2012-03-04,http://www.examiner.com/article/25-fascinating-facts-from-the-burbank-salute-to-supernatural-convention-burcon,LA-Con,” Giant posters of Jared Padalecki (Sam Winchester) in a white tank top will bring a lot of bids at auction – $475.00 to be exact (see photo gallery left).
Jensen Ackles (Dean Winchester) believes the series will probably end when Sam and Dean retire to a home in Florida.
Jared broke his wrist in season two while trying to break his fall to keep from landing on a stunt man. The injury became part of the episode. Jared underwent surgery on the wrist, and confessed it took a lot of drugs to put him under.
Although Sam Winchester, as we learned this season, has a phobia of clowns, portrayer Jared actually likes them and even had a clown-themed bedroom as a child. Jensen, on the other hand, is creeped out by clowns thanks to Stephen King’s It. If confronted by one, he would shoot it.
Jared never stops smiling and thanking fans, no matter how many photo ops, autographs, charity breakfasts or panels he has been through that day.
Jensen looks great, even after smashing his face into his own birthday cake, presented during his panel.
The books in Bobby Singer’s library, according to portrayer Jim Beaver, are mostly books on Canadian tax law. So if any of you need your Canadian taxes done…
Misha Collins revealed that, for several years, many Supernatural episodes used old sets left over from The Watchmen, which was filmed in Canada. The set has been deteriorating badly, however, and the Canadian Fire Marshall finally told them no more.
Jared only eats salads in episodes because he finds it a nightmare to eat in a scene. The writers decided early on that Dean will eat anything, at any time, which is why he is always eating in scenes.
According to Jensen, the reason the scar from Castiel’s hand noticeably disappeared from Dean’s arm in this season’s episode Splice Girls, is due to Castiel healing Dean of all wounds at the end of season five. In reality, he says, it disappeared because the show’s crew forgot about it before filming him with his shirt off.
The boys, as fans call them, enjoy a bit of reality TV. Jensen watches The Biggest Loser as it changes people’s lives, and Jared watches Top Chef, especially this year as it is in his home state of Texas.
Jensen thought Misha Collins was a little weird when he first met him.
If Supernatural were a board game, Jared and Jensen decided it would be Clue. Says Jensen, Sam Winchester in the bathtub with a rubber ducky.
When Jensen was asked why girls never last on the show, he replied that their fans, mostly female, don’t like them to be with other women. So you asked for it, you got it. We’re alone and only have each other.
Jared and his wife, Genevieve, are expecting a baby any day. Fans call the impending arrival Moose Baby, Mini Moose or Padababy.
Jared and Jensen are both ready for their famous Impala to return. The show has spent $20,000 refurbishing it.
When the audience was polled on whether they would like to see a pairing of Castiel and Dean, there was a larger round of applause than one would think, though not as large as those against it. If you’re wondering, there is a group of shippers (short for relationshippers) of such pairings, including a relationship between brothers Sam and Dean. Really. Google it.
While the CW has yet to announce there will be a season eight, Padalecki and Ackles were both feeling good about the chances. They are still in the midst of filming season seven, which will have 23 episodes, with shooting set to end in April.
Plans are, if the show is renewed, to have a shorter hiatus before season eight to allow for more episodes. While unspoken, it seems obvious they want to be ready for the possibility that season eight may be their last.”,
http://all-spn.livejournal.com/1692207.html – Jensen let Jared walk out alone. Now you know how it feels. #burcon (Cha’s note: because Jared was late and Jensen had to go out alone for breakfast at first.)
– if SPN was a board game would it be? JP: Twister. JA: Clue; Sam Winchester in the bathtub with a rubber ducky. I win.
– JA: To be honest, we don’t really take rehearsal that seriously.
– Before Jared worked with Misha he asked Jensen about him. Jensen told him: He’s good, he’s good, but he’s weird.
– After Jensen’s 1st con (Asylum) he called Jared and told him: dude, we need to do more of these; people actually like us!
– Jensen: how do we bring in more male viewers? Hot chicks. Unfortunately that made all of YOU mad – Jensen: (On the musicians): We support them, but we aren’t their booking agents.
