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asyouleft managed to score a gold ticket from someone right before the con and sold me her general admission ticket on Friday night. Yay! This is the first year I was able to attend more than one day of the con.
Richard Speight
The first guest of the day was supposed to have been Jake Abel, but he had to cancel at the last minute for what Creation said was a major audition. I was disappointed because I really wanted to see his panel, but I wish him luck in getting the gig. Plus, he was replaced by Richard Speight, who was a lot of fun.
Richard came out and announced that he'd been afraid of us last year, but now he was prepared to embrace the madness. He also said this was the second time he'd replaced another guest at the last minute, so his face wasn't on the banner again. He then joked about having a batphone for Creation to call him to come save the day whenever any guests canceled.
He then asked for questions by saying, "Do you have any 'Q's that I can 'A'?"
We did. He loved "Changing Channels" and was especially impressed with all the homework the cast and crew of Supernatural did to get all the genres of TV shows they were mocking right, from the acting styles to the set design to the cinematography. They basically made 6 different TV shows for that episode.
He was just as surprised as we were to find out the Trickster was actually the archangel Gabriel, but he considers it a promotion. Also, to avoid confusion, he thinks his character should be called "Trabriel" from now on.
He initially believed that the Trickster was teaching Sam & Dean a lesson that would help them avert the apocalypse in "Mystery Spot," but now that he knows the Trickster was always Gabriel, he thinks Gabriel was actually teaching Sam & Dean an apocalypse preparation class. He thinks that Gabriel was trying to teach them how to let go of each other because one of them is destined to die.
When he got the script for "Changing Channels," he decided he had a lot of homework to do because he hadn't seen any episodes since "Mystery Spot." Sam's demon blood addiction and the apocalypse were all news to him.
He has no idea when or if he'll be back to play Gabriel. He hasn't been contacted about another episode yet.
He was shooting a movie called Crave in Detroit the night before when Creation called him to fill in for Jake Abel. Everything backstage was still labeled with Jake's name. At one point, Richard looked out at the audience and said, "Jake, if you're watching this on YouTube, I killed your cheese plate."
A fan thanked Richard for coming to fill in. He replied, "Thanks for being here, because it would be weird if you weren't."
If he could be stuck in any TV show à la "Changing Channels," he would choose 30 Rock. Or possibly Judge Judy because he likes to watch her yell at people. If he could have chosen another show for them to spoof, he would have picked Jericho because that show took itself so seriously.
A fan from Malta that he's met before asked him a question in Maltese just so he could fake being bilingual for a second and say 'no'--'no' being the only word he knows in Maltese.
His biggest fanboy moments were when he saw Michael Stipe in a hotel lobby in Ireland (Richard is a huge R.E.M. fan) and when Keith Richards walked past him in a hotel lobby in Los Angeles.
The ring of fire that trapped Gabriel was almost entirely visual effects. They used a bar that produced a gas flame for the close-ups so the audience could see the heat waves and a little bit of flame, but the flames in the long shots were all added in post-production.
A fan jokingly took Richard to task for being so mean to Castiel in "Changing Channels." He gave the most exaggeratedly fake "sorry" ever.
A fan asked him what he would be doing if he weren't an actor and how he would like to see God portrayed on the show, which he summarized as, "What's your favorite food, and define time." (For the record, he'd probably be a lawyer like his dad, and he has no idea on the God thing.)
As usual, the pranking question came up. This time Richard told a story about a prank that wasn't. He found a pair of well-used pumpkin-colored men's bikini briefs folded up on the counter in his trailer. At first he thought they'd been left by an actor who'd been playing the Trickster in disguise, but that actor had left him a thank you note and 2 beers. Then he thought Jensen and/or Jared were pranking him, but when he confronted them, they had no idea what he was talking about. So he finally signed his name on them and pinned them up in the production office. He later found out they were Misha's. Misha Collins had spilled soup all over himself while in costume, so the wardrobe people had laundered his clothes right down to his underwear, which someone then left in the wrong trailer. Richard went back to the production office, took down the underpants, wrote 'this underwear smells like Cas' on them, and pinned them back up again.
