Always handy - sammyhale and spn_sil's summary of the J2 Gold panel from Atlanta con
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Gold Panel by sammyhale:
The boys talk about how every street and business in Atlanta is apparently named Peachtree. They stopped to get directions and a guy told them to go to “Peachtree and Peachtree” and they were like, wait, what?? Jared got a picture of Peachtree and Peachtree lol.
Jensen wouldn’t say no to peach pie.
They are in the middle of shooting episode 250. Peter Roth, the President of Warner Bros. Television, came to Vancouver for the Arrow 100th episode party. Jensen: 100 episode, that’s cute.
They met with Peter and long story short he basically said Supernatural doesn’t have to end if they want it to keep going. Jared: “We’re going forever, guys.” Peter was like, “Listen, if you guys still love it and the fans still love it, then let’s keep doing it.”
The meeting was at 9pm on Friday night. Jared wrapped a couple hours before Jensen, Jensen starts to give him a hard time. Jared: “I stayed awake! I stayed awake. Solidarity.” Jensen: “No, you didn’t.” Jared: “I did! I stayed up, I had a glass of wine, I watched Shark Tank-” Jensen: “I hate you.” Jared chuckles. Basically, they filmed really late into the night on Friday/Saturday morning out in the woods and Jared wrapped before Jensen but stayed up and waited for him to finish. They were still awake and/or filming this time yesterday morning in Atlanta time, so they’re kind of tired lol.
Friday’s work schedule was supposed to be the week prior, but for the first time since the show’s started, they switched the days because of the storm; they flipped-flopped Fridays. They originally had the other Friday off because they were going to actually meet Peter Roth at dinner and “not in our trailer” like they ended up doing.
Supposed to be out in the woods and where they were filming it was huge trees (purgatory) and when the wind (at 60 miles an hour) comes through there it will throw the dead branches and the dead branches come toppling down. They call them widow makers. So they switched the days to stay safe.
It had been raining all week so they were ankle deep in mud and doing fight scenes.
Jared: Anybody else miss the concert last night? Fan: They wasn’t there. Jared: They wasn’t, my fellow Texan right there. Jensen talked about how much Rob and the rest of the cast enjoy being able to do the SNS.
Fan asks about the torture scenes. Jared: the scenes were fun in a sense, he posted a picture of him shirtless with the cuts because of how real the cuts looked. When Jared mentions the shirtless pic some fans were like “Yeah, whoo!” Jared seemed surprised for a second and then put his hands on his hips and started shaking them lol. Jensen: Yeah, you wonder why Peter Roth said we could go forever :P.
Jared starts to say how in real-life the cuts looked incredibly real that if he was walking down the street people would “tackle” him and force him to go to the hospital. Jensen laughs and says yeah, ‘cause that’s what you do. Jared fakes tackling Jensen lol.
Jared mentioned the scenes were taxing. The basement was built on set. Jared was barefooted tackling Toni on the stairwell. Jared praised Elizabeth Blackmore (Toni Bevell) saying she’s amazing, kind, and talented and hardworking, and smart. Impressed with her and how well she did in the fight scenes. His feet got cut up so he was bleeding but said it was fun to “get tied up…” the audience starts laughing suggestively. Jared teasing: How long do you have? I think I need more sleep.
Jared had a similar feeling when they left set yesterday. Says after certain days that are so difficult and so taxing they remember that’s why they do what they do.
Jared turns to Jensen: Mr. Ackles?
Jensen talking about the scene when Dean was looking at the pictures at the end of the ep: Did you see the empty beer bottles? Jared: They weren’t fake. Jensen: I was pretty drunk lol. “Alright, alright, alright” :P
Jared was on set on Thursday during the second ep, they were filming a late night again. The scene happens with Sam bringing Mary tea in the bedroom and Jared gets a text from his real mom saying: You never bring me tea. And then he gets a text that just says, Leslie? Jared was confused thinking she was texting someone else, too. His mom texts: Mary Winchester said she doesn’t know your first crush. Was yours Leslie? Jared: Yes it was. Jared’s mom: Haha, I know you better than Mary Winchester. Jensen: Two points Sherri.
J2 talk about how they first met at the test session. Jared saw Jensen: “That’s a cute little guy. Put him in my pocket.” Jokes about Jensen being 6 foot plus and still being called little compared to Jared. Jared tells the story about when Gen first came to set and thought Jensen was huge and then a crew member was like, you should meet the big one! Gen: The big one?!
Jensen: “The friendship kicked off pretty quickly. There certainly was a comfortability that he and I had with each other right off th