Apr. 7-9, 2017 – Seattle (LAST in Seattle) Hyatt Regency Bellevue Hotel 900 Bellevue Way NE VIP $1500 , 1st Row $1500 Gold $839/$939 Silver $549 Copper $320 GA $199 PA $129 GA $110
10:00 am to 10:30 am GOLD PATRONS EXCLUSIVE PANEL with Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki! (v)
Jared: Thanks for all the congrats and love.
Jared pets Jensen’s back and says it’s just an excuse to touch him 🙂
Jared asks if people saw the Shaving People video and says they have done something for s13 already – installed a flat screen TV.
Jensen forgot and Jared says Jensen’s alter ego is Nesnej. Jensen backwards. When Jensen has too much whiskey, that's a fun Jensen.  Jensen said he just emailed Phil Sgriccia to send it out, it's the funniest they've done.
Jensen: Meg and Demon!Dean would have either hated each other or had a great time together. Said it could’ve been like War of the Roses.
Advice to actors playing teenage Sam and Dean, their key points?
Jared does a rim shot on the drums after telling a joke, Jensen: You can’t rim shot your own jokes!! Jared: Yes I can 😛
Jensen say in the UK he showed Brock what Dean would act like if someone scratched his car – I said somewhat facetiously he was like a UFC fighter, choking him, then Jared did .. no like this, almost break their arm…).  Brock said he had bruises next day.
But when someone asks what it’s like to play Dean, mannerisms, etc. Jensen: Here’s 12 years of DVD’s, have fun lol. They are multi-layered characters now.
Jared says Colin Ford was a great Sam, Sam always tries to do the right thing.
Asked about their bar and brewery.
J2 explaining why they couldn’t do the FBBC brewery together. Jared: Can’t own a bar, brewery, and a winery, the wine was pushing the limit, I got a warning letter. You can't manufacture and also be the distributor or seller, it's the monopoly law in Texas law.
Jensen says that FBBC will open in the next few months, summer, they will say regional for a little while and hopefully can distribute.
Katherine Ramdeen said something earlier about Jensen's food hates.
Jensen says he had a traumatic experience with green beans as a kid, and he whined and hoped he could whine his way out of it, he tried everything, the dog under the table, cut a deal with his brother, have half my allowance, but his mom didn’t let him leave the table until he ate them and they were cold and horrible, and he threw up and finally she let him off, and he reminds her of it and she can't believe she did that to him.  And chia seeds, well they're disgusting, there's other ways of getting that nutrition, whatever they give you.
Jensen is cracking Jared up.
J2 talk about the juice cleanse they were on the week they shot the episode with Kathryn Newton.  You're allowed to have almonds and chia seeds for roughage, and it's not fun, my first, and last juice cleanse.
Question about nervous tics, like Sam’s scar on his hand that Dean taught him to control his hallucinations.  It was a happy accident, Jared/Sam, it becamse a tic.  Jensen – I guess since you can't think of one, I don't have any.
Talking about bowling with JJ from Kaleo last night. Clif put Jared in charge of naming the teams.  bowling names:  Jensen – bowlegs, JJ – Iceland, bodyguards – baldy 1 and 2 and (Jared himself) Awesome.  Jensen: and guess who lost – Awesome.  Jared until my sister turned up.
Fan: What fanfic do you read, wincest? Jensen: Nope. (Q: are you sure) Jensen is 100% absolutely sure he does not read fanfic. Neither does Jared. Jared: but you do your thing. Jensen: Whatever floats your boat.
They make fun of Nicole Kidman's clapping at the Oscars.
To Jensen, directing?  I think as it stands, I'm slated to direct one next season.
Jensen to Jared: You love it when I direct. I'm like – let me see how many days I can get Jared off…it benefits me, how many days I can get without him.
Car story?
Where we drive off with JDM's truck and have a chat, season 1, we have a walkie and they yell cut on the walkie and I just kept driving back to the circus, a giant pea gravel parking lot.  And I'm throwing that into a donut and people dive.  I was literally shooting rocks at them.  Just recently someone takes the car, we run out and she burns it out and he was instantly pissed because he thought it was the actress – she is not allowed to drive the car anymore!  but it was her stunt double who is a trained driver.
Decorate the bunker? Jensen  (sarcastically) Decorate?  Get a smarter couch, some drapes, throw pillows?
Fan: Maybe a lazy boy and a flat screen?  J2: have you been reading the script, living in my pocket?
