J2 NolaCon 2017 Main Panel

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• J2 jump onstage!
• Jensen moving the chairs closer together before the panel even starts 🙂
• Jensen doing the Who Dat song for the New Orleans Saints. 
• Jared says the city killed his phone: “I’m trying to navigate to where Jensen is and it won’t work. Saw a lot of the city!” Referring to his adventures last night walking around NOLA. 
• He was wandering around Bourbon Street trying to get cell service: “Searching…my buddy had already left and gone to the hotel.” 
• Jared stopped at a bar for WiFi and someone told him, “Oh, so you’re dressed up as Sam Winchester from Supernatural” and they weren’t impressed when they found out he was the real deal. “So, you dress like him, too?” 
• Since Jared’s phone died on him he got to rediscover what it’s like to walk around a new city without any phone gadgets. 
• Jared says there’s gonna be Alex in the gag reel, and s13′s reel might be really long. 
• J2 hopes that Alex will come to conventions soon!
• Jared says “hazing” and Jensen says “welcome package” on the breaking-in of Alex. 
• Jensen on Alex: It’s the first time they had to wrap me and him (Jared) first so the other person could work lol. 
• J2 to Alex, who was worried about laughing in so many takes: “It’s okay, all your bosses know we’re assholes.” 
• Question about lead roles. Jared: You mean Sam or Dean? You said lead roles. 
• Jared jokes Misha has the best job in showbiz because he barely works and people think he’s a lead. If he could play anyone else it’d be Cas. 
• Lead supporting roles? Jensen: I hear those come in briefs, also. 
• Jensen jokes about Misha’s presence in the black room at the end of 13×03.  
• Jensen, referring to the end of 13×03, says: Misha filmed that last scene in his bedroom. Jared: They took out all the toys…VFX’d away all the toys. Jensen walks away laughing. 
• Jensen would be a wendigo ‘cause he’d be taller than Jared 😛
• Jared jokes that he wants to be a shapeshifter so someone else can play their characters but still get paid. 
• Jared: I’d be a shapeshifter. Oh no, I shift myself… ba dum dum. Jensen tried so hard not to laugh. Couldn’t do it. Instead: “you shifted yourself AGAIN.” 
• Jensen: Dean is in a turbulent state, lots of anger that’s a stage of grieving. You’ll see a transition in Dean about Jack, between now and ep 10. 
• In s2 when Jensen saw the script saying he had to take a crowbar to the Impala he was like nooo. 
• Jensen talks about taking things apart with his hands. J2 are now miming correcting a picture on the wall. 
• During a scene there was a painting that had to be crooked for continuity and Jensen threw something in the scene and it swung into place lol. 
• Jared: How funny would it have been if instead you just stopped and casually fixed it? 
• Trick to emotional scenes? Jared doesn’t lie while acting, he just tells someone else’s truth. 
• Jared: I love Sam! His hair is so great! Jensen: You say his hair is so gray? *makes face behind him* Jared: Dude I can see you! Jensen feigns innocence. 
• Jared: I don’t like the word “tricks” when talking about being emotional. Jensen: I like to use tricks. 
• Jensen: We’ve lived with these characters for so long that we naturally get emotional and no longer have to delve into our own emotions. 
• Jensen is answering for Jared about how they get prepared and into the character’s heads for emotional scenes. 
• “I love these characters…so if they’re going through something, I feel that. “
• Jensen whispered “instinctual” right before Jared did. 
• Jensen talks about how Jared reads script over and over whereas he goes into it more visceral and Jared builds on Jensen’s answer, links to Sam’s tendency toward research versus Dean being more reactive. 
• J2 talking about Kim Manners. Jared: “He set the tone.” He wanted to make sure they had fun making the show. 
• Jensen could talk for a week about how amazing Kim Manners was. 
• Jensen about KM: “He put us on a path to succeed and we’ve been honoring him ever since.”
• Jared: Kim truly cared about people. 
• Jared goes wide-eyed when a baby screams in the audience. 
• Jensen is excited about Stranger Things. 
• Therapy question. Jared to a fellow parent: We also take our kids to a therapist because of our situation. Daddy isn’t around a lot. They want to help the kids understand why he’s not around so much. 
• Gen and Jared go to counseling to learn how to parent the best they can especially with Jared not being around often. 
• Jensen says acceptance is one of the biggest things we’re teaching in his home. Wants to teach his kids that they are loved and they give love. 
• Fan. Hi I’m (name) from (St) Jared: Why did you have to read your name off your phone lol? 
• J2 are fighting again about gif vs jif lol. Jensen: Jif is peanut butter! Gif is on your phone. 
• Jared says single best part of being a celebrity is sending gifs of yourself to non celebrities. Jensen agrees. He loves text battling their friends with SPN gifs 😛 Jared’s fav gif of himself is the L’Oreal ones. Has sent it to everyone he knows lol.
• Jensen: There are a lot of Supernatural gifs. I was like, hey, Jared, we’re popular…
• Jared deferring to gif because Jensen said so. Jensen: Jared can be taught. 
• Fan: First of all I wanna know if you have any single friends? Jensen walks over and points at Stephen . 
• Do you like classic rock? Jensen: I like Big Butts. Jared: He does. 
• Jensen: I named my kid Zeppelin. 
• They’ve been trying to get Metallica on the show since day one. Finally got them this season. 
• Jared: I have put everything I have into Sam. Jensen: makes a surprised/smirky face 😉 Jensen laughs and Jared whispers something, Jensen laughs again. 
• Sam has taught Jared a lot, including how he perseveres. 
• Jared used the word indubitably while answering. Jensen: Did you just say indubitably? We talked about this, you’re embarrassing me. 
• Jensen says there was more of a connection between he and Dean in the beginning seasons but now there’s a separation. Jensen: Sometimes I say, what would Dean do? 
• Jared: Sam’s current position on Jack is how he feels about himself. Sam wants to believe he can be good. So he needs Jack to be good. 
• Jensen talks about directing and how Bob Singer doesn’t need a bunch of notes like Jensen. While Jensen had a complete road map, Singer just had one note, “the ole switcheroo” to remind him of how he wanted a scene to go lol. 
• Jared mentions Will and Grace. Jensen: Who will you be in this scenario? 
• If there was an SPN movie, Jared wouldn’t want to use foul language. Jensen: *horrified face* Jared: I know words longer than four letters 😛
• Fan asks a question about what filming was like for Jensen and Sam Smith when Mary saw Baby for the first time. Jensen is confused, thinking Sam the character. Jensen: The scene took on a different tone in shooting than it had in the script. Jared: for Dean or Jensen? 
• Last question: The scene where Dean sees Mary remembering what happened in Baby wasn’t scripted. That was Bob Singer. 
• J2 thank the fans and give a fist bump before heading off stage 🙂

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