another
guest spot?
ERIC KRIPKE: We would love to bring Amber back.
There's no plans as of yet, but love the character and
would love to see her again. I'd say besides Tricia,
we're bringing -- Emmanuelle Vaugier is coming to do
an episode, episode 17, where she has lots of hot sex
with Jared.
(Laughter.)
He paid us, like, 200 bucks --
JARED PADALECKI: I did. It was Canadian.
ERIC KRIPKE: So I guess we'll cast Emmanuelle, then,
because he paid us money, and so we have to give him
someone beautiful. Then we plan on, especially as we
gear up to the season finale, actually bringing back
lots of characters who have played throughout the
season, who have already made appearances on the show.
Gabe Tigerman, who played a character named Andy; a
character named Ava; you know, Jim Beaver, who plays
Bobby, hilariously named Bobby Singer.
JARED PADALECKI: Such a coincidence.
ROBERT SINGER: Unbelievable.
JENSEN ACKLES: What are the chances?
ERIC KRIPKE: We're bringing a lot of people back for
the finale run who have made appearances throughout
the season.
QUESTION: Could you talk just a little bit about the
first season versus the second season? Are we where
you anticipated we'd be at this point, and maybe just
how you made some decisions to -- that have brought
you to this point?
ERIC KRIPKE: Yeah, I'll speak to it. Then if Bob
wants to add to that, because we couldn't do it
without the two of us figuring this out.
Mythology-wise, I would say we're pretty much on track
with what we wanted. We started with about a -- I'd
say a two-and-a-half-, three-year plan of what
mythology reveals we want to do. I'd say we're
actually cruising along in that story right where we
thought we would be. And at this point we've kind of
now broken through season 3, and we're talking about
season 4 mythology at this point. So we're right
along that track. I mean, some things duck and move
and change and adjust but the big road map has been
the same. But versus season 1, you know, we feel --
in our own opinion, we feel it's a better series than
it was season 1. Bob and I sat down at the beginning
of this year, and we said, "All right, there's a lot
to be proud of season 1, but we want season 2 to be
better. And how can we do that?" And we wanted the
stories to be more vital, and we wanted to say more
interesting things, and we wanted to take some more
chances and really try to step up our game. And I
don't know if the audience feels we've done that, but
we feel we've done that. We're incredibly proud of
the product. So I would say the big thing about
season 2 is we learned a lot of mistakes from
season 1. We learned not to do bugs and windigos and
monsters that look really cheesy on camera. And I
think we figured out how to hone our game a little
bit.
QUESTION: Even with -- maybe the actors could talk a
little bit too about how they feel about the series
has progressed to this point.
JENSEN ACKLES: I think it's going really well. I
know that in the beginning, that was kind of, you
know -- not a concern, but just something that I
thought about quite a bit as far as where it was going
to go and where these characters' journey lied. And
it's really kind of comforting to know that Bob and
Eric have really a nice kind of plan -- at least I'd
like to think they've got this nice big road map in
their office and everything is planned out. But they
do; it's really kind of gone according to plan. And
that helps us out as actors as well, playing what we
need to from week to week and keeping that consistent
with where we need to be going. So I'm thrilled the
way it's been going, and I think it's only going to
get better.
JARED PADALECKI: I'm also definitely very excited
about the second season compared to the first one. I
think in the first season there's a learning curve for
everybody. The actors are finding the characters.
The writers and creator are finding out what works and
who's doing well with the dialogue, who's doing well
with the story, what's working, what's not working.
Like you said, you have to do a windigo and you have
to do a bugs to figure out you don't to do a windigo
and you don't want to do a bugs.
ERIC KRIPKE: No, you don't want to do those.
JARED PADALECKI: Yeah. And Jensen and myself have
to, like, try out a facial expression, just to see it
two months later and be like, "Oh, God, why? Why did
I do that?" So I think we're definitely -- and you
can really feel it up north, up in Vancouver, where
we're shooting, that we really -- it feels like a
well-oiled machine now. I remember sometimes, last
season, getting a script or just showing up on the day
and being like, "I feel like I'm starting from the
beginning, like it feels like it's day one of the
pilot all of a sudden." And it's definitely not felt
like that this year. And that goes with everybody
just sort of getting more comfortable. And I don't
understand -- you know, I've heard "sophomore slump,"
"second season is tough" -- because I'm so proud of
what's happened so far the second season. I think
we're pushing the envelope. I love that things are
happening. I love that Kripke and the rest of the
writers aren't answering questions with more questions
so much as they're actually getting something done.
