Monthly Archives: September 2010
The Big Tease [FanCast.Com]
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Any info on Jensen Ackles‘ ‘Supernatural‘ directorial debut? – DeanGirl1 via Comments
Matt: If by info you mean raves, here’s one castmate’s take on Jensen’s turn behind the camera: “The truth of the matter is he’s a natural,” Mark Sheppard (Crowley) tells Fancast. “He was extraordinarily well-prepared, and he’s very good at getting what he wants. It was fun for me and Jim [Beaver] to….” To what? Frak, Mark caught himself and stopped short of spoiling. But he did share this about the Crowley/Bobby teaser shown at Comic-Con this summer: “That is a fabulous, really fun scene – and that’s not all of the scene either. There’s a lot of stuff going on.”
Source: FanCast.Com
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Jamie in Boston: Soooo excited about Mitch Pileggi joining the cast. Please tell me he’s really down from heaven like he says! “I want to believe.”
Kristin: Sadly, we hear that it’s not a good idea to trust Supernatural’s newest hunter, aka Sam and Dean’s apparently resurrected grandpa, Samuel Campbell. Phooey.
Source: E!Online.Com
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Melody in Memphis: Ahhh! Why no Supernatural scoop lately? It’s premiering this week! Mostly, I need to know if Sam is evil this season?
Kristin: Insiders tell us that while Sam (Jared Padelecki) isn’t full-bore evil this season, there is something genuinely off about Sammeh that plays out over the course of the first half of the year. Don’t get comfortable with the reunited Winchester brothers in a couple of episodes; just because the boys are back together doesn’t mean everything is OK. Remember: No good ever comes of a vacation in hell
Inside Secrets of Supernatural’s New “Noir” Season
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Inside Secrets of Supernatural’s New “Noir” Season
Supernatural returns tomorrow night for its most “noir” season. Will Bobby get his soul back? Will Sam be the older brother now? We asked the producers, plus actors Jim Beaver and Misha Collins, and here’s what they told us. Spoilers…
We were lucky enough to catch up with co-stars Jim Beaver and Misha Collins, plus producers Eric Kripke and Sera Gamble, at San Diego Comic Con, and they gave us some hints about what to expect from the show’s sixth season. Because of the chaos of SDCC and the limited time available, a couple of these interviews are exclusive one-on-ones, but the interviews with Kripke and Beaver were shared with our hero, Maureen Ryan with AOL TV.
Misha Collins (Castiel):
I think there was something of a hard reset on [Castiel]‘s emotionality at the very end of the season when he was restored. I think that he is coming back, on an emotional level, more like the Cas that we first met at the beginning of season four. But he’s also coming back with a lot more wisdom. His exposure to humanity, and its workings has changed him. He’s not as naive as he was. But yeah, he is different… it’s complicated…. I think he’s always secretly going to be wishing he could be at a bordello. I think it’s safe to say that’s always the subtext with Cas.
|Click Here to view Misha Collins’ Video Interview with io9|
New showrunner Sera Gamble:
We’re aware of the parallels to season one, with the fact that Sam, in certain ways, shows up to pull Dean back in. But we’re very aware of that. We’re conscious of that, and it only seems that way on the surface. We very quickly pull another layer of the onion back, and you see the ways in which it’s not the same….
We have a whole arc for Dean, as it comes to him and his family, but I don’t know that we are necessarily going to take it in the direction you would expect, when you see episode one. In terms of Sam, and the way that he deals with his time in Hell, we talked a lot about the different ways that could go. We didn’t want to take it in the first direction you would expect. His reaction to Hell is not the same as his brother’s.
|Click Here To view Sera Gamble’s Video Interview with io9|
[As for whether the show will explore other mythologies besides Judeo-Christian], monsters are not… monsters don’t go to church, or temple, or anything. They come from all over the world. So we kind of… we’re opportunists. We just kind of want to do the coolest monster we can do. So really, we just pick based on what’s cool that week.
Jim Beaver (Bobby Singer):
[On episode four, "Weekend At Bobby's"] There’s some monster-hunting… We get to see a lot of what Bobby’s normal everyday life as a hunter is. There’s a couple of monsters. There’s a couple of really draining fight scenes, and there was one point where Jensen [Ackles, who directs the episode] was giving me a direction. And I said, “I’m feeling like I’m playing maybe a little too John Wayne here.” And he said, “No, no, John Wayne’s what I want.” This is the episode where we see what a bad-ass Bobby is. So I said, “Okay, fine.”
|Click Here To view Jim Beaver’s Video Interview with io9|
Does Bobby get his soul back?] Let’s just say that in episode four, there’s some real confrontation between Bobby and Crowley over that very issue. And I’ll leave whether there’s a resolution to the future. But it absolutely gets dealt with. Because as far as Bobby’s concerned, it’s the elephant in the room.
I’d love Bobby’s zombie wife to come back. Nobody’s mentioned it. On this show, we’re an equal-opportunity employer. You don’t have to be alive.