Aldis Hodge
Aldis Hodge was the second guest of the day. Apologies to all Aldis fans, but most of the questions were about Leverage, which I don't watch. All the character names and plot points meant nothing to me, although it was interesting to find out that the pilot for Leverage was shot here in Chicago. (Yes, I'm a local; I didn't fly in for the con.)
He's not a computer geek, but he is a geek when it comes to anything with gears. He loves to take things apart to see how they work, and he likes to design watches.
If he had a chance to be on Supernatural again, he'd like to come back as a demon Jake so he could annoy Sam. "Ha ha, I killed you."
He'll be in the episode of The Forgotten that airs Nov. 17.
He loved shooting his fight scene with Sam in "All Hell Breaks Loose Part 1" because he'd never done anything that elaborate before with the wire work and catapults. On the not-so-fun side, they were shooting at night in February in the freezing rain.
A fan asked him that if his life were a movie, what kind would it be and who he'd have as his leading lady. He didn't know about the genre, but he immediately said his leading lady would be his girlfriend. The audience 'aww'-ed at him, and he joked that he wished his girlfriend had heard his answer. Someone suggested he call her, so he did. She was shopping in New York and he got her voicemail, but she called him back a second later. He held the phone up to the mike so she could say hello to us, then told her about the last Q&A question. We couldn't hear her, but he demanded brownie points. Then he held the phone up to the mike so she could say good-bye to us. She was a very good sport about the whole thing.
Jim Beaver
He greeted us with his usual, "Hello, idgits."
He was wearing a T-shirt with Bobby's apocalypse philosophy on it: Kill 'em all--Let God sort 'em out. He said he once wore a T-shirt just like it to a party back in the Vietnam War era in an effort to be hip and cool and ironic. He wound up being introduced to an actress he had a huge crush on, but she was not amused by the shirt.
A fan asked if Bobby was in a wheelchair because of his original injury, or because of something Zachariah did to him. Jim's first response was, "Because he's lazy." Then he said he didn't know the real answer. The writers haven't told him.
One of my favorite Q&A exchanges of the day was this one:
Fan: "I'm glad you didn't die."
Jim: "You're glad? I got a kid to feed."
He said making Harper's Island was weird because the whole cast knew one of them was the killer, but none of them knew which one, including the actor playing the killer. Jim had to be really careful not to be too nice in case he was the killer, but not too sinister in case it wasn't him. Then he joked it was his second show in a row where he only had one scene with Katie Cassidy. He also said he had to sign more confidentiality agreements when he worked on Harper's Island than he did when he worked with classified information in the Marines.
In response to a question about who Pamela Barnes would haunt, Bobby or the Winchesters, Jim said Pamela wasn't the grudge-holding type.
He's planning to appear at the second All Hell Breaks Loose Con in Australia next May.
At one point, Jim started getting a little warm, so he took off his denim jacket. Whistles and catcalls followed. Jim looked at us like we were idiots and pointed to himself, then to the pictures of Jensen and Jared on the stage banner, then back to himself and shook his head at us. Then he joked that the boys talked in such low, growly voices on the show because they're holding their guts in.
His younger sister Renee was in the audience, and he gave her a hard time about her not knowing he was in Supernatural because she watches the competition--Grey's Anatomy.
He takes Bobby being in a wheelchair very seriously. He wants Bobby to have to deal with the reality of it with no magical cure because there are millions of people around the world who would also love to get up out of their wheelchairs, but they can't.
When asked how he would like to see the series end, Jim said in 2028 with Bobby being shot to death by a jealous husband.
Jim has done a lot of different kinds of writing (books, plays, TV scripts), and he says he prefers writing plays to writing TV episodes because when you write for TV, you're writing someone else's vision, not your own.
In response to a question about what he'd be doing if he weren't acting, he said he'd be picking up trash in a Bombay slum.
Someone asked a question about his book (Life's That Way), and the audience applauded. Jim's response was, "A lot more of you can read than I thought."