There's nothing that frustrates me more as a fan of
television shows than when it's like, "Ooh, this is
where we're going to find out what.... Oh, now they
are shooting us that way." It just feels like they're
toying with you. So I've been really happy with the
second season. And it would be really a huge shame to
not see what happens in the fourth season, so --
(Laughter.)
ERIC KRIPKE: Right, right. Totally agree. I mean,
if we don't figure out the seven-season plan --
JARED PADALECKI: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
JENSEN ACKLES: Locking that down.
JARED PADALECKI: It's going to be too bad.
QUESTION: How did you decide to do the one really
utterly unbelievable thing and fix the car?
ROBERT SINGER: It's "Supernatural."
QUESTION: How many cars have there been?
JENSEN ACKLES: Got to have that car.
ERIC KRIPKE: There's, like, I think -- how many
Impalas are up there?
JENSEN ACKLES: Four.
JARED PADALECKI: Four.
ERIC KRIPKE: There are four. You know, it's like the
Bionic Man. It's better, stronger, faster.
JENSEN ACKLES: Absolutely.
QUESTION: There seems to be a lot of credits that
come from "The X-Files": writers, maybe just some
directors. How much of an influence has that been,
and have you seen a lot of crossover from the fans of
"X-Files" to this show?
ERIC KRIPKE: Bob?
ROBERT SINGER: I don't know about writers, but John
Shiban, who is an executive producer with us, was an
"X-Files" guy. And we have Kim Manners, who directed
more "X-Files" than I've done shows total. But that's
about it for "The X-Files" people.
ERIC KRIPKE: We had Tony Wharmby --
ROBERT SINGER: Right.
ERIC KRIPKE: -- do the vampire episode last year.
ROBERT SINGER: But I don't think we think of that
much. It's something that we reference occasionally,
but I think we almost reference it in a way of "Well,
that was good in 'The X-Files,' but how do we do that
idea differently so it doesn't look like we're doing
'The X-Files'?" We try to really be "Supernatural"
and only "Supernatural."
QUESTION: I'm not saying ripping it off or anything.
I'm just wondering if fans of the show who like that
type of writing realize that --
JENSEN ACKLES: I've definitely come in contact with
people who have been big fans of -- avid fans of "The
X-Files" who are in turn fans of "Supernatural." And
I think they truly like that, you know, duo journey
that was -- you know, like you had with David and
Gillian.
JARED PADALECKI: He's much better looking than
Gillian.
(Laughter.)
ERIC KRIPKE: I would also say I think -- I mean,
speaking of that, speaking in terms of the fans is --
you know, I mean, I think "X-Files" -- people who have
been fan of "The X-Files" tend to really respond to
this show because I think we -- again, we work really
hard to have a literate show. We kill ourselves to
try to give it maturity and sophistication. I would
say season 1, we just worried about it being a horror
movie every week. This year we really worried about
making the characters -- giving them even more depth
and complexity and giving them some intricate,
interesting storylines. And I think "X-Files" fans
have responded to that. Quite frankly, my goal is to
have more of "The X-Files" fans out there who haven't
found the show yet to find it. And we're trying to --
in the slaughterhouse that is, you know, Thursdays at
9:00, I think we're just trying to wave our hands and
say --
JENSEN ACKLES: "Look at me."
ERIC KRIPKE: The people who don't want to watch,
like, doctors bang in an emergency room --
(Laughter.)
-- like the people that are out there who were "X-Files"
fans, "We're here" and "Watch, and we think we'll provide
something that will be really satisfying for you." And
you know, they're out there, and we'd actually -- my own
personal -- I'd love to find more of them and bring them
and kind of bring them to the party because I think
they'd have a good time.
QUESTION: You used the term "mythology" earlier.
