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Question: How did Supernatural ending affect your day-to-day relationship with Jensen? 'Cause you went from working together every day to not.

Jared: Yeah, great question. It didn't, really? I mean, even during Supernatural - granted we spent so much time with each other every day? But if, you know, he had a week off, he went to see his family. I went to see my family. And we'd text and be like, hey, I'm going to dinner, I'm gonna watch the game or UFC fight or something. It was like, ah, I can't make it, or I can, I'll see you there. And so it never really changed. And I think it's this far out - four years after wrapping? It's so weird to think about fifteen years. You know in America, kindergarten - I'm sorry, school is like, kindergarten, first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth. That's when you graduate high school, and then thirteenth and fourteenth and so it's almost like starting with somebody in kindergarten and going all the way through sophomore year in college or university with somebody. But that's the only fucking person you see, it's not like, oh, he's in the class, it's like, oh, I'm staring at his face all the time. And so we'll always have a pretty deep connection. And I was friends with him when he met his wife, he was on set when I met my wife. You know, we flew together when he had his twins and I was on set with him when my first was born. So we have all these milestones that we've shared and so it's just an easy relationship, you know? Like, if I don't see him for a day? It's like, hey. If I don't see him for a month? It's like, hey. It's a great - it's not a needy relationship. Like I'm totally needy with my wife, if I don't talk to her, I'm like is she mad at me? Just kidding. Kinda kidding. But with Ackles, we're just buddies, you know? I know he's busy, he knows I'm busy. So it's almost like a - and the way my life is structured, I had a great question, well, Jensen and I both had a great question yesterday about, like, what's your next goal in life. About, like, being better about relationships. My brother, my legit brother I just talked about? He lives a ten minute drive away. Sometimes we'll see each other three times in a week, our kids will play together and all that? And sometimes I don't see him for two months. And he lives ten minutes away. But it's like, okay, he's a doctor, he has a wife and kids, I'm an actor with a wife and kids, life is busy. But I'm not concerned. And he's not concerned. So I feel like that's the same. I don't think my time not filming with him now is different than my time not filming with him four years ago, five years ago, ten years ago, a hundred years ago, however fucking long we [?]. So yeah, I'll always - he stood at my wedding, I stood at his, we'll always be connected.

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Question: So as an older sibling, I relate a lot to Dean and his relationship with Sam, and I was wondering what it was like to build that relationship up on screen?

Jensen: I mean, that relationship started the moment I met Jared. And I say that because we immediately had this connection through just our - who we were. Both born and raised, y'know, similar area by similar parents, surrounded ourselves with similar friends, played the same kind of sports, had the same kind of interests. He was a little bit more nerdy than I was but that's fine. He was a mathlete, which [makes dismissive noise] - nothing against math, it's useful, but don't be a dork about it like he was. [laughs] So but when we first introduced ourselves, it was immediate, there was, it was like - Oh where are you from? Oh, San Antonio. Where are you from? Dallas? No way. You know, we'd root for the same sports teams, there was just an immediate, like, friendship that happened when we met. And so the day we met was the day that we ended up auditioning together as Dean and Sam in front of the studio and the network and everything, so. So we went from meeting each other in the waiting room of the studio to then going into another room and playing brothers. And so it was instant, that that started. And then what really solidified it was when we got the job, which was that day in the room, they were like, congratulations, you guys are the brothers Winchester. And we're like, sweet! So then they, the studio was like, alright, well let's get these guys in fighting shape. Like these brothers should know how to handle themselves. And I was like, uh, I know how to handle myself. And they're like, no no no, we know, but we're gonna help you out a little bit anyway. I'm like, alright, fine. So they put us into boxing training. We went and started working at this gym, this boxing gym, started learning, we were punching things every day. I'll never forget one time they were like, alright, it had been, like, a few weeks and we'd been working on the heavy bag, working speed bags, working on focus mitts.