If Jim were to direct an episode of Supernatural, Jensen & Jared wouldn't be in it. "They're hard enough to act with."
At this point, Misha Collins stuck his head out on stage to berate Jim for not wearing a tie and treating the occasion of his panel with the respect it deserved. (If you're not familiar with Misha, he has a very dry sense of humor.)
Jim recently had a small part in the movie The Legend of Hell's Gate opposite John Wayne's grandson, Brendan Wayne. They really hit it off and had a lot of similar interests, so they decided to exchange contact information and keep in touch. That's when they discovered they'd been living across the street from each other for the last 6 years without knowing it.
Jim's favorite episode is "The Curious Case of Dean Winchester." He said that working with Chad Everett wasn't much different from working with Jensen, and he described Everett as the World's Hottest 72-year-old and the World's Oldest 16-year-old.
He was a little bothered that Bobby was suicidal about being in a wheelchair. He wants Bobby to have the strength to suck it up and deal with it because "life's that way."
His favorite death on Harper's Island was his own because it was meatier drama than he'd done in awhile, but he also liked Cal & Chloe's death scene (I didn't; I wanted them to survive and get married, dammit).
Misha Collins
So, if you're looking to get to know Misha a little better as a person, this is not the panel for you. He has a facetious BS answer for almost every question, which he delivers with an utterly straight face. In fact, I'm not sure I can do him justice here because the deadpan humor doesn't quite come across in print. Just take my word for it that he's hilarious and not an insulting jerkface. And take absolutely everything he says here with a grain of salt.
As soon as the cheers died down from his entrance, I got my second favorite exchange of the day:
Fangirl: "I love you!"
Misha: (pause) "That's awkward."
Fangirl: "Sorry!"
He immediately opened up by defending the honor of his pumpkin-colored underpants, which he refused to describe as bikini briefs.
In Castiel's earliest appearances in the script, his true voice was deafening people and blowing out windows, so Misha decided he needed to go with a tougher voice than his own for the angel.
When asked where Gabriel sent Castiel when he was banished in "Changing Channels," Misha answered "a swap meet."
Misha wound up being an associate producer on the documentary film Loot because the director was his best friend from high school.
His favorite Muppet characters are Statler and Waldorf (the critics who sat up in the balcony on The Muppet Show).
If he couldn't be an actor, he would...not be a yoga instructor.
Future Castiel from "The End" was scripted, not improvised. Misha joked that it's a little known fact that there really are two Jensens and they alternate filming episodes. Misha says that one of them is a notably better actor than the other.
This was quite possibly my favorite part of the whole weekend. I sincerely hope that someone filmed it (not that anybody would do such a thing, because that's against con rules ::nods solemnly::) and puts it up on YouTube because it was hysterical. An Aussie fan asked him how he'd liked Australia when he was down under for the All Hell Breaks Loose con. Misha immediately said he hated it and, when asked to clarify, said it was the people he disliked more than anything. He said all the negative stereotypes about Australians are true, and since he never saw a single kangaroo while he was there, he's convinced the entire country was built on lies. But, yes, he could deign to make an appearance at the next con. Seriously, go check YouTube or the Super-wiki for video of this. I gave myself a headache from laughing so hard.
Misha's favorite part of playing Future Castiel in "The End" was researching and preparing for the orgy. He's very method like that.
As Castiel continues to become more independent, Misha would like to see him become more politically conservative to bring in the Fox News crowd. Then he apologized for his brain.
When people joke to him about Castiel wearing the same old suit and trench coat, they don't realize it really is the same old suit and trench coat, which are not laundered as often as one might expect.
A fan asked him what question Misha would like to ask us, so he started in with 'How did you become a fan? How old were you when you knew that's what you wanted to be? What would you be doing if you weren't a fan?' and other paraphrases of questions fans had been asking him and the other guests about being an actor.
Someone asked the dreaded fan fiction question, which made the whole audience groan. Misha thought that was hilarious. He said that every time he hears the phrase "fan fiction," it's followed by that same groan, like the con equivalent of canned laughter. Then he asked how we knew he wasn't reading gobs of fic and leaving comments on the quality of the writing under a pseudonym.
