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Jibcon 3 Sunday - Misha & Jensen panel

Jensen: For, uh, censorship purposes, I believe that Misha said something along the lines of, “This is the most unmanly scene this show has ever filmed.

Fan in the audience: He said gay! (Misha nods) Jensen: Oh, he said gay - just trying to be a little PC. (Fan says something unintelligible about unmanly) Well, in this case, it did. And, it was - what was the line that we couldn’t- Misha: Yeah, we had to edit something.

Jensen: We couldn’t get past- there was a certain line that we just- we couldn’t say. It was, it was so- out of character and- horrible- Misha: No, I mean, there was something, there was something- no, I think that they ended cutting that out, but you said something like, I guess I maybe always thought that you were gonna come back, or something, or something like that.

Jensen: Yeah, but there was- Misha: There was stuff that was written in that scene that was really tough to say.

Jensen: When you say it out loud, it’s like, Wow, I would never say that to another human being, especially a man. Misha: Yeah, the line as it was written, I don’t know it exactly verbatim, but the paragraph that you had to say was something like -

Jensen: Yeah, it- Misha: It was something like, I’ve been cuddling up with this every night so that I could smell you. I mean, it was really-

Jensen: Essentially, like, the dialogue would have gone perfectly along with me doing this: (mimics holding the jacket to his chest like a kitten and petting it). And Bob Singer, who was directing the episode, was, like, we had him in tears when we simply just said, Bob, allow us to read this scene aloud to you, and you tell us what you think. And we simply just read the lines, and he just folded and started laughing hysterically. And then we proceeded to spend like the next hour and a half trying to figure out- Misha: That was tough, to make that scene.

Jensen: Yeah, we really did. The three of us tried to put our minds together on set trying to help it, how- how can we change this around to make it- to make it more believable between these two characters, and I don’t even remember what it ended up being.

(Fan asks who wrote it.) Misha: Ben. Jensen: No…

(Audience: Sera! Sera Gamble!) Jensen: I think it was Sera. Misha: Sera?

Jensen: I think it might have been Sera. Which would make sense, y’know, because she’s a girl. And she writes amazing, she’s an amazing storyteller, but sometimes the language that she writes for the guys, it- I mean, there’s sometimes there’s some effeminate lines. And I don’t think it’s any fault of her, I just think it’s, y’know, the way she writes, and when two men are standing opposite each other, saying, (softly) “I guess I just really hoped you would come back someday-” there’s no real way to make that, like- (stands up) (in a deep manly voice) “Y’know what I mean brother?” Misha: (also in a deep voice) “Sup?”

(Jensen and Misha slap each other on the back)

Jensen: “Yeah, yeah, well, you’re back, so, uh…” (speeds up and walks off) “-good to see you.” And I think I almost did it like that, it was like, “Yeah, yeah, I guess a part of me just maybe thought you might come back, I don’t know, very well.” (trails off) Misha: Yeahm, right.

Jensen: “Here’s- here’s your stupid coat.” Misha: “-that I’ve kept folded and carried with me.”

Vegascon 2013 J2 panel

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(Fan dressed as Castiel is walking away. Jensen stops them. Fan dressed as Castiel stops.)

Jensen: Hey, you know, you should be thanking me, because Dean was the one who saved that stupid coat. (audience cheers) (shrug) I’m just sayin. Otherwise, you might be wearing a tutu or something. (audience laughter) Which I’ve got to say was one of the most awkward scenes I have ever filmed in my life.

Jared: Our writ- our future writer, listen to him- (points to Jensen) Our future writer from the first... (referring to another fan’s question) (trails off) Jensen: Don’t- don’t write scenes - you guys can go (talking to the fans) I’m sorry, we’re just holding you up- (Jared: Sorry, I’m-) (fan and Jared both say “Thank you”) It’s getting awkward now. Okay. (smiles and looks back to the crowd) Uh, yeah, that- writing a- I don’t even know what you call that, it’s like a make-up scene-

Jared: Reconciliation? Jensen: -a reconciliation scene betoon- between- between two men, don’t take it from a scene between a man and a woman, because it just doesn’t work very well. (looks at Jared and shakes his head)

Jared: Yeah, that’s true. Jensen: (in a soft voice) I saved this for you. (presents an imaginary coat) (audience laughs) (still in a soft voice) For me? (gestures towards himself) (more audience laughter)

Jared: I had it dry-cleaned. Jensen: (still holding the imaginary coat and speaking softly) I couldn’t bear to part with it. It would have been like parting with you. (drops his hands) It sounded a little something like that when it was written, I- I swear, I kid you not. And then Bob Singer, and Misha, and I literally sat there on the top- on the hood of the Impala and rewrote the scene, and it was what it was. So, great, there’s a little insider. I’m sure he told you that story, too, (last word is unintelligible, possibly a fan’s name)!

Jibcon 3 Sunday- Jensen solo panel

Jensen: Oh, that was such an awkward scene. (looks around) Is Misha behind me? I’m sure he is, ‘cause things just got really awkward. Um, yeah, that was a really awkward scene. In fact, Misha and - Bob Singer was directing that episode - we were crying, laughing at how ridiculous the fact that I had his jacket nicely folded in the back of the car - and not the Impala, a stolen car. And I’m like, WHAT?

There was - There was no reason for that jacket to be in the back seat - in the trunk of that, just no reason. And Bob is like, Look, just DO it, alright? And I’m like, But Bob, it - this is so dumb! I, I don’t understand, I mean, is this-”

And then- and then we started, then we started saying the dialogue out loud and it just sounded so- it was like (starts smiling and shaking his head) it was so bad. I wish - is Misha here? Is he here? Because I wouldn’t - there was a line that- he said that, that he couldn’t get out, because it was so ridiculous. And we finally ended up changing the line, like, we had to put our heads together and be like, okay, we’re changing- we’re changing these lines. So yeah, I remember that scene vividly, and it was- um- but it was just one of those things, where it’s- it’s a crucial part of the story that needs to happen.