Jensen: And they were like, alright, I think you guys are ready to get in the ring together. And we're like, oho. And I'm looking at him like, I'm gonna knock this tall skinny son of a bitch out. And we put the head gear on, and we were dancing around, a couple of jabs to the body, a couple punches, and then he just rocked my nose, just boom! and I was like [makes exaggerated faces] and I went back against the ropes, and I was just like, you motherfucker. And so I was back and then I went for a jab and he dodged it, and I just went [mimes throwing a punch] boom! right in the side of his ear. And he was like, and he'll tell you, he was like, it was like a bell rung [imitates bell noise, and exaggeratedly staggers]. And then, I forget, I think he just started swinging his arms wildly and then I [mimes swinging wildly] and they were like, 'Alright alright alright! We're done! You guys don't get to fight against each other any more!' And then he and I were like, yeah, I think we're better if we fight other people together, rather than each other. So that again kind of started solidifying our relationship. And then as some of you know, we ended getting up to Vancouver and we had an unfortunate incident where after a few days of filming, everything was going great, he and I were having a great time, we went to go meet a producer at a restaurant one evening after we finished work and there was a group of drunk guys that just started fighting us in the street. They mistook us for somebody that they had just gotten kicked out of a bar - because they were in, some of you know this story. They got into a thing with some other guys in a bar, they got kicked out, and then when they were coming around the side of the building, we happened to be walking that way, and they were like, 'That's them!' And Jared and I were like, 'Who?' And that's all the warning we got, and then they just started throwing punches. Jared and I had just come off of, like, eight weeks of boxing training? [mimes blowing on and polishing his knuckles] Hold my beer. We lit 'em up. And then, yeah, that's, I mean, then he and I were bonded for life and that was just a few days into filming. So if we weren't already, you know, brother types, we were definitely then and then it just kept taking shape and growing as the seasons and the years went on and so yeah. It's why my kids call him Uncle Jared.

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Question: I want to know what was your most favorite unscripted scene or your least favorite scripted scene or moment?

Jared: Oh wow. Great question. I'm thinking about a moment where -

Jensen: Wait, let me guess - I punched you?

Jared: Yep, where Sam gets possessed by the Meg demon and finally gets exorcised, but he had been like, kinda torturing Dean? And so Dean reaches over, after Sam is back to Sam, like 'What happened?' and just punches him? That was in season two, Jesus.

Jensen: That wasn't scripted.

Jared: That wasn't scripted. There's so much that wasn't necessarily scripted, you know? Certain moments - one of my least favorite things, maybe my least favorite thing that any writer can put into a script? Is like, Dean cries, Sam breaks down, Dean tears up, Sam and you know, whatever, do this. 'Cause there were so many, if you were to go through all of the scenes of Supernatural, which there are many? And then watch the episodes, rarely was there a sequence where it was like they get emotional where we did and there was so many where they don't even mention that we get emotional, but you just feel it. You're just there and you're like - I hate it where it's like, this is where I'm supposed to cry [derisive noise]. 'Cause sometimes you don't even know, you'll go through a scene and you'll go, like, oh shit, like, that's hittin' deep. And it's not because it's scripted. So offhand, God -

Jensen: I think there's a lot of moments, especially some of the emotional moments. One comes to mind, which is the barn scene -

Audience: Which one?

Jensen: [slightly incredulous tone] Which one?

Jared: The most recent one.

Jensen: Yeah.

Jared: Genius.

Jensen: Where I'd be interested to go back and look - and I can't remember if - maybe they didn't use it, go back and read that scene on the script and see how word for word it was on the performance. Because I feel like there were takes where I know I would maybe repeat myself, or I would say some things that I thought were, you know, dove into the emotion even more. And it wasn't something I'd planned, it's just like - felt it, you just feel something and if - when you've worked with somebody for so long, and you're so comfortable with the character, and you know the story so well, you can be available for those things to hit and you can act on them, and you can say those words, and you can say something that just makes it feel more real. And I feel like we did that in that scene, there was some dialogue that maybe was added -

Jared: It's a lot. I know, yeah.

Jensen: or massaged, or you know.

Jared: I don't know if it was ever added to a revision, or if we just did it, but the callback of, like, I can't do this alone, yes you can, well I don't want to? It's the exact same words that Dean said to Sam and vice versa. So there was stuff that wasn't scripted initially - and that goes back to an earlier question, about if there's stuff like Jensen do whatever you want. Like the feeling of that scene was like, here guys, we know this intense -

Jensen: Here's the template.