When asked which project he'd like to go back and revisit now that he's a more experienced actor, he chose his kindergarten play. He played the spider who sat down beside Little Miss Muffet, and he thinks he could really do the part justice now.
With all the other "out of the box" episodes Supernatural has done, Misha thinks they should do a musical next.
At this point, Richard Speight got up on stage to rag on Misha about his pumpkin-colored underwear some more. Misha tried to defend it (and himself) without much success. After Richard left the stage, Misha stared off into space for a minute, then said, "I'm just trying to remember what self-respect feels like."
Misha is going to be insulted if Castiel never gets to drive the Impala because Dean lets Sam drive it.
Someone commented on the chemistry between Dean and Castiel. Misha said it was ironic that it appeared that way on screen when he and Jensen are actually prevented from being in the same room by court order when they're not working.
The next questioner was really, really nervous, so Misha reassured her with, "Don't worry. I only make people feel really bad."
He said he and Jensen and Jared had all gotten on the phone and tag-teamed Kripke, begging him to remove the whoopee cushion scene from "I Believe the Children Are Our Future" because it wasn't funny. Then they went to film the scene and couldn't stop laughing the whole time.
He had initially planned a career in politics and had wanted to be a senator, but his White House internship was so excruciatingly boring and disillusioning that he completely gave up his plans for a political career.
When asked for spoilers for the next episode, he said it rained a lot during filming. (In Vancouver? No!)
When asked which he'd rather play, Sam or Dean, he said he'd have to play both to keep the level of acting up.
Wow, that turned out so tl;dr I'm not even sure I would read the whole thing. And this was only Saturday. Stay tuned for the Sunday report.
asyouleft managed to score a gold ticket from someone right before the con and sold me her general admission ticket on Friday night. Yay! This is the first year I was able to attend more than one day of the con.Richard Speight
The first guest of the day was supposed to have been Jake Abel, but he had to cancel at the last minute for what Creation said was a major audition. I was disappointed because I really wanted to see his panel, but I wish him luck in getting the gig. Plus, he was replaced by Richard Speight, who was a lot of fun.
Richard came out and announced that he'd been afraid of us last year, but now he was prepared to embrace the madness. He also said this was the second time he'd replaced another guest at the last minute, so his face wasn't on the banner again. He then joked about having a batphone for Creation to call him to come save the day whenever any guests canceled.
He then asked for questions by saying, "Do you have any 'Q's that I can 'A'?"
We did. He loved "Changing Channels" and was especially impressed with all the homework the cast and crew of Supernatural did to get all the genres of TV shows they were mocking right, from the acting styles to the set design to the cinematography. They basically made 6 different TV shows for that episode.
He was just as surprised as we were to find out the Trickster was actually the archangel Gabriel, but he considers it a promotion. Also, to avoid confusion, he thinks his character should be called "Trabriel" from now on.
He initially believed that the Trickster was teaching Sam & Dean a lesson that would help them avert the apocalypse in "Mystery Spot," but now that he knows the Trickster was always Gabriel, he thinks Gabriel was actually teaching Sam & Dean an apocalypse preparation class. He thinks that Gabriel was trying to teach them how to let go of each other because one of them is destined to die.
When he got the script for "Changing Channels," he decided he had a lot of homework to do because he hadn't seen any episodes since "Mystery Spot." Sam's demon blood addiction and the apocalypse were all news to him.
He has no idea when or if he'll be back to play Gabriel. He hasn't been contacted about another episode yet.
He was shooting a movie called Crave in Detroit the night before when Creation called him to fill in for Jake Abel. Everything backstage was still labeled with Jake's name. At one point, Richard looked out at the audience and said, "Jake, if you're watching this on YouTube, I killed your cheese plate."
A fan thanked Richard for coming to fill in. He replied, "Thanks for being here, because it would be weird if you weren't."