@FangasmSPN .@jarpad if he body swapped with @JensenAckles lol
Comedic episode, body swap question: Jared, in the original Swap Meet script we swapped. Jared would swap with Ruth, does an Irish leprechaun, and Jensen sighs and says Ruth is Scottish. Jared does Jensen, it's colder down here.  Jensen I don't wanna play…wouldn’t mind body-swapping with Lucifer. But I don't want to be possessed because then I'd be comapred with Mark Pellegrino and he has done some great stuff with that character.  We watched it a dozen times when he did the chains, it was so good.
Time, Jensen says he'd sit there all day if you guys don't want photos, just kidding, they're looking at me.
***** 11:00 am to 11:30 am PRIVATE MEET & GREET with JARED PADALECKI $400.69
Jared MG
Jared came in wearing a dark jacket and scarf, no beanie (yay!) and also with more stubble than usual. His hair, IMO, was perfect, gently swooping gracefully up and off his forehead…
Other times Jared has come in to his M&G and just started rambling before getting to questions, but today he just said ‘how’s it going’ and nodded at our response of ‘fine!’ Someone said ‘congratulations!’ and he joked back, ‘I think you mispronounced condolences.’
Jared looked to his left and said ‘let’s just go in order.’ He directed front row, back row, front row so no one had to raise their hand. (When his handler gave him the time’s up sign there were 3 fans left and Jared said he was going to finish, so everyone got to ask him something!) A little bit of what he talked about:
Gen picked Odette’s name. Tom loves to hug and kiss her, but Shep isn’t so sure.
Adrienne asked, in the scene with Billie after the boys got out of the fed prison, if Cas hadn’t shown up, who would have gone with her? Jared said a scene was shot of the two of them each ready to go, nodding at each other and telling the other to keep going. He didn’t actually answer though which one would have won the self-sacrificing contest.
Asked about his favorite scene in season 12, he said it was just filmed—a scene in the bunker’s electrical room in 12.22 between Sam and Dean. ‘I think the script says the hug everyone’s been waiting all season for.’ (!)
I asked if he could describe what a typical day on set is like. Jared immediately said ‘BORING!’ He gets up 2-3 hours before call time, has coffee, then looks over the day’s lines while on the treadmill. Hair, makeup, and wardrobe, then they sit and wait while the scene is set up…do their thing for 3 hours, and then it’s time for food.
He segued into talking about the chicken Thai soup that catering makes—you either love it or hate it. Jensen thinks it smells like vomit but Jared loves it, so he eats it right in Jensen’s face. One time Jensen pushed him away and the soup got spilled all over Jared so he had to get cleaned up by wardrobe before they could go back to filming.
The woman in front of me was having a hard time getting her question out and said her daughter, some seats over, was her support. The fan sitting next to the mom stood up and switched seats with the daughter. Jared said ‘this is why we give up our weekends, to see this interaction, how the SPN family takes care of each other!’ This is what he referenced during the main panel, too. Clearly how the fans treat each other really makes an impression on him!
When she finally managed her question, it was about childhood vacations—did his family have anyplace they went in the summers? Jared said every summer they’d drive down to a town near Corpus Christi and stay in a $30 motel where the kids would sleep on blankets on the floor. His dad would wake them up at 3 am to go fishing off the pier. Those family vacations are very happy memories for him.
His first plane flight was when he went to LA to pursue acting.
If John came back now, how would he fell about what Sam and Dean are doing? Jared thinks John would be upset—once Azazel was gone, John would have wanted his boys to have wives and kids and regular lives.
Whose idea was it to get bees, his or Gen’s, and how hard was it to persuade the other person? Jared laughed and said it was Gen’s, and there was no persuasion involved—when Gen wants something, she says this is what’s happening. Which is why they have bees and chickens and bunnies…and we shouldn’t be surprised when we hear they’ve got fainting goats. Gen’s wanted them for a long time.
After he answered the last fan’s question, Jared thanked us, gave us that million dollar smile, and left a room of melted hearts.
***** 1:15 pm to 1:45 pm PRIVATE MEET & GREET with JENSEN ACKLES $351.00
Jensen Meet and Greet
He came in with a ‘hi, how are you, let’s get started’ approach and looked for raised hands. The first question was the same as one Jared had been asked: what was Jensen’s favorite scene to film this year?
Jensen spent a few minutes going through moments in his mind—was that this year? The boys’ scene in the car in Baby—oh, that was last year…Someone mentioned Jared’s answer of a scene in 12.22 in the electrical room, and Jensen jumped on that one. He said there are some moments that you read in the script and know they are going to be amazing, but there are some that are hidden gems—you read them in the script and they don’t stand out, but when you film them they take you by surprise, and the bunker scene was like that. He’s really pleased that, after 12 years, he and Jared can still have those moments of surprise from the writing and from acting together.
