#phil sgriccia

[spnscripthunt-inactive]

AKF pin designed by Phil Sgriccia for Jared Padalecki. Only Jared had these pins unless he gave them to you. This one was donated by slammtam as a raffle item for our final fundraiser for RIP Medical Debt kicking off on April 25.

[fatallyaddictedtofiction]

Im such a nerd im trying to get through the spn then and now podcast and saw "with ben edlund and phill sgriccia" and literally went "OOO YAAAY"

[deanwasalwaysbi]

Phil Sgriccia, director of spn 4x02, speaking on SPN Then & Now, as Dean in that episode: Dean doesn't give [Sam], "Oh by the way, I had this dream sequence with the good looking guy in the trenchcoat."

Cool. cool cool cool.

[aliusfrater]

god bless phil sgriccia and his ability to make me go, "wow that scene was so well paced," or, "god that's such a good shot," every three seconds

[jensensitive]

Corbett was killed by rebar.

[cockworkangels]

men being normal

[orphicnatural]

literally watching the boys/gen v is just like. supernatural creator. supernatural actor. supernatural actor. supernatural actor. supernatural director. supernatural director. supernatural writer. the list goes on.

[rennerator]

THANK YOU!!!!!! THANK YOU!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!! THANK YOU SO F* MUCH FOR THIS SUMMARY AND ALL THESE TWEETS!!!!! AWWWWWWW LOVE LOVE LOVE I LOVE THIS SO SO MUCH!!!!! S2 Oh, Misha!!!!! I AM SO F* PROUD OF HIM!!!!!!! Oh West and Maison!!! XD I LOVE THEM!!!!!! I LOVE MISHA SO SO MUCH!!!!!!! :D I AM SO F* EXCITED FOR GOTHAM KNIGHTS!!!!!! AWWWWWWW ALL THE LOVE TO EVERYONE INVOLVED IN GOTHAM KNIGHTS!!!! :) Yeah, SADLY, it is true, there are A LOT of these "diva" people that are ALWAYS the ones that these company want to please and focus and "care about"... :( LOVE LOVE LOVE Sounds like a LOVELY PANEL!!!!!! I HOPE SOMEONE RECORDED IT!!!!! \o/ I CANNOT WAIT TO WATCH IT!!!!!! :D Thank YOU SO SO MUCH for ALL OF THIS!!!!! You are AMAZING!!!!! :) <3

Summary of Misha's panel at Nashcon '22

Show this person some love here

[winchestergifs]

STACKEDextras ➙ Hanscum's good

10.8 Hibbing 911 Written by Jenny Klein & Phil Sgriccia Directed by Tim Andrew Original Air Date: December 2, 2014

[clairenatural]

obviously you can make a long list of things in canon that point to dean being queer but I think two of the closest instances we have of TPTB recognizing it are the s12 market research (acknowledgement that they had enough canon background and evidence to go forward with it) and the 8x13 director's commentary where Phil Sgriccia and Ben Edlund say that the pub interaction with Aaron opens Dean up to the "potential for love in all places." This one is especially wild to me because the way that was played was improv. Jensen decided to play it like a romcom and the production team acknowledges that it reads as a romcom. Jensen Ackles himself canonized Dean as queer. Top 10 jacting joices I want him to explain during a polygraph test

[eisforeidolon]

[Following on from talking about Kim Manners for a while]

Mark: He was just an amazing guy -

Jared: The best.

Mark: He was something else. And look, I've worked with a lot of people, and I've known you since you were a lot younger.

Jared: Hey! Same! Same!

Mark: A lot younger. And the truth is, to - it sounds so corny [mocking voice] 'Oh, this show is a family'. Look, this is a place where we went to work with 150 of our friends for over, y'know, a decade and a half. I did nearly a decade of it. And I think the energy that he instilled upon how to behave on a set was absolutely the reason why anybody could walk on that show and be treated like gold. [Jared nods as he's talking] You could succeed if you came with your A game, you were looked after and you were carried. And if you were crap? You were looked after and you were carried. I swear to God I have seen this, couple people that didn't - I won't ever say what it is, but didn't make it beyond a certain small amount of an arc, they just didn't have the right thing or didn't get it or whatever.

