JIB Jared's Meet & Greet transcript
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amberdreamsI confess - it was me who said that stuff about Sera, and me who complained that we only got an arm in that shower scene....
Jared's Meet & Greet
J; Hello! Is this my chair? [IND] Hi guys. Anyone's first time? Welcome, welcome, welcome. [staff brings him a bottle of beer & opens it] Usually I can open my own. So, hi. Did y'all just have Jensen? Was he good? Was he boring? [something about Jensen being tired?]
F: [something about lack of sleep]
J: I am. I've still been spoiled because Gen is breastfeeding and so I'm kind of useless. I can change a diaper and burp him and I think [Gen's] really in love with little Thomas, so she's like, 'I'll change his diaper and burp him myself' [laughter] and she won't wake me up. And we wrapped a week ago, so -
F: Have they come with you, or have you left them at home?
J: They didn't, because I go straight from here straight to Brazil and they were going to come with me if it was just to Rome, but to go to Brazil they suggest you get yellow fever, diphtheria, malaria [vaccinations]. They suggest lots of things that as an adult I'm fine with – and I have because we went to Machu Pichu for our honeymoon – but I didn't really want to give [vaccinations] to him yet because he'll be six weeks old on Monday and I don't want to put a lot of shots in him. I'm not super anti- vaccine, I'm vaccinated, but we're trying to read up on everything before [IND]. It's really not worth it to lug him everywhere. He's still really young also, so we flew to Austin from Seattle [IND] and it was great, but then we can kind of trick him by not breastfeeding him until we take off so that he feeds and then sleeps for those three hours essentially. We don't know about [taking him on] a twelve hour leg where he wakes up and we're just waiting for him to find his own rhythm. They're coming to Paris in a month.
F: And Birmingham?
J: No, I'm not, no.
F: You're coming to Birmingham, aren't you?
J: No. (Wayne at Rogue) knows that.
F: Well, you've been announced.
You're still on the list.
J: Wow. I will talk to Wayne. As soon as we found we were pregnant we didn't sign up for any more, because we knew that we -
F: (Rogue) announced it AFTER [the pregnancy announcement]
J: Well, I'll have to call Wayne.
F: Because down in Australia we were wondering if you were going to come down and we kind of figured not because the weekend before you were going to be in Birmingham.
J: No, I'm not because [Gen's] brother is graduating in Boston, from college. Oh no. Well, I'm not. I'm sorry, I'll try to figure out who -
F: You have a group of fangirls who are on the internet and will spread the word.
J: Yeah, thank you guys. Well, please, yeah, spread the word because I'm not [going].
F: [something about him being on the A5 guest list as a bonus guest]
J: We told [Wayne] way back when that we'd like to but we'd play it by ear, that we probably weren't [going to attend], but I guess that means – [IND] oh man. I'll talk to [Wayne]. As soon as we found out we were pregnant and also we haven't been picked up yet, even though they hired a new showrunner. We figured you don't hire someone new when you're going to fire [the cast & crew], I'll talk to [Rogue] but please, Moosekateers, do whatever you can to spread the word. I don't want anyone getting disappointed. But we're just gonna stay with Thomas and stay at home.
F: The thing is, you don't get that time [with the baby] back and it's gone so fast.
J: Yeah, it's gone really fast. He's gone from this 8lb 6oz funny looking bruiser kid to… he lost a little weight then he gained a bunch of weight. I was supposed to fly here a couple of days ago [IND]. I was supposed to leave LA on Wednesday and on the way to the airport he was being super cute and smiling and not crying, not pooping, just sitting there [with his eyes] following you and every time I talked he looked for me. And I was like 'I'm not leaving this right now, am I?' So I moved my flight because I wanted to stay with him as long as possible. Yeah, he's being really cute, and then he'll fart and he'll smile. [laughter]
F [something about Thomas taking after his father on the farting front]
J: Precisely my point! And if there was any question, he's certainly Daddy's Boy. [laughter]. So, what were we talking about? [says something to his JiB minder]
F: Jensen said to say you’re to stop pulling Misha's pants down.
J: [laughs] Oh yeah. Well, he'd been gone for so long, I had to do something to him. The reason was, I had been in [hospital pants] for however long for [The Born-Again Identity] and they feel so -
F [something about how he made them look really nice :-)]
J: No, no! They're also the [kind of] pants you can't do anything for, so as soon as it was [Misha's] coverage, I just leaned my foot across and [mimes pulling down Misha's pants with his foot] and he was like, 'Yup, my pants are at my knees and I have to [say my lines?] Forget it.' Yeah we try to mess with him [IND]. Who has seen the latest episode?
F: About 20 minutes ago! [laughter]
J: Did you really?
F: [something about how awesome Felicia Day was and how they should have her back]
J: We're definitely trying. She's so funny, she totally just comes in and fits along with the crew. She's like a Misha. And we're like, 'She's rad, she's gotta stick around.' So we're trying, but she has a bunch of stuff going on. She has internet [shows] going on [IND] and she's one of those girls that has about fifteen projects in a day.
F [something about Dr Horrible's Singalong Blog]
J: Is that the thing she's got going online?