Dean stuffing the mints in his pocket in the fancy hotel Mick took them to was an ad-lib, he totally knew Dean would have done that.
He was asked, having directed several times, what would he tell himself as a first-time director? He said ignorance is bliss—the first time was easier because he didn’t know how much he didn’t know. Now he knows more lenses, more transitions, so there are more decisions to be made in prep. Directing is all about the preparation.
Did his family have annual vacations? Jensen said his dad, grandfather, brother and he would go to an abandoned ranch that a family friend owned and stay there so the men could go fishing.
I asked ‘how’s it going with the twins?’ ‘Ask my wife!’ He said it’s mostly Danneel it’s fallen on. But 2 babies need so much stuff! They went on an outing to the grocery store and you’d have thought they were packing for 6 weeks!
Observation: when Jared answers a question, the whole room gets his story. When Jensen answers a question, he answers YOU—he doesn’t take his eyes off you until he’s done. It’s…overwhelming.
Another fan asked Jensen to describe a day on set. His answer was similar to Jared’s, hair makeup, wardrobe, waiting, 3 hours work then soup and sandwiches, 3 hours more work, lunch, 3 more hours, then hot food—he joked that filming really revolves around the food! While setups are being changed, he and Jared can go back to their trailers. They might have 10 minutes or they might have an hour to make a phone call, check email—but they never know how much time they’ll have.
When time was up and he left with a smile.
—– 2:00 pm SESSION 2 Photo op with JENSEN ACKLES and JARED PADALECKI, tickets are available in limited quantity for $329.
3:30 pm Jensen Ackles (Dean) and Jared Padalecki (Sam)
J2 Main Panel SeaCon 2017
Talking about children, Jensen jokes that three is the magic number apparently .
Jared talks about being daddy to a daughter. Jensen points and laughs 😛
They wrap Season 12 on Wednesday the 26th and there's some cool stuff coming
up the last couple of episodes. Jared didn’t expect it to go where it went, the
writers are surprising me still.
Fan to Jared: What conditioner do you use? Jensen gets up and acts like he’s paying the fan for asking that .
Jensen: Inquiring minds want to know. Jared laughs: I spent many years just kind of using whatever is available. Jensen mocks him behind his back.
Jared: I see you on the TV! Jensen: Good!
Jared does bunny ears to Jensen so it appears on screen. Jared: Beanie conditioner. That’s my secret trick.
Jensen: Answer her question. Do you use conditioner? Jared: Yeah if it’s there. Jensen: Every time you shampoo? Jensen: Do you shampoo then conditioner? Jared: I’m thinking! Says he used the hotel shampoo and conditioner. Jensen: Ahh there it is!!
Jared squeezes Jensen’s chest. After touching him: There’s Jensen on me.
Advice for people that constantly fuck up. Jensen jokes: Stop. Jared: You can’t stop. I mean it, y’all are gonna make a mistake.
Jared says he talked with his psychiatrist about being concerned he’s gonna
mess up with his kids. The doctor told him he would. Jared: That’s not
reassuring! The doctor said the point is you have a mindset that you’ll
look at whatever the mistake was and figure out the why and where it came from and forgive yourself.
Jensen: However, don’t just forgive yourself and carry on doing it, learn from your mistakes. Jared nods in agreement.
Favorite season finale to film? Jared says finale are very hard because they’re exhausting and then it’s the biggest ep of the year.
Jensen chooses the end of s1 when Baby gets hit -all four of the main characters, three Winchester men and the car in peril.
At that time they didn’t know they were coming back, so it was weird saying goodbye to the crew and the characters, not knowing. Instead of recent seasons, where they know they are getting ready (thanks for s13).
Jensen asks Jared hardest finale to film for him. Jared says s8. Jensen: I’m gonna speak for both of us and say we haven’t filmed it yet. That’s gonna be a tough one.
Jared: Do any of y’all want to visit during the series finale?
Jared wants to raise money for charity and all watch it together somewhere.
(At some point): Fan: I’m a really big Jensen fan. Jared: I am, too.
A fan said they had heard that during a scene where Jared died in his arms, when they called cut Jensen continued holding Jared and crying; fan wants to know if that’s true? Jensen admits that it’s true, tries to say he just had something in his eye, though, <3
Jared: We care about Sam and Dean just as much as you guys do. We want to make sure to give them the gravity they deserve.
