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★ 2008 Eyecon April Jared solo

Official name: EyeCon Anime & Celebrity Autograph Convention (Jared Padalecki Q&A Session) Location: Florida Hotel Conference Center, Heroes Ballroom, Orlando, Florida Time: Sunday April 6, 2008 10:00 AM (GMT-4) Panelists: Jared Padalecki Last episode: 3x12 "Jus in Bello"- 2/21/2008 Next episode: 3x13 "Ghostfacers"- 4/24/2008

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Question Index: +1- Coffee Guesses +2- Audience Origins; Dumb and Dumber joke +3- Samantha Ferris’ voice; Cough drops +4- Matrix Flipbook 1- Pranks; Jared tricks on Jensen 2a- Fan Appreciation; Sam Portrayal; (cw: family death) 2b- Fan Gift; Supernatural Geek Team t-shirts 3- Fav monster killing method; 3x07; ACT FOUR, INT. FACTORY – MACHINE ROOM – CONTINUOUS; thoughts on Sterling K. Brown 4- What if; One day with no consequences 5- Acting Challenge; Hardest SPN episode; 3x11 6a- Jared’s Jensen nicknames 6b- Jensen’s Jared nicknames 7aa- Thoughts on Dark!Sam; 3x11; ACT FOUR 7b- Fan Request; Exorcism Chant 7ab- Thoughts on Dark!Sam; 3x11; ACT FOUR cont. 8- What If; Monsters were real reaction 9a- Fav Sports Team 9b- Fav Dallas Player; Jensen’s Christmas gift; Tony Romo jersey 10- Acting Challenges; Stage directions; Adjusting to not being Dean 11- Fav episode filmed; 1x06; pro BvB 12- thoughts on 2x14; pro BvB 13a- Fan Congrats; Engagement 13b- Fear; Scared 8yr girl on plane story 14a- Fan Appreciation; Jared, Sandy 14b- Fan gift- Disney Monopoly board game 15- Pre-Finale Thoughts; What would you miss 16- Thoughts on Art; Christmas Cottage 17- Acting Challenge; 3x11; ACT TWO, INT. DINER – DAY; sync scene 18- Acting preference; light hearted vs dark toned narratives; 3x08, 3x03, 1x17, 2x15 19- Fan Appreciation; S3 Dean’s outcome 20- Fear; Scary SPN episodes; 3x02 21a- Fan Appreciation; S3 21b- Fav reoccurring character; demons 22a- Fan Congrats; Harley post-op recovery 22b- Fan Gift- Art of Jared’s dogs, Sadie, and Harley +5- Devil cosplay 23- What if; choice classic film remake role and costars 24a- Easiest nuance of Sam’s personality 24b- Acting Challenges; Hardest nuance of Sam’s personality; 3x14 25- Fav charity 26a- Fan Appreciation; Jared’s attendance 26b- Thoughts on Fandom; Fan-fiction, RPG’s, Wincest 27- Fav Western; (cw: famous actor death) 28a- S3 spoilers; thoughts on Anti-Christ Sam 28b- Sam’s powers; YED death affect 29a- Fan Appreciation; Dean Forester 29b- Fan Request; I Lost My Shoe impression 29c- 3x08; Evil Santa; 1x11; Vanir Effigy; Mike Carpenter 30a- Fan appreciation; Rescue Dobermann 30b- Home Depot vs Lowes 31a- Fan Congrats; Jared and Sandy 31b- Fan Gift; Fan book 31c- Fan Appreciation; Dean Forester, Jared’s acting, Jared, Sandy, Jensen 31d- Fan Request; Jensen hug 32a- Fan Request; Cover Sandy +6- Fear of Celebrities; Biting Bit +7- Convenient missing friends 32b- Facial Expressions; 2x20, 3x08; ACT ONE, INT. MOTEL ROOM – DAY; Peter O’Toole, Daniel Day-Lewis, Johnny Depp 33- Acting Challenges; Stunts; 3x03; Falling down vs set on fire +8- Lag time 34a- Friday the 13th; Relation to prior canon 34b- Friday the 13th; unique hype factor 35a- thoughts on Dallas Cowboys rebranding; (cw: ableist language) 35b- Dallas convention attendance +9- Forgotten question 36- Fanboy moments; Peter O’Toole 37- Fan Story; Truckzilla sold to SPN fan 38a- Season 4 spoilers 38b- Lilith 38c- 3x12; ?ACT THREE, INT. STATION – OPEN AREA DOWN THE HALL- MOMENTS LATER?; Ruby’s secret conversation with Sam 39a- German Dub; Sam’s voice 39b- SPN Easter Eggs; 2x18; ACT ONE, EXT. LOS ANGELES, WARNER BROS. STUDIOS – DAY; Gilmore Girls

(video playlist/links and transcript below the cut)

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◘Eyecon '08 Jared's Entrance by jibbles21◘

(0:00 J) -introduction

Kenny Smith: Oh my god! It’s- (turns) it’s- it’s- Oh, me. Thank you. (gestures to audience member) So, sweet. Really.

(to audience) Okay, you guys. You know the drill. We got the man. I need all of you- I swear, he could just start a cult right now, because (audience laughs) he could just make all of you do horrible, horrible things. (audience laughs) It’s okay.

You know the drill ladies. You got people behind you. They need to be able to see. Take your picture, move along. Let’s create a system. You guys are already pros at this (audience giggles) and we love you for it.

Are you ready, ladies? (audience screams and claps.) I can’t hear you. (audience screams harder and claps)

(shakes head) He (?serves us?). (holds up clip board and leans over) Stop it. (audience laughs) What the hell am I thinking?!

◘Jared 1 - Florida Supernatural EyeCon 2008 by rsrvedMom◘

Audience member: We love you Kenny!

Smith: He stars as Sam Winchester! (audience screams and claps) He’s Supernatural! And he really is a hellva nice guy. (audience laughs) ..Please give it up.. for none other, Jared Padalecki, the man! (audience screams, claps, and cheers)

One of the double doors opens and Jared walks into the convention ballroom, clapping and waving to the crowd. Jared walks on stage and is greeted with Smith kneeling to him with the mic held out towards him. Jared awkwardly kneels to accept the mic. Then they both stand straight up.

Jared: (off mic) I’ve never been- (on mic) I’ve never been knighted before like that. (Smith throws his hands up)

Smith: (to audience) (off mic) It’s what I do. (turns and leaves the stage)

Jared: (waves to the audience) Hi, guys. (audience screams and claps) (smiles and sits down) Thanks for coming out. Sorry.. that things got crazy. But, thanks for waking up early.

◘Jared Padalecki at Eyecon Q&A by fdgr1000◘

(waves) I see some familiar faces and some fresh faces. (audience chuckles) So.. hi. (audience says hi back) (waves) Hi, again to everybody. I- I just had a great breakfast-

Audience member: (?Why she sit? She not.?)

•(0:58 RM)- EyeA08JP;T1- Coffee Guesses

Jared: (waves) Hi, there. What are you drinking? Mocha Frappuccino?

Audience member: Yesss.

Jared: Is it?

Audience member: Yess.

◘Jared's Panel @ Eye Con 1 by MrsSammyWinchester◘

Jared: (to audience) I totally made that up. I didn’t know that was that coffee. (audience laughs) People are like, (mimics frantically gossiping to someone beside him) “He’s a huge Starbucks fan.” (audience laughs) (laughs) “He knows what they’re drinking by seeing it.” (audience laughs)

Um, (points out into the crowd) you’re having a latte. (looks to the other side) And you’re having a, uh.. (wiggles head) triple, quadruple.. expresso. (audience chuckles) (nods) That’d be a lot of expresso, huh. (audience chuckles)

How have y’all been? (audience screams, cheers, and claps)

Audience member: Awesome!

•(1:26 RM, 0:23 MSW)- EyeA08JP;T2- Audience Origins; Dumb and Dumber joke

Jared: Where did you come from?

Audience member: Brazil!

Audience member: New York!

Audience member: Italy!

Audience member: Baltimore!

Audience member: Reno!

Jared: I didn’t hear one thing. (laughs) (some audience laugh while the rest try to scream out more answers) (Audience member: Brooklyn!) Where?

(points in the crowd) Well, I know you came from Starbucks. (audience laughs) (swipes his finger) But, before that, I mean.

◘Jared at Eyecon by SnObLuv◘

Audience member: Somebody yelled Austria!

Jared: Austria?

Audience member: Yes, over here!

Audience member: Yes!

Jared: ..G’day mate. (holds out his hand and shakes his head) I’m just kidding. (audience laughs)

◘Jared Padalecki - Eyecon 1/2 by Ifrodo99◘

Audience member: Au-stri-a!

Jared: I know. I know. I had to do “Dumb and Dumber”. Have y’all seen “Dumb and Dumber,” when at the very beginning (Audience member: Reno!) he’s going, “G’day mate.”?

Audience member: Reno!

Jared: Reno! (nods) Nice. (gestures to AM) (Audience member: Florida!) It’s such a shorter trip to Vegas. I would’ve- I would’ve been like, (mimics weighing on his hands) “Jared. Vegas. Jared-” (waves and then mimics leaving) “I’m going to Vegas, you know.” (audience laughs and no’s)

Audience member: (?Going to? or ?Living in?) Vegas sucks!

Jared: Yeah. (nods) Yeah. That’s true. Um, you always walk away poor and fatter. (Audience member: Yeah!) (audience giggles) At least, I do, so. It kind of sucks for me.

How are y’all guys? Good? Where did y’all come from? Here?

◘Jared 2 - Florida Supernatural EyeCon 2008 by rsrvedMom◘

Audience member: Australia.

Audience member: Texas!

Audience member: Texas!

Jared: Australia? Texas!

Audience member: San Antonio.

Audience member: Texas!

Audience member: North Carolina!

Jared: San Antonio. (nods) Right on.

Audience member: Alabama!

Audience member: Dallas

Jared: Dallas? I hear Dallas.

Audience member: Fort Worth!

Audience member: Florida!

Audience member: Paris!

Jared: Where was that?

Audience member: New York!

Jared: Nice! (nods)

Audience member: Yeah!

Audience member: I can’t talk.

Jared: That’s alright. I-I can’t either, that’s why they (tilts mic) gave me this thing. I get to cheat.

•(1:53 F, 1:35 MSW, 0:51 I, 0:20 RM)- EyeA08JP;T3- Samantha Ferris’ voice; Cough drops

Have y’all heard Samantha today? (Audience member: No!) She sounds like this, (raspy horse voice) “Hey, Jared. Ur-rah-rah-uh.” (audience laughs) I was like, “What did they do to you? Should I be nervous?” (adjusts his hat) (audience laughs) “Um, should I protect myself with some cough drops?”

But, Yeah. (nods) Apparently, she had a great time.

Audience member: Yes!

Audience member: Yes!

Jared: Yes?

Audience member: Yes!

Audience member: I have cough drops.

Jared: Can I get some cough drops?

◘Eyecon Jared Padalecki Part 02 by tinkabell007◘

Audience member: They have some for you.

Jared: They do?

Audience member: Yeah.

Audience member: Yes, she said.

Jared: Halls, eucalyptus? (audience laugh)

Audience member: It’s generic.

Jared: (flips up a hand and shakes his head) It was- It was my only guess. (audience laughs) I was so good with the.. (gestures towards crowd) Mocha Frappuccino earlier. I’m kind of pushing my luck now. (audience laughs) I’m just, like, uhhm, guessing out a lot of stuff.

•(2:31 F, 2:13 MSW, 1:29 I, 0:57 RM, 0:19 T)- EyeA08JP;T4- Matrix Flipbook

I see a lot of cameras. (stares wide eyed scanning the room) (audience laughs)

◘Kiwioflurve's EyeCon Adventure- Day 3-Part 1 by Laura M◘ 0:23-0:47

Audience member: There’s humans behind them really.

Jared: We should try and get everybody together and do one of those Matrix style things where you just flip through the pages. (gets up) I’ll move really slowly. Everybody take a lot of pictures.

Jared slowly shifts his weight onto one leg and raises the other up, balancing with one arm out. The audience laughs and cheers. Jared tries to rotate his body but starts losing his balance. He stands straight up. The audience claps.

◘Jared @ Eyecon - prank by miss_lizzie◘

Jared: Okay, now if we can get everybody to.. print out one little screenshot of that, we’ll make a flipbook. (audience laughs) That would be great. (sits back down)

Does anybody have any questions? I-I feel like I’m.. useless up here, unless I- I can serve some purpose.

(points into the crowd) You’re closest.

•(3:04 F, 2:47 MSW, 2:02 I, 1:32 RM, 0:53 T, 0:20 ML)- EyeA08JP;Q1- Pranks; Jared tricks on Jensen

Fan: (off mic) Like- Okay, I’ve always heard about tricks Jensen’s got on you. What are some that you got on him?

◘Kiwioflurve's EyeCon Adventure- Day 3-Part 1 by Laura M◘ 0:49-1:53

Jared: (crosses legs) That’s interesting. Um, Jensen has a lot more time to plan. (audience giggles) (smacks lips) He’s a sneaky ole bugger. (audience laughs) But, um, uh, let’s think. I’ve done.. I’ve done my fair share of things to him.

◘Jared Padalecki at EyeCon 1 by sarahmonious◘

Uhh, I-I tell the, uh, wardrobe lady sometimes to sew up  (laughs) the underside of his pants. (audience laughs) And so, (stands up and mimics Jensen) he’s putting his pants on going, (mimics struggling to put his leg through the pants leg) “Why can’t I?” And so, I hear back later- I- Usually because our trailers are always next to each other. I hear, “Jared!” (audience laughs) “Dammit!” And so.. you know, I know I got him.

But, I usually use the help of people. But, I learned early on, also, that, um.. as the only two actors.. on.. the, uh, set normally, unless we have, obviously, one of our reoccurring guest stars or one of our, um, (throws up a hand) temporary guest stars, that we need to team up a lot more than we need to.. work against each other.

With people like Kim Manners, who have been around fer.. a few more years in the business than we have, um, we’re more on the same team now than, um.. against each other. So now, we’re working to plan.. stuff against Kim Manners, specifically. (audience laughs) So.

(points in the crowd) I-I saw a hand in the back earlier… (shakes his head and points again) I’ll go with you.

Fan: (off mic) Me?

Jared: That’s right. (fan laughs)

•(4:23 F, 4:04 MSW, 3:21 I, 2:50 RM, 1:38 ML)- EyeA08JP;Q2a- Fan Appreciation; Sam Portrayal; (cw: family death)

Fan: (off mic) Okay. Hi. (Jared: [off mic] Hi.) Um, I don’t really have a question, just have something I want to tell you.

Jared: (off mic) Alright. (fan giggles) (on mic) Easier for me. (laughs) (audience laughs)

Fan: (off mic)Yeah. (laughs) Um, I wanted to thank you very much for playing Sam because Sam’s helped me through a lot of issues in my life. (Jared nods) I lost my husband six years ago and Sam.. eh-With his loss with death has really helped me and my life. (audience aw’s)

And (huffs a laugh) on top of that w-with Supernatural, I have met some really incredible people online. (Jared: [off mic] [nods] Right.) And we have a little group called the “Supernatural Geek Team.” (laughs) (audience giggles. Jared smiles) And there’s four members here today. (Jared: [off mic] Nice.) The fifth one is not here. 

•(4:54 F, 4:36 MSW, 3:52 I, 3:21 RM, 2:10 ML)- EyeA08JP;Q2b- Fan Gift; Supernatural Geek Team t-shirts

So, um, we have actually made t-shirts for you and Jensen, to be honorary Geek Team members. (audience chuckles)

Can I bring it up to you or?

Jared: I’ll take it. (Fan: Okay.) Please. (audience woos and claps)

The fan makes their way across their row and down the aisle, up to the stage holding two t-shirts, a red one and a blue one.

◘Eyecon Jared Padalecki Part3 by tinkabell007◘

Jared: And thank you so much for your.. very kind words also. I mean, we always say this, but we mean it when we say it, (stands up) like y’all really are the reason for the show and.. you know there’s a lot of work out there. (steps down from the stage to meet the fan) And.. that’s why we’re excited to be doing this.

Jared says thank you off mic and gives the fan a hug. The audience aw’s, claps, and cheers. The have an exchange off mic where Jared nods a lot.

Fan: (off mic) (?This red one’s for Jensen. You get the blue one?). (giggles)

Jared: (off mic) Alright. (turns and looks at the blue shirt) I hope I get to be sergeant also. (audience laughs) (nods) Okay, good. (steps back up on stage and then turns back to the fan) As long as it wasn’t gonna- it’ll just- eh-eh- I hope- What’s- I’m sorry?

Fan: (off mic) It’s (?)

Jared: Oh, right on! Cool. (sits back down)

Fan: (off mic) (?)

While Jared is about to sit back down the fan turns and show him what’s on the back the shirt.

Jared: (laughs) Nice. Sammy’s girl. (sits down and nods) (audience screams) That’s right. (audience cheers and claps) Thank you. (nods) That’s right. Sammy’s girl. Pay attention. (audience laughs)

Smith: (off stage) Jared, we have a microphone now.

Jared: Oh, we do have a microphone.

Smith: People- People raise their hands and we’ll send a microphone out to you.

Jared: Right on. (Smith: (?)) (to Smith)..I wanted to be the one with the mic. ‘Cause then I can just start talking into it and everybody kind of just has to listen. (Smith: (?Maybe?).) (audience giggles) Now I have to share the stage. (scrunches his face) (audience chuckles)

◘Jared at EyeCon 1 by Rachel◘

Where did it go?

Audience member: It’s right here.

Audience member: Over there.

•(6:12 F, 5:55 MSW, 5:11 I, 3:39 RM, 2:10 ML, 1:07 T, 0:05 R)- EyeA08JP;Q3- Fav monster killing method; 3x07; ACT FOUR, INT. FACTORY – MACHINE ROOM – CONTINUOUS; thoughts on Sterling K. Brown

Fan: Hi. (Jared: Hi.) I’m Rachel.

Jared: I’m Jared. (audience laughs)

Fan: Hi, Jared. I had no idea. It’s very nice to meet you.

Jared: (sits up) (falsetto) “Hi, Rachel.” (audience laughs)

Fan: Um.. So, in the last three seasons you guys killed a lot of nasties and you’ve used a lot of different methods. Of all the different weapons and techniques you’ve used- you- your characters have (Jared nods) used to kill a bad thing, or not kill them, just get rid of them, what’s your favorite to work with.. of all the weapons?

Jared: That I’ve ever worked with? Or to keep working with?

Fan: Either. Both! Let’s do both.

Jared: You know what? I love the sawed-off shotgun. (audience cheers) (nods) Yeah.

Fan: (chuckles) Better than the regular shotgun?

Jared: Yeah, (nods) you got to go- Yes, sawed-off is better than regular. But, (slaps knee) I was talking at breakfast, I had a great breakfast morning, and I was talking about- (throws up hand) Well, we were talking about the episode with Gordon where I did the barbed wire thing. (audience yeah’s and claps) Yeah.

◘Kiwioflurve's EyeCon Adventure- Day 3-Part 1 by Laura M◘ 1:54-2:43

And though I was so- it was one of those hard things, because.. I love Sterling. He’s an awesome guy. He’s really talented. He’s really fun to be around. Um, and so I was like, “I don’t want him to die.” (audience laughs) But, I was like, “But, I get to kill him really cool, so.” (smiles) (audience laughs) “That’s alright.” And I started (mimics holding a razor wire) to get the little thing. And I’m like, “Okay, what do I do now?” You know?

Um, but that was kind of the most exciting. Also, because it’s sort of where we saw Sam, um, (nods) get to be badass- bad butt. (stares wide eyed around at the audience) (audience laughs) (snorts)

Audience member: You can say badass.

Jared: (shrugs with his hand) Okay. Okay. Well, I said it. But there’s a-

Hey, there.. Mocha Frappuccino.

•(7:39 F, 6:36 I, 6:05 RM, 2:10 ML, 2:33 T, 1:31 R)- EyeA08JP;Q4- What if; One day with no consequences

Fan: You-You have no idea how glad I am for this microphone. (audience and Jared laugh) Umm. (laughs)

Jared: Nice. (shakes his head) You better not steal my thunder, because I’ll come over there and-

Fan: Are you kidding? I screamed my voice last night. Yesterday I was, like, rejecting my whole life.

Jared: (laughs) Okay, good.

Fan: (laughs) So, um.. This isn’t my question. (Jared nods) This is my best friend’s question. (Jared: [off mic] Okay.)

If you could have one day- live one day without any consequences, what would you do? (audience oo’s)

Jared: What I’d do?

Fan: You can’t kill anyone.. because she says she’d be creeped out.

Jared: (shakes his head) I wouldn’t kill anyone in here. (Fan and audience laughs) (smiles)

Fan: But.. yeah, other than that, what would you do?

◘Jared @ Eyecon - one day, no consequences by miss_lizzie◘

Jared: Uh… without, uh, any consequences… (shakes head) Like, you’re not gonna die if you..

Fan: (off mic) Start electrocuting yourself? No. (laughs)

Jared: I think, I’d- Well, first off, I think my first reaction is I’d eat a lot. (audience laughs) Man, (shakes head) I’d find the best buffet or something. Especially, because I guess you’re not paying for it? (audience laughs) ‘Cause that’s no consequences, so. (audience laughs)

..I’m kind of getting interested in this day now. (smug look) (audience laughs) I’m gonna be in the airplane going home, going, (tilts head, looking up) “What else could I do?” (audience laughs) I’d probably have a lot of food. I’d probably have a lot of steak or something. (audience woo) (smiles)

◘Jared Padalecki - Eyecon 2/2 by Ifodo99◘

(points into the crowd) I see a li- a sweetie in the back, putting her hand on the stage. Could you yell up to me, because I don’t know where the microphone went?

