Jensen JIBCon 2018 Saturday Solo Panel

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• Jensen is talking about Days of Our Lives
• “If you can’t see the camera, the camera can’t see you. Guest actors sometimes need to be told that.” Jensen learned early on because he worked with people who weren’t afraid to tell him what to do and how to do it. 
• Jensen: There’s a lot you can learn, you just have to be willing. 
• Fan: How do you prepare yourself for flying? Jensen says air is a lot like water and turbulence is like waves. Take off and landings are tricky. Those are when you want the really good pilots. You generally find that out in the end. He flies on average two times a week and has had some very bad landings. 
• Giving advice to the fan who’s scared of flying: You’re safer being on an airplane than you are being your car. 
• Jensen on auditioning for Sam before Dean, does a Sam impression: “Hey Dean, you’re so much cooler than me” lol. “They loved it but they said my hair wasn’t long enough.” 
• Fan: How can Dean be so good at fighting but eat all that trash food? Jensen: Genetics. 
• Jensen enjoyed the gunfight the most about filming for “A Most Holy Man.” He loved the kind of old-timey feel of the episode. 
• Dean’s “I’ll murder them all” was not scripted. Script just had Sam saying “What if somebody stole the Impala?” and Dean going, “Yeah, I get your point, okay.” But in filming Jensen thought, “This is not how Dean would react” and he improvised the rest. 
• Jensen: “I’ve certainly had my fair share of trials, I’ve lost a few people in my life, close friends, a roommate in my early 20′s. He died in a car accident and I was driving behind him.” 
• Jensen walked into his roommate’s room after the accident and he needed some kind of resolve which he found in his roommate’s father when he came to collect his things. Roommate’s dad turned tragedy into something positive for someone else. And he’s always remembered that.
• Jensen says the will to thrive, the will to survive, comes in many forms. You just have to be available to accept it. 
• To quote Sylvester Stallone, Jensen says Dean is the best imaginary friend he’s ever had. He’s part of Jensen. 
• “There’s no concept of Dean anymore. He is a living, breathing thing. Dean’s reactions depend on how I feel.” 
• Playing Dean has “truly been one of the greatest gifts of my life.” 
• Jared likes to read the first draft of the script. Jensen: Why would I read something in the writer’s draft, get excited about it and then they have it gone in the final draft? 
• Jensen: “Jared likes to know all the different variations of a script. He’s a nerd and that’s why we love him.” Says while he will read scenes two or three times before moving on Jared reads a script like a book. 
• Jensen chooses to not engage in speculation about storylines and story arcs so he does often get surprised about plot twists. It messes him up chronologically in his head if he knows too much about what is going to happen. Jared REALLY wants to know what will happen.
• Scripts continue to change even after filming. Sometimes he’s surprised (when seeing the final episode on TV) to find that a line disappeared or got changed. 
• Jensen on a time period he’d like to travel to costume wise: “At the end of this season when I take on a new character… that character has a look and that was crafted by our amazing costume designer.” The new character has a 1920′s type look. He collaborated with the costume designer. 
• “I didn’t know what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wanted to be a lot of different things and I’m lucky I’ve found a profession that allows me to do that.”
• “If you’d have told me a year ago that Dean would bond and go off with Ketch I would have said that’s not possible… but we found it. And I think that’s true of human nature; you don’t know what you’re capable of until you do it.”
• What pet would the Winchesters have? Jensen: I mean, we have one. Fan: He helps you though. Jensen: That’s because we took the shock collar off him.  
• Jensen says working with animals is very difficult but it would be awesome to have a tiger in the backseat of the car. However, the brothers need supernatural help more than animal help. 
• Jensen on Dean if someone stole the Impala: “There would be torture… people would cry for their mommies!” 
• Some moments Jensen understands Dean better than the writers, but he doesn’t want to take the writers’ job and write his own character. But occasionally he adds just a little bit extra based on the knowledge he has of Dean. 
• Fan: Do you have a funny story about your children? Jensen: Yeah, how long do you have? 
• Arrow is already singing her ABC’s and she’s a year and a half. Meanwhile, Zep can’t even say Dada. “Arrow is speaking two languages now to the credit of who we have helping Danneel when I’m not around.” Arrow is learning to speak Spanish, too. 
• Arrow doesn’t like to walk but Zep runs everywhere. They’re so different and it’s fascinating to watch. 
• Jensen: You know him, you love him, it’s Matt Cohen! Just kidding, it’s Misha lol. Jensen takes off as Misha’s solo panel starts. 

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