Jared: Yeah, the right attitude. We even had people that recurred and returned, who maybe they weren't as solid of an actor as a Mark Sheppard or a Mark Pellegrino type, but they were good enough and they were kind. And they showed up and they wanted to work and they wanted to laugh and they knew their lines and hit their marks and they showed up on time and there was no bullshit. It was like, okay, we can work with this. And so let's keep on going -

Mark: There was a trust element that was mind-blowing, and I've worked on some amazing sets in my time, but it was special, man. To know that every single person in that crew had my back every single day.

Jared: Amen.

Mark: When we did the end of season 8, when you and I were doing hours [Jared says something here I can't make out] and hours and hours of this stuff. That group, right, so in between shots, right? In between shots, you've gotta move lights, you've gotta move cameras, you've gotta do stuff. And they don't have to be quiet. They're working all day, they've been there three hours before us, they're leaving three hours after us -

Jared: And it was a long trek, it was like an hour away from town. On some, like, beautiful lake that Phil Sgriccia -

Mark: Oh, on the outside when we did - but when we went to the stage, when we came back to do the interiors?

Jared: Yes, yes.

Mark: And we did the interiors in there, they didn't make a sound between takes for two days. Because the boys are being serious, we'll support 'em. And that's how we got through those pages and pages of stuff. Jensen -

Jared: It was a couple of - two or three days or something.

Mark: It was two or three days -

Jared: And then Jensen and Alaina come in.

Mark: It was nuts. It was so - but we, like, you see all the gag reels, right? You see how silly everything gets? The reason why the gag reels are fun is cause we work hard, so one mistake -

Jared: [?] you're done, never forget. I will say this, a lot of y'all know Mark and have known him many times or met him many times, and a lot of y'all know, can agree with me, he doesn't shut the fuck up. Ever.

Mark: [Mark holds his hands up and nods] I talked my way through six heart attacks, trust me.

Jared: Other than the two or three day span where we were in that chapel. And it was so - it was before the AKF campaigns, it was - what Sam was going through, in a very different way, was similar to what Jared kinda had gone through and was going through? And so I went to a weird place, it's the only time in my 480 episodes of television I've ever listened to music during - in between scenes? And Mark is tied up, you know, you're my Marley moose and all that bit? And like, usually when you're tied up during a scene, they call cut and they move the cameras, it takes twenty minutes and you go like, untie me, I'm going to my trailer to pee and have some water? He just stayed there and was quiet the whole time, because I just sat there in the corner, he was just there for me, so kudos to you, Mark Sheppard.

Mark: And kudos to Jensen. Jensen was off-camera for a day and a half. Off-camera, in character, for a day and a half. It's - you suddenly realize that everybody's got your back and it's just the greatest feeling in the world. When you're trying to do - there's never enough time, there's never enough money, there's never enough ability to make the best that you can make of it, you know? We're all trying, but when you know everybody is trying to make the best possible thing for you guys [gestures to audience] that we can make, with all our hearts, with everything that we care about? It's just a fantastic experience. And what I love about, I was talking about the gag reels, what I love about the gag reels is you're seeing the antidote to that.

Jared: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Mark: So when Jensen for the first time in his entire history can't get a line out of his mouth, which is I'd rather be smacked during sex by a girl with a Zorro mask -

Jared: He kept messing it up!

Mark: He messed it one time, and you killed him.

Jared: Oh for sure. For sure.

Mark: We have thirty eight takes of that. He never messed a line up in -

Jared: Worth it. He kept on removing a word or adding a word and I was like [frustrated voice] that's not the word! But it was good. Anyways. Great time, great family, let's get some questions.