Audience member: It’s here!

Audience member: Right here!

Audience member: Behind the pretty redhead. (audience member laughs. Jared makes a scrunched face)

Audience member: With the girl standing.

•(8:52 F, 7:52 I, 7:18 RM, 3:45 T, 2:46 R, 0:48 ML, 0:11 I)- EyeA08JP;Q5- Acting Challenge; Hardest SPN episode; 3x11

Fan: Um… Um, what was the hardest “Supernatural” episode that you ever did?

Jared: The hardest? That’s a great question. Um, for me the hardest “Supernatural” episode I ever did was actually the last one we shot before the strike, which aired, um, before.. “Jus In Bello.” But we actually shot “Mystery Spot,” at the very end.

◘Kiwioflurve's EyeCon Adventure- Day 3-Part 1 by Laura M◘ 2:44-4:04

And it was where Dean dies a lot. (audience chuckles and agreement) And that was really hard for me, because, um, it-it was- I mean, it was very fun episode to shoot, uhm, (rotating motion gestured towards his mouth) with the talking over each other and everything like that.

But, to have to keep on.. getting in the mindset of somebody who’s watching your brother and best friend die- Because if you don’t find the truth.. in the character and you don’t find the truth in the moment, then there’s no use in you really acting it. You’re just being lazy.

So, I tried to really commit to it. But, it’s really hard. You’re like, you know what you’re gonna shoot and you’re like, “I don’t wanna shoot that. (short whine) I don’t wanna pretend he’s dying, ‘cause then I’m gonna get sad.” And you’re walking around all sad. (audience chuckles and aw’s)

But.. But, I’m happy now, because he’s alive. (smiles) (audience laughs) So, I don’t have to work all day myself. (audience chuckles)

Where did that mic sneak off to?

•(9:56 F, 8:55 I, 4:51 T, 2:46 R, 1:17 I, 3:44 LM)- EyeA08JP;Q6a- Jared’s Jensen nicknames

Fan: Hi. (Jared: Hi.) While both your firsts names, Jared and Jensen, are great names, surely, you don’t call each other by your first name every time. What do you call each other when it’s just the two of you or among friends?

◘EyeCon Jared Padalecki Q&A video 1 by Chrissy6299◘

Jared: I call him ugly. (audience laughs and cheers) Everybody else calls him pretty, so I know that- At least if I say ugly he knows who’s.. talking to him.

◘Jared Padalecki at EyeCon 2 by sarahmonious◘

◘Jared 3 - Florida Supernatural EyeCon 2008 by rsrvedMom◘

I think- (laughs) Besides ugly.. I’ll say, um… Nerd, (shakes head) no I’m just kidding. Um. (audience chuckles) I probably call him.. Ackles or Smackles a lot. Smack. (Audience member: Awww.) (nods) Smack. Yeah. (nods) ..That’s probably the most.. common one.

•(5:58 T, 4:26 R, 1:54 I, 0:34 C, 0:25 S, 0:24 RM)- EyeA08JP;Q6b- Jensen’s Jared nicknames

Fan: (off mic) What does he call you?

Jared: He calls me Lord. (audience laughs) Man I wish I could be. Um, (shakes head) Idol. (shakes head) Hero. (shrugs and shimmies hands) Some.. variation of (laughs) that.

I think he calls me Giant. (audience chuckles) Or Stretch or something. Uhm, (nods) I get Stretch a lot. If I hear stretch.. on the set I turn around like they’re talking to me. (audience giggles) And (mimics awkward poses) meanwhile there’s like a yoga instructor going, “Kay, now stretch.” (audience laughs) (turns) (off mic) “What?”

◘Kiwioflurve's EyeCon Adventure- Day 3-Part 1 by Laura M◘ 4:05-4:23

(shakes head) No yoga instructor on set. (points to head) That was in my head. (audience giggles)

(snorts) Hi.

◘Kiwioflurve's EyeCon Adventure- Day 3-Part 1 by Laura M◘ 4:24-7:34

•(6:02 T, 4:59 R, 2:27 I, 0:57 RM, 4:24 LM)- EyeA08JP;Q7aa- thoughts on Dark!Sam; 3x11; ACT FOUR

Fan: Hi. Um, I’m Ginger. I-

Jared: Hi, Ginger. (Fan: Hi.) I’m Jared. (Audience member: Yeah.) (audience laughs) That’s Rachel.

◘Jared Padalecki at Eyecon Q&A 2 by akmcreation◘

Audience member: We’ve noticed. (audience and fan laughs)

Fan: Um, I (?actooly?) have two things. One was going with “Mystery Spot.” I know you’ve said that you’ve had a really great time bringing out, like, the dark side of Sam. Um, what was kind of going through your head through the montage where Sam’s just like a psycho serial killer? (Jared nods and smiles. Audience giggles) ‘Cause that freaked me right out.

•(6:23 T, 5:20 R, 2:49 I, 1:18 RM, 4:46 LM, 0:19 A)- EyeA08JP;Q7b- Fan Request; Exorcism Chant

Um, and also Sam, finally, memorized the exorcism. Uh, (Jared: Yeah.) Do you have it memorized? Like, could you spin it off right now?

Jared: Umm... (audience laughs) (turns to his right) Uhhh… (to fan) How does it start? (audience giggles) I think, once I get going I can kind of..

◘Jared Padalecki at EyeCon 3 by sarahmonious◘

Audience member: I think, like, it’s Exorcizor te or something like that.

Audience member: Exorcizamus te!

Jared: Exorcizamus te, omnis immundus spiritus, omnis satanica potestas, (swipes finger down) omnis incursion infernalis adversarii, (swipes finger down) (audience claps) omnis legio, (swipes his hand down) omnis congregatio (audience cheers) et secta diabolica. (slams his hand down on his leg and then raises his fists up in victory)

(nods) That’s bizarre… (audience laughs) What did I just say- (swipes hand) What just came out of my mouth?

Audience member: You don’t want to know!

Jared: What just happened?

Audience member: I don’t know, but you should have seen those air vents!

Audience member: (?We’ve got the death beat out of us all?).

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Jared: Yeah, who-who knows. I hope I didn’t curse anybody. (waves hand) (audience laughs) That wasn’t directed at anybody. (points at someone in the crowd who just sat down) Except she came late, so it’s your fault. (audience laughs)

(quickly shakes his head and waves his hand) I’m just kidding. I’m just kidding. (nods) I’m glad you’re here safe. (audience giggles)

•(7:20 T, 6:18 R, 3:46 I, 2:16 RM, 5:44 LM, 1:19 A, 0:43 S, 0:12 MSW)- EyeA08JP;Q7ab- thoughts on Dark!Sam; 3x11; ACT FOUR cont.

Um.. and then the- What- The one before that was…

Fan: (off mic) Um, “Mystery Spot” with the..

Jared: Oh!

Fan: (off mic) Evil Sam!

Jared: Demon Sam. I wanted to be robotic. I wanted to be.. I wanted to be emotionless. Like, all the emotion had.. gone from Sam and he couldn’t hurt anymore. So, he had.. turned off his, um.. will tah.. be attached to anything. I wanted it to be very robotic.

And Kim and I worked it out, because we were like, “Should he be angry? Or should he be.. you know, sad?” And, uh, we ended up, (back and forth gesture) sort of together and coming to the idea that.. he’s not any anymore. (shakes head) It’s gone. He’s gone through so much that.. It’s all there, the anger and the sad, but he’s just pushed it down so much that he’s just on a mission, you know?

So, that’s what I tried to do. (nods and smiles)

Fan: (off mic) It went well. (laughs)

Audience member: You done good! (audience woo)

Jared: Thank you. (audience claps)

Audience member: That was great for (laughs) (?the slow burn?).

Jared: (nods) Thank you. (claps to audience member) (?Thanks a lot?).

•(7:10 R, 4:38 I, 3:08 RM, 6:36 LM, 1:19 A, 1:04 MSW)- EyeA08JP;Q8- What If; Monsters were real reaction

Young Fan: I know that monsters aren’t real, but if they were real would you fight ‘em or piss your (?pants?)? (audience aw’s and laughs)

Jared: I would run so fast. (audience laughs) I know my legs are skinny but they can move fast. Unless they were picking on you and then I’d get ‘em. (audience aw’s) (nods and salutes)

Young Fan: (off mic) Thank you! Sorry for the language!

Jared: Uh-oh. Was that Latin? (laughs) (audience laughs) (leans forward) I couldn’t hear it.

Audience member: No. He said- His initial question he said would you fight them or piss your pants and then he apologized for the language. (audience laughs and oh’s)

Jared: (off mic) Oh! I didn’t hear that part!

Jared wide eyed, licks his lips, and then sits back, grimacing with his head turned away from the audience. The audience cackles.

Jared: Well, I wouldn’t fight them, so... (grimaces) (audience laughs) I didn’t realize I was- it was one of two options. (audience laughs) (sits up and gestures) I would do it while running. So, no one would- I still run really fast. (nods)

Jared laughs, pauses, laughs again, shakes his head, and then says, “I’m sorry” and looks down. The audience laughs.

•(8:09 R, 5:36 I, 4:06 RM, 3:08 A, 1:04 MSW)- EyeA08JP;Q9a- Fav Sports Team

Young Fan: Uh…

Jared: Is that Tony Romo? (audience laughs)

Young Fan: Yeah.

Jared: (points) I have that Jersey man… I like it. (audience woo and giggles)

Young Fan: Um, (inhale, exhale)

Audience member: You stunned him.

Young Fan: Dallas is your favorite team, right?

Jared: Dallas is my favorite team. Is Dallas your favorite team?

Young Fan: Yes.

Jared: Awesome, man. (pats his chest) (Young Fan: W-) I’m Jared. (audience laughs)

•(8:31 R, 5:59 I, 4:29 RM, 3:30 A, 2:25 MSW)- EyeA08JP;Q9b- Fav Dallas Player; Jensen Christmas gift; Tony Romo jersey

Young Fan: Who’s your favorite player on Dallas?

Jared: My favorite player on would probably be.. um, Jason Witten. (two audience woo and a clap) (nods) Yeah. I love Tony Romo, but Jason Witten is a really hard working guy.

Um, and he makes me think that, you know, with hard work and.. a lot of perseverance.. you can get to the top of your game. Plus, he seems cool. Plus, he’s a lot bigger than I am. So, if I ever met him.. I would want to say he’s my favorite player, because he could probably kick my butt. (audience chuckles)

(points to fan) But I have a Tony Romo jersey. Actually, my Christmas present from Jensen.. was a Tony Romo jersey. That same one you’re wearing. And he has one too. So, now me, you, and Jensen all have one. (audience giggles and aw’s) (smiles)

…Cool, man. (audience laughs) …It’s nice talking to you, buddy. (audience laughs) (waves)

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(turns his head) Okay, we’re over there.

•(4:27 A, 3:22 MSW, 0:11 RM)- EyeA08JP;Q10- Acting Challenges; Stage directions; Adjusting to not being Dean

Fan: (off mic) Hi.

Jared: Hi.

Fan: Hi. Um, I’m loud anyway.

Jared: Nice!

Fan: My question is, you played, um, Dean Forester on “Gilmore Girls” and then you- (audience cheers)

Jared: Oow! (leans back and looks around confused) (audience claps and cheers) (shakes hand) I’m just totally kidding. (audience chuckles)

Fan: And then you went to Sam Wincheser (Jared: Oow! [feigns nonchalance]) on “Supernatural.” (audience laughs and cheers)

Jared: Who did that?

Fan: So, when you went on set, somebody would go, “Okay, Dean, you have to stand there.” Did you, like, go over or when you heard, “Dean” did you turn?

Jared: (nods) I absolutely did. (audience laughs) I absolutely did.

At first- Now everybody calls us Jared and Jensen, but at first (swipes hand) no one knew anybody? And so, it was Sam and Dean. It was, uhm, you know, “Sam’s over there. Dean’s over there.” (wiggles) And so I just start walking. And there I’d see Jensen like, “What are you doing?” (audience laughs) I’m like, “What are you doing?” (audience laughs) (points and leans back) Like, “Oh yeah. I’m just seeing how you’re doing, you know?” (audience laughs) And go over to my mark.

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But for a while- There was a big learning curve of having to get into the character of Sam. (smiles)

•(5:23 A, 4:19 MSW, 1:08 RM, 0:09 R)- EyeA08JP;Q11- Fav episode filmed; 1x06; pro BvB

Fan: …Hi.

Jared: Hey, man.

Fan: I’m Stephanie.

Jared: Nice. I’m Jared. (audience chuckles)

Fan: Um, what’s your favorite episode that you’ve filmed?

Jared: First off, that’s my favorite shirt. (audience cackles) (snorts)

My favorite episode I’ve filmed.. would be, uhm… (inhale) That’s a very good question. I’ve never really thought about that. I’ve thought about sort of stuff I’m either proud of or sad with.

But you know what? I- I always go back to the episode “Skin” where Sam and Dean fought. And it was a lot of fun. It was sort of.. the first time in the shooting of “Supernatural” that.. we.. did something so drastically different.

I mean, it was the seventh episode of the series so, um.. So, we were sort of doing the same thing. Huntin’- Hunting a monster and killing it, and then going home. Hunting a monster, killing it, going home. It was like, “You’re gonna fight your brother.” It was like, “Ooo.” I kind of like the, uh- I like the idea of it.

And, um.. I didn’t like that he won, (audience laughs) but I like that he then killed him.. after he won. Which, was kind of bizarre. But, it was a lot of fun to shoot (nods) that sequence.

So, (nods) I- I say “Skin”

•(6:30 A, 5:25 MSW, 2:15 RM, 1:15 R)- EyeA08JP;Q12- thoughts on 2x14; pro BvB

Fan: Hi, Jared.

Jared: How are yah?

Fan: I’m Viyana.

Jared: I’m Jared. (audience chuckles)

Fan: Hi! My personal favorite episode was “Born Under a Bad Sign.” (audience screams)

Jared: (claps knee) No way. (nods) (off mic) Thank you. (nods) Thank you.

Fan: How much fun was that?

Jared: That was a lot of fun. I would actually say that, that.. ranks up there with “Skin.” Because, I got to be bad. And I like that. (nods) Yeah, that was a lot of fun, because Sam got to be tough. And I know he had a demon.. in him.. to make him tough, but (audience giggles) (smiles and shrugs) tough is still tough, right?

I was tired of kind of being like, (bobs back and forth with a thick accent) “Dean, come save me.” (audience laughs) So, um- And it was a lot of fun tah- You know what’s funny? Is that one of the things I liked about “Born Under a Bad Sign” is it pitted the brothers against each other again.

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And, not like I’m.. It’s not some repressed thing, (shakes head) “I want to fight Jensen” or anything. (audience laughs) But, it’s just, I think it’s such an interesting story to tell. What would turn two brothers against each other? And of course, both times it’s been either a shapeshifter or a demon. And the brothers actually love each other. They just.. are fighting the demon version of the other.

But, um- eh, I think it’s such an interesting story to tell. And we get along so much, that it’s fun to fight, you know? (audience giggles) (nods and shrugs)

Fan: (off mic) Thanks.

Jared: Thank you.

•(7:36 A, 3:21 RM, 2:22 R)- EyeA08JP;Q13a- Fan Congrats; Engagement

Fan: Hi, Jared.

Jared: Hi.

Fan: I’m Hanukkah from Atlanta.

Jared: I’m Jared from San Antonio. (audience chuckles) Then Los Angeles, then Vancouver. (giggles)

Fan: I have to thank- Um, first off I have a friend named Evelyn in Indonesia who is a huge fan. And she wanted me to make sure I told you, “Hi, and congratulations on your engagement.” (audience woo and claps)

Jared: Well, (tilts head) tell her thank- Indonesia? (audience laughs)

Fan: Indonesia. (Jared shrugs and nods at the audience) She was the one who told me about this conference, because she heard about it before I did.

Jared: Come on. (audience laughs) (snorts) Nice!

•(8:02 A, 3:48 RM, 2:48 R)- EyeA08JP;Q13b- Fear; Scared 8yr girl on plane story

Fan: The second thing- Um, okay, we know that Sam is afraid of clowns. (audience chuckles) (Jared: [nods] Yes.) What are you afraid of?

Jared: Uhm, well first off tell your friend that I love Nesians. (audience laughs) Um.. (laughs)

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What is Sam afraid of, or what is Jared afraid of?

Audience member: What is Sam afraid of.

Fan: (off mic) What is Jared afraid of!

Audience member: What is Jared afraid of.

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Jared: Jared is afraid of.. nothing. (smoldering look to audience) (audience laughs) (shakes head) I’m just kidding. (audience screams) I’m totally a chicken.

Uhm, you know, we were talking about planes at breakfast. And I’m not really scared of flying, unless I’m on the flight with somebody.. who’s a bad flyer. Um, and one time I was in the- I was sitting in the aisle (gestures to his right) and there was a girl sitting on the opposite side of me. She must have been eight or nine years old. And every time there was any turbulence or any noise or anything, she’d go like this (mimics jerking and gripping the arms of a plane chair) (audience laughs and aw’s)

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And so, at first it sort of just caught me. I was like (jerks and looks to his right) “Oh, (waves hand) she’s alright.” But then she kept getting (jerks) so jumpy that I was like, (jerks and shakes looking at her then looks away pressing his lips together) (audience laughs). And I was like, “Wait, if she’s so scared, I should be scared too.” (audience chuckles) Um, sort of that crazy, you know, one person’s doing it the other person must do it too.

Um, so I’m scared by (squints) an eight year old girls, (audience laughs) (nods) I guess, on planes. (nods) (flips hand up) I guess that’s what it (laughs) boils down too.

•(9:12 A, 4:57 RM, 3:58 R, 0:32 S)- EyeA08JP;Q14a- fan appreciation; Jared, Sandy

Fan: Hello, Jared. I’m Jessie. (Jared: Hi.) And I’m here with my granddaughters and my family. Um, m-

Jared: (pats knee) Right on.

Fan: Yes. They actually got me watching you a couple of years ago. I think you’re absolutely wonderful. You’re a natural. You’re our favorite. But, what I act-

Jared: Talks some more. (go on gesture) Keep going. Keep- (audience laughs)

Fan: I actually- What I’m actually-

Jared: (laughs and turns his face) I can’t get enough of this.

Fan: What I’d actually like to say is, we saw your fiancé yesterday, (Jared nods) Sandy. She is so refreshing. So, natural. (audience claps and cheers. Jared claps) So.. (audience screams) So, beautiful and we loved hearing her. And we just wanna tell you, we think you’re so blessed just having her.

Jared: (nods) I am. I am. (Fan: And-) (points) Thank you so much. (audience and Jared clap)

Fan: And she said you loved board games.

Jared: (nods) I do.

•(9:52 A, 5:37 RM, 4:38 R)- EyeA08JP;Q14b- Fan gift; Disney board game

Fan: So, we went and bought you a Disney board game, so you could remember Floridas.

Jared: (pats his knee) Come on.

Fan: So, we’re gonna bring- Can I bring it up to you?

Jared: (nods) Please do.

Fan: Okay. Thank you.

Jared: Thank you. (claps) And thank you for your support of Sanday. She is a doll. (audience agrees and claps) And, I’m glad, uh- (audience claps and cheers) I’m glad y’all guys are nice to her. Because I have (flexes) big friends that’ll kick your butt if you’re not nice to her. (audience chuckles) (stands up and walks to the edge of the stage)

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I love presents. (steps down from the stage) (audience laughs)

(off mic) What do I get?

Fan: (off mic) Disney board game. (hands over gift bag with the board game)

Jared: (off mic) Ye-ha-sss.

Fan: Yeah, we’re Disney.

Jared: (off mic) I will. Thank you so much. (hugs fan)

Fan: (off mic) Thank you. You’re wonderful. (nods) Thank you. (audience aw’s and claps)

Jared: (off mic) (?Right back at you?). (on mic) And thank you to your family for..

Fan: (off mic) (to another audience member and points at Jared) (?They’re not bad?) (walks back to seat) (audience laughs)

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Jared: (smug look) I got a monopoly game, (sashays back up stage) so I came out better. (audience laughs)

(briefly looks at the game) That’s awesome.

Jared picks up the t-shirts from his chair. He then holds the board game next to the shirts as he sits down.

Look at me. I’m gonna play with my stuff. Y’all talk for a while. (smug look) (audience laughs)

(puts the game back in the gift bag and looks around) Who’s next?

?Staff?: Oh, what? Can you stand up?

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Jared: Hi. (puts shirts in gift bag)

•(0:51 A, 0:48 MSW, 0:22 RM)- EyeA08JP;Q15- Pre-Finale Thoughts; What would you miss

Fan: (chuckles) Hi, Jared. Um.. I was kind of wondering, not to be pessimistic, but, like was-

Jared: What’s you’re name?

Fan: Lindsay. Hi.

Jared: Hi, Lindsay.

Fan: Hi. Um, when Supernatural’s over, what are you going to miss the most about.. playing Sam Winchester or.. the entire experience? Because I know you’ve said (Jared nods) that everybody is really close-knit. And everybody has said that.. (Jared nods) yesterday. So, you know, what is- what are you gonna miss the most?

Jared: Um.. I know from sort of.. I guess (squints and shrugs) from kind of experience, like I sort of dealt with this during the strike. ‘Cause, you know, we didn’t know if it was over or not. So, I sort of started missing things about the show, ‘cause we didn’t know if we were coming back.