If he could be stuck in any TV show à la "Changing Channels," he would choose 30 Rock. Or possibly Judge Judy because he likes to watch her yell at people. If he could have chosen another show for them to spoof, he would have picked Jericho because that show took itself so seriously.
A fan from Malta that he's met before asked him a question in Maltese just so he could fake being bilingual for a second and say 'no'--'no' being the only word he knows in Maltese.
His biggest fanboy moments were when he saw Michael Stipe in a hotel lobby in Ireland (Richard is a huge R.E.M. fan) and when Keith Richards walked past him in a hotel lobby in Los Angeles.
The ring of fire that trapped Gabriel was almost entirely visual effects. They used a bar that produced a gas flame for the close-ups so the audience could see the heat waves and a little bit of flame, but the flames in the long shots were all added in post-production.
A fan jokingly took Richard to task for being so mean to Castiel in "Changing Channels." He gave the most exaggeratedly fake "sorry" ever.
A fan asked him what he would be doing if he weren't an actor and how he would like to see God portrayed on the show, which he summarized as, "What's your favorite food, and define time." (For the record, he'd probably be a lawyer like his dad, and he has no idea on the God thing.)
As usual, the pranking question came up. This time Richard told a story about a prank that wasn't. He found a pair of well-used pumpkin-colored men's bikini briefs folded up on the counter in his trailer. At first he thought they'd been left by an actor who'd been playing the Trickster in disguise, but that actor had left him a thank you note and 2 beers. Then he thought Jensen and/or Jared were pranking him, but when he confronted them, they had no idea what he was talking about. So he finally signed his name on them and pinned them up in the production office. He later found out they were Misha's. Misha Collins had spilled soup all over himself while in costume, so the wardrobe people had laundered his clothes right down to his underwear, which someone then left in the wrong trailer. Richard went back to the production office, took down the underpants, wrote 'this underwear smells like Cas' on them, and pinned them back up again.
Aldis Hodge
Aldis Hodge was the second guest of the day. Apologies to all Aldis fans, but most of the questions were about Leverage, which I don't watch. All the character names and plot points meant nothing to me, although it was interesting to find out that the pilot for Leverage was shot here in Chicago. (Yes, I'm a local; I didn't fly in for the con.)
He's not a computer geek, but he is a geek when it comes to anything with gears. He loves to take things apart to see how they work, and he likes to design watches.
If he had a chance to be on Supernatural again, he'd like to come back as a demon Jake so he could annoy Sam. "Ha ha, I killed you."
He'll be in the episode of The Forgotten that airs Nov. 17.
He loved shooting his fight scene with Sam in "All Hell Breaks Loose Part 1" because he'd never done anything that elaborate before with the wire work and catapults. On the not-so-fun side, they were shooting at night in February in the freezing rain.
A fan asked him that if his life were a movie, what kind would it be and who he'd have as his leading lady. He didn't know about the genre, but he immediately said his leading lady would be his girlfriend. The audience 'aww'-ed at him, and he joked that he wished his girlfriend had heard his answer. Someone suggested he call her, so he did. She was shopping in New York and he got her voicemail, but she called him back a second later. He held the phone up to the mike so she could say hello to us, then told her about the last Q&A question. We couldn't hear her, but he demanded brownie points. Then he held the phone up to the mike so she could say good-bye to us. She was a very good sport about the whole thing.
Jim Beaver
He greeted us with his usual, "Hello, idgits."
He was wearing a T-shirt with Bobby's apocalypse philosophy on it: Kill 'em all--Let God sort 'em out. He said he once wore a T-shirt just like it to a party back in the Vietnam War era in an effort to be hip and cool and ironic. He wound up being introduced to an actress he had a huge crush on, but she was not amused by the shirt.
A fan asked if Bobby was in a wheelchair because of his original injury, or because of something Zachariah did to him. Jim's first response was, "Because he's lazy." Then he said he didn't know the real answer. The writers haven't told him.
One of my favorite Q&A exchanges of the day was this one:
Fan: "I'm glad you didn't die."
Jim: "You're glad? I got a kid to feed."