[prince-of-elsinore]

also this ep had some nice interesting closeups, unsurprising to see it was directed by veteran Phil Sgriccia, who also did Beat the Devil with the awesome Sam-Lucifer resurrection scene

props to whoever was responsible for casting this guy (Nelson Leis) as Abraxas in Damaged Goods

Been a while since a demon had such a genuinely icky and threatening presence, even if he only lasted one scene, rip

[spn20rewatch]

Season 1, Episode 19: Provenance (November 9th)

A haunted painting comes to life and murders its owners. -Super-wiki

Originally aired on: April 13th, 2006

Written by David Ehrman, directed by Phil Sgriccia.

Fun fact: In one scene, Jensen mistakenly said "Jared" instead of Sam. This has been dubbed over for later releases.

Have fun watching and please tag any creations with #spn20rewatch :)

[sensitivehandsomeactionman]

Lisa Berry mentioning Jensen at BurCon 2024

Spn Burbank Con Friday Panel: Lisa had been auditioning for supernatural for 10 years. States that she did a read with Jensen and was so excited about that. States she wasn’t given the part she auditioned but received an email from Phil (Sgriccia?) that they wanted her for character named Billie. She had to learn the “Oh Death” song, which then became the soundtrack for Death’s entrance!

Spn Burbank Con Friday Panel: Lisa favorite scene is her scene as Death in library with Dean, states that they asked her to do in one take. Pt states that Jensen interjected to the director saying “wait she’s trying something..” Lisa saying how she appreciated that from her actor friend.

Lisa states that Billie was more serious and subdued than Lisa. Pt states that she practices meditation to help visualize what she needs for that character. Pt states that real Lisa would fangirl over Jensen since she’s a fan of the show. Lisa is all of us fr 😂

[There's also a video of Lisa talking but it can be a little hard to hear her due to audience chatter.]

[charcubed]

I'm curious, what are the main reasons why Dean is your favorite canon bisexual in media? Love your meta and that video btw

Ooooo, anon, thank you for the kind words and for giving me an excuse to talk about my love for bisexual icon Dean Winchester <3

I'm going to be really annoying (sorry) and quote part of my meta first. It summarizes and articulates many of my thoughts on this. And then to further answer your question I'll add a bit under it!

From the very beginning, Dean Winchester has been a character tied to classic elements of American masculinity. He was introduced with a superficial veneer involving those elements, but almost immediately the early episodes provide a look at the complexity of his character underneath it. Over the years, that complexity was further explored, and he came to embody a study in things society would often have us think should be incompatible contrasts: the gruffness and grit of hunting life and its associated masculine iconography, paired with his open and deep emotional care for the world; unabashed love for classic rock, superheroes, and horror movies, as well as unabashed joy connected to TV dramas, chick flicks, and childhood favorites like Scooby-Doo; life on the road with a muscle car, but the desire for a home base with creature comforts he can make his own; motivation to always help people, but the clear longing for balance with personal domesticity and relaxation so he could save not only others but also himself.

As a whole, his character functions as an effective deconstruction of toxic masculinity and stereotypical American heroism. And while much of Dean’s most masculine traits and interests are said to come from his father’s influence, part of his journey is loving those parts of himself on their own merit not because he ever had to but because he wants to. He is not his father, and he redefines those valued parts of his identity so they are his and his alone. He also crucially learns to recognize and joyfully embody that those masculine traits were never all that he had to be, working through and overcoming shame and hesitancy along the way. The result? He’s “good with who he is.”

He and the audience are encouraged to see that there are no rules his identity and interests must subscribe to, on a micro or a macro level. The message is to disregard predetermined destiny or duty. Free will means his life is his to determine, his family can be what he makes of it and how he defines it, and what he needs and wants do not ever have to be mutually exclusive. Dean’s journey is about freedom from outwardly-imposed limitations–whether those limitations come from his father’s example and the God altering his story, or from the pervasive societal ideals and network/executive interference outside of it. Dean can and should contain multitudes, all at once.