Creator Eric Kripke:
You would be surprised how easy it is [to let go of running the show day-to-day]. People keep saying to me, “Oh, do you regret it? Are you waking up in the morning — I’m like, “I’m awesome.” My spine is so straight. I’m sleeping well at night. When emails come in at 11 PM from Jim Michaels, the producer, saying “We’re $100,000 over budget, what do we do?” I go, “Delete! It’s not my problem, that’s what we do.” And so, I’m doing great. Still, that being said, I’m still very creatively involved. I think Sera [Gamble] and Bob [Singer] have really invigorated the show and have a really ambitious and exciting storyline.
My role is just to be creative consigliere — make sure it falls within the parameters, make sure Supernatural feels like Supernatural, make sure the character logic is there and the character history is respected, and that they’re not suddenly off doing their own thing. But Sera and Bob have been there from the beginning, and Sera — if people remember — she’s written a lot more episodes than I’ve written. I think I’ve written 15 and she’s written 20 or more.
She understands the show inside and out. And she had a really clear vision of where it went next, which frankly, I’m not sure I had. So I think it’s really for the best.
|Click Here, To View Eric Kripke’s Video Interview With io9|
[Sam and Dean] finally reached a massive amount of growth and mature. For me, “Swan Song”… one of the things I insisted about ending it the way I would have ended it — whether it was the series finale or not — was wrapping up the storyline, but really getting them to an endpoint that we’d been building towards from the beginning of the show. For me, that’s kind of always been what the show has been about. I know, certain fans have complained the [episode] wasn’t big enough. And my point was, “Sorry. I wish you guys had loved it.” But the show had always been about these two brothers and their growth as characters, ultimately reflected in Michael and Lucifer, and how Sam and Dean can do all of the things that Michael and Lucifer couldn’t. They had to accept each other as grown-ups, they had to forgive each other their faults. They had to mature. Dean had to learn to — not just accept Sam as a freak, but accept that being a freak is good and okay and smart in its own way, and he’s not a little brother any more. And Sam had to grow up too and appreciate Dean. For us, that’s what the show was about, and that’s what saved the world, that the two of them could forgive each other.
To be honest, because we look at season six as the sequel to a movie, in season six, there’s going to be a new storyline, and there’s going to be a new series of problems.. in a way that I think the audience is going to love and it’s going to drive them nuts at the same way. So they’ve reached a point where they’ve come together, but now there’s going to be new problems, and they’re going to have new issues they’re going to have to work through. So their therapy isn’t done yet. The show has never been the two of them getting along, patting each other on the back, and fighting monsters. In episode one, they punch each other, in episode two, they argue — that’s always been in the DNA show, so that will continue.
Nothing is what it seems… it’s a noir-ish season, and I think there’s lots of twists and turns.
Source: io9.Com
SFX Mag Scan
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SUPERNATURAL
THE PREMISE: Sam and Dean Winchester have been hunting supernatural creatures all their lives. They thought they’d be done with it once they averted the Apocalypse, but the flipping monsters just won’t leave them alone.
WHO’S IN IT: Jensen Ackles, Jared Padalecki, Jim Beaver, Misha Collins, Mitch Pileggi, Cindy Sampson, Mark Sheppard
BURNING ISSUE: The last seconds of season five left fans wondering how Sam got out of Hell, but the burning question is: how long will Dean Stay with Lisa and Ben before he resumes hunting monsters?
EXECUTIVE PRODUCE AND SHOW-RUNNER SERA GAMBLE
Post-Apocalypse, what problems are Sam and Dean up against?
SERA GAMBLE: Something pretty urgent comes up fairly soon for Sam and Dean. Beyond that there’s an unfolding mystery. Hunters are baffled because monsters are going haywire and scarily off-pattern. Sam and Dean find themselves in the middle of monster cases that go awry with brutal consequences… And this seems to be part of a larger pattern.
What about Dean’s relationship with Lisa?
SG:We’re not killing Lisa off… Immediately. Dean lived with her in the year between seasons five and six, and that has repercussions for him when he resumes hunting. He doesn’t see victims the same way after that.
How do angels fit into season six?
SG:One of the guys calls Castiel repeatedly about something he needs help with, and when Castiel finally shows up, we find out that he has his hands full in Heaven. Archangels Michael and Lucifer are locked up in the basement, Gabriel is dead, leaving Raphael, who was pissed off to begin with. Castiel is torn between the massive work there is to be done in Heaven and his desire to help Sam and Dean. And we meet the Angel Balthazar (Sebastian Roché), who provides a unique perspective on what is going on in Castiel’s world. Balthazar is doing things we’ve never seen an angel doing before….
What season six teasers can you share exclusively with SFX Readers?
SG:You’ll be seeing at least one of the Horsemen again. And you’ll be seeing a creature called a ‘Skinwalker’ in an exceptionally creepy episode about monsters that hide in plain sight…
THE BUZZ
The addition of Dean’s wife and son and the introduction of some hunting cousins drives home the show’s theme of the strength of family against unbelievable horrors. SFXCITEMENT FACTOR.