That's the kind of word that sort of scares off some
potential viewers because they're afraid they're
coming to the dance too late and they don't know
everything that's going on. How do you find that
balance between making sure you've got the show
accessible, but you're also not cheating the fans who
have been there from the beginning?
ERIC KRIPKE: And I would answer that -- it's funny; I
would answer that by also referencing "X-Files." And
I would say the one thing we do talk about in terms of
"X-Files," although Bob is totally right, not specific
ideas, we talk about their balance of mythology,
especially in the first three to four seasons. I'd
say once they got into season 17 or whatever, towards
the end, once they got into their, like, last season,
9 maybe, they got way too wrapped up in mythology, and
people couldn't come to the party. But the first two,
three years, it was, every four or five episodes, they
would have a mythology episode. But their bread and
butter and our bread and butter are the standalones.
That's why we think people can still come to the
party, even in season 3, because at the end of the
day, the whole concept of the show is two brothers on
the road with chainsaws in their trunk, battling
things that go bump in the night. There, that's the
whole show. And people can watch that and enjoy
stories week in and week out that have beginnings,
middles, and ends. And that's why we feel we can
still -- no matter how far we go, we always feel that
we can bring new people to the tent. So I mean,
that's sort of the plan. We're never going to be
like -- we're just not -- just because it's not the
design. We're not a show like "Alias." We're not a
show like "Lost." We're not a show that is just one
long, you know, storyline or one long melodramatic
mythology. It's sort of -- we touch on it, but more
often than not, it's just -- it's about these two guys
hunting down and killing things. And that's just sort
of fun and red-blooded and a roller coaster ride.
QUESTION: If I could follow up on that, how much of
the show do you think, the success of it so far, is
the relationship between the brothers versus the
supernatural aspects?
ERIC KRIPKE: I would say it is 99 percent the
relationship between these guys and 1 percent whatever
the hell Bob and I cook up.
(Laughter.)
QUESTION: Can you guys talk about working together
and how that relationship sort of developed?
JENSEN ACKLES: Us two or --
QUESTION: Yeah.
ROBERT SINGER: They don't care about us.
JENSEN ACKLES: Him [Robert Singer] and I, we go way
back. It was something that kind of just happened
from the beginning, I think, when we met each other.
JARED PADALECKI: Yeah. I think as far as -- I think
it was pretty effortless. I don't think -- it was
probably by design of these guys. We're pretty
similar. We have similar interests and similar
hobbies, and we're both pretty laid-back guys. We
take our work very seriously. We like to work on our
characters and like to have a good time and like to
keep the mood on the set fun. And we just got -- we
just clicked. Like I've definitely worked with my
share of people -- and I'm sure he has too -- that I'm
just like, "Oh, man, I'm going to work again. I've
just got to keep my tongue in my mouth and don't say
anything that's going to come back to bite me or just
shut my mouth and do my work." But we have a great
time. We have a fantastic crew up in Vancouver, and
it's just been pretty organic.
JENSEN ACKLES: I think it's also just the common love
we share for the show. We really look out for each
other when we're working with guest directors or
whatnot. And I think that it's just that we truly
want this to be a great program. So when we're
working, if I see something that he's doing or he sees
something that I'm doing, there's this, you know, very
open relationship. We're able to talk to each other
be like, "Hey, let's do this. Let's lock this down.
Let's get this going. I think we're missing a beat
here." So it's really neat to have that relationship
with your costar.
JARED PADALECKI: Right.
JENSEN ACKLES: It's very rare as well.
QUESTION: Given some of the things that you've done over
the last season and a half, just how twisted is this
writers' room? Or on the cover, how much fun is it?
ERIC KRIPKE: It's both. It's twisted and so much fun.
Just to give you a snapshot of my morning, even this
morning we were looking at these photos that our effects
guys up north sent us of dummies with eviscerated chests,
open rib cages and all the gore inside, and Bob and I are
like, "Do you think that wound is too big? Would the
werewolf tear off their face but take out the heart?"
And then you're playing that, and meanwhile down the hall
are editing suites that three episodes are getting cut at
any one time. There's always endless screams from the
cuts that are coming out. So there's rooms where the
actress or there's screaming coming out here. We are
looking at gory pits. We gotta go into the room to
figure out the best way to kill somebody this week. And
every so often we look at each other and we can't believe
this is our job. We love it.