Jensen talks about how in your mind you know it’s not real, but your body doesn’t know. Says that Jared brought up an interesting point about how it feels where you go through something traumatic and emotional and how it has an effect on you. It impacts the viewer; it also impacts J2 when they read it in the script. They use that to portray it during the scene. There is real emotion that lives inside of them and it’s not just the character’s emotion. Sometimes it’s hard to turn it off, you can’t just tell your body to stop.
Jared to Jensen: When do you feel like in performing Dean’s lines it took over you the most? Jared says he has an idea which scene, but wants to know what Jensen’s answer is. Jensen says it was when Dean talks to Sam about hell and Jared says yeah, that’s what he was thinking. Jensen had to walk it off. Jared’s was Croatoan, when he couldn’t shut off the tears.
Jared reassures a nervous fan, saying that everyone in the room is her family and has her back.
How do they feel about JDM as Negan on The Walking Dead? They are very proud.
Jensen: We both know Jeff very well and he’s a sincerely kind and beautiful man. To play that much of a badass, I was proud because he killed it. He’s that talented. That made his two sons very proud. Jared: Yeah. Similar but slightly different reaction: Man, I am such a better hunter than dad. He’s having trouble with zombies??
They make fun of how easy it would be on The Walking Dead, how slow they walk. Jared plays the zombie. Jensen just ducks the arms and walks away while zombie!Jared stumbles around.
Jared: Very proud of him, love Jeff!
Jensen talks about a scene where Negan is shooting at people. Jared teases him about spoilers. Jensen: Have you seen Titanic? It sinks. Jared: Three hours of my life. Jensen: Wish someone would have told me that.
Regarding the SPNFamily, they felt it was a family after doing some of the conventions. Jensen says years ago he realized it wasn’t just about the actors or people onstage, that there were people coming together because of a common theme or thing that they all had in common. Their love for this show and characters.
Jared agrees. Says it’s his favorite part about coming to cons. You’re here hanging out with your friend, it’s not just about us. When he sees people that met because of the show or conventions it warms his heart. He thinks about friends he’s made going to Pearl Jams concerts and music festivals. Loves to see those connections.
Even little, sweet moments, like earlier in Jared’s m&g when a mother and daughter were sitting three seats apart and one of the other fans moved just so they could sit together. Jared loves that: we’re all here ‘cause we love each other.
Jensen talks about fans meeting on the internet, in chatrooms and blog spaces(!)
They didn’t know about Richard Speight’s  !DickChat! he’s being doing on Creation Entertainments Snapchat all weekend. When the fans yell Dickchat at them, their faces are priceless. Jensen: I’m not sure we’re talking about the same thing anymore. Jared: Oh, Richard!
Asked about favorite Disney movies? Jared says Jensen’s is The Little Mermaid. Jensen: Don’t knock Ariel.
Jared: I wrote a paper on this in high school. The Lion King. Says it was more than a guilty pleasure.
Jensen is smiling and shaking his head. Jared wanted to be JTT (Jonathan Taylor Thomas). He wrote a paper on Star Wars, The Lion King and the movie The Natural and the archetypes in all those stories. Jared: And now I get to play a character that gets to play similar archetypes.
Jared to Jensen: Sing? Or Elsa? Jensen: At this point it is whatever my daughter’s favorite movie is. The good thing is that it changes weekly. Right now it’s Sing. Out of all the songs she only wants to hear the rock song the character Ash sings. Jensen just has to tap his foot and JJ busts out into song.
Jensen: If I have to pick one of the classics, maybe Aladdin. You know why? ‘Cause I can show you the world. Jared facepalms. Jensen: In shining shimmery splendor. Jared: Tell me- Jensen: Princess, now when did you last let your heart decide? BOOM!
Jared says that if his three-year-old is having a tantrum, he plays the Pineapple Pen song and it calms him down .
Jensen: Don’t look it up. Save yourself. So disturbing.

Fan asks if they or Sam and Dean would consider giving up humanity for powers, like angel or demon? Jared: No. Jensen shakes head in agreement. Jared says one of the themes Jared really enjoys is what it’s like to be ultimately powerful or flawed. Loves the humanity on the show and struggling with what it is to be human. Wouldn’t trade imperfection for perfection.
Jared notices that Jensen is smiling to himself about something. Jared: What are you thinking about because you have a weird look on your face? Jensen was thinking about a reference to Young Frankenstein he made while Jared was answering the question.