– Jensen: I was acting… We’re actors. It’s what we do.
– Jensen is fake-laughing. It’s adorable.
– Jared is sitting on the stage sulking because everyone keeps asking Jensen questions
– Jared is making noise so we don’t hear the question for Jensen.
– Sam eats salads because Jared does not like eating on camera.
– ared: I think Sam would never have let Dean kill that Ruby chick. I think he would devise some kind of cage apparatus.
– Jensen says that the writers would have reshot the shirtless scene with the handprint there, but they decided that Cas healed it.
– Jared isn’t afraid of clowns. Jensen: Oddly enough, they scare the hell out of me… I would shoot them now.
– Jensen: Wait, you’re pregnant? Jared: I know, I’m barely showing. – Jared turned his chair around and Jensen asked What are you doing? You’re making me nervous
– Jared: raise your hand if you can’t hear us…then why are you all raising your hand?
– Jensen talking about game Clue: It was Sam Winchester in the bathtub with a rubber ducky.
– Glitter bomb scene was done late at night. Jared was not happy. The laughter was acting. They demonstrated.
– Jensen: Supernaturalpalooza. His reaction to fan asking about having all musicians play together.
– Jared just called Jensen Dean
– Jensen hurt his elbow on the bottom of the tombstone in All Hell Breaks Loose. He was in severe pain and wanted to cry thru the scene.
@Mokibobolink
– Jensen says he’s never stopped getting butterflies before he performs but he thrives on it
– You mean when will Dean stop having to wear the stupid costumes? Yeah I’d like to know that too. -Jensen Ackles
– I just peed a little! – Jensen when first seeing Misha act out the scene when Cas was taken over by Leviathons.
– How much fun is it to watch them do everything right? – Jensen, about the boys making many mistakes in their lives.
– New funniest moment of the con: the guys each pantomiming birth. Too hard to explain why, but trust me – Jared checks Jensen’s teeth.
– Jensen discussing live theatre…he loves the rush of a live crowd.
– Jared : PUDDING!!
– Jared is happy Dean is always wearing the costumes
– Who were you most excited to have back after death? Jared : Pretty happy when Sam came back…
– J2 want Bobby, Cas, Chuck, John, the wendingo back…not the clowns.
– Most awkward fan experience? Someone said Double hug me , Jared thought they said something else. (Jensen dies…)
– Jared : the boys shouldn’t take their own advice, cuz that would be boring.
– Jen discussing Misha’s Cas voice & how weird he thought it was.
– Jared : Jensen thought Misha was REALLY weird when they first met…made them nervous
– Dark Angel question : what was it like playing 2 characters? Ben was bad, so he played bad. Alec was good but cocky
– Jared is upset next question is for Jen, so he knocks over his chair and sits pouting on the floo
– Jen : I’m Batman. Jared : yeah, you’re batman.., #Burcon
– Jen doing impression of us : Get this sluts away from our boys!!!
– Best kept adlib? SON OF A BITCH!! Also Dean EATING constantly…
– Guilty pleasure shows? Jen is proud to say he’s never seen Jersey Shore. Jared likes Top Chef.
– Jen likes Biggest Loser cuz Alison Sweeny hosts, and because it’s helping people.
– 1st con experience? Jared : s1, had no idea what to do/say, cuz it was an all included panel. They wanted Gilmore Girls stuff
– Where’s the handprint? 1) Cad healed it in Swan Song or 2) the TRUE STORY — They FORGOT! says Jensen
– If Dean could go back, he’d never had gone to Lisa & Ben. Jared: Sam wouldn’t let Dean kill that Ruby chick…
– Jared : Maybe the handprint is now on Sam. (Jen puts a hand on his butt.)
– What ep would you NOT have done? Jared : ep where he broke his wrist. Jensen : the PE outfit.
– Signature dance move? Jen: I get on the dance floor & leave when music starts. #Burcon
– Last one! How do YOU want it to end? Jared: Blaze of glory, or it was all a dream
– Jen : Sam & Dean retire to a home in Florida. On a beach somewhere.
– Jared say/s fans inspire them back. Gen & Jared are gonna match the donation!!!
– Richard is bringing up a birthday cake!!
– Jen trying to avoid looking at the cake…Rich won’t let him!!
– JEN SMASHED HIS CHIN INTO THE CAKE and Jared did likewise!! “,
http://www.thewinchesterfamilybusiness.com/archive-articles/33-con-reports/16905-salute-to-supernatural-in-burbank-con-2012-report-jared-and-jensen-breakfast.html
09:30 We were expecting the boys at 9 am, but as what often happens with these guys 9 am had come and there was no sign of them. We were told they were on the way, leading to a nice rush to the ladies room. Yes, coffee at 7:45 will do that.

