#casting one of the most british men alive to play someone french is so funny to me 😄👏

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Help! These silly little guys are all over my sketchbook now. :') 🌌🌈

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Jared JIBCon 2017 Sunday Panel

Jared warns everyone that he’s tired and jetlagged and jumps right into questions.

Fan says that she’s tired, too but it’s worth it to see Jared. Jared thanks her and says “ditto.” 

Fan talks about Sam’s development over the show, how he didn’t want to be a hunter to now leading other hunters against the British Men of Letters asks Jared to comment on that journey. Jared says that he knows what it’s like to have an older brother that leads the pack. It has been fun to play Sam as sort of a man on his own. Show started when he was 22 and he’ll be 35 in July. It’s been cool to get the chance to play the transformation of a young boy to a leader. Hopefully we’ll see more of that. 

Jared is really tired and tells the audience now is the perfect time to ask him weird questions lol. Says he texted Gen when he woke up and said “Morning, baby, I miss you.” Gen was like, it’s 1 a.m. why are you texting me. Jared: Oh, oh yeah, no, cool. Good talk lol. 

A fan asks what Jared’s favorite emoji is. Because of her accent he thinks that she said “music.” So he goes on to talk about how “we’ve been pretty public about a band called Kaleo.” He and Jensen have been lucky enough to make friends with them. Jared says, “It’s a weird world Jensen and I live in.” He thinks Kaleo are amazing from lyrics to all of the instruments, etc, and when they met the band it was fun to discover how they are just people, too. Jared hopes that fans feel the same when we meet the Supernatural cast, that they’re all just normal people. 

Fans inform Jared that he misunderstood the question and that she had asked about his favorite emoji. Jared tries to pull it up on his phone so that he can show it to them on the screen. He says he’s texting it to Jensen in response to the text Jensen sent him earlier that morning saying: “You know we have a convention today” because Jared slept through his alarm lol. Jared giggles about Jensen’s text. 

Jared’s favorite emoji is the surprised happy face one. 

Fan talks (essentially) about the difference between Sam being tortured by humans versus by a monster. Jared says it’s a good observation, thinks that episodes like The Benders mess with the Winchesters more because the bad guys are human beings. Brings up Dean’s line about demons I get but people are crazy. 

Jared’s hand hits the bottom of the mic and it makes a loud noise. He apologizes, has the fans help him apologize in Italian. 

Fan congratulates Jared on the new baby and Jared shows a picture of Odette on his phone. Her picture is his lockscreen :) 

Fan asks about Phantom Boy. Jared says he did that project last summer. It was a French animated movie, Jared watched it and they asked Jared to do the role. He recorded the dialogue in Austin at a hotel room. They would take breaks and go down to the pool. His friend who is a voice actor and an actor helped direct him. It was intimidating, it was a weird situation to try this brand new thing. It was fun to be a part of. 

How do you think Sam would handle having a baby girl? Jared says he thinks it would be a funny thing to see one of the Winchesters have a kid. He thinks Sam would be mortified. Says that having kids is very cool but vulnerability inducing situation. Best and hardest thing Jared has ever done. Jared says he had a nightmare last night about his kids and it woke him up and he knew he wasn’t going to be able to go back to bed. He thinks Sam would be out of sorts. Thinks it would be one of the first situations where Sam would be like “I don’t know what to do.” Jared hopes we don’t see that on the show. 

Fan tells Jared she really enjoyed his chapter in the new Fangasm book, Family Don’t End With Blood (FDEWB). Wants to know if he’ll consider writing in the future? Jared says, honestly, no. Said it was difficult, took him a year to write it. It was one of those things where he told a friend he would do it, so he did it. But as he started doing it he was nervous and anxious. It was hard because he didn’t write it all in a day. He doesn’t do well with picking things up later on. As he wrote it over time he would go back to the beginning and read and would change things. It was difficult; he does feel proud of it, though. He’s never written before. “It’s all me.” He was trying to go deep “for y’all guys.” Jared says, “It’s the most private I’ll ever get.” 