And I missed the comradery. I missed the comradery that.. this show.. breeds. (gestures around) Like, even between.. us sitting here today. Um.. from the producers and the writers and the people who are making the show, to everybody who works in the cast and crew, to everybody who keeps this show going, there’s such a family aspect to it.

And I’ve worked on some great sh- Like, “Gilmore Girls”? I had a great time. I got along with everybody. I made buddies. I just ran into Milo a week ago, and it was like old times. But, um- But.. this (taps his knee) has been such a family. Like, (gestures to the crowd) I’ve seen so many faces. And got so much support that I feel like from the support of the fans of this show alone I could (flings hand up) go for the rest of my career and not.. get anymore support and be fine, ‘cause I know that people (nods) have been so supportive.

So, I’d have to say.. the.. just general comradery and brotherhood and family that “Supernatural” has built. (shrugs and nods)

(gestures to crowd) That we’re all part of. (audience claps and cheers) So, thank you guys. (claps)

•(2:30 A, 2:27 MSW, 2:02 RM)- EyeA08JP;Q16- Thoughts on Art; Christmas Cottage

Fan: Hi. I’m Amanda.

Jared: Hi.

Fan: And you’re Jared, right?

Jared: I’m Jare- (audience giggles) (gestures to himself) I’m Amanda. (audience laughs)

Fan: That’s what I thought. Okay. (giggles) Um.. well I just was wondering ‘cause I’m a- I was a former art major. I graduate with an Art degree.

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Jared: Oh, wow.

Fan: And, um, you’re gonna play Thomas Kinkade (Jared nods) in an upcoming movie. And I was wondering since you’re doing that if you had any kind of Art background or interest in Art.. or anything like that?

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Jared: I- I’m actually very interested in Art. Um, and I-I did already play Thomas Kinkade. We already finished the movie.

Fan: Oh, (nods) yeah. Okay.

Jared: And I am, uh- I’m happy to say that I did draw.. and paint.. and I am awful. (audience laughs) (shakes head) Awful.

I have so much respect for you, for people that can.. create with (mimics vague arting) things. (audience laughs) Because I tried to draw a tree.. (shrugs) and.. (shrugs) could’ve been a blob. (audience chuckles) I called it a tree.

Um.. but I-I- I have a great doing it. I wish it was a talent. It seems like a great way to, uh- to enjoy nature. I-I go jogging in Stanley Park up in Vancouver and I see people sitting down sketching.

Um, Sandy and I were at a museum over the.. holidays? And people were sitting down sketching sculptures. And I was like, “That’s so much cooler than taking a picture.” (audience laughs) Like, “Here’s my picture.” (smugly wiggles) “Here’s my drawing.” (mimics holding up and out art) (audience laughs)

So, um- but I have no talent. (presses his lips together and shrugs) (audience laugh)

Fan: (off mic) You do have talent in acting. (giggles)

Jared: Well, thank you (nods) very much. Thank you.

Where did y’all go?

•(3:59 A, 3:55 MSW, 3:30 RM, 1:19 R, 1:07 T)- EyeA08JP;Q17- Acting Challenge; 3x11; ACT TWO, INT. DINER – DAY; sync scene

Fan: Hi!

Jared: Hi.

Fan: Hi. I’m Carrie.

Jared: Hi there.

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Fan: Um, I wanted to ask you, the “Mystery Spot” (Jared nods) where you were in the diner and you guys were doing that dialogue back and forth, how long that- did you guys take that to do that? (laughs)

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Jared: It took a while. Um.. not as long as you would think. (holds up a finger) But, since he’s not here, (points off to his right) I’m going to completely blame it on Jensen. (audience laughs) And I’m going.. (points at crowd) into detail. (audience laughs)

Um.. there was a line. I can’t remember exactly what the line is. It’s “Sam Winchester wears make up. Sam Winchester cries.. (turns his head and says quietly off mic) his way through sex.” Um. (laughs) (audience laughs) (squints and looks around) Eh- “And every morning when he-“

..Okay, it was something like.. the- the line where I say- (gestures) Or we say, “And every morning when he wakes up he- (waves hand up) Okay enough!” He would.. do it too early. He’d say, “Every morning when he wake up- wakes up- (waves hand up) Okay! Enough!” And I’d be like, “You’re supposed to say he!” (audience laughs)

And then so- and then.. I wouldn’t say “he,” because I figured (gestures) he wasn’t gonna say it. (gestures) And then he’d say it. (audience laughs) And I was like, (throws hand out) “Well, what are we doing?!” (audience giggles) You know?

But, he’d- he’d like skip a line. But, we had done it, um- We ride together to work, um, every day. We get picked up and go to work. And so, we have about thirty to forty-five minutes in the beginning of the day to go through our lines and think of ideas and to (back and forth gesture) run through cool moments or what we’re gonna do.

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So, we knew that day was going to be big. Because they wanted it to be.. (snaps fingers on a beat) you know, very crisp. And so, we just read the- I had him read it a bunch of times, because the idea is that Sam is mimicking.. Dean. And so, I wanted to know.. what he- how he would say it as Dean.

So, I just had him read it.. again, again, again, again. And I started.. kind of doing it silently as he was doing it. And I was like, (shrugs) “Alright, let’s try it.” And so we gave it a shot. But also right before that scene, uh, we sat in his trailer.. and just were going (rhythmic hand chop gesture) “Dah-dah-dah-dah-dah-dah.”

And then we sort of put our heads down and went straight to set.  And we’re like, (swipes hand and gets up) “Don’t talk to us.” (hand chop gesture) We’re like going, “We’re in the zone.” (audience laughs) And so, um- And then we got to set and he ruined it all anyways. (audience laughs) (sits back down)

But, uh, yeah. (nods) That was a lot of fun. That was- When I read that I was like, “That’s gonna be really fun to shoot.” And the only hard- The hardest part was not laughing, because everybody else was laughing. (audience giggles) And so- And it was sort of-

(sits up and holds up a finger) You know what, I also remember- This is weird. Uhm.. (laughs) eh- but as you’re doing it, you’re so surprised and happy that it worked.. that you sort of forget that you have another line coming. (audience laughs) So, (wiggles head) you’re going, 

“Uh, you don’t know everything.” “Yes, I do.” “Really?” “Yeah.” “..Sam Winchester wears make up.”

And then you’re like, (excited face) “We did it.” (audience laughs) And then you’re like, (rushes) “Oh yeah, Sam Winchester cries his way through sex.” (audience laughs) (blinks and jerks) “We did it again!” (audience laughs)

And so, you keep on getting excited that you’re doing it that you sort of think about how (pumps eyebrows) cool it was that (proud wiggle) you just talked at the same time. You’re like, “Yeah. We kick ass.” Kick butt. (grimaces) (audience laughs)

But, um, we ended up getting it on (laughs) camera. (flings hand up) So, I guess it worked. (laughs) Thanks.

•(6:43 A, 6:15 RM, 4:05 R, 3:52 T)- EyeA08JP;Q18- Acting preference; light hearted vs dark toned narrative; 3x08, 3x03, 1x17, 2x15

Fan: Hi. (Jared: Hey.) My name’s Kevin from the UK. (Jared: Nice.) Uh, we’re way, way behind in the, uh, airings. I think we had the Christmas episode about two or three weeks ago.

Jared: Okay.

Fan: That was quite lighthearted in terms of, well, the mutilations and evil Santas. But, (audience and Jared chuckles) lately there’s quite a dark undertone. Do you enjoy doin’ the light hearted stuff more, like when you had the luck char- when you had the unlucky charm where you lost your shoe down the drain? (audience chuckles) That sort of stuff. (Jared: [off mic] Yeah.) Do you enjoy that mainly? Is that break up the whole dark tone of the whole series a little bit?

Jared: You know what? I enjoy it. I’ve never- And I’m (shakes head and hand swipes) totally not fishing here. (hand swipes) I’ve never thought I was funny. I’ve never been like, (mimics confidence) “Yeah.. I can.. get up there and act funny,” you know? I’ve always really liked drama. Um.. and so, it’s been a fun opportunity- That’s why they don’t give me a lot of funny stuff. They’re like, “He’s not funny. (laughs) Don’t give him funny stuff.”

But, anyways, I also- Sam’s such a serious character or has been and it’s such a dark show that it’s hard to really work in comedy, uh, seamlessly. Uh, and we’ve had a few funny episodes. Like we had, uh, one, uh, (points) that- that is a funny one where.. the bad, uh, rabbits foot, and, you know, the “Hell Hounds” episode and the “Tall Tales” episode.

But, um, I have a lot of fun doing it. And I think it’s pleasant to break up the, uh.. to break up the dark. (shrugs) I mean, someone.. someone famous.. said, um, “If you make ‘em laugh, then you can make ‘em cry.” You know? And it’s just the idea that you need the yin and the yang. It can’t just be, you know, “Here we are.. only gonna be dark and scared. And I’m going to be only scared for an hour.”

Like, I think, the writers want to laugh and be scared and cry. The audience wants tah laugh and be scared and, (shrugs) you know, scream and throw things at the- (shakes head) you know. (audience chuckles) So, you-you want to have everything. And I think… I think adding humor actually helps.. accentuate the dark side of the show. (shrugs and nods)

Good question. Thanks, man.. And thanks for.. coming from the UK. I don’t know if you’ve been here for a while, but-

Fan: (off mic) (?I just came from Transylvania and moved to Fergus?). (audience laughs)

Jared: (smiles and nods) Nice. (pats knee) Nice.

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•(8:38 A, 6:00 R, 5:47 T, 0:10 LM)- EyeA08JP;Q19- fan appreciation; S3 Dean’s outcome

Young fan: My name is Max and you’re cool. (Audience laughs and claps. Jared leans back, claps, and then fist pumps.) Is Dean gonna die!? Or are you gonna save him? (audience aw’s)

Jared: You’re really cool. Um.. that’s a- that’s a really good question. But.. there are cooler people than me that will.. really do bad things to me if I- if I give away the ending.

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I-I just read, um, obviously, Sam’s going to do everything in his power to save Dean, um, and he’s gonna call on other people that, um, might have powers that Sam does not.. to help. But, we’re going up against a big bad demon so, uh-um, we don’t know how it’s going to work out just yet.

(smiles) Thanks for the question, man.

(squints face) That’s awesome.

•(9:17 A, 6:38 R, 6:26 T, 0:24 RM)- EyeA08JP;Q20- Fear; Scary SPN episodes; 3x02

Fan: Hi, I’m Jessica.

Jared: (smiles) Hi.

Fan: Um, I- some of the episodes really sscare us, like, jumping out and everything. Do any of the episodes scared you?

Jared: Yes. Um, a lot of times.. when I’m really heavy in the show, um, it’s hard to be scared because you remember shooting and everything and you’re like, (waves hand and rolls eyes) “Oh yeah, here comes the scare.” But.. the- the one I can remember most recently that really scared me was, uh, “The Kid’s Are Alright” with the little (gestures to mouth) suckling kids. (audience giggles) Um, and the whole reflection thing.

That always scares me, (shakes and swipes hand) where the camera’s coming around (mimics camera pan) and you’re like, “There’s gonna be somebody behind him,” (audience giggles) you know? And you’re just going, “Ew, I can’t wait.” But then it breaks back and then they’re (gestures) behind them on the other side. And you’re like, (scrunches up body) “I wasn’t ready for that! (thumbs behind) I wanted him to be over there with the camera.” (audience giggles)

But, that really scared me. And their faces and.. yeah. When you see them through the mirror and the glass, that was kind of.. spooky. So, yeah, they do scare me.

Most of the times.. w-when I watch the show I’m like... being self-critical or like, “Oh, I wish I would have done that. I wish I would’ve done this.” But that show was really, uh, like De- a Dean episode, you know what I mean? It was all about his backstory with the kid. I think I had two days off. Um, which is (shrugs) ..(shakes head) you know, more than I’ve ever had. (audience chuckles) So, uh- so, I got to watch the show as an audience member. And I remember It scared me.

Fan: (off mic) (?Um, thanks?).

(grins) Thanks.

•(7:55 R, 7:43 T, 1:42 RM)- EyeA08JP;Q21a- fan appreciation; S3

Fan: Hi, Jared. I’m Laura.

Jared: Hi, Laura.

Fan: Umm- uh, just playing off what you were saying about the mix, I have to say I think season 3 in my opinion has the best mixture per episode of angst, um, (Jared: Oh, [nods] thank you.) humor, and scariness. (nods) But, I think my- I was really sad to see Henriksen go this season. Um-

Jared: To see which?

Fan: Ag-Agent Henriksen.

Jared: (off mic) Oh, I know. (nods) Yeah.

•(8:14 R, 2:01 RM)- EyeA08JP;Q21b- fav reoccurring character; demons

Fan: I hated to see him go. But of all the reoccurring characters, which has been your favorite character and why?

Jared: Character, not actor or actress? (audience giggle) (sits back) Um.. which has been my favorite reoccurring character.. Uhm.. that’s a good question. I did love Henriksen. He was (swipes hand) a lot of fun to shoot with. He was a cool guy and he did a great job. And.. (piling up gesture) added a.. whole new adult element and aspect to the show.

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Um.. I always like the reoccurring.. (squints eyes) demons.. for some reason, because I feel like.. you know, usually if you’re writing demons that have to be killed off. But even from (counts on fingers) the demon that was Nicki Aycox in season one (audience claps and woo’s) (nods and gestures to the audience) that ended up becoming Sam. And season two for a little bit. (nods)

Yeah, because I think it started to give us an insight into what it is we’re going against. You know, we know ghosts are bad and wendigos are bad. And bugs are bad. (audience laughs) And so, you know- you know, kill those things.

But, um- But it’s really interesting trying to figure out- ‘cause I still like to watch it as an audience member whenever I can and trying to figure out what the writers are thinking. Like, I’m in the same boat as y’all guys. I’m going, “What are the writers doing? What are trying tah.. hint at in this episode that we’re going to see in three episodes and go ‘Ew, yeah. remember when this happened, blah, blah, blah?’?”

So, I like the reoccurring demons. (nods) ..And I guess (gestures to audience) Ruby’s been a really cool character because she’s- she’s revealed so much about.. Sam. And we’re going, “Wait a second, here’s this demon saying.. that, uh, that Sam was supposed to be the leader and, like, she’s trying tah get him to turn into.. (wobbles head) a demonoid?” (chuckles) (audience chuckles) Demoniod? Mandroid. Um, (audience laughs) (points into crowd) (a section cheers) (nods and laughs) Yes.

Um, so, I-I like the reoccurring demons. I think they tell us a lot about the show. (nods)

•(9:58 R, 3:44 RM, 1:31 A)- EyeA08JP;Q22a- Fan Congrats; Harley post-op recovery

Fan: Hi, Jared. I’m Erin.

Jared: Hi!

Fan: Um, back to- Well, yesterday we heard Sandy say that your dog Harley was alright (Jared nods) and after the surgery. And I’m just really happy to hear that.

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Jared: Thank you. (Fan: And-) I am too. (Fan: [giggles] And-) (shakes head) She doesn’t tell me nothing. (audience laughs) (smiles)

•(10:13 R, 4:00 RM, 1:47 A, 0:11 T)- EyeA08JP;Q22b- Fan Gift; Art of Harley and Sadie

Fan: And back to the art thing that she was talking about, (Jared: [nods] mhm.) um, we actually did drawings of your dogs for you?

Jared: Oh, come on. (audience chuckles and aw’s) (jaw drops)

Fan: And we wanted to give them to you. So, can we.. give them to you?

Jared: Please do.

Fan: Okay.

Jared: That’s amazing. Yeah, see. My- (shakes head) My dog drawings look like my human drawings. (audience laughs) (jab points across) It’s like four legs (circle gesture) and a head (swipes hand) and a ear, (gets up) sometimes two.

Audience member: One ear. (laughs)

Jared steps down from the stage and waits for two fans to meet him with the drawings. The audience, looking at the art as it passes them, voices their amazement with the two works of both Sadie and Harley. Two fans hand over the two pieces one at a time to Jared.

Audience member: You gotta show that off Jared.

Jared: (off mic) Wow. (on mic) Look at this guys.

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Jared takes both of the portraits in each hand and holds them up for the crowd to see. The audience wows, claps, and cheers. Jared thanks the fans and gives them each a side hug.

Jared: (off mic) This is really awesome guys. (briefly studies the art) (on mic) That’ll go with me to Vancouver. Thank you. (fans nod) I don’t have- especially I don’t have Harley. (fans return to their seats) So, it’s good to have my dogs with me. (audience yeahs and claps) Thanks guys. (returns on stage)

No one ever drew my dogs for me when I was on “Gilmore Girls”. (smiles) (audience laughs)

That’s what I’m saying, that the people in this show where.. (round gesture) we’ve become.. a brotherhood.. (round gesture) and sisterhood. (audience giggles) …I guess mostly a sisterhood. (audience laughs) Ladies. (sits back down)

Audience member: We inducted you.

Audience member: You’ve been inducted.

Jared: That’s cool. ..I’ve been inducted into the sisterhood? (audience laughs)

Audience member: Yes!

Audience member: Yeah!

Jared: Don’t tell my fiancé. (audience laughs)

Audience member: (?Pretty sure she knows?).

Jared: I know. (to fan) Thank you very much, by the way.

•(3:18 A)- EyeA08JP;T5- Devil cosplay

Fan: Hi.

Jared: Hi.. (Fan: I’m N-) Satan. (audience laughs)

Fan: (chuckles) I’m Naomi and, um, I actually took that exorcism personally. (audience laughs. Jared chuckles then grimaces)

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Jared: (gestures to his head) You still got the horns. It didn’t work. (audience laughs)

Fan: I’m very powerful.

Jared: I- (nods) Apparently.

•(3:33 A, 0:06 T)- EyeA08JP;Q23- What if; choice classic film remake role and costars; Lawrence of Arabia, Johnny Depp

Fan: Um, but I have a question.

Jared: Sure.

Fan: Which is, um, if you could been in a remake of any classic film, which one would you be in and who would you like to have as your costars?

Jared: Oo. (audience oo’s)

Fan: Yeah.

Jared: (exhales) …Wow that’s a great, um, great, great, great question. I think.. mmost recently, um.. the classic film that I- I sort of watched, partially because I hadn’t seen it in a while and partially because.. I was working with him, was “Lawrence of Arabia” with Peter O’Toole.

And that- I watched it and it’s.. (shakes head) I mean, it’s a- a meal of a movie. It’s three- It’s two discs and three something hours, or four hours. And it’s never (hand swipe) boring and it’s (hand swipe) never slow. And I think his character.. L. Lawrence, you know, and- is- is.. so powerful and such a leader.

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And it’s (sits up) exactly how Peter O’Toole is, by the way. He just walks in. He doesn’t.. (hand swipes) disrespect anybody, but he commands respect just the way he holds himself. And I think that’d be a lot of fun to shoot.

And then, my guest star would be, um, Jessica Biel. (audience chuckles) (shakes head) I’m just kidding. (waves hand) Totally kidding.

Umm. I have a lot of actors that I’d love to work with. Um, like, the Johnny Depps, obviously, and, um- (audience woos) Yeah. (nods) So, (flips hand up) I think if I could choose a guest star I’d- Johnny Depp. (audience woo) (nods) Mhm. Ow! (smiles) (audience claps and cheers)

•(5:01 A, 1:33 T, 0:38 R)- EyeA08JP;Q24a- Easiest nuance of Sam’s personality

Fan: Hey, Jared.

Jared: Hi.

Fan: Um, can you tell us a little bit about what the easiest aspect of Sam’s personality to tap into besides-

Jared: The looks. (Blue Steel impression) (fan and audience laugh) (giggles)

Fan: I was gonna say besides being a smarty pants? (audience laughs. Jared looks down and claps his mic) But. (smacks lips and chuckles)

Jared: Probably the smart in past tense.

Fan: And what is the hardest to, um, tap into because it’s so unlike you?

Jared: (off mic) (nods) Okay, um.. (on mic) the easiest is theee… Huh. (audience chuckles) (pumps eyebrows) That’s a great question.

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I think the easiest is probably (squints) he’s analytical mind? Uhm, like I’m definitely a… I don’t want to say I’m a thinker, because that makes me sound like, “I’m intelligent.” (audience chuckles) But, I mean, I- I like to think things out. (weighing gesture) I like to try and see it from different aspects and it was easy for me to, uhm- to, uhh.. (gestures) kind of get into that aspect of Sam’s character.

You know, seeing it from this angle instead of that angle. Instead of just the first angle, trying to play.. devil’s advocate. Like, I’ll find myself arguing with Sandy sometimes and saying something that (squints and shrugs) I don’t even think is true, (shrugs) but I’m just saying it to see where it goes, you know? (audience giggles)

And so, I think Sam has a little bit of that. Sam’s like, (holds hand out) “Wait, Dean. Like, what about this?” You know? “What if the demon’s good?” Even if Sam thinks the demon is bad, or knows that the demon is bad, he’s saying let’s think it out first.

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And the hardest part.. has been, um… The hardest part has beenn.. his willingness to.. sacrifice himself.. (audience chuckles) for, uh- for, uh, tah hunt ghosts. I mean, it’s-it’s hard tah.. It’s hard to tap into that in reality, you know? It’s hard to go like, “Oh yeah, that’s kind of how- like, how I like tah, you know, chase spirits.” (audience laughs) “Um, I’ll just tap into that part.”

So, anything to do with the supernatural has been very.. It’s-It was tough at first to find the reality, because you’re going, (sits up with chest puffed up) “Watch out for the wendigo,” you know? And you want to say it like, (imposing hero pose) “Dun-dah-duun.” But, um, (audience laughs) you have to remember that it’s real and that you’re very scared, but you know what it is. And so his knowledge of ghosts sometimes.