About fifteen or twenty minutes later, eventually Jensen came on the stage. Only Jensen. He looked a little awkward, trying to explain why the taller guy next to him was missing. It seems that Jared had sent the car sent for him to Jensen, thinking Jensen didn’t have a car. As Jensen explained it, he got Jared’s car, and Jared must be walking.
Re: Jared’s very pregnant wife Gen. We were told later in the photo ops line by their bodyguard Clif that Gen is more than ready for this kid to come out, but she’s still waiting.

Jensen started talking about a dinner party that Danneel threw for his birthday when Jared came in. Jensen only had to wing it a few minutes. Once Jared got settled, taking off his usual con beanie cap, Jensen continued the story. Jared and Steve Carlson were there. The chef that was hired was pretty hot looking and the guys were really enjoying watching her prepare food. Yes, the smile on Jensen’s face when he told that story was priceless.

They took an unofficial poll of who in the crowd lived in Burbank and who lived out of town. A lot were from out of town. Jensen said he lived in Burbank when he first moved to California.

Someone shouted how disappointed they were that Bobby was dead. The guys agreed, but Jensen did think that “Death’s Door” was one of the best episodes of the series. Then someone shouted out People’s Choice and they thanked us for that as well.

Jensen was having issues with the position of his microphone. So he lowered it. To his crotch! Oh yes, that got a room full of ladies howling and cheering. Naturally, Jared had fun with this. “Ah, the stories he could tell.”

Season 8. Jensen said they wanted to come here with some news and asked, but couldn’t get any official word yet. However, they’re really confident.
Are they going to do movies this summer? No, they learned their lesson after season four. It was too exhausting, especially when they’re shooting into mid April this time because of the 23rd episode. That gives them a shorter break. Plus, Jared has his hands full right now.

Someone asked Jared if he and Gen have a name for the baby yet. Nope. They’re gonna wait until the baby is born. Jensen said he wasn’t named for 3 days.
Jared was asked a Longhorn question.

When will the Impala be back? They start shooting episode 20 tomorrow, and there’s no sign of her in that one. Jensen is not enjoying all the different junker cars they’ve been sticking him in. He really feels bad for Dean.

Will Danneel ever be on Supernatural? Jensen doesn’t see it happening.

A fun discussion evolved from that trying to explain the show to people. Both guys couldn’t give it a simple summary. The first season was so simple, it started with two guys in a car taking on urban legends. Now, they can’t explain it. Jensen even demonstrated his usual reaction of shaking his head and fighting for words when trying to come up with something. Jared said someone would ask are there angels. Yes, but not right now. What about the devil? Yes, that was him for a little bit. Are there vampires? No, but we’ve had those before. They’ve done it all.
Jared and Jensen have recently recorded an audio commentary for “Slash Fiction.” It’ll be part of the S7 DVD set. This is the first time since season one that they’ve done an audio commentary.
Jared told the story about how he had to have surgery to repair his broken wrist. They were filming “No Exit.” He was under anesthesia the day before but he went to work the next day anyway. He was pretty doped up. He had fallen down some stairs and was having trouble with the scenes, so they told him to lie down. He goes to his trailer, falls asleep and a few hours later they wake him to tell him he’s wrapped for the day. He went home and when he woke up the next morning, he didn’t remember the last 36 hours.