‘Supernatural’ Jensen Ackles Doesn’t Like ‘Soft’ Dean; Jared Padalecki Talks Hell [Zap2It.Com]
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‘Supernatural’: Jensen Ackles doesn’t like ‘soft’ Dean; Jared Padalecki talks hell
By Carina Adly MacKenzie | September 22, 2010 9:06 PM ET
When Season 6 of “Supernatural” begins, Sam (Jared Padalecki) can now relate to his brother Dean’s (Jensen Ackles) experience in hell.
Zap2it visited the show’s Vancouver set while the stars were filming Episode 8, “All Dogs Go To Heaven,” and we had to ask whose tour of hell was worse – Sam’s or Dean’s.
“I’d say mine, I think, Padalecki says, explaining that not only was Sam in hell, but he was in “Lucifer’s cage with an archangel battle.“
“Crowley (Mark Sheppard) says, ‘I can’t imagine what it’s like in the cage, and I can imagine so many things,‘” Padalecki continues, “So we get the idea that Sam was in the bad part of hell. He wasn’t like, in the penthouse. He was slumming down there.‘”
The experience has changed Sam significantly. “I come back much less lovey-dovey, and more like ‘All right. I’ve been to Hell a couple times. I’ve been to Heaven. I’ve died; I’ve come back, I’ve done this, and I’ve done that; so I think Sam’s kind of more no-bulls***.“
In the scene we observed on set, Sam and Dean pose as experts at a crime scene. “We go up to this dead body, and my line is ‘Yeah, we’re specialists. We answer the questions of mouth-breathing d*** monkeys.’ Stone-faced. ‘You’re going to tell us what’s going on?‘” Padalecki says.
Ackles chimes in, “He’s come so far!“
Meanwhile, Dean has the added pressure of a girlfriend and a child to worry about. The more nurturing side of Dean doesn’t necessarily sit well with Ackles.
“There was a big shift in Dean’s character, actually, much to my chagrin,” admits Jensen. “I was not happy with it. Dean was really kind of being written soft. We spent five years with this guy being a tough, shoot-first-ask-questions-later kind of guy, and now all of a sudden he’s lived one year in more of a domesticated life and he’s gone soft on us.“
Ackles feels for the fans who might be missing “old Dean” as Season 6 begins. “As a fan of the show myself, that kind of made me upset, but I did my best to kind of curve that in the acting. It read pretty soft on the page, but I think I toughened it. I’m like ‘Look, if I’ve got anything to do with it, I’m gonna beat this guy up a little bit.’“
Padalecki jumps to his co-star’s defense, explaining that Ackles wasn’t going against the writers’ wishes – he was just doing his job as an actor. “You kept it true to the character,” he says. “It wasn’t like you were just not doing what the writers were writing for. It was like ‘How can I work this in to where I don’t completely lose Dean?’“
The changes have made playing Dean come less naturally to Ackles. “I had no idea what the hell I was doing,” Ackles laughs. “Even the dialogue, the way it was written, being so soft and affected. I was like, ‘This is not the guy I’m used to playing.’ I would kind of skew the dialogue a little bit to make it work in his favor. But it was definitely different. It was an odd situation for Dean to be in.“
“After five seasons of playing this guy, now I actually have to think harder about how to play this guy correctly than I have before. I’m like, what happened to the gravy boat here?“
“We talked to [Smallville's Tom Welling], and he’s like, yeah, Season 6, it’s easy from there on out,” Padalecki says. “We’re like, it got harder!“
Though Sam and Dean have definitely grown apart, they are working on rebuilding their bond — though they may be going about it in different ways.
“I think the common denominator is also that Sam and Dean both want it to be better,” Padalecki says. “In their own way, albeit; but they at least both want the same things. Maybe they work differently, but it’s no longer Sam going ‘Alright, I’ve got this demon… you do whatever you want; we’ll meet up later.’ I think we’re just wording differently what we want. We’re trying to work together and let it flesh itself out.“
Of course, the road to hell is paved with good intentions, and before things get better, they will get worse. Dean is upset with his brother from the get-go. “When Sam shows back up unexpectedly, obviously there’s surprise, but then there’s also anger. ‘How long has he been around, and why hasn’t he told me?’ That’s the first bit of friction,” Ackles says.
It only gets messier from there. “In the trailer, there’s a shot of me hitting him, and that wasn’t edited to look as though it was; that actually happened,” Ackles promises. “There are physical confrontations. There are verbal confrontations between the others. But they do have their common denominator, and that is that they’re both hunters, so they get back on the right track eventually. There is still a strain in the relationship that has yet to be worked out [by episode 8].“
Will there be more physical fighting between the brothers? “I hope so!” Padalecki laughs. “It’s fun.“
“Supernatural” fans, we love hearing your thoughts. Let us know what you think of Dean’s potential “soft” side — and how do you think Sam’s post-traumatic stress will fare now that he’s topside? Dish in the comments below and don’t miss the season premiere on The CW at 9 p.m. on Sept 24.
Source: Zap2It.Com
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