QUESTION: Does it get tougher to top yourself? You guys
have done some pretty extreme stuff. Second question to
that is have you guys ever gotten a note from the network
that said, "No. Uh-uh"?
ERIC KRIPKE: You talk about the note from the network.
ROBERT SINGER: They've been great, and there were
negotiations, and those are also funny that you wonder,
"This is what I get paid for?" "We'll not do the
spurting blood, but we will expose the heart. Is that
okay?" So that's funny. But, no. They've actually been
great, and we've pretty much done what we've wanted to
do. We have our own governor, and we know that there's
some things we can do and can't do. Also, we, both Eric
and I, and I think we impart this to the directors, that
a lot of times in this genre you're kind of -- it's
better what you don't see than what you do see. And so
there's a lot of off-screen stuff that goes on on our
show, and we kind of leave it to the audience's
imagination. No. We've been great with the network.
ERIC KRIPKE: Yeah. It's been cool.
QUESTION: Bob, following up on the comments on the
difference between producing the show the first season --
first season and this season, and from a production
standpoint, what kinks did you work out that you
experienced last year? Have you been able to give your
two stars here more time off?
ROBERT SINGER: No. You know, we try our best to give
them time off. But really, the stories take us where
they take us. We're cognizant of how much we're working
them. We try to help them out occasionally. But
sometimes the stories just demand that they work really
impossible hours. So we love them, and we appreciate
what they do. I guess we could be better to them, but it
wouldn't make for a better show.
But what is better is that we really were very fortunate
that we got to keep the majority of our crew, and so this
season we just hit the ground running. Everybody sort of
knows what their job is, how to go about it in the most
efficient way. I think that we probably put more on the
screen for the amount of money we spend probably than any
show on television. And I think we're all really proud
the way the show looks and what we do accomplish for
limited resources.
QUESTION: For the two actors, your characters'
priorities have sort of changed -- your concerns have
sort of changed between first and second season where
Sam's main concern now seems to be am I going to turn
into something horrible, and Dean's main concern seems to
be what if Sam turns into something horrible.
(Laughter.)
Can you talk about playing that shift in concern as the
characters evolve?
JARED PADALECKI: I think the staff did a great job of
explaining our inner struggles and our arc over a period
of episodes as opposed to, you know, I'm like -- Jess,
I'm so messed up over Jess, and the next episode I'm
making out with some girls. They have given us some time
to sort of deal with what our prior demons are and
develop our new demons. And obviously with our father
passing away, that was a huge shift, and the death of the
Elder Winchester, so to speak, obviously made a huge
impact on both Sam and Dean. It wasn't immediate what
the effect it had been on them both, and that had a
chance to come out, and I think that's for the best that
they sort of spread it out over a few episodes to really
explain what I was going through and what he was going
through and give us time to ease under it and to commit
to it. I think that it was done gradual really helped
out.
JENSEN ACKLES: We were kind of well-aware it was going
to be a bit of a flip-flop as far as the characters go
for season 2. And I think we were prepared for that, and
it was a nice shift in tone for the show as well,
especially for our characters because we're able to peel
back a few more layers and see what truly drives these
guys.
And I think that when Dean lost his father, that was huge
for him. It was basically like, you know, that was the
captain of his ship, and he all of a sudden is out in the
middle of nowhere, and he's got his brother, and he's
trying to be a big guy, and now his brother's got a
problem. He's very confused, and sometimes he just wants
to get out. He's like, "Let's forget this. Let's get
out of here." So I think that shift in tone for him has
been a nice transition from last season when he was like,
"This is what we do. This is what we're going to do, and
this is how it's going to be. You can either like it or
love it." So it's been really nice to have that shift,
and I'm excited to see where they go forward from here.
QUESTION: For Jensen and Jared, you guys have been in
Vancouver for a while, so you're probably acclimated.
What do you do for your rare downtime? Is there an
equivalent of a Viper club there?
JARED PADALECKI: What downtime?
(Laughter.)