Fans cheer for him for his chapter in FDEWB and he says “thanks guys.” 

Fan asks Jared if Sam will have a special connection with the Nephilim, Jack, because Sam is the eternal vessel of Lucifer. Jared says yes. He thinks it’s why they made it so Sam is the one that found him in the last scene of the finale. Thinks that Sam will maybe be able to appeal to his intellectual side, but “we don’t know a lot about the Nephilim yet” but he thinks that “Jack will have a connection with Sam.” 

Fan tells a story about how she had said before that she loves Jared’s beanies but the fan’s friend misheard her and thought she said “penis” and was scandalized. Results in a lot of joking and laughter from Jared and the audience. “This is a first.” 

Fan asks how Jared would feel about doing a science fiction episode re: aliens or something more broad scale. He says they would love to do that type of science fiction episode. 

Jared is loopy from being so tired and says if anyone’s ever wondered what it’s like to hang out with him at 2 a.m. at work it’s this lol. 

Jared grew up up a fan of Star Trek with his dad. Watched all the original episodes, says “we beat their ass” episode number wise haha. 

Fan calls out “500 episodes!” and Jared drops mic lol. Jared: 500?!

Jared broke the mic and someone brought him another one. Messing around on stage and losing his shoe. 

Fan says that people who are close over a long period of time develop particular habits that only really come out when they are with that person. Wants to know if he’s noticed that with any of the cast that he’s worked with a long time? Jared laughs: Short answer is yes. He won’t say who or what, though lol. 

Jared talks about idols. Says there a lot of people he idolizes. “One of them lost his life to suicide” a couple days ago - mentions Chris Cornell (RIP). He says that he has met some idols and sometimes they are disappointing or not nice. He had a fellow actress tell him a story about how her dad came to work with her and her dad went up to Anthony Hopkins and was chatting with him. Hopkins was amazing but the daughter was mortified: Dad, you can’t just walk up to Anthony Hopkins..and her dad was like, why? We’re all breathing oxygen. Jared loves that. We’re all human, including everyone in the green room (the rest of the cast). “We love y’all as much as you love us.” 

Is there a characteristic of Sam that Jared has and one that Jared has that Sam doesn’t? Jared says a good writer will look at your strengths and who you are as a person and start writing that better to your character. Talks about how Lauren Graham from Gilmore Girls is very much like her character; she is super smart and funny and quick. Jared feels like he booked the role because he was similar to Sam and Sam became kind of like Jared. Not questioning himself so much (either Sam or Jared). Sam still deals with a lot of issues that Jared has had the love and support to not deal with though it’s in his nature to deal with those things. What’s different is Jared feels more comfortable with himself than Sam does. For the first time in a long time. As far as similarities, they both have really luscious hair. “Just kidding.” He liked Sam’s intellect from the start. Jared likes to learn about something and read about it, do the research like Sam, and feels that type of connection with him. 

Fan asks what Sam admires the most about Dean. Jared says that Sam loves that Dean has the will to keep going, to always keeps fighting. Jared himself also loves when people keep fighting through their trials. 

A fan runs up to the mic apologizing and tells Jared that she ran up because they were told to sit down because he was almost finished. Jared: “Fuck yeah!”

She wants to know if Jared misses Sam during hiatus or on break? Jared says he does miss Sam, it’s one of the reasons why he agrees to keep continuing. 

“I love Sam. He’s not Jared but I know him.” He feels maybe the audience knows Sam better in terms of his actions (because they rewatch the show more) but Jared knows his heart and motivations. 

When the show ends Jared says it’s gonna be really tough. When it does end they have talked about movies or shortened seasons. 

Jared says that he will never keep Sam “alive” just to keep him alive. He only wants Sam to exist as long as there’s commitment to the character from the writers. If one day they are no longer committed to Sam then he would rather have him in our memories. 

“But, yeah, I miss that fucker.” 

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