Due to a delay in flights from Melbourne, our amazing guests were late touching down in Sydney.
(audio) Jensen on Jared at AHBL6 Sydney
Speaking of continuing to fight, Jared got – he got tuckered out. His batteries ran a little low. As you know he is a big guy and he gives a lot of himself to a lot of people. Emotionally and physically and then just, well not physically, that’s weird. Scratch that. Scratch that.
Seriously though, he is an emotional man and I love him for that. He is my brother, he is my best friend and he happens to be a co-worker. So it’s all – it’s all good. He is back home. He is getting some rest. He is with his family, he is with his kids. I am excited to head back that way and check in on him and make sure he is just getting recharged the way he needs to be. He just – he has a problem with you know reserving, keeping some in the reserve tank and in my opinion that’s not a bad thing. But when it gets a little low sometimes, I have to be like, hey back to the filling station. So that’s where he is and I knew he wouldn’t be able to give as much as he would have wanted to, to you guys and that would have really upset him and I know you would have wanted him at his best and I would have wanted him at his best and he would have wanted to be at his best, so he is excited to hopefully see you guys in the future. I know he was really, really looking forward to coming here. So keep him in your thoughts, keep supporting him, keep sending him good messages. He gets them. He knows the love is out there. He knows the support is out there and I will remind him when I get home.
He is just a big dumb emotional Moose. Sometimes the smart little squirrel has to tell him what to do.
Richard revealed that someone who he can’t name but who he called Pared Jadalecki once stole his phone and texted his wife with messages that were addressed to another woman.
Jensen and Mark Panel
Mark enjoys Vegemite chocolate and made Jensen try it.

Jensen Ackles vs Vegemite Chocolate
Jensen is… Not a fan. Believes Vegemite is an ancient form of Australian torture and we all got used to it. Like “Stockholm Syndrome for food”
This is what Jensen thinks of Vegemite chocolate . Mark: his eyes went black!
Jensen pitched an idea to Bob Singer for 11×01. The smoke around the Impala clears. And one of the brothers is missing. Bob liked the idea. If they use it, we all need to remember it was Jensen’s idea.
Then Sam spends five frantic episodes searching for a missing Dean. Until we cut to Dean, on a beach, living it up. He has amnesia. Bob liked this idea less.
Jensen likes that Dean is decisive and has conviction. But the flip side is that not thinking things through has repercussions. Like the Mark
Jensen talked about doing all his own stunts for the fight scene in Cain’s kitchen because he fought against his stunt double who played the demon.
What would Season 1 Dean think about Season 10 Finale Dean?
Jensen: “He’d be more concerned about the car! Where is it? Have you wrecked it?”
On Tough Mudder: It was all Jensen’s idea as a fun bonding exercise. There’s an obstacle where you have to run through live wires. He’s pretty sure Osric got hit by 30 000 volts. When he turned to make sure he was OK, Jensen got hit by 10 000.
Richard got them all shirts with their last names on the back. So people would say “hey those kinda look like the guys from…” Then see the names and realise it was them. And decide “I’ll talk to them for the whole 10 miles”. So “ we had to run extra fast. Most of it was running away!”
Jensen Solo Panel
Talked about Jared again, and how his batteries have run down. Said Jared gives too much of himself to people emotionally and physically (“Physically? No, that sounds wrong. Scratch that!”)
The 10 Year Old who was interviewed by Mark earlier asked if he could be in the show: “I’m gonna need a resume and a headshot”. Jensen said he doesn’t have that kind of pull. Or any kind of pull. He has friends with SAG cards asking to be on the show and he can’t swing that. There are limits on how many American actors they can hire for an episode and the rest of the talent has to be local. He told the boy to move to Canada (“swim or something”), become a temporary resident or get a work VISA and then “Sure, I’ll chuck you in the back of the Impala. We’ll hang out!”
J: to keep the core crew for that long is great & try to give them an idea of what this is like, we have the best fandom in business
J: Changing Channels is one of my fave eps coz it's so out of the box, plus 200th ep coz it's a musical
J: I will sing but Dean can't sing, he's tone deaf
J: Changing Channels was our chance to poke fun at all the shows getting ratings very popular
J: Nielsen ratings are archaic, if networks could see what I see they'd have different ratings
Jensen liked Changing Channels because he won the game show & got to save his manhood, lol
J: Philanthropy we do is coz of the fans & coz we realised we had this amazing community that was ready to back us & support us
J: If I waa going to be a Supernatural being I wouldn't be a demon or angel … I wouldn't mind trying a Werewolf
J: I'm sick of vampires, Vampire Diaries is going to end & it's coz Sam & Dean show up, all you see is the Impala tail lights
A lady thanked him for the AKF campaign and said it had literally saved her
life. She said she knows they weren’t but hearing Jared and Jensen say “Always
Keep Fighting”, she had felt like they were saying it to her. My friend who I came to the convention with thanked Jensen(and asked him to thank Jared) for the “Always Keep Fighting” campaign because it literally saved her life. It was really emotional and Jensen thanked her and talked about it at length.