F: No, it was a thing with Neil Patrick Harris and Nathan Fillion. YouTube it.
J: Really? Neil Patrick Harris was in my dream! [laughs] Wait a second. [thinks] He was. That's the weirdest thing that you just said that, because I didn't remember [he was in my dream] until – I swear to God.
F: [IND]
J: You're messing with my mind! Who was I walking down the street with? I was walking down the street with a friend or something and then we looked in one of the TV [stores?] and HIMYM [was showing] and we were watching it and looked around and he was walking past us and we were like, 'Hey, Neil! Good job!' And he was like, 'Hey guys,' and he comes over and starts watching it. [laughter] It's the weirdest thing. Sorry, I never remember my dreams. But then when you fly, you're in this kind of odd sleeping/awake state – sorry, as per usual I've wandered off. But the episode [The Girl With The Dungeons and Dragons Tattoo] was good?
F: [general affirmatives] Robbie Thompson's brilliant. You should keep him.
J: I know, we really loved him. What do you think about DJ [Qualls]?
F: Awesome
J: He's like an old-school Tennessee boy. And so, he comes on set and he's very nice and soft-spoken and we were totally ripping on him and being, like, Jared and Jensen and teasing on him and he's like, 'wait a second! Y'all guys are mean!' and we were like no, we're not, we're not, but we loved having him around, he's a good [IND].
F: [something about the Twitter Wars between him and DJQ]
J: Every now and again if I get the chance I'll [beat on?] him on Twitter.
I flew through Washington on the way here and I had two cool plane experiences. I flew from LA to Washington -
F: You didn't push any buttons? [reference to Jared's train 'incident' in Europe last year]
J: [laughs] I didn't push any buttons, I know better than that! But I saw the Shuttle. It was sitting right there on the tarmac. [IND] And then flying into Rome we saw the Costa Concordia [the cruise ship that ran aground off the Italian coast earlier this year] sort of half underwater. Y'all seen that? If you fly west of here you can totally see it. You can see what happens when the pilot of a boat stops paying attention.
F: And what happens when the Captain is the first in the escape boat.
J: I know. Crazy.
F: Douchey. [laughter]
J: [IND] I do love the coastguard though [that took part in the CC rescue]. [He said to the CC captain] 'You scared 'cause it's dark? Get back in there, you - !' I was like, 'Yeah! That's a good, strong Italian man!' [laughter] [to fan] Sorry, go ahead.
F: [something about the season finale]
J: The season finale. Okay, I'm gonna try and not spoil it. As per usual, it opens up some doors, closes some doors. It's very sad, in my opinion, but I think it's strong. We were worried because we heard how the season WAS going to end and neither of us was very excited about it. And then [the writers] ended up changing it. And now it feels like they've set up a story that needs to be told. And I hope that at the beginning of next season we'll take advantage of [IND].
F: So can you tell us how it WAS going to end? The option they didn't go down?
J: I could, but it's gonna ruin it. I know this because my brother and I when I was in high school went to see The Patriot, with Mel Gibson. And on the way out there was a line for The Patriot and [his brother Jeff] was just being goofy and [as he] was walking along he was like, 'Man, I can't believe they killed Mel Gibson!' And the people just looked at him and he said, 'I'm just kidding with y'all,' and walked off. So, if I tell you what DOESN'T happen, you'll know what DOES happen. And I remember the look on [Jeff's] face, he felt so bad, he was like, 'I can't believe I did that!' We'd both seen the Simpson's episode where there's some people waiting in line for Star Wars and Homer Simpson comes out and goes, 'I can't believe Darth Vader's his father!' [laughter] Jeff was just trying to be like that. So now if any of y'all haven't seen The Patriot, I'm very sorry. They do kill him! [laughter] I should have prefaced this by saying 'if you haven't seen The Patriot and you wanna see it sometime soon, cover your ears!' Now you know. But the point is, I'll ruin it if I tell you. But we have how many episodes left? Two? Three. It's strong. I think it's going to be half – how can I say this without ruining it? As per usual with Supernatural you don't want to tell people anything that's gonna happen in case it ruins it. But there are gonna be tears.
F: Mostly yours.
J: Mostly mine. [laughter]
F: Do you think we have any left?
J: Tears? [laughs] Depends what season you've been watching lately. If you've been watching The French Mistake, that was a funny episode. But yeah, it's exciting. It's something we're very excited about. We're really given an opportunity to do something, and I hope we do it next season. Twist that in your moustaches. And no one has any moustaches here.
F: Just a question about the writers. When you get scripts, it tells you who it was written by. Is there any particular writer when you see their name you go 'YES! This is gonna be good'?
J: Yes. Ben Edlund, obviously. And Jeremy Carver was another one and now he's gonna run the show. So that is really cool. Funnily enough, I always felt that way about Sera. But Sera's gone now and that's sad. But in my opinion she wrote very Sam-centric episodes. I wish she had been able to do more of that while showrunning. So I hope that now that Jeremy Carver's going to be running the show, it doesn't take away from what he was able to do as a writer. I think when you're writing one or four episodes a year, you can have fun and just worry about that. And Ben came back and directed again. Has anyone here met Ben Edlund? Or seen him?
