SATURDAY 6 TH MAY
8:00am VIP panel (Ultimate, Platinum & VIPs) featuring Jared & Jensen
(Jensen's own video of them trying to get on stage)
Thanks Melbourne and ahbl8 for making us feel like rockstars. And thanks to the stage door for reminding us that we are not
J2 AHBL Saturday VIP Panel (x)

Is Paul McDermott shorter than Mark Sheppard? Jensen: No idea. Same height I think.
Question about Dean and the grenade launcher. Jared: On Gilmore Girls? lol. Jensen: Yes, soon. And it’s glorious.
Question about a headcanon on finding the hunters that killed Sam and Dean.
J2: Yes. That is addressed, too.
Question about the process for getting back into character while doing ADR. Jensen: You play a character for ten years…but it can be tricky. Not the same as being on set. J2 say sometimes ADR can be done a month after the scenes have been shot.
Question: How do you get through all of the episodes? I have seen the gag reels…
Jared: That is how we get through. We have fun. We address dark topics and work away from families.
Jensen: You just have to laugh…We really still enjoy doing what we do.
The boys are sitting on the table instead of their chairs together. Jared: This table is glass…
Guy who used to work on set wanted to call the airport and ask why there were so many planes when they were shooting Phantom Traveller. It was shot in the airport. He doesn’t work for them anymore.
They talk about the camaraderie and family that has been built.
Question: Have either of you ever had braces? Jared: Neither of us did.
Jensen: Do y'all have Invisalign here? Jared: It's not Ethiopia, Jensen!
After playing the characters for so long do you find yourself acting or thinking like them?
Jared: We have spent thousands of hours with these characters. It's constant. For the first couple seasons I would say seeya to my friends for 8 months. We are privileged to play these characters. Yes, many decisions I make are affected by Sam.
J2 say sometimes the way they react/analyze in real-life can be influenced by Sam and Dean.
Jensen: Many parts of Dean become parts of Jensen and vice versa. Just as much a part of us as we are of them.
Jared: Especially when the lights flicker – Jensen: and then I go insta Dean.
Fav character dynamic? Jared: Crowley and Rowena, they have some of his favorite on screen interactions. Lucifer and Gabriel, etc. Jensen: Lot of interesting characters. Jared: Sam and Ruby had an interesting dynamic. Jensen: Interesting dynamic between Dean and Rowena. Doweena? Or, “D’Wena” – Go on. Say it out loud 😉 Jared: Deanweena.
Cameo question. Jared says Soulless!Sam was fun, would want to play a psycho on Criminal Minds. Jensen says Batman.
Experienced supernatural stuff in real life? Jensen: No. They know better.
Jared tells the story of the haunted hotel room experience he had in Austin.
Jensen: Oldest, biggest hotel west of the Mississippi.
Question about the Impala. Why choose the 67? Jensen says Kripke wanted an iconic car, friend told him to go with the Impala if you want to impress people. Mustangs are for pussies.
Question if there is a scene that was cut that they wished had made it in? Jensen: Very few scenes really get cut.
Jensen says that 12×22 could have been a season finale on its own it was so big. Long episode. Says it’s really good, and is excited about it and hopes they didn’t have to cut too much. Jared: Wrap up story lines, shove in a bunch of stuff…reiterating it was a long episode and excited. Re: cutting scenes, Jared says that action is easier to chop down than dialogue.
According to Jensen, Jared is going to sing at the SNS tomorrow night. Jared says the only place he will be singing will be in the shower. He'll FB live it. (Fan tweeting says it got R rated after that lol).
9:00am Photograph session
12:30pm Lunch Break
4:00pm Q&A Session Jared Padalecki & Jensen Ackles
J2 AHBL Saturday Q&A Session (x)
J2 panel has started, they’re doing a scene in the Impala as they are sitting in the chairs. (v)
J2 are in an excellent mood 🙂 (v)
Jared is fighting with the chair on stage; is now stuck sitting backwards in the chair lol. Jensen: We’re gonna need some olive oil…and some duct taped because he thinks Jared’s pants are ripped/or undone lol.
Jensen has just moved the glass table out of the way so Jared doesn’t break it lol.
Jensen was, why is this table still here after we sat on it for like a half hour this morning? – it was too fragile of a thing to have in the vicinity of a Jared Padalecki. Jared was being hyper and turned the chair around and sat on it backwards with his feet hanging off the back and Jensen’s like, you’re gonna break the chair! As Jared was fighting the chair, Jensen picked up the glass table and carried it off to the back corner of the stage so Jared won’t break it.