In this way, Dean’s story is a powerfully queer narrative that acts as metacommentary. In the fullness of its execution, it is also specifically a deeply bisexual narrative.

The not-so-hidden truth is that Dean is canonically a bisexual man. His story was afforded something that’s rare for most characters and almost nonexistent for queer ones: fifteen years of lengthy, nuanced development.

[...]

Again: Dean’s identity journey is about how he can and does contain the capacity for multitudes, and it’s part of what makes him such a compelling character. He can like “this” and “that.” He can be attracted to women and men. Or, as writer Ben Edlund and director Phil Sgriccia said in a DVD commentary, Dean has “the potential for love in all places.”

I wanted to include the above verbatim because it spells out something specific: Dean's narrative is bisexual in its bones. Supernatural evolved to become a queer text, but the specific ways the show and Dean as a character evolved are very intertwined with and informed by the fact that Dean is a masculine bisexual man. SPN is a story that was not meant to be about being queer, but as it became about freedom through free will, those themes were then leveraged and emphasized in connection to queerness because of Destiel. And by the end, the free will narrative and Dean's journey as a bi man are utterly inseparable, because Dean's fight for true freedom is tied to his love for a man and their untraditional family in a way that higher forces are trying to hinder.

You cannot cut out or edit or remove Dean's bisexuality from the story, or several narratives and plot lines (not just Destiel) would at minimum be misunderstood or at maximum fall apart. And yet, simultaneously? Dean's bisexuality is also far from being the sole important thing about his character because he is written with such nuanced complexities and across so many years of material.

Of course, add onto this the overall unique situation that surrounds Supernatural as a piece of media. People talk at length about how there will never be anything like it again, including me; that's obviously true from multiple different angles and for multiple different reasons, with Destiel being prime amongst them. But a related yet distinctly significant branch of that topic is there will never be another bisexual character who is written and evolves quite like Dean.

Was Dean supposed to be bisexual from the very start, out of the mind of Kripke? Who can know for sure, but probably not. Were certain writers and members of production deliberately putting more queercoding and subtext into Dean's character/story from the very start? Who can know for sure, but potentially yes, and certainly the answer becomes unarguably definitely yes the farther you get into the show. That's part of my love and passion for him too, because all of that is deeply unique and incredibly cool.

Dean's bisexuality evolved in a way that (against all odds) actually feels organic, seamless, and like it's simply a part of his character that's been there all along. The effect when you look at Supernatural as a whole body of work is that Dean's always been bi, and his expressions of and acknowledgements of that part of him ebb and flow depending on situation–which is a very relatable notion for many queer people. And as those writing the show became more committed and certain about that piece of who Dean is, so did he, in nuanced and subtle ways skillfully embedded into his story by design. It's bafflingly, impressively cohesive; gives him an incredibly realistic feel; matches his overall character growth; and rings true to his demographic, age, personality, and experiences.

Dean and his story and the situation(s) surrounding both are simply incomparable, and that will be true forever ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

...also. Well. I simply love him, y'know? For even more reasons unconnected to this. How can you not, right? :')

Thank you for asking, and thanks for reading this bi Dean manifesto!

Putting my video that you mentioned here for anyone who's not watched it:

My new magnum opus, please stream, etc.

(or watch on Tumblr here)

[castiellesbian]

i know the writers pretty well but i'm pretty shaky on directors. singer films episodes like it's still the 1970s and dramatic zooms are all the rage. kim manners was responsible for the atmosphere of early seasons. john f showalter was alrightttt but kind of dragged down by working on typically mediocre episodes. thomas j. wright, of "the prisoner scene is a shot-for-shot remake of a scene from dark angel" fame. (<-he's good besides that though. did baby and lily sunder). phil sgriccia did sacrifice and lost & found so generally positive. guy bee i have personal beef with. amanda tapping (of naomi fame) was good!!! nina lopez-corrado is underrated!! amyn kaderali did last call, mint condition, and ouroboros so he has rights. misha's directing style was kinda horny ngl.