There’s a- there’s a scene that we just shot.. and I’m saying- and the girls saying, you know, “It said ‘Come to me.’” And I’m going, “What words.. did he use?” And she says, “Come to me like a million times.” And then it hits Sam like, “Oh it’s this.” And I’m like, (shrugs and Texas draw) “I don’t know what it is.”

But Sam knows his dad’s journal back and forth about all these demons. So, that’s been the toughest part. (smiles)

Where is it now? I see so.. many hands.

•(7:27 A, 3:59 T, 3:04 R, 0:50 S)- EyeA08JP;Q25- Fav charity

Fan: Hi.

Jared: Hi.

Fan: I’m Cam.

Jared: I’m Jared. (audience giggles)

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Fan: This is so weird. (laughs) I’m like, “You live in my TV.”

Jared: (chuckles) I don’t- (audience laughs) (freezes) Pause. (mimics animatronic motions) Rewind. (Fan: Um-) “Hi, Cam. (?Jared?).” (audience and fan laugh)

Fan: Um, yesterday someone asked Jim Beaver what his favorite charity was and I was wondering what your charity was or is there any causes that are close to your heart.

Jared: There are many causes that are close to my heart. I- I’m obviously- I-I’ve been very upfront about how I feel about rescuing dogs and.. just animal shelters in general. (audience claps and cheers) Yeah. (pats leg)

Sandy, I know is a fan of St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital. (gestures) And that’s also another.. (flips hand up) (audience woos and claps) very worthy cause. Um, but, at least for me, I’ve always had a special soft spot for- for animals. (nods) (audience claps) (claps)

•(8:19 A, 3:55 R, 1:35 LM)- EyeA08JP;Q26a- Fan Appreciation; Jared’s attendance

Fan: Alright, um, (Jared: [smiles] Alright.) first I want to say, thank you for coming here. We know how busy your schedule is. And the fact that you even made it today is just awesome and (audience cheers and claps) (?enlightening?).

Jared: Crazy busy but this is something special. (nods and claps) But, that’s (gestures away) work and this is (gestures near) why I work, so. (nods)

•(8:33 A, 4:10 R, 1:49 LM)- EyeA08JP;Q26b- Thoughts on Fandom; Fan-fiction, RPG’s, Wincest

Fan: Um, I actually have a question for you. Um, we would like to know.. My friend and I (giggle) would like to know, um, what you think about the fan fictions and the RPG’s (audience disapproval. Jared nods.) and most of all of Wincest? (audience disapproval intensifies. Jared closes his eyes, smiles, and nods.) Because, Jared, Jensen has said a few things. We wanna know your opinion.

Jared: I’m obviously a little.. spooked by Wincest. Because I’m like, “Is that.. (scrunched face) Jensen!? Ahh!” (audience laughs) Um. (laughs)

But the fan-fiction and the RPG’s I think is- is sort of an aspect of what I was talking about earlier about how everybody’s.. (gestures) taking a part in, um- in “Supernatural.” And they’re not just (shakes head) watching it to, you know- I don’t see anybody writing.. episodes of “Grey’s Anatomy,” you know? Like, “And then the doctor will say this and use a scalpel.” But they become really passionate.. about the show.

And then I think, um- I think especially for the fans of “Supernatural” it’s great. It’s a great.. (expanding gesture) learning tool and (expanding gesture) exploring tool to explore this world. (shrugs and nods) So, I’m supportive. (nods and smiles) (audience claps and cheers) (pats mic)

Hi.

•(9:35 A, 5:11 R)- EyeA08JP;Q27- Fav Western; (cw: famous actor death)

Fan: Hi, Jared.

Jared: How are yah?

Fan: So excited to see you.

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Jared: Good, I’m excited to see you. (audience giggles)

Fan: Um, Sandy yesterday said you might like to do a Western and I was just curious-

Jared: Y’all. (pouts lips)

Fan: My favorite is “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”.

Jared: (nods) That’s my father’s favorite Western. (Fan: Yeah.) And that’s the Western that I-I sort of resort to if I’m talking about.. Westerns. That’s hard to beat. All the Sergio Leone.. um, Westerns are pretty incredible.

But, (nods) yeah, yeah. I’d have to agree with you on that.

Fan: What’s your favorite and what would you like to do? (?Star?) in a new one?

Jared: I’d say- I’ve- I’d totally say “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,” (fan giggle) um, is my favorite, (holds up hand) not to just steal from you. But, that’s where originally got me, um, into Westerns. That’s my father’s.. second favorite movie. His favorite is “Ben-Hur.” (shrugs) (audience laughs and a woo) And his second favorite is “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,” so he would watch it regularly.

And I’d- I’d sit down- At first when I was a kid I was like, (scrunched face) “I need more explosions,” you know? Like, “What’s with all this sand and stuff?” But, now as I’ve grown older and thought, “It’d be cool to be tough.” I’d definitely go with “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”.

Audience member: Charlton Heston died yesterday!

Audience member: Yeah. (audience aw’s)

Jared: (smile drops) Are you kidding?

Audience member: I’m not kidding!

Audience member: Yeah, absolutely. This morning. (audience aw’s)

Jared: (sits back) I’m very sorry to hear that. Um, (Audience member: I’m sorry [giggles]) he was a great talent. Yeah.

Audience member: He was pretty talented

Audience member: Yeah. (laughs)

Jared: (smacks lips) His work lives on. And they’ll.. (nods) live on through that.

(point in the crowd) You wanted a question. And I don’t think the mic’s gonna make it to you.

•(6:28 R, 1:15 A)- EyeA08JP;Q28a- S3 spoilers; thoughts on Anti-Christ Sam

Fan: (off mic) Um, Micah. Um, I wanna know if you’re gonna go Anti-Christ.

Jared: Um, I think I might. (to audience) Eh-eh- For those of you who couldn’t hear the microphone, she wants to know if I’m gonna go Anti-Christ. (audience chuckles) And, I would actually like to. I’d actually like to see.. (audience claps) (nods) where Sam can go. (audience woo)

I’d think it’d be, um- I think it’d be very interesting. I mean, I think we’ve seen Sam.. be the good guy for so long, that’d be interesting just to see him.. (nods) give it a shot, you know? And see what he’s powerful of. (gestures) We heard so much over the last three years about, you know, “Sam’s different,” “Sam’s like this,” “Why does Sam have headaches and see visions?” Like, what can he do? And.. I’m as curious as all of you are. I wanna know, what can Sam do, so. (nods)

•(7:11 R, 1:58 A)- EyeA08JP;Q28b- Sam’s powers; YED death affect

Fan: (off mic) What about the.. vision, um, disappearing when the Yellow Eyes Demon dies (?so quick?)?

Jared: (nods) Uh, that’s true. Uh, they- th-the way they explained it, I don’t know if it’s an episode that aired yet, but that they went dormant, like a volcano. They just sort of- (hand glide) because.. because I believe they were gone, they sort of went.. (gestures) sort of down to my.. belly. (audience laughs) (shrugs) So. But, hopefully they’re ready to come back up out of my belly. (audience laughs)

•(7:35 R, 2:22 A)- EyeA08JP;Q29a- Fan Appreciation; Dean Forester

Fan: (?people?)

Jared: (chuckles) How are yah?

Fan: Um, Hi. Sorry, my voice is gone. (?I don’t know why?)

Jared: You and Samantha Ferris sound the exact same right now. (audience chuckles)

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Fan: Yeah! We were chilling all night. Um, my name’s Rachel. And (Jared: Hi, Rachel.) you’re Jared.

Jared: (turns to someone else in the audience) That’s Rachel.

Fan: Oh my god, me too! (audience chuckles. Jared opens mouth and points at fan) Um, (chuckles) running joke. Um, well first, I was totally Dean Forester on “Gilmore Girls.” (Jared fist pumps) I think Rory sucks for dumping yah. (audience laughs)

Jared: I agree. I agree. (nods) Go Dean.

Fan: I mean, I wanna Dean like that. I mean, come on.

•(8:03 R, 2:50 A, 0:22 T)- EyeA08JP;Q29b- Fan Request; I Lost My Shoe impression

Alright, first thing, it’s got two parts, my friend’s got a question but, I wanna see you do the face from when you lost your shoe. (audience and Jared laugh. Audience then claps and cheers) I purpose the cutest thing ever.

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Jared: Alright, then I’m going to need everybody in the audience.. on three to say action, because, like, an (audience chuckles) actor can’t act without action. (Fan: (?Oh my god?).) So, one, two.. (holds out mic to audience)

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Fan: Two, Three.

Audience: Action!

Jared makes a sad face by pushing the corners of his mouth all the way down. The audience aw’s and then laughs and claps. Jared gives a big grin to the fan, chuckling.

Jared: (to audience) Someone call cut. (head chop gesture) Cut. Cut. Cut. (holds mic out to audience)

Audience: Cut!

Jared: Thank you. (Fan: Alright, no wait-) (dramatic gesture to self) I was in the moment. (audience and Jared laugh)

•(3:26 A, 0:58 T, 0:27 R, 0:24 S)- EyeA08JP;Q29c- 3x08; Evil Santa; 1x11; Vanir Effigy; Mike Carpenter

Fan: My friend, Lisa, wanted to know, in the Christmas episode..(Jared nods) with the Santa.

Jared: Yeah.

Fan: Was that you?

Jared: Thatz-Which- The Santa?

Fan: The Santa. The creepy ass Santa that you like-

Jared: (sits up) No, that was my stunt double. Uh, Mike Carpenter has done, um- has been my stunt double since, um- since “Wendigo.” And he was actually- he was the scarecrow.. (mimics the scarecrow running through the orchard) going the thing (some audience confusion) and (mimics shooting) Jensen shoots him. Really creepy, great, he’s-

Audience member: Dude, you’re fugly.

Jared: (nods) The fugly one. (audience laughs) That’s right. (nods) That’s right. He was that and he was also the bad Santa.

So, when they need a big guy.. (smug expression while straightening his collar) because my stunt double is pretty big. (audience laughs and cackles) Not me, but him. Uh, they- they use him a lot. And they’re obviously (nods) familiar with his work. And they know he does a great job. (nods)

I wish it would’ve been me. That would’ve been fun. (audience chuckles) That would’ve been a lot of fun. (nods)

Audience member: (?Super fun?).

Jared: (to AM) Yeah. Yeah. (flings hand up) That’s why- That’s-

Fan: (off mic) Thank you.

Jared: (to fan) Yeah, (nods) thank you.

•(4:15 A, 1:48 T, 1:16 R)- EyeA08JP;Q30a- Fan appreciation; Rescue Doberman

Fan: I’m Peter. I- (Jared: Hey, man.) I have a seven year old rescue doberman. (nods) And he’s a “Supernatural” fan, so he appreciates that you’re a fan of him too.

Jared: (point swipe) Right on man. (audience giggles and claps)

•(4:23 A, 1:55 T, 1:24 R)- EyeA08JP;Q30b- Home Depot vs Lowe's

Fan: Um, and, especially since you’re getting.. married and gonna.. have projects and stuff. I’m the.. benefits attorney for Lowe's. So, I gotta ask, Home Depot or Lowe's? (audience laughs)

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Jared: I think the answer’s obvious. I gotta go Lowe's. (audience laughs) (Fan: [off mic] (?Gotta go Lowe's?)!) I gotta go Lowe's. (audience claps) Actually, truthfully there’s a Lowe's closer to my place than Home Depot. (holds up hand) Not like I’d go to Home Depot anyways, but. (audience laughs) (laughs)

Yeah. Go Dobermans.

•(4:48 A, 2:20 T, 1:50 R, 0:20 RM)- EyeA08JP;Q31a- Fan Congrats; Jared and Sandy

Fan: Dang, somebody already took my question, but I just wanted to say, um, a few of my friends couldn’t come, (Jared nods) but I talked them online last night. (Jared nods) They wanted to say congratulations to you and.. Sandra.

•(5:00 A, 2:32 T, 2:01 R, 0:32 RM)- EyeA08JP;Q31b- Fan Gift; Fan book

And we also- I didn’t bring it with me because I didn’t know that they were (?giving? or ?doing?) it, (Jared nods) but we put like a little fan book together. And it has some.. more like graphics (Jared nods) because we can’t draw. But-

Jared: (off mic) Oh really. (audience giggles)

Fan: Yeah.

Jared: Neither can I.

•(5:12 A, 2:44 T, 2:13 R, 0:44 RM)- EyeA08JP;Q31c- Fan Appreciation; Dean Forester, Jared’s acting, Jared, Sandy, Jensen

Fan: But, um, we made that for you and my.. friend wanted to, you know, like I said, congratulate you and.. she’s actually is the one that got me into the.. whole.. (Jared nods) because I used to watch “Gilmore Girls” and I was- (Jared: [nods] Awesome.) I am a big Dean and Rory. And I was like-

Audience member: Dean!

Jared: (nods) Alright.

Fan: I was, like, upset with Rory when she (Jared nods) went with.. Milo, but, um.. (smack lips)

Jared: But, Milo’s a nice guy. But-

Fan: Yeah. (Jared nods) But, I wanted to say, you know, out of me and her (Jared nods) that (?we- we vote?) that you’re a very good actor. (smiles and nods) You inspire both of us. We love doing RPG’s. Um, but, we just wanna say thank you (Jared: Thank you.) for, you know, being you and.. (?her both?).

Jared: Well, thank y’all guys.. (fan giggles) very much. (audience claps) I didn’t do anything. (Fan: (?you’re welcome?).) So, thank you for your support for making it possible.

•(3:30 T)- EyeA08JP;Q31d- Fan Request; Jensen hug

Fan: I also wanted to say too, next time you Jensen give him a hug for her because she’s a big Jensen fan too.

Jared: I can’t promise that. (audience laughs) But, um-

Fan: But, yeah. And, um.. (Jared snorts) I just wanted to say thank you, (?I guess?).

Jared: Thank you. Thank you very much. (audience claps) ..Maybe I’ll.. throw something at Jensen. (audience chuckles)

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Audience member: There you go!

•(3:53 T, 0:04 RM)- EyeA08JP;Q32a- Fan Request; Cover Sandy

Fan: Morning, Jared.

Jared: Good morning.

Fan: I just wanted to tell you-

Jared: It is morning still, huh. (nods)

Fan: I was on the elevator with Sandy and she’s freezing cold. So, you might want to cover her after this. (audience chuckles)

Jared: I’ll hug her. I don’t know about Jensen, but I’ll hug Sandy. (audience laughs) (smiles)

•(4:05 T, 0:15 RM)- EyeA08JP;T6- Fear of Celebrities; Biting Bit

Fan: Um, some of my friends would never go to a con because they’re afraid of.. celebrities for some reason?

Jared: Oh really?

Fan: Yeah. But, I got friends-

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Jared: We do bite. (Fan: Yeah, (?good friends?)-) (audience laughs and catcalls) (leans back and forward laughing) Y’all are so easy. (bites air) (audience laughs) (shakes hand)

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Fan: One of ‘em wished you would bite her, but anyway. (audience mixed reaction)

Jared: (eyes wide then beckoning gesture) Bring her on up. (audience laughs) (shakes head) Just kidding.

•(4:27 T, 0:38 RM, 0:17 R, 0:13 A)- EyeA08JP;T7- Convenient missing friends

Fan: Um, they.. actually solicited questions for me to ask you? (nods and shrugs) And one of the really good ones that I liked was-

Jared: (to audience) I love how she- (hold hand up to fan) I love how she blames her friends first. (audience laughs) It’s gonna be like, “What size underwear do you wear? (hand swipe) For my friend, who couldn’t make it.” (audience laughs) (chuckles)

•(4:42 T, 0:52 RM, 0:32 R, 0:27 A)- EyeA08JP;Q32b- Facial Expressions; 2x20, 3x08; ACT ONE, INT. MOTEL ROOM – DAY; Peter O’Toole, Daniel Day-Lewis, Johnny Depp

Fan: I actually have (?how it told me was?) yesterday because my friend so, you know. I’ll ask any- Like, in “What is and What Should Never Be” you did what people refer to as the “Prissy Bitch Face” in the alternate universe.

Jared: (off mic) (eyebrows up, slowly leans back laughing) Prissy Bitch Face? (audience laughs)

Fan: Yeah.

Jared: (mouths Ow, grimaces, leans forward, and rubs jawline) Zinger right (mimics punching his jaw) across the (Fan: No!).. jaw there. (Fan: In-) I’m gonna go cry in the corner.

Fan: No! In the Christmas episode when you said, “Bad Santa” you made this really cool expression on your face. I just wondered do you.. know you’re doing those expressions (audience laughs) or do you do them on purpose?

Jared: I have no idea. (audience laughs)

Fan: I think that they’re- really they’re awesome when you do ‘em. I mean, (Jared: Thank you.)  you do really good with your facial expressions.

Jared: (chuckles) I- Thank you.

Fan: Um, but, I- she just wanted me to ask you that.

Jared: Yeah. (shakes head) No, I never- I’ve never known. That’s- that’s the God’s honest truth. I-I- When I was working with, um- It’s such a name drop, but when I was working with Peter O’Toole, who’s obviously an amazing, amazing actor, arguably the greatest of all time, he was saying he’s never, ever, ever, ever in his life done a line to a mirror. He’s saying never.

And I.. thought it and I was like, “Let’s see, eight Oscar nominations and he doesn’t care what he looks like.” He says, uh, “It should just come out through you and you shouldn’t.. be worried about what you look like doing it, because it’ll come across.” So, I just sort of try and- I read things like that. Like, I read things Daniel Day-Lewis writes and, you know, Johnny Depp writes or actors, eh- “Inside the Actors Studio” and I try and.. be like them. (smug face) So, I can say I’m like them. (audience giggles) So, I’m a lot like Peter O’Toole. (shrugs) (audience laughs and claps)

(laughs) Thank you.

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(looks around) Where did it go?

•(6:13 T, 2:24 RM, 2:03 R, 1:59 A, 3:14 ML)- EyeA08JP;Q33- Acting Challenges; Stunts; 3x03; Falling down vs set on fire; House of Wax

Fan: (stands up and waves) Hi.

Jared: (up pitch) Hi! (audience chuckles)

Fan: Um, in “Bad Day at Black Rock” what was harder, all the falling down or being set on fire? (audience laughs)

Jared: (to audience) We had breakfast together. She waited all this time to ask so she.. (yanks himself to adjusts his posture) embarrass me in front of y’all guys.

Um.. (nods) the set on fire is always.. (squints) odd when they tell you. When they tell you, “You’re gonna do a funt scene-“ a-a funt scene? “A stunt scene.” (scrunches face) Funt? What’s a funt? (audience laughs) Uh, when they tell you you’re gonna do a stunt scene, like, a falling stunt scene, you’re like, “Okay. You know, I’ll put knee pads on.. make sure I don’t.. bust my kneecap open or my elbow or something.”

But, then when they tell you, “Oh yeah, next episode we’re gonna set you on fire.” You’re like, (leans forward laughing and hand swipes) “So, what’s going on next episode?” “We’re going to set you on fire.” (hand swipes) “Hah-hah-hah-hah.” (audience laughs)

So, uhm, that was definitely (laughs) kind of weird. So, I’d say being set on fire was probably the most uncomfortable thing (hand wave) I had to do for the show period. (shrugs) Because it’s.. fire. (audience laughs) (flips up hand and shrugs) Very simple, it’s not like, (flatten gesture) “Let’s keep it contained. It’s fire.” (flips up hand) It’s like putting a bear on set and going, (holds up hand) “Let’s hope he’s okay.” (audience laughs)

And plus! (gestures to audience) I mean, I have bad experience with fire. I wasn’t there on set, but during “House of Wax,” um, an errant fire burnt the stage down. So, you can’t control fire. (hands out gesture) And if you can then, (beckon gesture) we need it on set. (audience laughs) Um, so, (nods) I-I’d say that.

Where did it go?

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Audience member: Right here.

•(3:48 RM, 3:27 R, 3:23 A, 4:38 ML, 0:02 T)- EyeA08JP;T8- Lag time

Fan: Hi, Jared.

Jared: Yes. Hi.

Fan: I’m Heather.

Jared: How are yah?

Fan: How are you? I’m good. How are you?

Jared: ..Good! (shrugs) I’m good. (audience laughs) I’m good.

Fan: Excellent! Great. Um-

Jared: It’s-It’s (winding gesture to his head) lag time. It’s the like.. (Fan: [laughs] I hear yah.) nine am, “What did she say?” (audience and fan chuckle)

•(4:00 RM, 3:39 R, 3:34 A, 4:50 ML, 0:14 T)- EyeA08JP;Q34a- Friday the 13th; Relation to prior canon

Fan: Um, I hear that you’re doing a “Friday the 13th”.

Jared: (nods) I am.

Fan: And, I’m just (audience claps and cheers) wondering… Um, is it- (Audience member: Don’t die!) is it kind of like a remake?

Jared: (to AM) I’ll try not.

Fan: Or, um.. is it like-

Jared: (nods) It’s a retelling. It’s more of a, um… I read that it was like, the difference between a prequel and a sequel and a midquel? (audience chuckles) I guess, it’s a midquel. It’s a- It’s a retelling of the story. (shakes head) It’s not a remake, um, of the original. Um, it’s-it’s sort of a whole new telling.

It’s almost more, like, another “Friday the 13th” movie then it is a remake of “Friday the 13th”.

•(4:32 RM, 4:11 R, 4:07 A, 5:22 ML, 0:47 T)- EyeA08JP;Q34b- Friday the 13th; unique hype factor

Fan: How are you gonna make it different so that we all, like, are excited about yet another (?forth?)-

Jared: Lots of faces.