They start whispering and laughing to each other.
Jensen says he wants to do the Young Frankenstein Puttin’ on the Ritz where Dr. Frankenstein and the Creature are singing together (YouTube clip from the movie)
Jensen is impersonating Frankenstein and Jared finishes impersonating the Creature. Jensen: Yes!! Dear diary, it finally happened
Who would you bring back from the dead. Jared: Ruby, Jensen: Dad.
Asked about favorite dance moves. Jared does one and starts giggling. J2 start dancing on stage together. Cracking up.
Jensen: Ahh cramp, cramp! Jared: Pulled a hammy!
Jared did fancy feet and Jensen did the Running Man into the Roger Rabbit.
Fan asks J2 about the s1 UK Scary Just Got Sexy promo they did.
Jensen dancing on stage while Jared walks to the camera.
Jared holds up the fan’s iPad to the camera so everyone can watch it onscreen (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN1Xkx5-fss).
Jared: That was scary and sexy. Jensen I remember that ad. J2: together: Scary. Just. Got. Sexy.
For that ad they brought the woman in white back and it was shot in Vancouver. Jensen remembers because the budget was small and it wasn’t visual effects of the blood coming down the wall. It was real. When it comes down the wall Jensen didn’t move away quickly enough the first time and they had to clean up his leather jacket. He had to hurry away so it wouldn’t happen again . Jared: Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
Jensen talks about how it’s not difficult for them to include changes in their characters because they have experienced what the characters have gone through from performing them on camera. Makes it easier to add those things into the character. Jensen says that the characters never really change; they grow in wisdom and experiences but their core has always been solid and the foundation of who they are and the show.
Jared agrees, says they aren’t method actors but, for example, in a couple hours they’re gonna head back to Vancouver so they can be up at 6 the next day and they will spend 12-14 hours filming maybe two minutes of screen time. So during shooting they are living in the moment. They also encourage each other while filming, like saying hey, do that again, etc. Says that most of the writers are new; a good, talented writer will look at Jensen and Jared and write the characters based on the sensibilities J2 bring to them.
Acting advice: Jared: Just act. Go to a local theater, do it with your buddies, put it on YouTube, do it to perform. You can tell a story, entertain, enlighten; don’t forget why you’re acting. Jensen brings up Steven Spielberg and how he started out with his dad’s 8mm camera just making stories he loved. We can do that with phones. Put stuff out there. Work begets work.
Jared: Whoever you are, you have a story to tell. Figure that out and tell it. Like with he and Jensen with Sam and Dean Winchester.
Favorite part about being parents? Jensen: Many things. One that comes to mind immediately, something as simple as taking my asleep three and a half year old and carrying her up the stairs to bed. That does it for me.
Jensen: Recently they were in Dallas visiting his family. Staying downtown went to the aquarium, and halfway through JJ fell asleep in his arms. It was about a mile back to the hotel. Uphill. Carried her the entire way. She’s like 40 pounds but dead weight and wrapped him. His dad asked if he wanted him to take over. Jensen said, Nope, I got this. Really cool moment.
Jared says he loves the little things, too. He and Jensen have had some really cool life experiences.
They meet all sorts of people, lots of travelling means in 34 years he’s been very blessed, and it’s human nature to get jaded and think that’s just life.
However, with his kids, he gets to re-experience things for the first time. Like a butterfly flying. The kids love it and it’s exciting again. Living life over again and re-experiencing how wonderful it really can be. The wonder that his kids have is infectious. He learns from them as much as he hopes they learn from him.
Jared mentions the weird crazy room and the ball lights.
Last question: How does it feel to be a part of this the family?
During the last question, Kmart (aka Kreespa) offers to film the girl onstage. Jared asks Kmart if she knows her; she doesn’t. Jared brings back what he was saying about how the fandom has that connection with each other and offers to do things like that and how cool it is.
Jared: for me it’s humbling. To feel a connection to somebody and how it reminds him to see the best in people and in himself. Small random acts of kindness. It’s a neat blessing.
Jensen: Yeah, humbling is certainly a great word to describe it. Also, accountability. I could be selfish and live my life for me. I know that I can’t do that because I have children. My life just isn’t mine anymore. I get to share it with so many more people. He is fueled by that inspiration.
Richard tells them about Dickchat. Jensen: I thought we moved on from that. Rob: You never move on. Richard records them for Snapchat. Jared gives a thumbs up in front of the audience and cracks up when Jensen yells Dickchat! into Richard’s phone.