I'm here to tell ya I love ya but you did it YOU'RE the badass.
Jensen: They wanted to cast the oddly tall younger brother first and the handsome one second.
They started talking about their previous work like Dark Angel, at which point Jared leapt out of his chair and acted all fangirly, jumping up and down screaming like a loon. Then when the topic of Gilmore Girls came up, Jensen leapt out of his chair and started screaming like a fangirl, ran off to the corner of the stage and crawled under the glass table that he put there. It was hilarious. Then as per usual whenever Gilmore Girls comes up, Jared never fails to remind us that he’s the original Dean.
Jensen: There's only one Dean. Dean Cain.
Jared is comparing Star Wars and Harry Potter with SPN. Jensen is not buying it.
Jensen: We’ve never been to space – season 13! It’s coming!
Jared finds many similar personality traits in Sam Winchester and Luke Skywalker.
Jared: I’ve known Sam Winchester for a long time.
Jared & Jensen fangirling over each other is absolutely hilarious.
(v) Question: What would you do to be alone with yourself? Jensen: The lowest hanging fruit.
To unwind, Jared – I will go to Austin, sitting in the pool with his kids and sending photos to Jensen.
Jensen: I'm probably there! But spending time with people we don't see as much as we should, reminding them who we are, why they should love us, maybe? It's important, luckily we are both in the same boat to deal with that.
(v) What motivated you to do AKF and YANA?
J2 points at the crowd: Y'all.Jared: I'm just one of the cogs in the wheel, the best thing is when someone looks at me and says "you saved my life" but the important thing is I didn't, YOU saved your life, as someone who struggled with depression, I know friends who helped me out of there, but remember, if you're here, it's your power and strength to decide to move forward.
Jared mentions how “Fake Ruby” just had her third kid and smiles and fake sobs lol.
Jared also added that he likes to jog nowadays and says, “I know it’s not an Olympic event, but-“ then Jensen made another face and was like, “yes it is!” and they got into a huge argument about it.
Jared: I’m just jogging though, that’s like a slower form of running.
Jensen: That’s still running, and running is an Olympic event!
Jared: no but like, when I’m skiing, I’m just skiing, I’m not like doing jumps and stuff
Jensen: That doesn’t make it NOT an Olympic event!
Jared: Haha not the way I do it *mimics skiing all over the place and people screaming*. Okay, so when you go ice-skating, would you call that an Olympic event?
Jensen: YES! And just to be clear, I’m awesome at ice skating *smug smile towards the audience*
And then they were like, “we’re in Australia, they’d be like, what’s ice skating hahaha”
Jared likes Soulless!Sam, Jensen liked purgatory. (spoilers) Hints there is something coming up that is “sort of purgatory-esque.”
(v) Fan starts to ask: If the Impala didn’t exist on Supernatural- Jensen: I wouldn’t exist!
If it didn’t exist, what car would you drive? Fans: A VW Beetle! J2 *mime being squished in a beetle*
J2 just acted out hunting in a Volkswagen Beetle lol!
They go back and forth: Jared: A Volkswagen Beetle. Jensen: The A-Team Van. Jared: The Millennium Falcon.
(v) What TV show would you guest in?
Jensen: have you guys heard our issue with the Walking Dead?
Audience suggests Outlander. Jared: There's a lot of nudity on that show. We were waiting on security at LAX, and behind us was Sam Heughan – I feel I know him more than I want to, nice glutes. Jensen: I'm watching Taboo right now, but I'd never want to be on the same screen as Tom Hardy because I don't want to look that amateur.
Tattoo question? (v)
Jared: “If I wasn’t on TV, I would have a lot of tattoos. The passion for something excites me, it's apathy that concerns me. So if it beigns you joy and you are part of a bigger world, bring syou out then great.
Last question what two characters, of any time, would you like to interact with each other?
Jared: Sam and Sully, his imaginary friend.
Jensen: Mark Pellegrino’s Lucifer vs JDM’s John Winchester…but Dad has to use (TWD) Lucille.
Bye.
5:00pm Autograph session (x)
One of the ladies a few spots in front of me in the Jared line gifted Jared with a jar of vegemite that had his name on it and she was having a conversation with him about it. Obviously it’s a universal running joke that Americans find vegemite repulsive, but Jared had the idea of using it as negative reinforcement for when his kids misbehaved and he was really excited about it. He called out to Jensen from across the room to run the idea by him. Jensen laughed and was like, “you sure that’s gonna work with your kids? Shep will probably like it” and he imitated Shep lathering vegemite all over his face which made Jared laugh. Jensen was like, “vegemite bath!” which made Jared laugh even more.