Fan: Excellent! (audience laughs) Cool.

Jared: Lots of faces and (hand sweep) I’m just naked the whole time. (audience claps, cheers, and screams) (throw his hands up and laughs)

(points in the crowd) What’s up man? The king is in the building. (salutes)

Okay. Where’s the- where’s the next one? I-I lost track of it. (sits up) Oh, there you are.

•(4:54 RM, 4:33 R, 4:29 A, 1:08 T)- EyeA08JP;Q35a- thoughts on Dallas Cowboys rebranding; (cw: ableist language)

Fan: Okay, this is a dumb question, but back to the Dallas Cowboys, (Jared: Alright.) um, what do you think of them possibly changing the name to Irving Cowboys? Because, I’m from Texas and I think it’s retarded. (audience chuckles)

Jared: (shakes head) I don’t think- They better not. They’ve always been-

Fan: I think because-

Jared: They’ve never been in Dallas. They’ve always been in Irving.

Fan: Yeah. It’s always been Irving.

Jared: So, even with the stadium.

Fan: Yeah. Well, no they’re going to change it to Arlington Cowboys.

Jared: (scrunches face) Oh, really?

Fan: Like, how ‘bout them Arlington Cowboys. It just sounds retarded to me.

Jared: (shakes head) Yeah. (audience giggles)

Fan: I just wondered what you thought about that (giggles).

Jared: Plus, I don’t know how to spell Arlington, so. Dallas is so much easier. I-I- I think they better not. I don’t think they will, but I think they better not.

•(5:04 R, 5:00 A, 1:39 T)- EyeA08JP;Q35b- Dallas convention attendance

Fan: Are you- You are going to the Dallas convention, aren’t you?

Jared: That’s the plan. I mean-

Fan: I hope so.

Jared: I hope so, yeah. But, we’ll keep everybody more informed as it gets closer. (Fan: Okay.) But, with (tossing gesture) the shooting of the movie and everything a lot is up in the air, you know. (nods)

Fan: (giggles) Okay, thank you.

Jared: (smiles) Thank you.

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(looks around the crowd)

Fan: Good morning.

Jared: Good morning.

Fan: I’m Rhonda. I’m-

Jared: Sorry?

Fan: Rhonda.

Jared: Jared.

•(5:23 A, 2:02 T, 0:07 R)- EyeA08JP;T9- Forgotten question

Fan: Hey. ..Yesterday I had a total fangirl moment with Sandra on stage. (Jared: (off mic) [smiles] Yeah.) She smiled and I forgot my question. (audience laughs)

Jared: I can do that. (sits back and gives an exaggerated grin) (audience laughs, cheers, and claps) (wobbles head, flutters his eyelashes, and in a falsetto) “Heh-heh-heh.” (audience laughs) (laughs)

Fan: I really hope she kicks you in the shins for that one. Um. (laughs)

Jared: (to audience) She forgot her question. (audience chuckles) Sorry, guys.

•(5:50 A, 1:57 T, 0:34 R)- EyeA08JP;Q36- Fanboy moments; Peter O’Toole

Fan: Who is, like, the star that made you.. turn into a total fanboy? I mean-

Jared: Ah, good question.

Fan: I had my moment with (giggles) Sandy.

Jared: Um.. Uhh, the first time… would probably be.. (shakes head) I mean, the name keeps coming up, it would be Peter O’Toole. (shakes head) You know? I mean, you go, (open mouth) “Uhhhhhh.” (audience chuckles) “I’ve seen you in movies.” (laughs) (audience laughs)

There’s no proper way to be like.. you know- They’re saying, “Hi, Jared. Uh, this is Peter.” “No sh--," you know? (audience laughs) (chuckles) So, I-I-I say- I say that. And you just-

What’s terrible is I had to forget.. I was working with him.. in order tah function. So, after I was done working with him I was like, (wobbles) “I didn’t enjoy it. I was-” (audience chuckles) You know, you can’t think about that you’re acting opposite (shrugs) a legend. You have to just go, “I’m just acting opposite an actor.” And so.

But, I had total (shakes head) fanboy moment. Like, (scrunches up and giggles), “Can I get your picture,” you know. (audience laughs) (smiles)

(looks around) Where did it go?

(?): (?Over here?)

Jared: Hey!

•(6:56 A, 1:57 T, 0:34 R)- EyeA08JP;Q37- Fan Story; Truckzilla sold to SPN fan

Fan: Hi there. I’m Gloria and I don’t have a question for you, because on four hours sleep I can’t think. (audience chuckles)

◘Jared 9 - Florida Supernatural EyeCon 2008 by rsrvedMom◘

Jared: (shakes head) Better for me. Iii- (looks to his right) Less- less work, right?

Fan: So, I’m gonna tell you a little story. I think you’re aware that the props department up there sold John Winchester’s black truck.  

Jared: (leans back) I know. I know. (nods)

Fan: But. It went to a fan who lives down in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. She’s a friend of mine. (Jared tilts head and nods) I visited Truckzilla on my way over here.

Jared: (smiles) Nice!

Fan: He’s beautiful, he’s gorgeous. He went to a good home.

Jared: Is she taking care of him?

Fan: She’s taking beautiful care of him. (Jared: [shakes his head] Alright.) They’re gonna get- They’re gonna work on the engine. It’s like, the carburetor is, like, missing parts. They drove it 23,000 miles (Jared: [round nod] Oh yeah.) on only like five gallons.. a gas mile. (audience chuckles)

Jared: Dang.

Fan: But, it’s still staying in the “Supernatural” family and she’s sharing with us. She’s written a whole online account on LiveJournal. So, I just wanted you to know that John’s truck (Jared: Excellent.) is still in the family.

Jared: I’m very happy to hear that. When I- (audience claps)

Fan: And, he’s cared for and he’s loved. And he’s still around.

Jared: When I heard it got sold I was so sad. Jensen and I heard it at the same time and we were like, “..Whaaaat?” (audience giggles) But, um.. But as long as someone’s taking care of him.

Fan: He’s loved and.. He’s in the Supernatural family. He’s not lost.

Jared: (nods) Good. Tell her to keep care of him.

Fan: We will.

Jared: (smiles) Thank you. (looks to his right)

Smith: (off mic) Okay, last one.

Jared: (to audience) Okay, last one guys. (audience aw’s) I know. I’m sorry. Believe me, I’ll talk up here all day long. (audience chuckles)

Audience member: (waves hand) Hi!

Jared: I can do a song and dance- (points to AM) You got one.

•(8:07 A, 4:47 T, 2:51 R, 1:09 RM)- EyeA08JP;Q38a- Season 4 spoilers

Fan: (off mic) What’s going on with season 4?

Jared: (shakes head) I-I-I truly- (to his right) That’s an easy, (holds up a finger) so we get one more. (nods) (audience chuckles) (to fan) Um, I have no idea. (laughs) (audience laughs)

I called Eric to ask him. He’s like, “Man, (shrugs) I don’t know.” (laughs) (audience laughs) So. I think they’re gonna do a lot of their writing this summer. Otherwise, I wish I’d know.

From what he said, it’s like something about Mary Winchester, so. (some audience woo and yes)

Jared: (to another fan) What is it?

•(8:28 A, 5:07 T, 3:12 R, 1:29 RM)- EyeA08JP;Q38b- Lilith

Fan: (off mic) Who’s Lilith?

Jared: Lilith is the demon from “Jus in Bello.” (hand swipe) At the very last episode that aired before-

Fan: (off mic) Has she been on before?

Jared: (shakes head) She’s a demon- (hand wave) A brand new demon that has the white eyes that we know she’s very bad.

•(8:40 A, 5:19 T, 3:24 R, 1:41 RM)- EyeA08JP;Q38c- 3x12; ?ACT THREE, INT. STATION – OPEN AREA DOWN THE HALL- MOMENTS LATER?; Ruby’s secret conversation with Sam

Fan: (off mic) What did Ruby talk to you about?

Jared: ..When?

Fan: (off mic) Um.. on the- in that episode.

Jared: Oh, she just said Lilith is a.. (shrugs) bad demon.

Fan: (off mic) But-but, you didn’t tell Dean.

Jared: Uh- (tilts head) Oh, I don’t know. It’s a good question... Um.. maybe that I- (nods) maybe if that I had my powers can beat her I think that’s what she said.

(points to crowd) Where’s the- Where did the mic go?

Audience member: Over there.

Jared: Okay. Last one.

•(5:42 T, 3:24 R, 2:05 RM)- EyeA08JP;Q39a- German Dub; Sam’s voice

Fan: Hi.. Jared. I’m Debbie.

Jared: I’m Jared. (audience chuckles)

Fan: G’day mate. (giggles)

Jared: (holds hand up) G’day mate.

Fan: Um, actually I want to say that I was stumped when I heard your original voice, because I used to watch, uhm, “Supernatural” in the dubbed German version. (audience giggles) (Jared: [off mic] [nods] Alright.) And there you got the most, um, softer voice (Jared: Huh.) and a little bit higher-

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Jared: (to audience) Great! When they told me they were gonna dub me with a German I was like, “Sweet. I’m gonna sound tough.” (Fan: No, no, no. You- you- you-) Now, (gestures to fan) she’s telling me there’s a German girl does the voice. (audience laughs)

Fantastic. (high pitch) “Dean!” (audience laughs) Who did that?

Fan: No, not that high, but.. close to it, you know?

Jared: (nods) Okay. (less high pitch) “Dean!” (audience laughs)

Fan: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It be kind of soft, you know? And so, I was really like, “My god.” (audience cackles)

Jared: Yeah. (pumps eyebrows) Well.. (lowers pitch) I can talk a little lower if you want me to. (audience screams, claps, and laughs) (bends over laughing)  

That actually hurt my throat.. (audience laughs) to try. So much for acting tough.

Well, thank you.

•(6:46 T, 4:51 R, 3:09 RM, 0:54 S)- EyeA08JP;Q39b- SPN Easter Eggs; 2x18; ACT ONE, EXT. LOS ANGELES, WARNER BROS. STUDIOS – DAY; Gilmore Girls

Fan: And, uh, the question I had was, uh, when you were shooting at the Paramount Studios, to hunt down, like, the studio ghost, I cracked up when they came up with the “Gilmore” joke. Was it something the writers did or was it kind of your idea to put it in?

Jared: In the.. episode “Hollywood Babylon” where we visit the, uh, Warner Brother Studio to go visit the “Gilmore Girls” set, which is funny because we shot it in Vancouver, um, not where they shot “Gilmore Girls.” But it was totally o-our writers decision, um, (nods) to put in “Gilmore Girls” and have me go, “Uhhhhh.” (hand swipe) and, you know, take off.

Which is a fun little, (tossing gesture) you know, for people who don’t know “Gilmore Girls” or do know “Gilmore Girls.” Um, I find myself trying to lower now ‘cause.. (audience laughs) I’m trying to be really cool. (audience chuckles)

Um, (laughs) (Fan: Thank you.) So, it was the writers. (nods) Yeah.

Fan: Thank you.

(7:37 T, 5:41 R, 3:59 RM, 1:45 S) -Closing

Jared: (to fan) Thank you. (to audience) Thank you guys. I think that means that’s everything. (audience claps and cheers) Thank y’all so much for coming out. (bowing gesture) Thank you, thank you, thank you. Um, (claps) (?thanks a lot?). (Smith comes on stage) (to smith) (?).

Smith overs a handshake to Jared. Jared kneels and offers Smith the mic. The audience screams and claps. Smith gives a bow and accepts the mic back. Jared pats Smith’s shoulder.

Smith: (thumbs to Jared) Give it up one more time. (audience cheers and claps. Jared claps) (points to Jared) Jared Padalecki! (Jared salutes)

Jared picks up his gifts and starts walking off stage.

Smith: Or as he’s become more professionally known, “EEEEE!” (audience laughs)

Jared salutes once more to Smith as he tries to step off stage.

Smith: Jared! Before you go.

Jared: (off mic) (turns to poster) Oh, yeah!

Smith: We’ve gotta.. (rubs the poster) We’ve saved a really nice spot for yah.

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Audience member: Draw a picture! (Smith and audience laugh)

Jared mimics his pose in the poster and then purses his lips.

Smith: (thumbs to Jared) Oh yeah, do that. (steps away) Double the Jared. That’s nice. That’s nice. That’s good.

Jared: (turns to poster) (off mic) Nice!

Smith: Okay. (offers Jared sharpies) Silver or Black? Pick one.

Jared: (puts his gifts down and takes the black sharpie) (off mic) Draw on the picture?

Audience member: Yes! He said you could!

Audience member: Yes!

Audience member: Devil horns!

Smith: (laughs) Somebody’s suggesting devil horns. I wonder why? (Jared laughs)

Jared: (off mic) Alright.

Audience member: You need silver!

Audience member: You need silver to write on black!

Smith: Oh, if you’re gonna write on the- Yeah, if you’re gonna write on the- anywhere on the black you probably need this, (holds out the silver sharpie) the silver.

Jared: (off mic) No, I’ll use the silver. (audience chuckles)

Smith: Okay. (exchanges sharpies)

Jared: (off mic) (turns to audience) (holds hands out) This has been the hardest thing of my day. (Smith and audience laugh) (turns back to poster and signs his chest) Right on there. (audience cheers)

Smith: Alright. (audience claps, screams, and cheers) (to audience) And you know what’s so cute? (points to poster) He and Sandy match. They’re the only two that used silver. (audience aw’s) (aw’s)

Jared: (off mic) I change my mind. (Smith and audience laugh) (hands back the sharpie)

Smith: Thank you. Once again.

Jared waves and then turns to pick up his presents. The audience cheers and claps. Jared steps off stage and heads to the doors.

Jared: (off mic) I’ll see y’all guys soon. Bye (wiggles his fingers).

Jared leaves out the double doors with his entourage following him, signaling the end of the panel.

[kitkatwinchester]

I am going to say this, and I'm probably gonna get a lot of hate for it, but I'm so sick of this, so I don't care.

Guys.

I get that you're upset, but in that speech, when did Jared ever actively say that queer love wasn't okay?

I am in the LGBTQ community, and I didn't hate that answer.

And here's the thing.

He didn't specify anything about queer love specifically. He was talking about romantic love. He was specifically discussing the idea of romance and that Supernatural was never supposed to be about romance.

In that speech, fine, yes, he said that the confession was not a romantic confession, but it had way less to do with gay love specifically and MUCH more to do with romantic and sexual love in general, and that's actually a point I agree with.

WAY too much of media these days is focused on romance and sex. We ship these characters, these two are in love, these two totally wanna bang: do you know how hard it is to find movies/tv shows/books that are just about FRIENDS or about FAMILY and have NO romance (or, at the very least, very little of it)?!

Why do you think I like Supernatural so much??!! I get so, SO sick of the emphasis on romantic and sexual love in media, and re-watching Supernatural is such a breath of fresh air every freaking time.

So frankly, I think Jared has a point.

And if you love romantic and sexual relationships in media, then that's fine. Go for it. Watch that all you want. There is plenty of it out there, and you can insert it into whatever media you want however you want.

But as a result, don't get pissed at the amazing human beings that are the Supernatural cast just because they thought of the relationship differently.

And yeah, I get it. I do agree that Jensen's answer was a little more well-mannered and well thought-out, and he handled with a lot more ease. Jared's response was definitely a little more emotionally charged.

But can you blame him?! These actors aren't blind. They're not idiots. They know the drama the last few episodes have brought. They know all of the Destiel drama. They've seen it. And with the amount of hate (most of which is pretty unnecessary and unfair) that Jared has been getting about topics like this, I can't say I blame him for being a little peeved off that they got a question about it.

Obviously, a question like that was bound to happen, and Jared probably should've been expecting it, but he's also HUMAN, and he had just been talking about how emotional saying goodbye to the show was for him.

To suddenly be reminded of such a currently very toxic conversation in the fandom was probably a little emotionally jarring, even if he had mentally prepared himself.

And he did settle himself down a little bit after his speech. After Jensen talked, his next words were much calmer and much more understanding and supportive sounding. I really do think he was just already in an emotional place and put in a bad situation with a difficult question to handle.

But his answer wasn't bad. If you take out the emotional delivery, what he said makes perfect sense, and it's actually something I 100% agree with, and is honestly my favorite thing about the show.

So come on. Please stop this. These types of emotionally charged responses from you are part of the reason we as a community get reactions like that. When we lash out at people, they lash back, whether they mean to or not.

Please be reasonable. Please handle this responsibly. Please, please, please, stop hurting and pushing away one of the few communities and one of the few groups of people that is without a doubt accepting.

I don't want to lose this fandom, but you guys are really starting to scare me.

Please don't tear this fandom apart even more than it already is.

I can't handle it.

[mrs41258]

Jackles didn't say that he's happy Dean died lol, he said he prefers Dean died if someone has to die BETWEEN Dean and Sam. To me it's 100% sure Dean would rather die than outlive Sam and Jackles always tries to hold Dean's POV.

He was far more dependent on Sam that s5 Dean, besides I think a lot of people would die if they had to choose between their own life and their brother's life, I'd surely pick my death over my sister's.

On the other hand I don't fully agree that Sam coped well btw. He's not S1 Sam anymore, now he was dependent on Dean almost as Dean on him. He didn't do anything with his life after Dean's death, he gave up hunting, witchcraft, didn't study anything he was interested in. He used to want to change the world, instead he just took care of Dean 2, waiting to die naturally. Probably he did better than Dean would have done (Dean would get himself killed like he did in 15x20...JK(?) tried to do also after Cas' death in s13), but still bad, indeed I think Sam got the worst ending among TFW.

Anyway, even if Dean dying and Sam "living" has been agony, I may agree to an extent that Sam dying and Dean surviving would have been worse.

What would have been SO MUCH BETTER is both of them surviving and living the freedom they gained fighting against God.

No brother had to die, that's the point, no death was necessary, it was forced to produce cheap shock and cheaper angst, the only necessity was to hire a competent writer who didn't need a kill and basic manpain to create an impactful and emotional ending.

Dean or Sam is a false dichotomy.

Anyway I'm no mind reader and I don't wanna assume things but I feel Jackles' opinion about the finale can be inferred by his desire to reboot it LOL.

[whengeorgiawentblue]

The thing with Daniela started because she changed cockles panel last minute to j2m, cockles fans were mad about that because that is the only cockles panel they get and j2 have 2 panels at every creation con,they express that disappointment and the fact that it was last minute and some people bought 🎟 specifically because of cockles panels. Her reaction to that was something rude doesn't cover it

I think these 3 anons are about the same issue, but I'm not sure because I googled "daniela chiusa jib9 drama" and I got this:

Her facebook statement about the j2m panel

And another one critizising "shipping wars"

But in the last one she's not ranting over just destiel shippers, it's actually about any extreme side of the fandom (including wincest/J2) and the shipping wars. In fact, several destiel/cockles shippers agree with her in this post.

So I'm still not sure if she's really so anti-destiel (I know she isn't pro-destiel, but that doesn't mean she's also an anti).

She even defended Misha (ok, I know that's the bare minimum of respect and common sense...)

And the thing about the j2m panel, apparently some fans stirred shit on the internet about it, but it seems most of people (at least the ones in the con) were ok with it? I don't know if that j2m panel was planned from the start or it was a cockles panel and then jared crashed it (as he did in jib10)

Anyway, whether Daniela was right or wrong... I'm happy that one year later she had to witness straddlegate with her own eyes, and now jared betrays her not going to the first jibcon since the pandemic.

Ugh, I have another question... is this person kelios?

[uncreative-user-name]

I think Cockles broke up. There is an article here.

The owner of the article does not like Misha, but what she wrote may be true

https://nothingidputbeforeyou.tumblr.com/post/667094787036495872/just-found-out-that-j2-were-fighting-backstage

I’ve a actually seen this person’s post before. Here’s the deal, as you’ve said, they are very pro-J2/Wincest and very anti-Misha. They even call those of us who are Misha Stans ‘morons,’ so I think it’s suffice to say they’re reaching when they says Jensen doesn’t like Misha. But their post doesn’t really prove Cockles broke up.

It’s really hard for me to believe them. Example: she said Jensen looked mad when Misha crashed his panel back in Denver Con.

