IndyCon 2022 (photos: Clif, _kingbooks_, fangasmspn)

Jared & Jensen bts on Walker (by me + prequel app)

(by me & prequel app)

Another anonymous source sent me some sweet meet & greet tidbits, this time from Jared's at the Denver convention, about Walker, the finale, and J2.

Transcript (Walker):

Earlier: a fan asked about what Jared had learned and taken from the SPN set. Jared answered that he'd learned that 14 hour days weren't necessary, and said that they'd only had a handful of days where they'd worked more than 10-12 hours straight. He mentioned that it's nice to be the EP, because when an actor complains about another shot, it's just whining but as an EP everyone's just like "yes sir" and they move on.

He also talked about the atmosphere on set, and how he wants it to be lighthearted and fun, because everyone should be doing something that they love. Some people are reluctant to include him in jokes and pranks because he's not only the lead but the EP, and he is working hard to make sure everyone knows he's someone they can joke around with and prank and treat as a fellow coworker rather than just the boss.

Transcript (the finale and the Samulet):

This was towards the end, so Jared's answer was a little quicker than I feel like it might have been otherwise (he refused to leave before everyone had a chance to speak to him, even though his handler tried to pull him away twice).

A fan asked about the amulet, and why Dean wasn't wearing it on the bridge. Jared replied that there were a lot of things that they wished they could have included, but that would have made for a 20 hour episode. They DID talk about having Dean wear the amulet, but in the end they decided that it's meaning had changed because of it's new purpose and so left it out. He was also then quick to add that he did still have it at his house in Austin, which made me feel that he wanted us to know that it still had it's original meaning for HIM.

Transcript (J2):

Another fan thanked him for the finale, and talked about how much she loved it for a sec, then mentioned that she'd noticed he and Jensen were cursing a lot more than usual this weekend. He laughed and said they weren't used to talking at cons anymore, and joked about him and Jensen cursing all the time when they're in the car together. He also told a cute story about sharing Star Wars with Shep when he was little--around 4 years old. They were watching the scene where Luke gets his hand cut off and Shep says "Oh shit" very quietly. And Jared was trying not to laugh, and joked about debating whether to even try and correct him, since after all he'd used it correctly...

An anonymous source sent me this footage of Jensen discussing Jared and the prequel during his meet & greet at DenverCon.

Transcript:

"Robbie had a lot of work to do, he had his work cut out for him, and he wasn't… I think he had just come up with an outline of the, of the first episode when Deadline found out about it. And we have a network and a studio and agents and lawyers who have had to talk about contracts being that if the show does do something because all of the contracts are negotiated before anything ever happens. And of course that's how Deadline gets their connections, they're like hey give ya a hundred bucks if you got any insider information.

I wasn't, I didn't even tell my parents about it y'know, and, and, so that was early so I was superstitious and I don't talk about it because that'll jinx it. And then it came out and then everybody was like 'oh, quick, repost, y'know make sure, make sure it's not, make sure everybody knows it's true and not, not false reporting.' And so I did.

And I was on the set of The Boys that day and I kinda reposted it and said something quick and went back to set. And that's the thing about The Boys, there's no phones and no email, so I stayed on set, 12 hours a day playing backgammon with Karl Urban, and because this was kind of a big thing I went 'I have to go to the bathroom,' I don't have to, I ran back to my trailer and grabbed my phone and saw Jared tweeted back and, and he was right, I should totally- I wish he hadn't found out like that, I would have loved to have given him the pitch and I did and he, he, we're lovely, I'm about to go direct Walker and y'know, and we're laughing ab- thank you, and he called me and he was like, 'hey do you want me to find a way, do you wanna direct me or something or do you wanna do something bigger later on down the road?' and I was like, 'both, and by the way if you don't think I'm gonna M. Night Shyamalan the hell out of this and put myself in your show…'"

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