He said making Harper's Island was weird because the whole cast knew one of them was the killer, but none of them knew which one, including the actor playing the killer. Jim had to be really careful not to be too nice in case he was the killer, but not too sinister in case it wasn't him. Then he joked it was his second show in a row where he only had one scene with Katie Cassidy. He also said he had to sign more confidentiality agreements when he worked on Harper's Island than he did when he worked with classified information in the Marines.
In response to a question about who Pamela Barnes would haunt, Bobby or the Winchesters, Jim said Pamela wasn't the grudge-holding type.
He's planning to appear at the second All Hell Breaks Loose Con in Australia next May.
At one point, Jim started getting a little warm, so he took off his denim jacket. Whistles and catcalls followed. Jim looked at us like we were idiots and pointed to himself, then to the pictures of Jensen and Jared on the stage banner, then back to himself and shook his head at us. Then he joked that the boys talked in such low, growly voices on the show because they're holding their guts in.
His younger sister Renee was in the audience, and he gave her a hard time about her not knowing he was in Supernatural because she watches the competition--Grey's Anatomy.
He takes Bobby being in a wheelchair very seriously. He wants Bobby to have to deal with the reality of it with no magical cure because there are millions of people around the world who would also love to get up out of their wheelchairs, but they can't.
When asked how he would like to see the series end, Jim said in 2028 with Bobby being shot to death by a jealous husband.
Jim has done a lot of different kinds of writing (books, plays, TV scripts), and he says he prefers writing plays to writing TV episodes because when you write for TV, you're writing someone else's vision, not your own.
In response to a question about what he'd be doing if he weren't acting, he said he'd be picking up trash in a Bombay slum.
Someone asked a question about his book (Life's That Way), and the audience applauded. Jim's response was, "A lot more of you can read than I thought."
If Jim were to direct an episode of Supernatural, Jensen & Jared wouldn't be in it. "They're hard enough to act with."
At this point, Misha Collins stuck his head out on stage to berate Jim for not wearing a tie and treating the occasion of his panel with the respect it deserved. (If you're not familiar with Misha, he has a very dry sense of humor.)
Jim recently had a small part in the movie The Legend of Hell's Gate opposite John Wayne's grandson, Brendan Wayne. They really hit it off and had a lot of similar interests, so they decided to exchange contact information and keep in touch. That's when they discovered they'd been living across the street from each other for the last 6 years without knowing it.
Jim's favorite episode is "The Curious Case of Dean Winchester." He said that working with Chad Everett wasn't much different from working with Jensen, and he described Everett as the World's Hottest 72-year-old and the World's Oldest 16-year-old.
He was a little bothered that Bobby was suicidal about being in a wheelchair. He wants Bobby to have the strength to suck it up and deal with it because "life's that way."
His favorite death on Harper's Island was his own because it was meatier drama than he'd done in awhile, but he also liked Cal & Chloe's death scene (I didn't; I wanted them to survive and get married, dammit).
Misha Collins
So, if you're looking to get to know Misha a little better as a person, this is not the panel for you. He has a facetious BS answer for almost every question, which he delivers with an utterly straight face. In fact, I'm not sure I can do him justice here because the deadpan humor doesn't quite come across in print. Just take my word for it that he's hilarious and not an insulting jerkface. And take absolutely everything he says here with a grain of salt.
As soon as the cheers died down from his entrance, I got my second favorite exchange of the day:
Fangirl: "I love you!"
Misha: (pause) "That's awkward."
Fangirl: "Sorry!"
He immediately opened up by defending the honor of his pumpkin-colored underpants, which he refused to describe as bikini briefs.
In Castiel's earliest appearances in the script, his true voice was deafening people and blowing out windows, so Misha decided he needed to go with a tougher voice than his own for the angel.
When asked where Gabriel sent Castiel when he was banished in "Changing Channels," Misha answered "a swap meet."
Misha wound up being an associate producer on the documentary film Loot because the director was his best friend from high school.
His favorite Muppet characters are Statler and Waldorf (the critics who sat up in the balcony on The Muppet Show).