Ummm we’re they looking at the same panel vids and pics we were?! 🤣

~~~~~~~~~~~~

Here’s some stills:

Clearly this person lied or are willfully in denial about Jensen not hugging Misha. My guess is they didn’t actually finish watching the panel vid.

And as for Misha brushing off Jensen’s arm, it seemed all in good fun for Jensen calling him a soft plushy. The only time Mish seemed ‘annoyed’ was when Jensen starting talking about Covid. And his annoyance, to me, appears to be more of a serious, sobering nature. It’s no lie that Covid is a serious issue that has killed over 5 million people. So why would Mish smile and flirt when Jensen was talking about such a somber topic? That’d be just tactless, and Misha is anything but when it comes to something so heartbreaking.

Anyways, the thing is, even if they have broken up, I don’t think it’s in Jensen’s nature/character to ever allow himself to emotionally hurt someone he cares about.

My hope is that it’s just his hectic life that is causing him to be a little more stand-offish and not a breakup. There is hope though— I mean he did just bless us with a video on Twitter of him, Jensen and Jared backstage goofing around. I wonder if maybe CE is behind his mood? They purposely ostracize him from J2 every convention. Who knows, they may have even told Mish to tone it down during pics.

I’ll know more tomorrow when I see them during ops. That is if I don’t pass out from an aneurism at the sight of them in all their gorgeous glory first.

[canonicallysoulmates]

J2 Gold Panel Dallascon 2022

Dallascon came and went, and it brought the first j2 panels of the year!

The panel starts with Jared sharing that his, and Jensen’s parents were originally going to be in Van for the filming of the finale but couldn’t because of the pandemic. They’re kind of making up for that this con, their parents were there and both set of parents and the boys had dinner together the previous night, that is so sweet 🥰

The fan who asks the first question had done a photo op the previous day with Jensen were she arrests him which makes Jared joke and bring up the time that Jensen put him in the orange suit after his arrest, and they joke a bit- I know how this fucking fandom is so I know this is gonna get some mixed reactions but personally it makes me happy that Jared can joke about it and be casual about it. Anyways that first question was about a Stephen Amell cutout. This same fan at a previous con had done a Jensen photo op with a Stephen Amell cutout as a prop and she wanted to know if Jensen send him the pic; Jensen said yes, and that in reply Stephen send him back a pic of a cutout of Jensen. And Jared says that something Stephen does is he'll randomly send him a pic sometimes of himself holding a picture of Jared saying 'well i saw you today' and that's like his way of catching up. I can't help but feel that now Stephen Amell is going to be handed a lot more pictures of Jared 😂

Then they were asked, which one of them is more like their character and what did they bring of themselve to their character? Jensen says there are a lot of similarities between him and Dean that overtime as the show grew and he grew as a person the lines blurred in terms of personality between him and Dean. That the characters are a part of them and what was on screen was him exaggerating a piece of his personality not him pretending to be someone different.

Jared echoes, says that he’s a silly dude but when he gets into work mode he's like Sam, he becomes laser focused. And that Jensen is funny and friendly but when shit's gonna go down he's like Dean. x

Would they consider working on an international project like Squid Game? If yes, what country would they like to work in? Jared answers yes, that it would be amazing he jokes that they technically did work in an international project for 15 and a half years because they're from Texas and worked in Canada. He also says if it's a project they're excited for and they're free he'll go wherever just send him the ticket and he'll get on a plane. Jensen thinks that due to their family situation with the kids and such they are a little bit more tethered to where they can go and have to be more thoughtful about how far away a location is and how long they'd be away; talks about how his time in Toronto was more difficult than he anticipated because when he signed up for the role he thought there would be a handle on the pandemic by the time he had to film so he thought he'd be able to travel back and forth. Says that if he had known that in advance he probably would have sat down and given accepting the role some more serious thought.

Also, Jared went into a little non sequitur about his kids passports and the way he said it was "our kids were all born in Seattle" not "my kids" "our kids" just leaving that there do whatever you want with it x

Gonna preface this by saying I hate questions like the fourth one but a lady, whose birthday is also in March, asked if they could go get drinks together for their birthday. Questions like these make me uncomfy especially when asked in front of a crowd- it's like a proposal at an event don't do that shit. But the boys handle it like the pro's they are, Jared says if she's ever in Austin there's a place Family Business brewery - he also shares he was gonna hang out there a bit on Thursday night after filming cause Walker films close to the location but he couldn't cause his kids were freaking out and he had to watch the new episode (I swear when talking about his plans to visit FBBC it sounds like he said he was planning to text Jensen). Jensen tells the fan he doesn't know where she's going to be on her birthday but he's pretty sure he knows where he'll be on his which is on set next to Jared, at which point Jared all cutely does some fist pumps, but that he'll have a beer for her. x

They are asked, once again, if they are content with the ending of the show. They are, Jensen says what he has before that he didn't think Dean dying was going to result in some sort of finale but that after talking to Kripke he got a new perspective. Jared also tought it would be Sam dying, he then says pretty much what he has said before that he loves the realism of living this great life and it could all end in one moment, and says that the ending has kept him thinking. x

And the final question was: After 15 years and 320 lessons of why not to keep secrets. How do they feel about their characters never learning that it’s bad to keep secrets? I feel like this was a loaded question and based on their answers I think the boys took it as one too; Jared quickly jumps in and says that he thinks it's a great lesson, that it's one everybody has probably dealt with that he thinks it's something they all deal with; that moment when you think “oh i’m not gonna bother him with this” and then you fnd out later a. it’s not gonna be a bother to them and b. you would have been better off if you just mentioned it cause they can’t read your mind.

That if you find that person or people in your life where you can tell them everything and know that there might be situations where they're like "hey man that sucks, that hurts my feelings, I still love the shit out of you but here’s what we can do moving forward"

Then Jensen starts to say that you gotta appreciate that there's drama in secrets, and I swear to God you can see it, you can see Jared debate wether to open his mouth or not- he turns to Jensen and says "I don't if you don't tell me" listen I'm so glad they've reached this point were they can joke about it but that man is gonna single handedly ensure Jensen never fucks up again 😅

Then they joke around some more because the fan says to save the drama for the soap opera so Jared says "as we all go through the Days of Our Lives" and then Jensen goes "this all a House of Wax that could melt in a New York Minute" 😂

Thus marks the first panel of 2022; I'll be honest it flew by even for a Gold panel it didn't feel like 30mins. But there were some interesting moments and if you wanna check out the full thing you can do so through the link below:

J2 Gold Panel Dallas 2022

[postmodernmulticoloredcloak]

What about Jensen body language before the fallout though? I'm a new fan, pls tell me more?

Alright, disclaimer: I'm not a scientifically accurate watcher of cons, I barely watch con videos because i have the attention span of a fungus, i have auditory processing issues+I'm not a native english speaker so i understand shit of what they say without transcripts or subtitles, but i do exist on tumblr and have seen snippets, gifsets, and I did watch an entire (or at least a good part of it, idk) j2 panel once for some reason I don't remember rn, and that was really the time where I got stuck with the most clarity of how wildly different Jensen's body language in j2 panels was to other panels that i'm more familiar with because we gif them more or simply talk about them more.

I don't want to sound like I Know(TM) Jensen or have special access to his mind, so please keep in mind that this is basically my theory based on how I perceive the little I see of him, but this said - my impression is that Jensen was uncomfortable in Sunday j2 panels, long before the post-finale fallout with Jared. Jensen and Jared usually stand up in front of the audience and answer questions, and Jensen looks stiff and, well, like he's not enjoying himself. I'm used to seeing a million snippets and gifs and pictures of him in panels with Misha or others, and he's relaxed and cheerful. When asked questions in the j2 panel sometimes he looks downright defensive.

Oh, right *facepalm* I just remembered that I watched that j2 panel because someone asked Jensen a Destiel-related question (with the word Destiel in it) and Jensen basically snapped and shut the question down and it was uncomfortable to watch because he was obviously not comfortable with the entire thing. The audience in j2 panels is NOT a Destiel-friendly audience in general. (Of course there's going to be exceptions in the crowd but as a crowd, the alignment is not pro-Destiel, alright?) While the audience in Cockles panels is obviously a pro-Cas, pro-Destiel crowd. Pick some Jibcon videos, j2 panel and Cockles panel from the same jibcon if you want, and compare the atmosphere and body language of the two. I think you'll notice a difference.

Now, Jensen is not comfortable with interacting with fans like this, in general. His solo panels can get uncomfortable for him at times (at least once that I remember Misha went to support him during a solo panel because he was clearly nervous). His levels of comfort obviously depend on whether someone is with him, and who, and also on the audience he's facing. Again, the audience of a j2 panel is not the same audience in a Cockles panel. I think the difference in Jensen's comfort levels comes both from whom he is with, and the crowd.

I'm aware I'm not saying anything substantial but... just have a look at old panels. Compare j2 panels and non-j2 panels. I think that the difference is pretty noticeable. I'm not surprised at all that j2 panels spew drama and negativity because that's the norm. Now this is my theory but I'm pretty sure that Jensen needs to go with the wishes of the crowd (that's what he's paid for, entertaining his audience, right?) and he doesn't like it when it's a j2 crowd.

Take all of this with a fuckton of grains of salt because I don't have a magical access to Jensen Ackles' brain but... I don't think the guy's ever been particularly relaxed and happy in j2 panels, because j2 panels lean Jared fans/J2 fans/brothers-only fans, and they're basically Jared's kingdom, not his. He's comfy when he has a pro-Misha crowd in front of him.

As an old fan the J2 fallout is coming like the least surprising thing ever because Jensen might have played along the marketing strategy ~the amazing J2, brothers in the story and in real life!!~ thing all this time because it was literally his job, but I think that he's grown apart from the Jared side of things a long time ago and has been personally feeling a lot closer to the Misha side of things. By side of things I mean both the person and the fandom that aggregates around the person.

The difference now is that he seems less inclined to keep up the ~brothers in real life!!~ act (look at the various 'oh my brother' tweets he's made recently, they sound so authentic and genuine like he put negative amounf of effort in sounding genuine), probably because a) the divide between him and Jared is getting wider, b) he literally doesn't work every single day of his life with the guy anymore, so he has no reason to avoid conflict that would destroy his daily life.

It's still his job to do j2 panels, so he'll do that job, but he'll also storm off when it's over. I ain't watching the panel video, but apparently Jared acted really inappropriately (getting involved in a question that wasn't for him and didn't have anything to do with him and derailing Jensen's answer bringing it into a direction Jensen wasn't going) and Jensen liked it even less that he usually likes doing a j2 panel. I'm not surprised. I think the finale just exacerbated things there.

I hope I answered your question!

[collegeboysam]

i give it one day before people come up with really fake sounding jensen autographs stories where they ask him to elaborate on the last j2 panel question and he suddenly absolutey changes his mind and does not agree with jared and is 100% pro deancas hints and love and whatnot so it can all be turned into "jared bad jensen uwu got pressured into agreeing bc he is anxious around him" and the only source of said jensen auto moments will be a post written on notes app and a "dude trust me" yet all the twitter girls are gonna eat that up

[j2spntranscripts]

☆ 2007 Chicon (Jensen solo)

Official name: Creation Entertainment's SALUTE TO SUPERNATURAL, SMALLVILLE AND BUFFY/ANGEL Location: Hyatt Regency Woodfield, Chicago, Illinois Time: Sunday November 11, 2007, 9:40 am (GMT-6) Panelists: Jensen Ackles Last episode: 3x06 "Red Sky at Morning" Nov 8, 2007 Next episode: 3x07 "Fresh Blood" - Nov 15, 2007

Question Index: 1- spn 2x15; Dean eating caramels scene 2-Fav sporting event; Fav concert 3- Fav fan interaction 4- A Few Good Men; Future Projects, Plays; Plays vs Television 5- Most Embarrassing Thing While Drunk for J2 6- Acting; Emotional scenes; Emotional fallout counter-measures 7- Acting; line memorization techniques 8- spn 2x21; holding dead!Sam scene 9- JDM return rumor; Golfing; Fav Pro Golfers 10- Fears; of flying; Reprisal of Eric Brady; Fan gift 11- (Fan Report) unknown; 2x20 12- (Fan Report) unknown; S3 strained brother relationship 13- Props; Dean’s Jewelry meaning 14- Jensen on Alan Ackles; Devour 15- Stunts; Fight choreography 16-Jared's question

(video playlist/links and transcript below the cut)

(*if you notice any mistakes in the video transcripts or found more video coverage of the con please point them out thanks*👍) (*tumblr doesn't like dailymotion vids so I can only hyperlink them*) *Purple text: corrections/suggestions from @detailtilted

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◘Heres Jensen! By DegaDreamer◘ 0:00

“Wayward Son” by Kansas is playing as the Jensen walks up on stage. Cameras are flashing constantly. The crowd is screaming with applauds and cheers. Jensen punches down on the down beat. The audience gets louder. Jensen then slowly sits down.

•(0:12 DD) - introduction

Jensen: Hey! (audience squeals and claps) (smiles) That’s an intro. (audience laughs) That’s nice. How’s everybody doing? (audience cheers) Waking up yet? (mixed audience reaction) I’m not. (wipes face) (audience laughs) Woo! Those videos were kind of cool, huh?

◘Chicago November 2007 - Jensen Solo Panel - Enhanced Edition Con Video - V2.0 by DetailTilted◘- (0:08-14:23)

Audience: Yeah!

Jensen: Like that Ghostbuster one. (audience laughs) Why am I always eating? (audience laughs)

Audience memberA: (?I'd throw up?)

Audience memberB: Yeah, Really!

Jensen: (shakes head) It’s unbelievable. Every time, reading the script it’s like, “Oh, sausages. Great. Yeah.” (audience laughs) “Be eating those. Sandwich? Yeah. Oh, yeah. For sure.”

(on the flashing lights) I can’t see.. a thing. (audience laughs) (laughs and shakes his head) A sea of flashes. (audience laughs) Unbelievable.

(to creation staff) Alright, so, what are doing here? What do we- we, uh- okay.

Creation staff: Well, we got mics set up on both sides of the stage.

Jensen: (nods) okay.

Creation staff: And so, whenever you can have people come over and start the barrage. (audience laughs)

Jensen: Let’s, uh- yeah- Let’s-let’s get going. I agree. (audience laughs) Otherwise, it’s just me sitting here talking to myself… It’ll get boring real quick.

(audience denial) Ah, yeah, yeah…. (laughs, shakes his head, and readjusts his posistion) Here we go. (smiles) (audience laughs) Uhh, (looks back and forth) pick a side- pic- ah- Alright, (nods to his left) let’s go, uh, right here.

•(1:19 DT, 1:38 DD)- Chicon07JA;Q1- spn 2x15; Dean eating caramels scene

Fan: Hi Jensen, I’m Anne.

Jensen: Hi.

Fan: I, um, in “Tall Tales” I’ve been curious about it, you stuff your mouth with the chocolate or whatever it was. (audience laughs) How much did you stuff in your face and did they CGI your mouth or? (audience laughs)

Jensen: (looks down and makes a big closed smile for a brief moment before taking a breath then answering) Those were caramels. Annd, they were real. Annnd, they were not sugar-free. (audience laughs) Annd those that- those were my cheeks. (audience laughs) I think I had, uh.. I want to say, each take I think I got in around.. fifteen? (audience oo’s)

Um.. and when you have that much sugar in your mouth- (audience laughs) I mean, I didn’t- I didn’t swallow it. I mean, as soon as the take was over I was like (mimics spitting it out) (audience laughs) But you get that much sugar in your mouth and my-my tongue started swelling up and my mouth was going numb. And it was just- it was ridiculous. I’m like, “This was the stupidest idea ever.” (audience laughs)

Um.. (looks at fan) but it was funny. (throws a hand up) (audience laughs) So, yeah, that’s- that-that was all real. That was all me. And it was, uh- it was actually my idea, so uh… (shakes his head, looks down, and throws a hand up) (audience laughs) I was supposed to grab a couple. (grabbing motion) And I was like, “You know this is going to be a lot funnier if I grab fifteen and shove ‘em in my mouth.” (nods) (audience laughs) (looks at fan) So, there you go.

Fan: That was great. Thank you.

Jensen: Yeah (looks towards his left and points to the next fan) Absolutely. How about over here?

•(2:36 DT)- Chicon07JA;Q2- Favorite sporting event; Fav concert

Fan: Hi, good morning. I’m Lindsey.

Jensen: Good morning.

Fan: I have two questions and you can answer either one. (Jensen: okay.) The best live sporting event you’ve been to or the best live concert.

◘Jensen's q&a by augustfading◘

Jensen: (looks up) Best live sporting event or concert. (Fan: whatever comes to your heart.) (inhales) Umm, well, the best live sporting event would probably have to be the first time I ever went and saw the Cowboys play. Uhh. (audience woo’s) Yeah. That was, uh- that was great.

Ummm, (sits up) and then the best- actually the best- well.. It was not the best concert, but I think I like- I just like the fact that it was my first concert ever, was uh- uh- it was actually at the same stadium, the Texas Stadium. Um, and it was the, uh, Michael Jackson Thriller tour. (audience laughs, cheers and claps) (shrugs)

How cool is my mom? (audience laughs) I was six year old and she drags me to Texas Stadium and it was the scariest thing of my life. (audience laughs) You know, it’s like this giant crowd and the stage is dark. And just, you know, these big monsters are like stomping out on stage. (audience laughs) And here come these people with, you know, swords- I mean, it was like a full on huge production, right? And I’m li-aaa- you know, I was like, “This is not Disney.” (audience laughs) But it was, uh- it was pretty spectacular. And I-I- I still remember- (gestures to head) I’ve- I’ve vivid kind of pictures of that in my mind. (audience giggles) So, that was cool.

Then I- I think the next concert I went was a Van Halen concert. (audience cheers) (nods) That one I went to on my own accord, So. (nods) (audience laughs)

Fan: Thank you.

Jensen: Yeah. (turns and looks to his right and points to the next fan) Over here. Okay. Here we go.

•(3:58 DT)- Chicon07JA;Q3- favorite fan interaction

Fan: Hi, (Jensen: Yeah.) my name is Jen. (Jensen: Hi.) Good morning. (Jensen: Good morning.) Um, I was wondering what your favorite, uh, gift from your fans you got?

Jensen: (looks up) Gift from my fans. Uuuh… that’s a good question. I, uh- you know- I- (rubs face) I-I’ll give you this instead. I’ll give you one of my fav fan stories. Uuum, It was, uh-

Audience member: Asylum? (audience laughs)

Jensen: What’s that?

Audience member: Asylum?

◘Favourite Fan Interaction by csnutty◘

◘Jensen at Supernatural Con by InsipidRamblings◘

Jensen: (laughs) No. This one- ah, this just pops in mind. It was many, many years ago. Uh- uhm- and I was, uh, when I was doing, ah-uh, “Days of Our Lives.” (audience woos) And, um.. and I was at a- at a mall.. uh, doing an appearance in a… Iii a-actually forget where it was, but it was a- kind of a two levels mall. And I’m on stage. (points up) And there’s people above- It’s like an open center, so the, you know, big crowd of people on the- on the railings.

◘Jensen Ackles at Chicago Con…3 by DegaDreamer◘

And I’m just talking to the crowd. Just like I am now. And I feel this tap on my head. (tilts head) (audience laughs) (looks up) And I look up. And this little girl has (mimics girl) fished down a pad and paper. (mimics writing) A paper, pad, and pen. (audience laughs and aw’s) A pad of paper and pen. And she just goes, (smiles and waves while looking down) (audience laughs) (throws a hand up and leans back) I was- that’s- that’s ingenuity right there. You’re getting an autograph for that one. (audience laughs)

(turns to fan) That was- that was kind of fun. That was kind of fun. Yeah. (turns to his left and nods) How about you over here?

•(5:28 DT, 0:56 DD)- Chicon07JA;Q4- A Few Good Men; Future Projects, Plays; Plays vs Television

Fan: Hi, um, I’m Ariel. (Jensen: Hi.) Um, I saw you opening night for “A Few Good Men.” (Jensen nods) You nailed that part by the way.

Jensen: (nods) Thank you. (audience cheers and claps)

◘Jensen Ackles by jjc7384◘

Fan: I was wondering do you plan on doing, uh, more plays, like do you prefer plays as opposed to television or?

Jensen: Um, eh- that wasn’t- you know, it wasn’t something that I-I wo- was consciously trying to-to get into. Uh, it was-it was more of something that just kind of stars aligned and- and, uh, I thought, “Wow, that would be really.. really cool.” And, I remember getting, uh- getting out of Fort Worth and-and starting our rehearsals- And I think it was like the second day of rehearsals, and-and I actually really.. started to understand the magnitude.. of.. the role. And-and how much… dialogue (deflates) I had. (audience laughs)

It's a 100-and-twenty-five-page play, you guys. And I’m-I’m in.. about ninety-eight percent of it. Um, I’m sure you guys remember the movie, “A Few Good Men,” how much Tom Cruise is on screen. So, it was- it was very daunting.

And I was just remember thinking, “What have I done?” (audience laughs) “We open in like two weeks.” And I-I’m pacing in my hotel room trying to figure out- how to, you know, learn these lines. And, uh, (shakes head) finally came around. And, you know, within a few days of- of rehearsal, but I just- I had ‘em all. And I don’t- I don’t know how it happened, but the brain is a funny thing and it worked. And, uh-

But it’s- it’s a really interesting, you know, it’s a much different medium then-then doing television or film obviously. Um, there’s that, uh.. that amazing sensation of- of gratification you get from a crowd. Um, that you don’t get, you know, with a bunch of sweaty crew guys. (audience laughs) Um, so i-in that aspect, it’s, uh- it’s definitely something that I.. hold in high regard. Um, I don’t know if I’ll be doing, uh, doing another one anytime soon. But, uh, that was definitely an experience I won’t forget.

Fan: Thank you. (Jensen nods then turns his right)

•(7:16 DT)- Chicon07JA;Q5- Most Embarrassing Thing While Drunk for J2; no answer given