He said that it had been Jared’s concept and after that first Jared shirt had been so successful, Jared said it was worth it if it saved even one person’s life. And Jensen had said he wanted to do whatever he could.
She then asked him about special effects and he admitted they haven’t worn the demon eye contacts in years cause technology has evolved.
He talked about how he hates fake blood. His least favourite death was Hellhounds. It took 6 hours. His costume had plumbing. There was a rig designed to tear his clothes. The blood dries in 30 seconds and he was caked in the stuff. He had to be soaked with a fire hose because everything was stuck to him. Metatron was a bad death too. Every time Curtis punched him, they would stop, keep the camera rolling and make up would run in and paint more blood on. Then another punch, then more fake blood. He said he was getting pretty annoyed by the end, because with his face squished into the ground, the whole process was pretty laborious. Then Jared arrived. “Hey man! They’re ready for me on set, but I gotta go to the bathroom so see you in 20 minutes!”
J: There's a running joke on set we've got a grenade launcher in the back of Impala, every year I ask if I get to use it…
J: every year it's a knife, we need more fights & action & I get a script that's 9 pages of hand to hand combat, I dug my own hole
Jensen describing his stunt double Todd's work & lots of ouch groans from the crowd
J: I would love to do more tactical stuff, that means they get to bring someone in to teach me & I selfishly want to learn
One fan is thanking Jensen for the #AlwaysKeepFighting campaign & that it means something to so many fans
A fan talking about the #AlwaysKeepFighting campaign and how it saved her life. Very emotional. Thanks @jarpad @JensenAckles
J: to hear that it's making a difference even to one person is all we need to keep going #AlwaysKeepFighting
J: Jared got a little tuckered out he gives all of himself emotionally & physically …wait scrap that last bit it's a bit weird
Jensen talking about Jared. Also emotional. He's was really looking forward to coming to Australia & hopes he can come in the future
J: Keep sending him messages keep showing him love & I'll remind him when I get home
Jared's a big dumb emotional moose. Sometimes a smart squirrel has to tell him what to do! @JensenAckles re @jarpad looking after himself ??
On his favourite death he gave a one word answer. “Tacos”. Then he reenacted it for us.
Described his idea for the Season 11 opener again.
J: my opinion on how the show should end doesn't carry any weight with the writers
J: the writers dig themselves a hole & spend 3 months trying to figure out how to get out (re: s10 finale)
J: I'd like it to be the smoke clears & one of the brother's is gone, it should be Dean … MY IDEA
J: Dean should be transported to a beach with Crowley serving him drinks, the writers didn't go for that
J: I'd like the end of the show to leave a possibility of having a movie, I don't want to say goodbye to the crew & this character
J: There's no finality to the characters, that's what I told Felicia Day, nobody ever really dies on this show
Jensen telling us his idea for season 11. Dean disappears & it turns out he's on a beach w Crowley serving him drinks. Fan fiction?
How does he want the show to end?: He’s had dreams about it. He would like it to be “open enough to leave room for a movie”. He will find it really hard to say goodbye to the crew and the cast and the show, so he’d feel better if there was a possibility of coming back.
J told us that it was Jared's idea for the stopover Dubai so they could have to shortest flight after Rome. Basically slept!
One last question J: No let's keep doing this, let's order some pizza & pie *crowd goes crazy*
Last question: What life lessons have you got from #Supernatural? Jensen pulls up a seat. We might be here for a while, lol
What life lessons have you learnt from SPN? J: As far as work goes, you get out what you put in, that's 1 thing I try to live by
J: something I've learnt frm Sam & Dean "never give up" it's this continuing
desire to keep fighting & find people to fight with you
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Jensen got a standing ovation at the end of his panel and then recorded it for Jared
✌ @AmyinSydney Watching Sam & Dean fight after hearing Jensen say how they didn't use stunt doubles & Jared was black & blue after, puts a new spin on it!