What are their dream cars? Jared’s is a Generation Two Corvette. Jensen delivered the quote of the breakfast, for he only has one dream car. There’s a certain car I do want but I have to wait until a certain show is over and get it in my contract.
They were on a very tight schedule the whole day and running late hadn’t helped any. The autograph line as it was ran in power signing mode.”,
http://www.thewinchesterfamilybusiness.com/archive-articles/33-con-reports/16924-one-crazy-awesome-sunday-with-the-js-part-2-jared-padalecki-meet-and-greet.html
10:00 30 minutes of dimples and sweaty adorableness.
Jared was late. That was the story of the day, He was late for the breakfast, late for his meet and greet and late for the autos! There is something totally adorable about his lateness. Because, apparently, he’s all arms and legs and energetic exasperation when he’s late. He came in the door of the meet and greet room looking a little, flustered, apologising and of course, blaming Jensen. He plonked himself into his seat with a “Hi guys how y’all doing” and proceeded to ask us what was happening. Now I’ve never done a Jared meet and greet before and though I’ve had photos with him and come up close in the autos, I must say, being right in front of him while he chatted away, I was struck by how completely lovely he is. This, of course, should be no surprise. But I don’t know, I was still sort of taken a back by his prettiness (yes this is how my meet and greet reports go). He has the prettiest damn eyes and really long eyelashes and of course, those dimples and that smile. Straight away he said he had his phone in his pocket and if it went off, he’d have to sprint from the room because he was on baby alert. I thought to myself, man that’d be a long flight back to Gen! The woman would have to cross her legs until her husband arrived! Talk about stress! God love him for still attending so close to their due date. I mean, really. God love him! Anyway, thankfully, no call. So we had Jared for the full 30 minutes (plus a bit because he didn’t want to stop talking.)