If he couldn't be an actor, he would...not be a yoga instructor.
Future Castiel from "The End" was scripted, not improvised. Misha joked that it's a little known fact that there really are two Jensens and they alternate filming episodes. Misha says that one of them is a notably better actor than the other.
This was quite possibly my favorite part of the whole weekend. I sincerely hope that someone filmed it (not that anybody would do such a thing, because that's against con rules ::nods solemnly::) and puts it up on YouTube because it was hysterical. An Aussie fan asked him how he'd liked Australia when he was down under for the All Hell Breaks Loose con. Misha immediately said he hated it and, when asked to clarify, said it was the people he disliked more than anything. He said all the negative stereotypes about Australians are true, and since he never saw a single kangaroo while he was there, he's convinced the entire country was built on lies. But, yes, he could deign to make an appearance at the next con. Seriously, go check YouTube or the Super-wiki for video of this. I gave myself a headache from laughing so hard.
Misha's favorite part of playing Future Castiel in "The End" was researching and preparing for the orgy. He's very method like that.
As Castiel continues to become more independent, Misha would like to see him become more politically conservative to bring in the Fox News crowd. Then he apologized for his brain.
When people joke to him about Castiel wearing the same old suit and trench coat, they don't realize it really is the same old suit and trench coat, which are not laundered as often as one might expect.
A fan asked him what question Misha would like to ask us, so he started in with 'How did you become a fan? How old were you when you knew that's what you wanted to be? What would you be doing if you weren't a fan?' and other paraphrases of questions fans had been asking him and the other guests about being an actor.
Someone asked the dreaded fan fiction question, which made the whole audience groan. Misha thought that was hilarious. He said that every time he hears the phrase "fan fiction," it's followed by that same groan, like the con equivalent of canned laughter. Then he asked how we knew he wasn't reading gobs of fic and leaving comments on the quality of the writing under a pseudonym.
When asked which project he'd like to go back and revisit now that he's a more experienced actor, he chose his kindergarten play. He played the spider who sat down beside Little Miss Muffet, and he thinks he could really do the part justice now.
With all the other "out of the box" episodes Supernatural has done, Misha thinks they should do a musical next.
At this point, Richard Speight got up on stage to rag on Misha about his pumpkin-colored underwear some more. Misha tried to defend it (and himself) without much success. After Richard left the stage, Misha stared off into space for a minute, then said, "I'm just trying to remember what self-respect feels like."
Misha is going to be insulted if Castiel never gets to drive the Impala because Dean lets Sam drive it.
Someone commented on the chemistry between Dean and Castiel. Misha said it was ironic that it appeared that way on screen when he and Jensen are actually prevented from being in the same room by court order when they're not working.
The next questioner was really, really nervous, so Misha reassured her with, "Don't worry. I only make people feel really bad."
He said he and Jensen and Jared had all gotten on the phone and tag-teamed Kripke, begging him to remove the whoopee cushion scene from "I Believe the Children Are Our Future" because it wasn't funny. Then they went to film the scene and couldn't stop laughing the whole time.
He had initially planned a career in politics and had wanted to be a senator, but his White House internship was so excruciatingly boring and disillusioning that he completely gave up his plans for a political career.
When asked for spoilers for the next episode, he said it rained a lot during filming. (In Vancouver? No!)
When asked which he'd rather play, Sam or Dean, he said he'd have to play both to keep the level of acting up.
Wow, that turned out so tl;dr I'm not even sure I would read the whole thing. And this was only Saturday. Stay tuned for the Sunday report.
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Date: 2009-11-18 06:21 am (UTC)From:And that man is a nut. I mean that in the best possible way.
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Date: 2010-04-07 02:57 pm (UTC)From:And Hi byt the way ;P I'm the French fan who looked stupid asking the prank question at Misha with my accent during that convention^^''' I'm looking for other Chicagos buddies ;p
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Date: 2010-04-07 10:58 pm (UTC)From:Don't worry about your accent. Your English is way better than my French.