@catinplaid He was sliding across the floor and banging into rails and was covered in bruises, Jensen said!//
Jensen's Autograph
My original autograph plan was a fabric marker to sign the felt of my plush pals. But Jensen was the first and he tried this on Plush!Dean’s stomach without success. In the process of trying, he clearly noticed the removable nature of Plush!Dean’s jeans. He looked under them, curiously…
He noticed. I noticed he noticed. He noticed me noticing he noticed. We both had the good sense not to mention it.
He did say Plush!Dean was cool and when I showed him the tiny anti-possession tattoo he said “nice”. He ended up signing Plush!Dean’s jacket in silver pen. It looks cool.
Mark and Jensen both said Hi.
I said I hoped it was okay I brought my own Jared and Misha.
Jensen literally *grabbed* Plush!Sam from me and hugged him. I can’t even.
But he dropped him and he went about a metre. Jensen scrambled to pick him up. I was still holding Plush!Cas and Mark poked him with one finger in a disgusted way.
Meanwhile, as Jensen came back, I said, quietly and mostly to myself, on instinct “Oh no! Why do bad things always happen to Sam?”
Jensen put a hand on my shoulder and said in a low, commiserating tone “I know…”
Jensen Ackles bent down directly in front of me. In tight jeans. He bent down… and his butt was literally pointed directly at my face. The butt that everyone wants to see live and in person, I saw, maybe thirty centimetres away from me. No one else was there but Mark Sheppard.
Jensen was offered a role in an indie movie that is filming in Nth Carolina right now. (prob http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4264610/?ref_=rvi_tt Shifting Gears) Turned it down to hang out the the #SPNFamily. He wrote his name on the chalkboard and gave us a lecture! #AHBL6
Did you know @JensenAckles and @jarpad did all the stunt fighting in 'Brother's Keeper' themselves? I didn't! #AHBL6 #m&g
Jensen has sent Tom Welling an email to boast about the fact that Supernatural has run longer than Smallville. #AHBL6 #m&g
We discussed how different writers like to write different pairings. That segued into Dean/Cas talk & Jensen BROUGHT UP the fanfic! #AHBL6
I mentioned the pic of Jensen & Misha at jibcon holding the book- Jensen said the pic was taken so fast he didn't read any of it! #AHBL6
Then @JensenAckles apologised for how fast the pics were being taken here. Said he wants as many fans as possible to get one. #AHBL6 #aww
Jensen said @jarpad is doing okay, didn't want to show up to cons and not give fans the experience they deserve. #AHBL6
I asked @JensenAckles if HE was okay as he's given so much himself. Was a bit moved & said he's looking forward to a rest in Texas. #AHBL6
Jensen: "who here has never been to a convention? I'm so sorry, now you're one of us." lol. He also said that to keep the core crew (of the show) for as long as they have is great & he tries to give them an idea of what this (the cons) is like. "We have the best fandom in the business. We're very fortunate to get to share & keep that communication open & I enjoy making the best show I can for all of you."
He was asked what his favorite episode was (and seriously, dont people watch past con videos? i feel like he's been asked this so many times) He said 'Changing Channels' is one of my fave eps coz it's so out of the box, plus 200th ep coz it's a musical'. when he mentioned singing cheers went up and hopes were high, but then he went beck to the question " I will sing, but Dean can't sing, he's tone deaf." adding to his thoughts about how happy he was not having to sing in the musical episode. He also said that "Changing Channels was our chance to poke fun at all the shows getting ratings, the very popular ones" like Greys. Jensen also liked Changing Channels because he won the game show & got to save his manhood.
He believes "Nielsen ratings are archaic, if networks could see what he sees then they'd have different ratings." I totally agree with the way neilson gets their ratings, but I'm also glad the show isnt on a bigger network. If they were on a bigger budget and had more money for episodes, I think we might have gotten more interference from the 'suits' and our show might not be the one we love today. I mean those shows have the ratings, but their fandoms if they have them dont seem to be as passionate and invested like we are for our 'cult' shows.
A girl got up and said that the AKF campaign has saved her life and told her story, Jensen looked to be getting teary eyed from what i could see and put his hand over his heart as she was thanking them. He said that the philanthropy that they do was inspired by the fans, from us telling them how the show helped us though our darkest times. Jensen, "We realised we had this amazing community that was ready to back us & support us" Jensen said 'to hear that it's making a difference even to one person is all we need to keep going.' He then talked about Jared and added the bit everyone has heard so far, 'Jared got a little tuckered out he gives all of himself emotionally & physically …wait scrap that last bit it's a bit weird' (lol) Watching Jensen talking about Jared was so emotional. He said 'Jared was really looking forward to coming to Australia & he hopes he can come back in the future. Keep sending him messages keep showing him love & I'll remind him when I get home." He repeated how Jared just gives and gives and holds nothing back in reserve for himself and that 'he's just a big dumb emotional moose, sometimes he needs the smart squirrel to remind him.' A huge round of applause was given aimed towards Jared.