F: Seen him on video.
J: As kooky and crazy as his writing is, and seems really off-the-cuff, he's very thought process-oriented. So it's almost frustrating for me as an actor when he's directing. I'll be like, 'Ben, right now I'm saying, 'hand me that Astro Nazuro,' can I say 'Can I have an Astro Nazuro' instead?' And he'll be like [mimes BE thinking hard] 'I'll be back.' [laughter] And I'm like, 'But it's saying the same thing!' He has to go process it. Because I think he has it all in his head. His wacky little head. And he's like [mimes arduous thought process] 'but – there's a cog – wheel – missing – yeah, okay, that's fine.' And I'm 'Of course it's fine, I'm saying the same thing!' [there was a little more Jared on a ramble loop here, saying the same thing again :-)]
[JiB staff says only 5 minutes remaining]
F: We only get 20 minutes.
J: 20? Really??
F: [asks if he thinks Sera will still write for the show]
J: No, I don't. I'm not saying this in a mean way but I think she's gonna jump ship. I think for her it makes a lot of sense. She started out with Sophie Raelle Tucker, went from one half of a writing team that sold two scripts to Supernatural to a staff writer to a showrunner. And now thanks to you guys – which I think she knows – she wins two PCA's on a show that she took over. So this is where she can go do whatever the hell she wants to do. Not roll in dollar bills, but she can go say, 'Listen guys, I was one half of a guest writing team, then I ran the show, and in the last two years we won 3 PCA's and we [just got renewed for another season]. It's a big achievement and she can write for anyone she wants to [IND]. Even though she's been running the show, it's still Kripke's baby, we're still living in Kripke's world. And he's always watching [IND] to see if it's going alright. So I don't think she'll run the show again or write for the show again. But I think good for her. It's one of those things that is very good, sad but [IND]. But I don't know about y'all guys, but I'm very excited to see the show [with JC in charge].
F: Are you still in contact with Sera? If you were, just to let her know that all the bitchiness in fandom [towards her], it's only a small minority that actually felt like that. Most people are really sorry to see her go. We're very happy to have Jeremy Carver come in, but -
J: I will, I will.
F: I think she should know that everybody's proud of what she's done. The fact that she came in as a woman [and achieved that], it's great.
J: Yeah. She came in as a woman and ran a completely male show. I will tell her that. It's very intimidating sometimes - even for me and I'm one of the two [lead] guys on the show – to look at what's going on online or in articles or whatever [IND]. But that having been said, coming to these [cons] puts things in perspective. My favourite team is the Dallas Cowboys and I've probably said I hate Tony Romo's guts more than anybody in the world. But he's my quarterback, so I love him. I only say [I hate him] because he dropped [the ball], but I still root for the Cowboys, still interested in the Cowboys, and you only hate on the one's you love, right? [laughter]. But I will say that. I'll say that I went to a foreign country and people were very happy with what she did and are sorry to see her go. Off the record, I wish she'd always been an excellent writer instead of showrunner because selfishly, I always felt that her episodes were really good for Sam. Ben Edlund has always written funny Dean episodes because he has that funny, quirky mind that [thinks it's] fun to see Dean in certain situations. But Sera always had my heart. I felt certain episodes she wrote really delved into Sam.
F: [something about him taking his shirt off in Sera's episodes] [laughter]
J: Yeah. Y'know what, I teased her during the summer [before S6?]. I was like, 'I guess I'm gonna be taking my shirt off a lot more!' And she never made me take my shirt off again! [laughter] I think she was like 'oh my god!' Maybe she didn't even really notice before. But we joke also because there's a writer – I forget which one – who always has Dean take HIS shirt off! [it'll say in the script] 'Dean gets out of the shower' and 'Dean is tying his shoe without a shirt on' [to fan] What was that?
F: We only got an arm!
J: Y'know what, I think that was logistics. That was at the end of the season when we're picking up shots from different episodes and so they didn't have time to do his [tattoo]. It was 'hey, we're filming this scene in the car and now we can sneak in this shower scene in this location because the sun's going down. And [Jensen's] like,'I have to have this 30 – 40 minute application' and [they said] 'Uh, just pull the shower curtain across and do this'. It was just one of those hectic days on set when you have to do five days' work in four different locations.
[JiB staff interrupts to say time's up.]
J: That's so quick.
F: Is it your choice or your stylist's to have your sideburns take over your face? [laughter]
J: Well, now it's a beard. It's certainly not my choice. Maybe to my discredit, I don't take a whole lot of control over Sam's look, his wardrobe, his hair -
F: [IND]
J: I know! And I'm like [strokes his sideburns] 'Is there food in there?' [laughter] So every now and again I'll feel like they're getting a little bit – a lot – unruly.
F: It's amusing.
J: For me too. It'll be a couple of episodes later and I'll go to the truck to do ADR as we're filming and I'm like, yep, that's a helluva sideburn! [laughter] So I'll go back to makeup and hair [IND] 'that's gonna air next week and it's like Saturday Night Fever or something!' Alright guys, see ya!