Fan: Hello, Jensen. (Jensen: Hi.) I’m (?Carge?) Um, a little bit of a two-parter. What’s the most embarrassing thing you’ve ever done when you’ve been drunk? (audience laughs) (Jensen tilts his head) And what’s the most embarrassing thing you’ve seen Jared do? (audience laughs and claps)

Jensen looks up, smirks, and chuckles to himself. Then looks down and rubs his eye.

◘Jensen Q&A by DegaDreamer◘

Jensen: The most loaded question (?that I've heard?). (audience laughs)

Audience member: He comes on after you.

Jensen: That’s right he does, doesn’t he? (readjusts his position and exhales) Wow, uh, well, you know, I-I’m gonna say I probably don’t remember what I did. (audience laughs) Um, and that's probably a good- a good thing. Um, (tilts head) But, Jared? (scratches chin) (audience giggles) So many to choose from. (audience laughs)

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Um, oh gosh, (shakes head) I don’t know. (some aw’s from the audience) Uh-e you know, you- you put me on the spot. I might have to come back to you on that one. (audience giggles) Um… let me think about it. (audience giggles) I’ll mull it over.

(turns to his left) Hi.

•(8:15 DT)- Chicon07JA;Q6- Acting; Emotional scenes; emotional fallout counter-measures

Fan: Hi, Jensen. I’m Sue. Dean’s gone through a lot of pain in the last.. few episodes. What do you do to unload that, when you've gone through such emotionally charged scenes?

Jensen: Drink like a fish. (audience laughs) No. Uh.. (laughs) Um, my mother is shaking her head somewhere.. (audience laughs) in Texas.

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Um… no it’s, uh-e- actually it’s funny that you- that you (rubs forehead) that you say that. I just had a-a very, uh- very emotional, uh-uh, emotionally heavy day on uhh.. Wednesday. This past Wednesday. And it was a- a full day of just me. Jared had- had the day off.

And, um, it was a- a, you know, it-it- it’s very taxing. I would- I would rather do a (gestures) full day of stunt work than a full day of (gestures) emotional acting. Because it’s-it’s- there’s a difference between being, uh, physically, um, depleted and (gestures) emotionally depleted.

Um, so it’s, um, e-eh- as far as, you know, trying to-to deal with it. I just- I just try to go home and get some sleep. And- and you know.. (throws up hand) talk to my friends, and call my family, and, you know, remind myself of.. (laughs) why I’m actually doing this. (audience laughs)

Umm.. but it’s, you know, it’s just something that you do. And I’ve- I’ve been doing for the longest- it’s just, you know, I don’t even think of it. It’s just like, “Oh, well, you had a rough day today.” You know, and it’s just a, you know, (shrugs) for me it’s just a hard day at work.

Um, but it feels- there’s a certain gratification you get too, when at the end of the day when you know you- you really given it your all. And-and you’re- you’re that.. wrecked, as in that spent. At the end of the day it’s like, “Phew, I actually put in some good hours today.” So, I think that kind of gratification helps me get through it. (nods)

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Fan: Thank you.

Jensen: (turns to his right) Hi!

•(10:00 DT, 0:20 SA)- Chicon07JA;Q7- Acting; line memorization techniques

Fan: Hi!

Jensen: How you doing?

Fan: Good. My name’s Rachel. (Jensen: Hi, Rachel.) Um, I was wondering how long it takes for you to memorize your lines and what kind of techniques you use.

Jensen: Um, (laughs) Well, (adjusts his position) after you, uh- after you been doing it for a- for a couple of years-uh-uh-um the same role I mean. Jared and I have gotten- and I don’t want to say we have gotten lazy. (audience giggles) But, um, we’ve gotten very quick at, uh- at the memorization process.

Um, it-it- it depends on, you know, how- like the stuff that I was talk- that I did last Wednesday. I-I went home on Tuesday night and-and spent about an hour going over it and looking at it, and trying to decide how I wanted to do it and what- how I want to play it. I don’t- I rarely do that (laughs). I usually, uh- Jared and I get picked up in the- in the mornings and- and ride to work, um, in- in the same, uh, truck. And so we- we generally go over our lines on our way to work.. then again in the- the hair and make-up trailer. And then we- we go and block it and shoot it.

So, um.. (snaps his fingers) Just the repetition. We can- I can read a-a two or three page scenes- or two or three page scene.. two or three times and have it memorized. (audience wow’s) So, I-I- I think it’s just- It’s like a muscle. The more you do it, the better you get at it.

Fan: Um, does “Ten-inch Hero” have a distributor yet?

Jensen: Not yet, we’re working on it. (nods) (audience aw’s, some woo and clap) (turns to his left) Hi.

•(11:23 DT, 1:43 SA)- Chicon07JA;Q8- Acting; spn 2x21; holding dead!Sam scene; spn 2x04; on the hood of the impala scene

Fan: Hi, I’m Carly. (Jensen: Hi.) Um, I’m just wondering in “All Hell Breaks Loose Part 1 & 2” (Jensen: Yeah) Where Jared.. dead, (Jensen: Yeah) (audience giggles) and you (laughs) had to like hold him- how were you able to pull that off? Because, that was like really good, when you were like- when he was like.. dead. (audience and Jensen laugh)

Jensen: (tilts head) I’ll tell you what, it’s some of the best work he’s ever done. (audience laughs) Umm, (readjust his position) You know, it-the- the cool thing with, uh- with this show and-and- and the two characters is, um- and-and working with Jared, um, is that we- you know, we work together.. so much that.. it’s not hard to.. see him, you know, like that, and then try to envision him like that. You know it’s-

Or-or.. um.. you know likes-ee- if I was doing- if I was fresh on a TV show and I didn’t really know the people I was working with.. I might have to think of somebody else in that position to kind of get me there emotionally. But, because he and I are such good friends and-and we work together so much it’s-it's like, you know, he’s- he's practically a brother to me anyway. (audience aw’s) And so it’s not that difficult to- (to audience) Shut up! (audience laughs) (shakes his head) I’m trying to talk to you people! (audience laughs)

(to Fan) Um.. and you know it’s-it’s just working with each other and, you know, h-e-he and I were (snaps fingers) just.. just able to do it, I guess. I-I don’t really know that there’s a formula for it. Um, but, uh, you know, it’s like I said, any of those kind of days are- they're very taxing.

And, I remember, uh.. definitely a scene where I-I’m talking to him and kind of breakdown and stuff. I-I went to.. to Kim Manners, who was filming that- who was directing that episode, (audience woo’s and claps) (nods) And, uh- and I said, “Alright, Kim. I gotta know what you're- what you're planning on doing for this, uh- this scene because I don’t know how many times I'm gonna be able to get through it.” (some audience aw’s) “Um, so-e-I, you know, if you could minimalize your- your shot list and just shoot it from, you know, two or three angles as opposed to six.. It’s gonna help me, because otherwise I’m just gonna dry up and.. be worthless.” (audience giggles) So-so, he did. He, you know- He and I collaborated a little bit and tried to figure out the best way to shoot it and the quickest way to get done, so that I’m not, you know, a total wreck-

And it’s always his episodes too. (throws his hand out) (audience laughs) Uh, you know, the-the.. (rubs face and exhales) Of course I’m going to forget the name of the episode, (rubs neck) but the, uh, where we’re- we're-

Audience members: Heart! Heart! Heart!

Jensen: (shakes head) No, no. (audience laughs) (tilts head) Although, yeah, that was him too. (audience laughs) No, where we’re sitting on the, uh- at the end of the episode were sitting at the front- on the front of the hood, and I say-

Audience: Oooh.

Audience member: Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things.

Jensen: (nods) Thank you. (audience giggles) And.. I remember that scene where I’m like, you know, “He’s your dad too. And I shouldn’t be so hard on you and all that stuff.” And-and I got so wrecked after that, I had to take a walk down the road, because I was so messed up. And there was- I’m just like, “Kim! Man!" (audience laughs) "You better quit that.” (audience chuckles) So, it’s just (throws hand up) there’s really no formula for it.

Fan: Thank you.

Jensen: Yeah. (turns to his right)

•(4:44 SA)- Chicon07JA;Q9- JDM return rumor; Golfing; Fav Pro Golfers

Fan: Hi! (Jensen: Hi!) I’m Cher. (Jensen: Hi!) Um, I’m two-part question. (Jensen: Alright) First of all, I heard that Robert Singer said Jeffery Dean Morgan might be back on.. this season. I’m wondering if you know anything about that?

Jensen: I have no idea. (Fan: Okay) (audience giggles) (laughs) Yeah, Bob doesn’t tell- doesn’t tell me a whole lot. (Fan: Okay)

“Hey, Bob, was that good? Did you like that take?” (makes a face) “Oh, you’re one of those actors?” (looks down briefly)

(audience laughs) (nods) That’s Bob.

Fan: Okay. And, to congratulate you on acing (?eighth?) and, uh,-

Jensen: (laughs and nods) Oh, thank you. (Fan: Yeah) She’s speaking about the hole in one I made this past, uh, this summer. (audience giggles)

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Fan: Oh yeah. And then I thought maybe a-any Pro-Am tournament, (?don’t you think, in Balboa? or ?or do you think about that?)? (audience giggles)

Jensen: You know I- I don’t want to paint the wrong picture. I’m not like, some, you know, uhhh, Phil Mickelson here or anything like that. I just- (shrugs) I just like to get out and play, you know, hit a ball, right? Um, but, uh.. ee-If I- If I have time I would love to do some of those- some of those, uh.. tournaments, but I just don’t have any time. (laughs)

Fan: Okay.

Jensen: It sounds fun. (audience giggles) I hear it’s cool. (audience giggles) But, unfortunately I’m stuck up in rainy Vancouver with Jared all day long. (audience laughs then some aw) (shakes his head) (audience laughs) Such a sensitive crowd. (audience laughs) Jeeze. Um-

Fan: Do you have any favorite golfers?

Jensen: I’m sorry? (leans in)

Fan: You have any favorite pro golfers?

Jensen: Oh…I don’t know that there’s one specific that.. Woody Austin’s kind of fun. (Fan: Oh.) Because he breaks clubs over his head. (nods) (audience laughs) (fist pumps) I feel his pain. (audience laughs)

Thank you. (nods) (Fan: Thank you) (turns to his left) Hi.

•(15:43 DT, 6:20 SA)- Chicon07JA;Q10- Fears; of flying; Reprisal of Eric Brady; Fan gift

Fan: Good morning. Two quick questions and a tiny comment. (Jensen: Okay.) Um, first, regarding “Phantom Traveler.” (Jensen: Yes.) Do you share Dean’s sentiment regarding flying?

Jensen: (laughs) (audience laughs) No.

Fan: You did a great job acting like someone who’s afraid of flying.

Jensen: Acting like an idiot? (audience laughs) I do that a lot. Uh, no. I-I’ve fly way to often to-to be f- I’m us-I’m the guy that is asleep before we taxi out to the runway.

Fan: Thanks (Jensen: Yeah) Um, and is there any possibility of you returning, even in- in a cameo scenario, to your role as Eric Brady? (audience gives mixed reaction) …His name has been brought up a lot lately.

Jensen: Yeahh, you know, I got a call from Ken Corday last year. Uh, Ken Corday is the, uh, the owner of “Days of Our Lives.” Um, and he wanted me to come back for- I forget what-what the- the event was going on, but- (some answers called out from the audience) I’m sure some of you probably know. (audience laughs) (smiles) Uh, for like, um.. for like a half a dozen episodes or something. And I was like, “You know what? Yeah, let me see.” But we just couldn’t work out the dates.

So, I- as long as I, you know, as I keep as busy as I am.. I probably won’t. But, you never know.

Fan: Um, we’ll hope for it. (Jensen: Yeah) Uh, the comment is, the bracelet I’ve left for you is a gift in the photo op room. (Jensen: Yes) I made it. I didn’t buy it. (?I just want you to know?) (Jensen nods) (audience laughs) (?pictures on it?) like this one, but it’s peridot.

Jensen: Thank you. (nods) (audience laughs) Thank you very very much. (smiles) (turns to his right) Hi!

•(7:47 SA)- Chicon07JA;Q11- unknown; 2x20

Fan: Hi! Um,

-No footage available-

• Chicon07JA;Q12- unknown; S3 strained brother relationship

-No footage available except for the tail end of the answer-

Fan Reports: *warning: fan reports are often times accounts of an event where the poster relies mostly on their own memories and biases. As a source it can't be fully verified unless there is video footage that can accompany it. Therefore fan reports should not be taken as the unquestionable truth, but instead of a likely possibility of things said.

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Jensen: -Hopefully, it progresses. Um, I don’t know what’s going to happen with this writers’ strike. But, um, there’s- that’s going to be a- a very interesting plot.. point, is the- the brothers’ relationship. So it’s really cool. And, I’m very excited. I hope that.. the writers quit crying over spilled milk (?and just write?). (some of the audience laughs most oo’s) (smiles)

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I’m just kidding. I’m just- (audience giggles) (swipes hand repeatedly) No, they- actually I hope that they get what they want ‘cause that way we get what I- what we-we want when we go to negotiations. (audience giggles) (nods) (Fan: Thank you) Thank you. (turns to his left) Hi!

•(17:07 DT, 0:14 SA)- Chicon07JA;Q13- Props; Dean’s Jewelry meaning

Fan: Hi! Dean’s jewelry, the necklace, the ring, the bracelet, are we ever going to know-

Jensen: I don’t know (looks down) (audience and fan laugh) (wipes his face and mouth) I (laughs) I honestly don’t know. Uhh, (laughs) No, what it was is (?Sam?, ?Pam?, or ?and?)- I- I don’t know if you guys have heard this before, but- or heard me said this before. But, uh, in the beginning when we were doing the pilot I said, “You know, I-I want this guy to have s-s- things, because he’s- he’s, you know, he’s in this supernatural world and he travels around. He’s probably got amulets and- and things that are, you know, associated with what he does.”

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So, the costume designer at- at that point, and myself kind of went through this whole, you know, stuff of, you know- She just dumped a box out onto a table (audience giggles) and she’s like, “This is all the stuff that I’ve had, you know, accumulated through the years on all the projects I’ve worked on.” So, we kind of, like, went sifting through it a little bit. And I-I saw something that was really cool and I saw another thing that was really cool, and I was like, “Yeah, okay. Let’s- let’s do this- let’s do these.”

And-and of course, I had to okay them with- with Eric. And he looked at them and he’s like, “Okay, we’ll come up with reasons why you have those.” (audience chuckles) I was like, (shrugs) “Whatever.” (audience laughs) He has not. (audience laughs)

Fan: Is the ring a spinner ring? (Jensen: What’s that?) Is the ring a spinner ring?

Jensen: No, it’s not. (Fan: Oh.) The ring is- was, uum.. It was a- a ring I actually had, uh, personally, um, that I.. no longer- I don’t even know where that thing is. Um, (audience giggles) but they just made a- a replica of that. Um, and I just say that it’s.. the- my beer opening ring. (audience laughs) ‘Cause if you notice I (mimics opening a beer with a ring) crack beers with it. And that’s really the only.. use it has. (audience laughs) It’s so Dean doesn’t have to carry around a can opener. (audience laughs) or a bottle opener yeah. (turns to his right) Hi.

•(1:59 SA)- Chicon07JA;Q14- Jensen on Alan Ackles; Devour

Fan: Hi, uh, first off, thank you for sharing your weekend with us (Jensen: [nods] Yeah) and for all the long hours you’ve put in. (audience cheers and claps. Jensen looks down and then up nodding) Um, talk to us about the experience on Devour working with your father.

Jensen: Um.. Yeah, that was- that was intense. Uh… ieh- I don’t know if, uh- I did a- I did a- a movie. A very, very low budget, uh, (audience laughs) film. (laughs) Uh.. it didn’t really turn out the way I thought it would. (laughs) (audience giggles) In fact, I remember watching it and going, “What is happening?” (audience laughs) “I don’t even remember this.”

Um, but they- they cast my actual father to play my father in the- in- in the movie. And, uh, it was really.. it was really cool. It was something that I always wanted to do. I mean, you know, watching my dad, uh.. um, as I grew up, uh you know, in doing, uh- He’s an actor, kind of a commercial actor in Dallas. And, so, he would do commercials and he would do, you know, stuff like that, and tv shows now and again. He, you know, played half a dozen roles on- on any television show that would film down there.

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So, watching him was actually kind of- because I got all my little quirks and stuff from him. And I always wanted to work with him. And so, that was really- it was really neat to-to-to be able to play opposite of him. He-he- he thinks I showed him up on- on screen and I think the opposite. (audience chuckles) So, (nods) it’s kind of a mutual respect there, (nods) yeah. Thanks for asking. (turns to his left) Hey.

•(3:29 SA, 19:27 DT)- Chicon07JA;Q15- Stunts; fight choreography

Fan: Hi, Jensen. Call me Deb. (Jensen: hi) I wanted to thank you anyways, because friends and I came up to Vancouver this past spring (Jensen: yeah) and, um, for "What is and What Should Never Be.” We waited around and hung out–

Jensen: You’re the Jersey girl.

Fan: Rhode Island!

Jensen: (nods) Rhode Island girl. (audience laughs)

Fan: We brought yah that big basket of candy and the- those doggy (Jensen: that’s right.) snacks for Jared's dogs, (Jensen: That’s right.) you know, to be eaten (?in Dallas?). (laughs) (Jensen: that’s right.)

But I wanted to ask you 'cause, like, the more conversation with Jared and I didn’t get to talk to you that much about your fighting. You guys have been fighting for a while. I loved that fight in “Skin,” it was like, so clean. (Jensen: Yeah [laughs]) And I wanted to know, you’ve been doing it in Dark Angel, you’ve been doing it in this, do you guys progress? I mean, do you work on it? Do you like- ‘Cause I’ve been doing stunts and fighting for 16 years and it’s constant classes even now. (Jensen: Right.) So, do you have to constantly keep it going?

Jensen: Um.. No. We don’t- I mean, we.. I’d like to say, “Yeah. We train day in and day out.” But, we just- we don’t have time. So, we try to stay in shape as much as possible. You know, get in the gym and- and.. just keep our bodies, you know uh, athletic. (audience mhmms and then giggles) Um, but I- I honestly think that- (audience catcalls) How do you guys go there so quickly? (audience laughs) It’s amazing. (audience yells things out and one person yelled, “It’s not hard.”) Um, (adjust his sit and shakes his head) I’ll leave that one alone. (audience laughs)

•(3:29 SA, 20:46 DT)- Chicon07JA;Q16- Jared’s question

Jared: (off stage) This question is from anonymous. (Jensen smiles and rubs his brow) What do you say to the accusation that Jared- (audience screams and claps)

Jared walks up on the edge of the stage with a big grin looking at Jensen.

Jared: -Is a lot better looking and, uh, (walking closer to the middle of the stage) and that the success of the show has been- it’s an anonymous question. I don’t know who it was. (audience laughs) He was- he was very handsome.

Fan: Hey, Jared! You’re stepping on my toes here!

Jared: (hunches down) (to fan) Sorry. Sorry.

Jared scurries off to the end of the stage and then starts to talk to one of the ?bodyguards? off stage.

Fan: (?It’s frustrating?) I’m working here. (audience laughs)

Jared kind of reels back while looking at Jensen with a smile on his face.

Jensen: (to Jared grinning) Yeah, now your screwed aren’t yah.

The audience laughs. Jared puts his head in his hands and hunches over. Then places his hands in the pleading position. The audience laughs.

Jared: I-

Fan: Don’t mess with the fight wo- the fight (?choreographer?)!

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Jared: (going to the middle of the stage with a hand raised in surrender) I know- I know better than that. I know better than that.

Jensen: (to Jared) Uh, I’m sorry sir. What was your question? (audience laughs)

Jared: (puts a hand to his chest) Oh, not mine. Not mine. Not mine. (Jensen: Oh, okay.) It was anonymous.

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Jensen: And what was the question?

Jared: What would you say to the, um, many say true accusations that (Jensen: uh huh) Jared- or Jared’s character- that’s my character, Sam. (audience laughs) was.. better looking, (audience laughs and cheers) smarter, (walks up to Jensen and rests his arm on Jensen’s shoulder) taller, (audience laughs and some scream) younger (shrugs) Okay, we can lose younger. (swipes his hand) Uh, then- then your character.

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Jensen: you have to ride shotgun.

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The audience oo’s and cheers. Jared lifts up his hands and shrugs walking a little bit away from Jensen. Then Jared walks back to Jensen and rubs and squeezes his shoulders.

•(6:10 SA, 0:43 S, 0:36 A, 21:24 DT) – Closing

Jared: My turn. (slaps Jensen’s shoulder) Get out of here.

Jensen: Is it? Alr- Am I outta here? (stands up) Alright, guys. That’s it. That’s all. (audience aw’s) I- I gotta go.

Jared: (to audience) He’s coming back. He’s coming back. (audience cheers and claps) right after-

Jensen: I’ll be back.

Jared: (goes to sit down and then sits back up) It’s a warm seat.

Jensen: (starts walking off) I’m gonna think about that drunk question. (audience screams and claps)

Jared: Can I have a-

Jensen: (walks off stage) Thanks guys. (audience cheers)

Jared’s Panel starts.

[winchesterish]

That post you reblogged about destiel shippers transforming into wincest shippers tho!!!! Thank you for sharing that. I experienced something sort of similar in the sense that everyone who recced spn to me talked about Dean and Cas. Or if someone was their favorite, it was Dean, and then they'd shit all over Sam. I also have two siblings who watched the show. I don't know if they've seen the whole thing but one of them was very vocally anti wincest and she thought everyone who shipped it was fucked up. The other shipped wincest secretly but tried to keep appearances up cuz he lived with our anti wincest sibling.

I'm sure you can imagine my surprise when I finally watched the show and Cas isn't a main character and Sam's actually really fucking adorable and sassy and oh my god I was ruined from the get go, from easy tiger and the YEARNING and the STARING and the looking like they're gonna beat each other up or eat each other or both and OMG I HAVE SEEN THIS SHOW SO MANY TIMES AND I STILL FORGET THAT THEY DON'T KISS. Because they always look like they should be kissing. I am obsessed with this stupid show the way that Dean is obsessed with Sam. Like I just wake up and stupid little things remind me of them even though I've been in the fandom for YEARS. ugh. And obviously you know I love Cas too and wincestiel but DAMN getting into wincest tho. There is nothing like finally giving in to it.

Tori you phrased this perfectly, the anti wincest and pro wincest sibling dilemma sounds like the worst fandom inner family drama :/ Sammy is so sassy and sweet and I absolutely adore him bonus points for early seasons floppy hair Sarah Blake you were so right to miss the old haircut. Don't get me STARTED on the staring it always feels like i should either look away or look directly at it incase they start making out. J2 panels are absolutely INSANE the second Jared & Jensen share that look I have to get up and grab my aluminum foil and put on my little tinhat. Giving in to wincest top ten feelings of all time.

[spnshameblog]

j*red confirmed that?

As insane as it sounds, yes. They get asked about the parallel in a j2 panel and jred is like "haha yeah that was the intention, amazing how ppl pick up on that" or something. That was one of the instances that led ppl to believe jred was pro destiel which..... hm.

Looking back im not sure if he was serious or if he was mocking the fans for seeing the parallel, bc i can definitely see him do that. But im gonna decide to take him by his word, bc if he WAS trying to just be like 'yeah suuuuure it is haha', then the fact that ppl take his words as confirmation of destiel is probably pissing him off and thats funny.

[sammyhale]