Jared: here's the template, make it y'all's. Like, y'all know Sam and Dean more than anybody ever will, you make it yours. And so he and I had a couple months because then COVID happened, the pandemic, and so we made it ours. It was so hard to rehearse that scene.

Jensen: Well, even the - like it was scripted where I was on the ground. [Jared: Yeah.] And Jared comes up and kind of cradles me and I'm, you know, like, effectively dying in his arms.

Jared: Which would have been so long to try and carry your ass.

Jensen: And I just felt really strongly, and I've told this story before, and I went to Bob Singer, who directed that episode, I went to him a couple days prior just thinking about that scene, because it was a monster, and it was looming. And I just - it didn't feel right, to die laying down. And I said, hey, is there any way - because they were still building the set - I was like, is there any way, can we figure out a way for me to die on my feet? And Bob was like, [curmudgeonly voice] how the hell are you gonna do that? Who dies on their feet? And I'm like, Dean Winchester dies on his feet. And he made it work brilliantly, because he came, I think he came up with the idea that the impalement was so severe that if you removed it - and then we had to add that dialogue in, so it made me stay there on my feet and I think it was just such a much more powerful visual, to see these two brothers face to face in that moment. And so, you know, that was certainly one big thing that was totally unscripted that I fought for and I'm really happy I did, because -

Jared: Hell yes.

Jensen: I think it just made that scene that much more powerful.

Jared: Also I'm grinning to myself because I've watched a lot of the 15x20 reaction videos, the finale? And there's some really savvy tv viewers out there who've seen a lot of different television shows, a lot of different episodes of them. And you'll watch some and they'll be like, 'Oh, yeah, oh Sam's takin' on the big guy, oh yeah take that blah blah blah!' And then when Dean goes to the post and then runs out where it shows, they'll be like, 'Yeah - oh no. Oh c'mon now, no no no, they just showed that for too long - Oh shit! And then, like, turn it off because I'm crying.

Jensen: I still love the fact that the stunt guy, who is awesome, he's like ex-military, giant, one of the biggest guys we've ever had on our show, his name was Heidi. And he killed Dean Winchester [laughs]. But he's an awesome guy and in fact I was just in Vancouver and working with Jesse and Jesse and Heidi are like super close buds now, so it was good to kinda reminisce with those guys a little bit.

Question: It's been a while since you two have played Sam and Dean on Supernatural, so I was just wondering, when it's just the two of you and there's nobody else around, do you just sometimes pretend to be Sam and Dean?

Jared: Did you - I'll tell you the truth if you tell me the truth. Did you bring something with you from the Netherlands and use it this morning to? I'm kidding, kidding [laughs]. I don't - that's a great question, a funny question, I don't think we've ever been asked it. I think there's a part of Jared that's Sam - I think there's a part of Jared that's Dean. I think there's a part of Jensen that's Dean, and a part of Jensen that's Sam. Like, these guys were in our lives for fifteen years, we've lived with them. So I don't think we ever, like, go through scenes?

Question: [?] when you're driving in the car, it's just the two of you and then you say, 'Now get this"

Jared: Yeah, yeah, we'll pull out our weapons and our machetes. Every now and again when he and I are together and no one's around, he will kind of take a moment and say, 'You smell that?' And I'll be like, 'It ain't sulfur.' [ostentatiously winks]

Jensen: I'd say it's probably more of us referencing [Jared: Yeah.] Sam, Dean, and Supernatural, and the experience that we had for fifteen years, rather than slipping into the characters and [both chuckle]

Jared: I blacked out, what happened?

Jensen: Somebody yell action!

Jared: She might be on to something though, maybe we should try? Just look around and be like, 'Anybody there?' [audience cheers] She said when no one else is around! Y'all are right fuckin' there! No, but maybe every now and again if we're just sittin down, chillin out, be like, 'Anybody here?' [faux whisper to Jensen] I don't hear anything. 'Anybody here?' [to Jensen] Alright, so get this, the lore says... I'm not against it.

Jensen: We would also probably get arrested. We should - for Halloween, we should just go as Sam and Dean, and like, cruise in the Impala around town.

Jared: That's probably the easiest outfit to buy.

Jensen: So easy.

Jared: A flannel shirt and some boots.

Jensen: So easy, and we look just like 'em. Like it's -

Jared: We look like they aged poorly. Just kidding. Thank you.

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