He was holding a drink when he came in and someone asked him if it was a beer. Quick as a whip he came back with “No it’s Bourbon” or maybe he said whiskey, I get those two confused. Then he said, “Nah, it’s Coke” and we all happily giggled and breathed a sigh of relief that we hadn’t driven him to drink at 10.30 in the morning!
The whole thing was very relaxed and casual. I love how laid back the meet and greets are. They’ve a lovely, easy vibe. I find I become conscious of the fact I’m smiling like crazy. I sometimes wonder if I look a little bit like the Joker! But I just can’t help it. There I am and there he is and….yay!
Jared talked a lot about season seven and the death of Bobby and Cas. Neither of the boys liked that very much. He spoke about how he and Jensen would love a reset, so that all their favourite ‘dead’ characters could come back. He said, “Dallas did it.” I thought….nooooo, no Dean in the shower….wait….hang-on….I may be rethinking this…. Ha! Apparently he and Jensen have discussed this concept of a reset a bit. They’ve even mentioned it in passing to the Powers That Be. I interjected and told him there was a lot of talk about this reset idea online, that maybe season seven was Dean’s dream or Sam was still in Hell and six and seven were Sam’s Hell dreams and that people were looking at weird time references and numbers as evidence to support this theory. He was pretty impressed by the fandom’s over thinking! He really digs the idea that maybe Sam really is still in Hell as Lucifer keeps taunting him, but when asked if he thought Sam was actually crazy or still trapped in the cage, he thinks it’s going to pan out that Sam is simply crazy, he’s not sure, but he thinks that’s what the writers are heading towards. Though he definitely sounded like he’d prefer the alternative scenario. He said that if they did a reset and go back it could probably only be one season because they can’t go back too far, what with the guys looking a bit different and all. He might have to trim those sidies…he didn’t say that but I was thinking it! He talked about how in “Repo Man” the only thing they could really do for the flashback was put him in Sam’s old Pumas! I don’t think we even saw Sam’s feet did we?
Someone asked what his most shocking moment or episode was and outside of Bobby’s death, he said it was when they got the script for Houses Of The Holy. He said he and Jensen literally stormed the Vancouver production offices and sent everyone out while they rang Kripke to give him a blast, thinking Eric was trying to use them as a mouthpiece for his personal views. Of course, once Eric explained all, they were cool with it, but he said he was very worried about that episode, as he didn’t sign on for that kind of show. He doesn’t care about people’s beliefs but he doesn’t want to be put in a position where he has feels like his own beliefs are being compromised.
Then he got all hot and said he was burning up. We all nodded internally. He jumped out of his chair doing that shirt shake thing he does and moved across the room to try and adjust the air conditioning. When that failed, he unbuttoned his shirt….revealing a v-necked t-shirt underneath………….I’m proud to say, none of us yelled “Take it off”, at least not in our out-loud voices. A few minutes later a big “whirrrr” noise kicked in, so I guess someone sorted the air out for our hot daddy to be. I was pretty happy they didn’t do it earlier!
He was very candid about Dawn Ostroff and how, well, he just didn’t like her. He said he could say that now that she’s gone! We all nodded in agreement. On the flipside, the boys do like Mark Pedowitz. Mark loves the show and went up and visited the boys on set, something Dawn never did. He said she barely even knew whom they were when she went to the 100th episode party. But Mark is a fan. Apparently he didn’t like the Bobby being killed scenario either, mainly because as a fan of the show, he likes the Bobby character and didn’t want to see him go, but he said to Jared, beyond his personal opinion, it was good TV. I agree…as sad as it was, it was damn good TV. Jared said that Mark Pedowitz nearly had a falling out with his boss at CBS because of the People’s Choice fiasco. He ended up taking out $30,000 worth of online advertising to congratulate Supernatural on their win. They seem to like him. I do too. He likes the show. He looks TV. He wears jeans to functions! Very TV. He’s obviously a smart cookie.
Jared also talked about how excited he is for season 8. He said he thought they’d get 8 and probably a 9 or maybe a truncated 9, like One Tree Hill. I got the definite vibe they are thinking about the end game, as I guess, at this point, they would be. I got that from Jensen too…but I’ll get to that.
Someone asked him whom he most admired and he said, his dad. He says his dad just can’t lie. He always tells the truth and Jared really looks up to him for that. He said he has that same gene, the truth gene, though sometimes it gets him in trouble. He used the example of a pregnant Gen asking him if she could still get away with a certain pair of pants, to which Jared replied “Ahhhh wellllll….”. Gen said, “This is when you lie!” Bless! He said how she’s not a girlie girl, she’s just a “chick”, but since she’s been pregnant she’s been much more girlie, because something is going on inside with hormones and he was all like, I have no clue what that is! Waving his hands around in confusion. It was really very sweet.
And then there was the dag thing. In Australia and New Zealand, dag is a term of endearment. If someone is kind of adorable and goofy, we call them a dag. Jared right? So Hazel and I always call Jared a dag. He’s a total dag! Hazel and my question was, did he hear a lot of odd colloquialisms because of how he deals with so many international fans, and Jared said, oh yeah. We then went on to say; well we called you a dag and he didn’t know what that was, so we gave him the literal translation. Amanda, also from Australia, was a couple of chairs over and trying to crawl into a hole as she asked us not to tell him! You will have to Google it, I’m not telling you what it is. But Jared upon hearing the translation was laughing and saying, “Oh yeah I get called names like that all the time, like shit-head and asshole and douche-bag!” We were like, nooooo it’s a nice term, it’s an endearment, honest! He was laughing. We thought he’d appreciate it because he likes words and he has a sense of humour. Then we got into a weird conversation about how dude is actually the word for camel’s balls….I don’t know how that happened! Anyway, it meant that from then on, every time Jared saw either Hazel or I he called us dags….which is kind of awesome.
There was probably more, but I can’t remember all the questions. It seemed to go by very quickly. Jared digresses, so when you ask him a question, he goes off on a tangent. One question can end up going a few different ways and go on for a while. The thing that struck me the most was how at ease he was. I don’t know why I should be surprised by that, these guys are so laid back, but it makes for a really enjoyable and easy experience. He was totally relaxed and so very nice. What a nice guy he is. And pretty. Damn.
And then it was over and then he was gone and we were all left grinning ear to ear……
Thanks for reading. I hope that gave you a bit of the vibe of the thing. For me, these experiences aren’t so much about the questions and answers, but about the experience of sharing 30 minutes with these guys, in close quarters and getting to see them in a slightly different environment, a bit more relaxed. They seem to enjoy it too. That, for me, is the special bit.
Oh there was one other thing….he told us how much season 7 cost to produce. He instantly realised he probably shouldn’t have said it. I love how Jared sometimes does that, speaks and then goes “O-oh, whoops.” He said that we didn’t hear it from him! Out of respect for Jared…I’m going to keep it under my hat. I’m sure it’s out there somewhere, but I ain’t sayin’!