J2 VegasCon 2019 Main Panel

*Reminder: Full answers/more context in vids and gifs <3

J2 jump onstage as fans wave pink hearts from the crowd <3

Jensen: Whenever we come out and do one of those jumps, I always wonder if today’s the day one of us blows a hip. 

Jensen’s microphone keeps making a high pitched sound lol. 

They ask how many first-timers are there. Jensen: Okay, well, I’d like to remind you we’ve been on this show for fourteen years, doing these for thirteen and a half. Where were you??? 

Jared: We are five days into our final hiatus. Jensen: Five days into our hiatus beard!

Jensen won’t shave for a few months.

J2 whispering and Jensen cracking up :P 

Jensen reveals that Jared is wearing a party patch (they help with hangovers). Jared puts his leg on Jensen’s lap and rolls up his pant leg to show the patch lol. 

J2 gave the crew party patches at the s14 wrap party.  

Fan asks if they believe in the supernatural in real-life. Jensen doesn’t not believe in ghosts. First to think there’s a logical explanation. But he’s certainly open to the availability that that 1% could be supernatural. Even though he’s never experienced it in real life. 

Jensen explains the difference between unnatural and supernatural. Unnatural = Jared. Supernatural = us

Norton fixes Jared’s rolled up pants which turns a little dirty, naturally :P 

Fan: Which supporting actors have gone on that have had great careers that you’re still close with? The guest star Jared connects with the most is the girl who played Ruby in season 4 ;) Jensen says they knew Sterling K. Brown was a star when he was on spn, that the Force was strong with him. It’s no surprise he’s had the success that he’s had. Also: Well we’re close to Jeffrey Dean Morgan, even though he hasn’t really done much since spn. He’s still cool. 

J2 ran into Felicia Day yesterday and talked about her daughter aww

Jared watched “Wendigo” recently, named a couple of guest stars (assuming Alden Ehrenreich was one of them ;))

A fan apparently rushed the stage, emotional/screaming and upset about wanting an autograph. Some fans tweeted that she has autism. Fans tweeted that J2, Clif, and Creation handled the situation well. At one point J2 left the stage to help defuse the situation. When they came back out after Jared shouted out: “Our member of the family is having a hard time. We all have had hard times.” He wants us all to be kind. The boys are completely fine. (Some details)

Fan: So after the show, will you continue to shave? Boys: Up here not down there... lol

Jensen: We were talking about Jared’s Viking braids. 

Jensen teased about Jared shaving his head like Borja did yesterday for charity. They said they’d have Misha do it lol. 

Answering sincerely, they acknowledge their look will change a bit, to have their own identities. Jensen:  “Dean is the best imaginary friend I’ve ever had in my life. He’ll be a part of me for the rest of my life. But I don’t have to look like him for the rest of my life.” 

Also: “It all depends on what our wives want us to look like.” lol 

Jared wants to go bowlegged. Asks Jensen how it is, to which he replies “airy.” 

Jensen hopes their relationships with cast and crew will last a lifetime and that is what, quote, “fuels us up.”

J2 are signed to do cons past s15 and won’t end for a while :)  

What is Jared most looking forward to after the show? Getting to know our kids, our wives, and ourselves. Also not shaving! 

Jared: I’m excited to be a dad. Spend more time with the kiddos. Is also excited for the boring.  

Jensen’s never known his wife and kids without the show. It’s been a constant. It’s going to be interesting to see where life goes. He’s excited for the opportunity to spend more time with his kids, wife, and friends. To not get on an airplane.

Jensen: I'm looking forward to but have been happy to have professional opportunities go by these past 14 years in order to tell this story. 

Has anything impacted you (professionally) like SPN has impacted us? Jared says he isn’t sure. Even when “off” we can’t remove our “wigs” like Borja (lol) We’re still working! Always!

Jensen said he and Misha will need vocal therapy after the show to get their voices back to normal. Jensen: I tried to emulate JDM as Dean’s father by speaking with this gravelly voice. I didn’t know I’d been doing this for 15 seasons. I’m a lot older than he was when he played my dad. Jared: Yeah, no kidding!! 

Fan: How do demons deposit sulfur? Jensen: *runs around the stage, making farting noises*

What’s on their bucket lists? And the weirdest thing on there? The fan has an accent that J2 both attempt. Jared says (about the accent): “It’s beautiful and I’m jealous of people who speak better than me, which is everyone.”

We have learned Jared doesn’t have a bucket list. Then he says he would love to go on a helicopter ride. He’s never done it before and it’s the small things. Jensen is unimpressed.

Jared: “What I meant to say was...have a...pet...koala...bear...” Jensen: JUST STOP.

Jensen says, “I want to watch my children grow up.”  

Jared says he can watch his children grow up from the helicopter. Jensen quips, “That’s called helicopter parenting.” 

Jared shakes the fan’s hand and asks where her accent is from, repeating that it’s beautiful. She says, “Yorkshire.” He goes, “no YOU’RE sure.” LOL 

The dad jokes are strong today.

For the final season, this is the first year J2 have said to the writers and producers that they would like to be part of the creative process in the direction and the story of s15. J2 have been invited to the storyboarding with the creators in LA for the final season and definitely want to give their input. They don’t know if they’ll listen, and J2 are prepared for that, but nobody’s lived with Sam and Dean longer than they have. They would love to give input that the show and characters deserve. <3

Jensen: “No one knows these characters more than Jared and I.”

Jared: As a fan of the show, I'd like to offer my input.    

Jensen says they watch the episodes in order to give themselves critical feedback. They don’t read comments on social media re: feedback. 

It’s hard for them to watch themselves as just an audience. Including other TV shows like GOT and This Is Us. 

J2 both loved “Death's Door” then realized we weren't in it much. Jensen: Are we weighing it down? Jared: We're critical of ourselves

Fan: Jensen, you were amazing last night [at the concert]. Jared: Oh, if you think he was amazing last night... :P

Fan asks if Jensen really played piano on Dark Angel and any memories from the show?  It was a little of both Jensen and a pro (close-ups are not him playing). It was a VERY difficult song to learn how to play, Chopin he thinks. He has to think hard to dig up funny stories.

When Jessica Alba gets in the boxing ring (with him) she lined up the punch and hit him RIGHT in the nose. (One of the MANY reasons it’s “so jacked up”) He was too young to say “cut! That hurt!” Realizes he doesn’t do that now, either lol.

Another episode he gets slapped, but the actress wasn’t getting the timing for the fake slap right. She was petite so he assumed it wouldn’t be too bad... But he had a WELT on his face. Whole crew went “oof.”

“Scoobynatural” question for the final scene, how many takes? A small crowd had gathered outside across the street. They’re 20 yards away and can’t hear the regular dialogue. But Jensen knew they would get that last line, and he was embarrassed to say the line because those people wouldn’t know the context. 

Jared: They’re so old they’re animating themselves to be on camera! lol

A fan said she lost her favorite beanie in the Bellagio fountain and was asking on recommendations to get a new one. 

Jared gave his beanie to the fan aww. Then Jensen told Jared that he lost his favorite watch, and Jared immediately took off his watch and gave it to Jensen. Jensen cuddles Jared. Jared then tells Jensen he lost his favorite pair of underwear LOL 

Last question: Fan wants to know where Jensen and Jared went during the “French Mistake” episode.  Jensen says they were at a con. Jared says VegasCon! Or maybe it was Balthazar. But Jensen prefers to think they just didn’t show up for work because “they’re asshole actors.” 

Hugs, standing ovation for the boys, J2 give each other and the fans some love before taking off :) (photo credit: x)

Info via: Fangasm, Sarah,  #spnlv, #spnvegas

[go-diane-winchester]

To all the sweet destiel fans out there

My blog is not a pro-destiel blog.  I am dedicating this post to a very sweet but very frightened destiel shipper who left likes on my posts.  When I messaged her personally to thank her and let her know that I don't hate her ship [I used to ship it myself], and that I am merely dissatisfied with militant hellers [not all the destiel fans] in her group and Misha's influence on slash fiction, her response astounded me.  She said she thought I was messaging her to scold her for liking my posts.  I am a little choked up right now.  I don't want that sweet child to think I hate every single one of them.  So this post is to make a distinction between a destiel fan and a militant heller.

A normal destiel fan is like any other level-headed shipper.  They ship what they want to ship.  They don't ship shame.  They don't send hate to anyone who says they don't like destiel.  They don't try to make destiel happen on the show.  They just take what they get like everyone else.  Destiel is just a cute, harmless ship and the only source of their happiness and existence. 

Hellers have done the following on Twitter:

@yasCastiel [not sure of the spelling]- tweeted a death threat to Jensen for saying that destiel doesn't exist.  This death threat was amongst all the homophobic allegations on the page.

@mishacoIIins - who has 3500 followers was threatening to burn down Jensen's house, poison his brewery and kidnap Jared's children.  The name has three i's, and the first two are capital letters.  The page was reported but because I am no longer on twitter, I don't know what happened.

Tweeted CW and its affiliates demanding to know why destiel isn't canon yet, claiming that the show is run by bigots. - too many to name personally.  They claim to deserve canon destiel, because they have been supporting the show.  What?  Its just a TV show.  A source of entertain.  You are not laboring yourself by watching it and therefore do not deserve any cookies.  The show is the reward in itself. 

When Jensen tweeted the shoes picture to let fans know that he is having twins, one problematic fan asked if he and Misha are having the babies. 

A heller freak called Intelligent Shipper [what a name] stalked the tinhat blogs and then got angry because she wasn't happy with my tagging.  Really, I perused Tumblr for a while before launching this blog, and I noticed that many hellers don't respect the tags.  Destiel is in every tag.  They go into the anti tag to demand why there is an anti.  So I decided to give them what they want.  Attention!

Lua James @Poptivist led her entire battalion of hellers on a crusade to get J2 in trouble because of a joke Jared made at Nolacon.  Oddly enough, they said nothing when Jensen had made the same joke a few cons earlier.  They were angry because Jared had said, rightfully so, that Misha was not a lead, to which the silly lady asking the question about him retorted ''lead support''. What is a lead support?  They are just making things up.  I wonder how embarrassing this is going to be for Misha.  They were very angry because Jared was not given separate panels or fired.  J2 just said sorry and moved on.

Ivana @nowandgen pretends to be Genevieve's greatest cheerlander and fan, but on her own SM she says that Gen confided in her that Jared abuses her and neglects the kids.  Anything to make Jared look bad and boo him right off the show. 

Insist that Dean is bi.  And when Jensen says that he isn't, the hellers say ''oh what does he know.  He is just a talking head.''

There is more but I don't want this to be a long post.  If you ship destiel for fun, nobody has the right to stop you.  Ship what you like, but don't force others to like what you like.  That is stupid.  Yes, there are nuts in every ship.  However, the bullies and strategists and warmongering variety seems to be exponentially more in the destiel section.  Laughing about kidnapping Jared's children is where any decent person will get pissed off, because what did babies ever do to you?

What problem do I have with Misha?  The problem only really started last year.  Before that I loved him, then liked him, then became mildly annoyed and now I cant stand to look at him.  My post ''Misha Collins is not the professor of slash ficiton'' will explain it.  Remember, if you are a militant shipper of any ship, you are making people hate you and those you love.  If you are a normal destiel fan, then don't be afraid of us.  We mean you no harm or ill.  The only ones harming you are hellers.  I am not naming that destiel fan because I don't want them to lash out at her.  Sweetie, if you are reading this, have a wonderful day, and happy shipping. 

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[dimples-of-discontent]

Hi, I'm new to this fandom. I'm cockles fan. What is tinhat?

Hi Nonnie,

First off, welcome! We are happy to have you in the fandom and also here in the dumpster mansion. I’m sure that there are plenty of fandom glossaries etc. that would be happy to give a history of the term’s origins and how its use has changed etc. but I can just tell you how I use it. The notion of a tinhat comes from the convention/joke that conspiracy theorists wear tinfoil hats (either to communicate with aliens or to keep the government out of their head or something…it probably varies depending on your individual conspiracy theorist). The wearer of a tinfoil hat in media/TV is likely to remind you of this guy:

It’s media shorthand for a mentally unstable conspiracy nut who thinks they have access to truth that regular folks don’t (WAKE UP SHEEPLE!).

So, that’s a tinhatter in general. When used in fandom, it’s It’s a term mostly associated with real person ships (RPS…and when they are made into real person fiction, RPF) because they tend to encourage the kind of “I see the real truth!” attitude a little more than fiction, which is deliberately constructed and can be read for subtext that someone has designed. (I’m sure they get used about people that ship fictional characters too though.)

The way the term is used can vary. If used by the person doing the postulating–which is how I use it–it’s kind of self-depreciating and also serves as a disclaimer: “I know how crazy I sound here so if you want to ignore me I totally understand.” If other people use it about you, it turns into an insult, although that’s maybe not universally true. Personally, I distinguish between being a shipper (or fan) and being a tinhat. When I blog about Jensen making a ridiculously sappy face at Misha (which happens a minimum of once a week) I don’t consider that tinhatting because it involves basically no theorizing. He made a doofy face and I point at it and flail. That’s real person shipping (for me).

Once you start conjecturing about the most probable reason behind face-making or clothes-sharing or whatever, then you are getting into tinhatting. It’s a fine line, because I feel that you can (for example) write meta about body language and not be a tinhatter because you’re saying: “Here’s what I see happening” but not “and from that we conclude that they have a secret love nest on set” or “Misha is the baby daddy.” The edges are fuzzy and, for me, have to do with whether you’re making an argumentative claim. “This looks like outrageous flirting to me” doesn’t meet the tinhat threshold. But a post like mine about JIB 7 and how (I think) they fucked right before the panel 100% does. So when I tag for tinhatting here it means that I feel I have ventured away from the realm of observation and idle speculation into making an argument based on conjecture and deductions that have very little real-world evidence.

Other people may use it differently, especially if they think that all real-person shippers are also tinhats. And not all tinhats are created equal, imo. I can give you my personal take on what this looks like in our fandom, but the fact that it’s my personal take means that it is biased and more sympathetic to Cockles. Within our particular fandom, there are the J2 tinhats and the Cockles tinhats. I would say they are “warring” except that, tbh, I don’t see Cockles people fighting with anyone very often. It’s more like when my aunt’s chihuahua used to bite and snap at her Labrador and the lab would just be all good-natured like “Huh? What is even happening?” as the chihuahua got more pissed off. (Again, that’s how it looks to me.) 

I’ve only accidentally encountered J2 content so I can speak super generally, but J2 tinhats tend to believe that their wives are “beards” enabling them to maintain a secret relationship that’s been going since the start of the show. I’ve seen some stuff suggesting that the pregnancies were somehow “fake” and/or at least didn’t involve actual sex (because no one can see those kids and not know they are related to their daddies, ffs) but I’m going to guess that’s pretty “fringe” behavior even in that group. The J2 tinhats are the ones who send the most hate to the wives. Like, it is vile, vile shit. You can find it pretty easily on any of Danneel and Gen’s social media posts (and often on Jared and Jensen’s too). There’s probably (unfortunately) another subset of people sending hate to the wives too who just wish J2 were single so they could indulge some kind of fantasy about dating them (which–guess what!–you can anyway! it’s a fantasy!). But J2 tinhats definitely do hate on their wives, looking for examples of how much J2 don’t love them and how they are in fact each other’s life partners though not ok with being Out about it for PR reasons.

Oh right, and the craziest J2 tinhat theory I ever saw was that Misha is actually a beard (meard, to be exact) to distract from how much Jensen loves Jared. I am not sure how that helps the J2 case, but at least it means they aren’t blind to those hearteyes Jen and Mish exchange. Honestly, there are probably some very nice J2 shippers who do not hate their wives and who think, like Cockles shippers do, that it can all be one happy non-monogamous party. They probably maintain quiet blogs that squee over hugs and head rubs or whatever. They don’t go on Twitter and scream about stuff. But that means I also don’t know that they are out there and that it feels much more like they’re the exception rather than the norm. I’m also not sure the extent to which J2 believers overlap with Wincest shippers or bronlies…probably a lot? This isn’t my area of expertise though.

The norm for Cockles tinhats, in my (fairly extensive) experience is that everyone believes that everything is done consensually and without angst; they love the wives and assume that, even if they’re not actively involved, they fully sanction (and perhaps even instigated) Misha and Jensen’s relationship. They think that they spend some family vacations together (which was confirmed) and that that means they are kind of raising them together. Essentially, the most extreme tinhatty end of Cockles shipping is still best described as “poly bliss” in which everyone is informed and consenting and full of love. I am not sure I’ve seen anyone pro-Cockles suggesting that Vicki and Danneel are beards, though again it may happen in a small and quieter minority. 

I could go on even longer about why I feel like tinhatting Cockles is less of a reach than tinhatting J2, but essentially it just comes down to the fact that a) Misha and Vicki have a marriage that has included a third serious partner before (in addition to including multiple people in bed) but I’ve never heard anything like that about Jared and b) the suggested scenario where the wives are involved and everyone is happy about it seems like it could actually be emotionally sustainable where what is suggested for J2 doesn’t.

I know that’s a longer answer than maybe you were expecting or wanted, but I have been thinking about tinhatting vs. shipping a lot recently so I thought I’d share those reflections. Again, though, this is my interpretation of the term and my way of using it so YMMV. Either way, welcome to the party!

[mad-as-a-box-of-frogs]

Oh fuck oh fuck I’m really angry. I couldn’t stop myself from reading about the Misha/Rachel panel and I’m so frustrated that Misha apparently said pro-m*gstiel stuff. Do you want me to say what it is? I kinda wish I had time to watch the full panel and see what actually happened, but I don’t want to torture myself more.

2/he was probably just being funny but I still feel kinda betrayed. The shippers are talking about how much they feel validated and it bothers me tbh.

3/I love misha so much and I’m not mad at him or anything. I’m just mad at the situation and need to let my feelings out. It reminds me a bit of how bronlies use J2’s misha jokes as “proof” that they don’t like him.

Ahh, I’m sorry, Anon *hugs*

Well, I did a quick twitter search of the accounts I sometimes stalk, and no one mentioned anything specific other than something about a reunion, (which, yeah, I can’t see Misha answering negatively to that :-/), so until I see otherwise on my dash I’m going to assume it’s nothing worse than things he’s said in the past. I mean if you need to vent you can tell me, but otherwise I’m okay living in blissful ignorance, at least for a little while longer :P

I wish I had better words of comfort, anon, but yeah, this situation just sucks. It sucks that the show didn’t treat Meg as a sexual predator in s7/8 to begin with, it sucks that someone wanted a ~titillating~ Meg/Cas kiss in the first place and then they decided to run with it (even as their relationship continued to make less and less sense), it sucks the show left it ambiguous even though it was clear they had no intention of confirming Cas’s feelings towards Meg one way or the other, it sucks non-shippers and some shippers lose their minds every time a destiel question is asked at a con but then you don’t hear a peep when it’s a het ship, and it sucks balls that, even in these #MeToo times, the majority of people still have trouble recognizing acts of sexual assault in television when it’s anything less than full on rape. To be perfectly frank, it’s akin to the frustration of arguing for queer subtext when you can see it so clearly on your television screen, and yet some people still can’t remove their heteronormativity googles. 

It’s okay to be frustrated with Misha, too, I think, just like it’s okay to be frustrated with Jensen when he inexplicably decides to get cagey and say Dean/cas are platonic, so long as that frustration doesn’t spill over. Misha isn’t perfect, and at the end of the day, he isn’t looking to get into a debate with fans, he’s just trying to make everyone happy and leave with a smile. I wish he understood better, but I wish the same for a lot of people. But this is where it becomes really important to remember the ‘Actor’s opinions aren’t showrunning’ hashtag, because whatever comes out of Misha’s mouth doesn’t affect canon, doesn’t affect the current story, and doesn’t affect that in less than three weeks time, we’re going to being kicking off Cas’s grief arc, the narrative structure once again having Dean and Cas mirror each other’s stories, just like they did last season.  Meg/Cas simply don’t have that, even when they did share screen time.

As for the shippers, all you can do is ignore them, the same way you learn to ignore fans that swear~ J2 hate Misha because they tease him, or that Dean doesn’t care about Cas. I mean, they’ve already convinced themselves Cas must have been in love with Meg even though he ditched her completely in 8x17, never inquiring about her fate on screen once...actors’ headcanons are really all they have at this point. 

Anyhoo, this is why I have my The Cast Ships Destiel tag. It helps to remember that Misha generally seems more open to talking about destiel even without being prompted, and that he acknowledges it’s a current theme of the show. You’ll never be able to convince me he doesn’t currently play Cas as in love with Dean.  

Here’s Misha from 5 days ago when he voluntarily brought up destiel during the Bert/Ernie stuff

Here’s Misha going buckwild in Dencon and talking about how he would be the Impala so Dean could ride him and

him talking about how he thinks it’s great the writers can openly talk about it