And speaking for myself at least, I'm nowhere near
acclimated. I still think that it's pretty harsh weather
and whatnot. It's interesting. We don't have a lot of
downtime. And that's not a pity party or anything. We
really just work a lot. In our off time, like my dogs
are up there. I love to spend time with my dogs, and my
girlfriend will come up or I'll come down, and work on
the script. Like the scripts are coming day in, day out.
And even between episodes, you go from finishing a huge
episode on Wednesday, and you're like, ahhh, another one
down. I feel good about that. I feel good about our
work, or let's have a Coors Light or something. And then
it's like this new 60-page, you know, script that we
gotta get used to. It's a lot of work, it really is, for
nine months out of the year. There will be weeks when I
wake up on Monday and I go to work, and then Friday comes
by and it's just been one blur of a week, and I'm like I
haven't called Mom. She probably thinks I'm dead or
something. There's not a lot of downtime, but just
relax. There probably are a couple equivalents to the
Viper room, but that would just burn the candle at both
ends. It would not be smart.
JENSEN ACKLES: It's a full, full-time job. And we
actually have to make an effort to go do something, to go
and relax. A few weeks ago, he and I went down to
Seattle to catch the Cowboys game. We're both Cowboys
fans. That was something that we had planned, and it was
great. We had a great time, but that was our Saturday.
ROBERT SINGER: They lost.
(Laughter.)
JENSEN ACKLES: So, you know, those Saturdays are
precious to us, and we try to make the best of them.
But, otherwise, it's lockdown, and we're trying to work
as hard as they can make us work.
QUESTION: Can you ask whether it's advantageous? I'm
from Dallas, so I feel your pain, but I'm also originally
from Wisconsin. And people say playing in Green Bay,
there's nothing to do but focus on football when you're
there. Is it somewhat similar in Vancouver? If you were
filming the series here, would it be an entirely
different experience do you think?
JENSEN ACKLES: We've talked about that. We talked about
what it would be like to film at home where we live here.
And we wondered how much different our off time would be
and stuff. And to be honest, the amount of work that we
do, I think it would be very similar. The only
difference is we would be able to get to sleep in our own
beds.
JARED PADALECKI: Probably six of one, half dozen of the
other.
JENSEN ACKLES: It's a full-time thing, and we crack down
on it every single day.
JARED PADALECKI: I think our downtime would probably be
a little more relaxing. We were filming at 3:30 in the
morning this morning in Vancouver and essentially got out
of the rain and the snow 12 hours ago. So instead of
going home, and it's an hour drive home, and you sleep in
your bed for eight hours and you wake up and head out to
Pasadena, it's like you're going to an airport to spend
two hours through customs and immigration to spend two
and a half hours on a plane to spend an hour in LAX
waiting for your bag because they probably lost it, spend
another hour driving through the Valley side. So I think
the work time would be pretty similar. The downtime --
once again, I'm speaking on something I don't know.
JENSEN ACKLES: We would be available for publicity,
guys.
(Laughter.)
QUESTION: What was the transition from The WB to The CW
like for you?
ERIC KRIPKE: Honestly, very frankly, it was an
improvement. Speaking creatively, a lot of the same team
was in place, so I want to be sensitive to them. But
over all, season 2's been much more hands-off for us than
season 1. We found actually -- just purely speaking
about scripts and writing and show direction, we actually
found a lot more freedom and support with The CW, and
they have let us sort of go further in terms of making
the show exactly the way we want to make it. And I think
Bob and I both are extremely grateful for that. And,
again, we feel that quality of the episodes has shown
that we've just been able to take some risks and do some
unusual things and do some things that are edgy or
different, and so it's been great. It's been a real
positive experience.
QUESTION: Eric or Bob, you guys were sort of building up
the daughter at the Roadhouse. Looked like she might be
a sidekick for the brothers, and then she just
disappeared. Can you comment on that? Was that the
direction it was heading?
ERIC KRIPKE: Well, you know, the honest reaction is you
try some things, and we're very interested in expanding
the world of our show. We're very interested in
introducing other hunters and really fleshing out the
universe of this show and will continue to do so. She
was introduced for the purpose of being a love interest
with this guy. And the way TV works is you try some
things and certain things work, and you try some things
and you see them on screen, and they just kind of become
evident.