Another question that has been asked a thousand times was, if you could be a supernatural being what would you be? Jensen: If I was going to be a Supernatural being I wouldn't be a demon or angel … I wouldn't mind trying a Werewolf. I'm sick of vampires, (one day) Vampire Diaries is going to end & it's coz Sam & Dean show up, all you see is the Impala tail lights."
This got a massive scream from the audience and I have to say thats a way I'd like to see it end lmao! What a crossover that would be !
The same ten year old that was sassing Mark, asked how he could be on the show and Jensen said "good question buddy, I have friends that have been asking for me to hook them up with a role for years." He said he doesnt have that kind of pull, and that in the industry you can only have a certain percentage of American actors on the show before you have to hire locals . He told him, "you know, just hop on across to Canada, become a temporary resident get an agent." LOL He then said "How OLD are you?" The kid said ten, and then Jensen was all, "Okay so let me do the math, when were you born? The kid's mum said April. "So, you were 5 months old when the show aired! You've literally grown up with the show! I gotta go back and tell the crew!" 😀
He was asked by a guy in the audience (and yes, there were a hell of a lot more guys than I expected this time lol. There have always been a few, but there seemed double the normal ammount attending this time). when they would be seen with more than just the knives and shotguns. Surely they have training in other weapons as Johns sons. Jensen said that there is a running gag on set that they have had a grenade launcher in the back of the impala since season one, and every year Jensen askes if he's going to get to use it, and every year its no! Every year it's a knife. When he said we need more fights & action Robbie agreed, he said 'and then I get a script that's 9 pages of hand to hand combat, (the fight in Cain's kitchen) I dug my own hole.' lol When he was describing Todd's stuntwork and how he has been his stuntman since Dark Angel there were lots of ouch groans from the crowd. He was telling us about when he was sposed to stab the knife into the demons neck on the table in Cains kitchen, and how they have various knives made from metal, plastic and rubber, this was the plastic one and the tip had been slightly bent. When he went down to plunge the knife, the tip cut Todds face open and Jensen saw all this blood, he was instantly over him going you okay man? Im so sorry! Todd was all what the hell? and wiped away his face, then 'dude im ok, lets go again' lol He said 'I would love to do more tactical stuff, that means they get to bring someone in to teach me & I selfishly want to learn.'
He was asked again how he would like to see the show end and if he gets to have any input, and he said that his opinion on how the show should end doesn't carry any weight with the writers, the writers dig themselves a hole & spend 3 months trying to figure out how to get out (re: s10 finale). I'd like it to be the smoke clears & one of the brother's is gone, it should be Dean … MY IDEA!!' he adds, if it happens he wants credit for it being his idea. He said Dean should be transported to a beach with Crowley serving him drinks, but the writers didn't go for that. LOL Jensen, "I'd like the end of the show to leave a possibility of having a movie, I don't want to say goodbye to the crew & this character. There's no finality to the characters, that's what I told Felicia Day, nobody ever really dies on this show."
When asked what was his favourite death on the show was he said 'Taco's', then reenacted the taco scene from mystery spot 😀 He said the worst were the hellhounds & metatron, "I hate fake blood, it's cornstarch & it's sticky I'd rather they cut me open." He went on and elaborated on how they took 6 hours to shoot the scene and how a guy beside him had to keep squirting the blood through the tubes with a huge syringe, so that the corn syrup kept layering as it dried so they essentially had to hit him with water to disolve the syrup as they tried to peel the clothes off him. When asked if it tasted ok, being made from corn syrup and all Jensen's reply was,"does it taste good? No, the mouth blood stuff the makeup dept even made isn't that great." awww i remember James Marsters talking about having to have the corn syrup blood in his mouth for hours at a time and said you could end up in a diabetic coma from too much of the stuff.
The call came: 'One last question!' Jensen's response was: 'No let's keep doing this, let's order some pizza & pie!' needless to say we went crazy as no one wanted things to stop. Although apparently Melbourne only got a 30 min panel with Jensen so we were really lucky. Everything had been running late all day.
Last question: What life lessons have you got from Supernatural? Jensen pulls up a seat. 'We might be here for a while,' lol 😀 "As far as work goes, you get out what you put in, that's one thing I try to live by. Something I've learnt frm Sam & Dean "never give up" it's this continuing desire to keep fighting & find people to fight with you."
Jensen then got the standing ovation, and he stood there looking so humbled and emotional,