I’ve discovered another interview of Jensen from this year’s Supernatural con in L.A. Enjoy.

JENSEN ACKLES: We are done with season 4. I have one more scene to shoot tomorrow. But that doesn’t really count. It’s second unit stuff. I think it’s our best season. They kind of pulled out all of the stops with this one. With your support we’ve got another one coming. And it’s good to have a job these days.

POP CULTURE ZOO: In making up your audition reel what film clips would you use?

ACKLES: My entire three years on Days of Our Lives. I don’t know. There are a lot of scenes that are kind of close to me. Obviously the emotional ones are the ones I kind of remember…you put a lot of yourself into them. The scene where Sam is laying on the bed dead and I’m talking to him, telling him that I’m sorry and all that kind of stuff. Kim directed that episode and I remember going up to his office and saying, “I don’t know how many takes I can do. So what are your camera angles, how many shots are you seeing because I don’t know how much gas I’ll have to do this scene more then a couple of times.” And he adjusted his camera angles and closed off the set and kicked everybody out and allowed me to do my thing and it was kind of cool.

Another one was the grave yard scene in “What Is and What Should Never Be” where I’m on top of my Dad’s grave. And that was [Eric] Kripke. He set it up where it was going to be one shot with two dolling cameras back and forth; one tight and one a little wider. So I basically came in and it was two in the morning and I just walked up and hit my mark and gave it. I really liked how that turned out.

PCZ: If we didn’t know Jared at all do you have a story that would describe him to us?

ACKLES: Going through all my files of Jared stories. There are so many. I could tell you a story about any aspect of Jared. I can tell you when he gets angry how he is. I could tell you when he gets sad how he is. Or if he’s having a fight with a girl friend. With all of those he is a very passionate person about what he does. He loves his family and friends, he loves his dogs…and they love him.

I feel responsible for teaching him this… how he has managed to make it to 26 years and not come across anyone who has not wanted to pull his finger. I unfortunately showed him the ‘pull the finger trick’ and now he does it all the time. We’ll be sitting in the Impala while they’re fixing the camera lens, and he look at me and goes (wiggling his fingers — much to the delight of the audience) all the time.

PCZ: In “Lazarus Rising” the opening scene at the gas station, the windows blow out and you can see in one of the scenes that you have a Band-Aid on your arm and maybe scars. Any comments on that injury?

ACKLES: The great Kim Manners directed that episode. He had a knack for really making things real. If you remember some of his episodes like “Bugs.” He came up to me prior to the episode and asked, “Are you allergic to bees? Because we’re going to have thousands of really stinging bees in this scene.” But in this particular scene he wanted to use real glass instead of candy glass. Because candy glass doesn’t really shatter like tempered glass. So with the windows blowing [up] you kind of see a high and wide shot, that’s actually my stunt double, Todd Scott, who came out of there just completely bloody. But there was still glass all over the ground and I had to fall into frame at one point. So I fell right on a bunch of glass. There were other nicks and cuts and my arms were pretty bloody too. I turned to Kim, “Are you happy?” And he just goes, “Get that cleaned up. We’re going to need you in the next shot.” So I have something to remember him by. [Kim Manners died on January 25, 2009.]

PCZ: If you had a chance to play one of all the Supernatural creatures which one would it be?

ACKLES: I think I’d want to be an angel. Those guys are cool. The way they’ve created and written the angels this year is really neat . They’re all different and when the lights flash and they’ve got the big giant wings…they’re cool. (Pause) Or a vampire!

And for Jared fans, his interview:

But now it was Jared’s turn to answer questions.

POP CULTURE ZOO: I understand your mother is an English teacher. Does she ever talk to you about the mythological arch in the show now that it’s developed more?

JARED PADALECKI: Yes. She’s a high school English teacher. And yes, she does. Actually that’s one of the things I really got into about the script in the first place. Supernatural really has a very strong base in mythology and archetypes, like the Reluctant Hero, the Friendly Beast, and The Weapon. The same things you see in Star Wars, Matrix. It’s just chopped full of mythology and archetypes and that’s one of the reasons [I liked it]. I guess she kind of instilled in me a love of mythology and literature. I really connected with it when I read the script.

PCZ: What would Sam’s first pick be if Dean ever let him pick the music in the Impala?

PADALECKI: I think because he has such a fond memory of a certain dance it would have to be “Eye of the Tiger”. “Final Countdown” is pretty good too, but nothing kicks it off like good ole “Eye of the Tiger”.

PCZ: What is the best prank you ever pulled on Jensen?

PADALECKI: I think the best prank I ever played on Jensen was, going back to the last question, was making him dance to that “Eye of the Tiger”. Because he just thought it was going to be acting and it turned into a fun little thing that’s part of Supernatural history now.

PCZ: When you read the script for “On the Head of a Pin” what was your reaction of Sam drinking Demon blood?

PADALECKI: That’s a good question. I never really knew what was going on. I sort of knew he was drinking Demon blood but I didn’t know if he was pouring it into a cup… a little smoothie. No, but I thought it was interesting. It was fun to play because we kind of decided, and discovered that Sam is an addict. He’s not a drug addict, but I guess Demon blood is a drug. So kind of researching drinking blood and what it does to you when you steal a person’s soul. There’s a whole kind of lore about drinking a person’s blood. I thought it was great, great for the story line and something I know, that you don’t know, is that it comes into play real heavy towards the end of the year. So I’m really happy about it.

PCZ: What are your favorite memories on set?

PADALECKI: Wrapping at 4 in the morning [that morning] even though it’s very fresh. My favorite memories on set are the really, really tough scenes. Because you get so devoted to your character and so dedicated to what’s going on that when it’s done you have this feeling like ‘ha ha’… like you’ve just finished a marathon or something. So the ends of hard episodes are always a good feeling for me. And off camera it’s just hanging out.

PCZ: In “Yellow Fever” what was the hardest thing to do… to not break character?

PADALECKI: You know, it wasn’t even the laughing part. It’s just a wash, I laugh no matter what. So the hardest scene for me to do in that episode was the scene with the snake coming over the couch. I never thought I was scared of snakes, but having a snake coming over a couch… I couldn’t shot it [the scene]. I literally had to walk away. It will end up on the gag reel, because Jensen is supposed to get scared of the snake as it’s coming over and Sam is supposed to go, “Ha, ha, Dean you’re a scaredy cat.” But instead, I’m like, I’m out of here. And I kind of got up and left. That was the hardest thing to do.

PCZ: What was the hardest thing physically you had to do?

PADALECKI: I guess not physically, but the idea of that… There have actually been some very physically demanding things on the bill. Obviously we have stunt guys and they do the majority of the fighting and falling, but on that note I always go back to Season 1, where we fought. It was a big time fight scene and we came in on the weekend to rehearse. That was really tough and it took all day to shot it. You get really into it and then they need a piece of someone smashing into a book case so you go through the whole thing and by the end of the day I was just beat. I was exhausted.

PCZ: What was the most intense scene for you to shot for Season 4?

PADALECKI: It would have been some stuff we just did which you don’t know about. I’m not going to ruin it because I’d be killed. (Laughter.) But Episode 21 which I think is called “When the Levee Breaks”. The first half, you’ll know.

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