And she's an absolutely terrific actress and a great
character, and we're really proud of the work she's done.
On-screen, she read more as a friend of these guys, a
supporter of these guys, than a smoldering love interest.
And just like -- you have to adjust as things come on and
things become apparent. You can't try to force a square
peg in a round hole. We saw it. We said, you know, she
really works as a friend of the guys, so then let's
change into that direction. So we did.
ROBERT SINGER: Having said that, she actually comes back
in an episode coming up.
ERIC KRIPKE: Yeah.
ROBERT SINGER: She is quite spectacular in it, and it
really helps him paying her character off. We love her
and brought her back because we do love her. In this
episode coming up, she's really great. It's a great
episode.
QUESTION: Do you have any weird dreams after doing this?
Like when you go home at night? Do you start --
ROBERT SINGER: I dream that I roll over, and instead of
seeing my wife, I see Eric.
ERIC KRIPKE: Which is horrific. Absolutely horrific.
JENSEN ACKLES: Going to be an episode about that.
ROBERT SINGER: No. I don't. When you break these
stories down, and they become so sort of business-like,
kind of that thing of whatever is out there that goes
bump in the night or just kind of story problems for us,
and so I don't think it affects us in that way.
JARED PADALECKI: I think for me, I don't either. But I
love nothing more -- as far as the show, I love nothing
more than hearing somebody say, "Man, it really scared
me. I had to turn away." Our guest actress, Tricia
Helfer, was talking about a few episodes, and she was
like, "Literally, I jumped. Like, my husband threw food
on the floor. I screamed, and it scared me." And it's
so funny to me because we're sitting there staring at a
piece of tape or something and running away, and we see
it all happen, and we know -- I watch the show sometimes
and I'm like, "I remember there was the boom guy like
right between my legs."
So I'm thinking about all sorts of stuff, which is
another reason I try and wait before I watch the shows,
because they're too fresh in my mind if I watch them on
television. But I love hearing about scaring people or
giving them nightmares or that they can't watch it. To
me I'm dealing with it day in or day out. I'm like, "Oh,
yeah. Jensen was grabbing my butt in that picture." I'm
sorry to sell you out.
(Laughter.)
That was a hypothetical.
QUESTION: Jensen and Jared, when does your much
anticipated season hiatus begin, and what plans do you
have? What jobs are you pursuing for your hiatus?
JENSEN ACKLES: April. First week of April I think we
start that. It's a little too soon to start locking down
a project for that hiatus. Probably start looking at
stuff in the next month or two. But much needed sleep, I
think. We've got a trip to -- a publicity trip to Europe
planned, I think, that we're going to do in May. But
other than that, it's catch up with our friends and
family.
JARED PADALECKI: Last year this time of year I was
thinking, man, I'm just going to sleep for three months.
And I ended up --
JENSEN ACKLES: Sleeping for three months
JARED PADALECKI: -- seeing my brother graduate med
school and seeing my buddy get married and my sister's
21st birthday, and I went and traveled the world.
This year I'm actually looking forward to working. Once
again, like Jensen said, it's a little early to start. A
lot of the things that are casting right now are filming
in February or March. So that's out of the picture. So
I think in a couple months I'll start reading scripts and
auditioning, and hopefully...
QUESTION: Who is the distributor of "Ten Inch Hero,"
and what's the release date for that?
JENSEN ACKLES: That's a great question. Have to get
back to you on that. I don't know. They're just now
starting to shop around at the festivals and stuff like
that. But honestly, being up in Vancouver, I've been
completely out of the loop with most of that stuff.
QUESTION: Was that filmed on your last hiatus?
JENSEN ACKLES: Yes. Towards the end of last year,
summer.
PAUL McGUIRE: Okay. We've going to wrap this. The four
guys will be at the party tonight. I especially want to
thank Jared and Jensen. You know, when you have a show
with two stars, they work their butts off, as opposed to
a lot of ensemble casts. So, again, thanks to them for
taking the time to come down and be with us today and
tonight. Thank you. Be right back with Chris Rock and
company in just a couple of minutes.