J2 TorCon 2016 Main Panel
Jared runs around hugging Rob, Louden Swain, and Richard. Rob grabs Jensen in a hug while he waits lol.
13 years ago today Jared was here shooting the “Oscar award winning New York Minute” lmao. Jensen: What category did it win? Jared: All of them.
Jared says this is the last panel before the s12 premiere :) Fun episodes coming up. Glad to be with the fans again getting a “morale boost” before going back to work this week and the premiere airing on Thursday.
Jensen says they’re trying to figure out names for the Twins and he threw a suggestion of a name at JJ and JJ said, “How about no.” He didn’t know how to respond to that. It was like pride and heartbreak all at the same time lol.
If Cas were to enter their lives sooner, how would it be different? Jensen: Cas didn’t need to come into their lives any earlier than he did. They weren’t dealing with the war between heaven and hell yet, demons weren’t as much of an issue back then. The boys joke he would have been unnecessary so “really no different.” “Yeah, really no different than it is now.”
Favorite thing to kill on Supernatural? Jared: my future wife. Jokes that whenever he and Gen argue he’s like, this is because I killed you isn’t it? Jensen wants to say vampires are fun to kill, but it’s also difficult and messy technically. Picks the wendigo. They also talk about the bees in “Bugs.”
Is it hard to balance family life and work life? Jared: Yes. Jensen: Let’s just say that’s it’s very imbalanced. Jared talks about how he was just talking with Chris about this and how it’s nice to go home and play with the kids and their chickens, etc. But he’s glad that his kids see how much Jared works and that his and Jensen’s success in this industry comes from that hard work and some sacrifices they have to make.
Jensen says it’s great Jared has chickens because it means he doesn’t have to get them now lol.
Jensen tells a story about when JJ was just a few months old, they were at Jensen’s in-laws house and he picked JJ up and started bouncing her above his head and she puked all over his face. Danneel comes in and was like, “Oh my gosh, don’t move!” She ran to get a camera lol.
Jared had a similar experience. Jensen: My daughter threw up all over his face, too! Jared said he was playing with the kids and Tom threw up on Jared. Said it was an interesting thing to experience having another human throw up on you but not being really grossed out by it because it was his kid. Jared also talks about how Jensen hasn’t been lucky enough to experience changing a diaper on a boy yet and how you risk getting peed on lol.
Jared to Jensen: I’ll give you some peepee teepees for the twins. Jensen: I have some. They’re bigger. Jared: Just slightly lmao
They’re only allowed 8 days to film each episode, but there are a few scenes that have taken a long time to get through. Jared and Taylor had a major giggle fest in “Provenance.” In the gag reel you can see Jensen in the background like, really?
They talk about Jensen’s incident with the fire that they talked about in the gold panel and how Jared laughed at Jensen’s reaction (link to the story in the gold summary: x)
Jensen’s go to reaction around famous people that he admires or is a fan of is to just run or walk away. For two reasons: he doesn’t know how he’s going to handle himself, and he doesn’t know how they’ll respond and he doesn’t want his view of them ruined. To preserve both of those things he avoids at all costs.
Jared doesn’t get that way with actors because they feel like his peers. He’s worked with some amazing actors and actresses, including Jensen. He does freak out with musicians, pretty infamously, when he’s around them. Jensen says that he has had to pull Jared from situations when he’s fanboying to prevent him from making an ass out of himself lol.
Jared is a researcher, wants to know everything about what he’s doing, just like Sam does. That’s something Jared and Sam have in common, that desire to learn, especially when they’re passionate about something.
Jensen on what’s similar between him and Dean: Awesomeness. Then Jensen says he tends to put others before himself a lot and Dean does the same thing.
Favorite part about filming in Canada? Jensen talks about how Sam and Dean tend to be layered in coats - wouldn’t work as well in Phoenix or anywhere south. So he appreciates the weather because it keeps them comfortable. Jensen loves the word “toque” that’s used in Canada.
Jared’s favorite thing about Canada is the news and how there can be something very serious going on the news, but the next segment will always be about hockey or something super positive that they spend more time on instead of the serious news lol. He and Jensen joke around about that.
The fan asking a question has a dodgeball (cosplaying as gym teacher Dean) and Jared asks about their aim. Gives her permission to hit him from where she’s standing. Ball hits him and when it bounc