Rob and the band opened Jared and Jensen's panel with Carry On Wayward
Son - during which, Jensen came out to sing along and the crowd went
wild. Rob let Jensen and Jared join in on the little jump he does to cut
off the band. It was cute.
Jensen and Jared started by acknowledging and pointing out the crew that were standing in the back of the room.
Jensen then immediately commented on how much they were both sweating.
Jared:
"Let's change shirts."
Jensen:
"Ok!"
- But of course they were joking. ;)
(Since
they brought it up though, just to give you a little ambiance for the
room - the theatre is in the basement of the Wall Centre. They have all
the doors closed except for one and there's very very little air
flow...and by that I mean that there's basically none... when you put
around 1,000 warm bodies in that room and then add stage lighting and a
spotlight, a/v equipment, etc... that room heats up like you wouldn't
believe. By the end of the panel, I was slowly dripping sweat just
sitting in my seat - poor Jared and Jensen were on stage under lights...
they were basically slowly melting for the whole panel. This is one
good thing about VanCon moving to the convention centre next year - the
convention centre will have much better air-conditioning and rooms with
higher ceilings to that the warm air can rise away from us.)
Jared
likes to poll the audience to see who is new. He also asked who had
just started watching the show in the past 12 months. A few people
cheered or raised their hands. A fan called out:
"Where have you been?!" which made Jared and Jensen laugh.
They
played Rock Paper Scissors to decide on which question line to start on
first. Jensen dutifully went into character and threw Scissors.
Jared:
"Always with the scissors."
How soon did they mess with Misha?
- Pretty much immediately. They thought he was weird.
-
Jared told us that Misha was in character, so he was sitting there all
serious - Jared did an impression. Then Jensen asked Jared what Misha
looked like when he wasn't in character, and Jared did the exact same
impression.
- Jared
related the story about him and Chad Michael Murray being on the set of
Gilmore Girls (at the mention of Gilmore Girls, Jensen made fun of
Jared, so an audience member made fun of Jensen being on Days of Our
Lives - Jensen recited "Like sand through the hourglass..." in
response) when a tourist group of Canadians came through, he and Chad
were staring at them in wonder, like "Canadians!" and that was basically
how Jared and Jensen stared at Misha the first day.
Back
when Sam was in Stanford, do they think that Sam or Dean ever called, or
had the urge to call, their brother at any time - like when they were
drunk or high?
- Jared and Jensen both got a huge kick out of the fact that the questioner said "or high"
Jared:
"You know you're in Canada when..." (Sidenote:
And I can agree to this, because I didn't think that had been a
weird/funny thing for the questioner to say at all! :P)
- Yes, they
think that the brothers would have wanted to call. Jared thinks maybe
Dean more than Sam, because Dean was still hunting and therefore more
things were happening to him that he might have wanted to talk about.
How do they not bring the work home?
- It's easy after so many years. They have each other and the crew.
- Jensen replied that sometimes after a tough take, they might go get a "coca cola" (quotation marks implied through tone).
-
Jared related the story about how sometimes they do get affected, like
for some reason the scene in Croatoan really upset Jared way more than
it upset Sam.
During that question, Tomas called out "Hi Daddy!" from behind stage. Jared said "Hi Thomas" back with a big smile.
Then Jensen interrupted: "While we're talking about his beautiful son..."
-
Then Jensen related a story from when they arrived today. Thomas
arrived in the green room, but Jensen had just stepped out to use the
bathroom. When Thomas got to the green room and saw that it was just
Jared there, he said "Where's Uncle Jensen?!" and then proceeded to cry until Jensen got back.
Jensen and Thomas then traded "I love yous" from either side of the stage curtain. It was pretty adorable.
Returning
to the question - Jared advised that actors shouldn't use characters to
get rid of their own crap, because if they do, the character dies.
"Ask Rob or Richard!"
Dean once promised that he'd stop treating Sam like a kid, but has he?
- Jensen thinks that Sam will always be Dean's little brother.
- Jared made a protesting noise at the word "little", so Jensen corrected it to "younger."
-
Jared agreed and said that you never really shake those sorts of
relationships. In terms of the relationship dynamics, Jared's older
brother is always going to be his older brother and his father is always
his father, etc.
A baby cried somewhere in the theatre at this point.
Jared:
"Is that mine?"
Nope, another baby.
They often make fun of their movies, but which movie are they most proud of?
-
Jared knows they joke around a lot, but he's actually proud of facets
of all his movies. In terms of watching them though, Jared likes Cry
Wolf, because it was a feature film filmed on a budget that was less
than one episode of Supernatural.
- Jensen's most proud of New York Minute. He loved the level of maturity and thinks that it transcends.
Is Demon!Dean hard to play?
-
Jared got up at this point to poke his head through the curtain at the
side of the stage and talk to someone backstage... Jensen thought it
looked like he was peeing and made jokes.
- Yes, Demon!Dean was hard....
Tomas
came on stage for a second here. Clif put him down just inside the
curtain, and he was brave enough to point to the audience, stick out his
tongue, and then he promptly turned around and asked to be carried out
again.
- Jensen joked that that's exactly how Jared shows up for
"blocking" every morning. Jared dutifully acted it out, including going
up to Jensen and saying
"Carry me!"
Jensen:
"And then I carry him back to his trailer."
-
Back to the question - yes, it was hard, but the crew is very
supportive and they were there to pick up the slack if Jensen did a bad
job.
Jared:
"He didn't do bad at all."
At this point, a
member of the staff put a fan onstage behind the J's chairs. He pointed
it mostly up, but slightly out towards the audience.
Has being on the show affected their own brother/family relationships?
-
Jared answered it's affected him as a parent, because he now has 2 boys
who are going to be brothers, and he wants to teach them what that
means - he thinks he'll be a better father because of the show.
While
Jared answered, Jensen got up and went back to the fan, holding his
shirt out so that the air would blow up it.... from where I was sitting,
I couldn't see the fan, or anything below Jensen's waist, so for a
moment it looked like Jensen was pretending to urinate on the stage and I
was super confused.
- Jensen, once he had sat back down again, said that after 10 years, you're going to learn a lot.
While
Jensen answered, Jared went back to the fan and kind of squat down over
it. Jensen turned to look at him and said "good, right?" and then he
started singing "Heaven isn't so far away..." while the band joined in
for a few bars.
- Returning to the question, Jensen said that the
show also affected his family relationships because he's gone for so
much of the year. He appreciates family more now when he sees them.
How easy is it to jump into character after nine seasons?
- Jensen answered that after 200 episodes it's extremely easy.
-
Jared answered that it pisses off the guest starts, because they can
goof around and then go right into character - whereas the guest stars
can't do that, and they get thrown off guard by suddenly going into a
series scene when Jared and Jensen had just been laughing.
Jensen
then started relating a story about how he was talking to their focus
puller, Matt, at a party - because it was Brad Creasser's (camera-guy,
AD) 50th birthday...
- And since Jensen brought up Brad, Jared and
him had to make fun of the way Brad dances again - giving a
demonstration of his complete lack of rhythm or graceful movement. It
was hilarious.
Back to the story - he was talking to Matt, and Matt
told him that he had asked a recent guest star how she had liked being
on the show. Her reply was that it had been really difficult. Jensen had
been taken aback, because he thought she had a good time. And
apparently, yes, she had a good time, but it had been difficult to act
with Jared and Jensen being goofs.
- They then talked about Misha's line on the upcoming gag reel, where he exclaims,
"They didn't teach me this in drama school!" and Jensen's immediately response was to laugh and say
"He went to drama school!"
- So, Jared and Jensen can really throw off people who need to concentrate in order to act.
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