Directing Jared & Jensen and the pie incident. "It's, it's inspiring. They were working mercifully, only one day together on my episode. And they were really well behaved! Which by the way, I know is normally not true and it scared the shit out of me. Because, it was a sleeping volcano and I knew this was not natural. They hit their marks, were taking my direction which was especially off putting and I knew something was coming. And, in fact, it did. I came in after a take- I'll tell you what happened.
I was- so video village, it's called, is where the director watches the monitors for each camera and it's not directly on set, it'd right next to set. And you have your headphones on and you scrutinize performances. So I was right next to the set and I could hear them talking but if the camera wasn't on them then I couldn't see what they we're doing so, I could only see what the camera was pointed at.
But it really looked normal from my standpoint. Except Jared started flubbing his lines and Jared usually doesn't flub his lines and not only was he flubbing his lines but he was going oh, shoot, sorry, I don't know what's wrong with me!' Which is also very un-Jared. You know, he would usually say something along the lines of Ah, f**k you, let's do that again.'
So... -(At this point, someone came and took the hat off of the Justin Bieber cut out that was on stage with him)- thank you... Yes, that is better.
So anyway, they were stalling because the pie had not been delivered to them, so they were stalling to keep me out of the room for just another beat longer. And then Jared slammed me in the face with the pie, just, and it was, you know, how a few degrees off one side or another, he really could have broken my nose, it was... Phew put his hips into it. It was very jarring because, ah, I never expect to get pied when I open a door. But I managed to get cleaned up, changed my shirt, wiped most of the shit out of my hair and then stepped outside and then Jensen pied me.
And then my car got pelted with balloons full of whipped cream... The usual stuff after that. But it was good to, good that they waited till the end of the day to do this stuff cause I actually got a very quick and very efficient day out of them because they were so excited to destroy me. So it ended up, I think being a sacrifice that was worth while.
Anyway, that is uh, directing in a nutshell. But it is, it's fun, it's exhilarating, you have to constantly be paying attention, which you do not do when you're an actor. So, there's a lot of napping where you're at. Does anyone in one of these lines that's been so patiently waiting want to ask a question or should I continue to ignore you?"
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