Jared PadaleckiandJensen Ackles starred as brothers Sam and Dean Winchester on the beloved CW sequence, Supernatural, all through its complete 15-season run. Whereas Sam and Dean are sometimes fairly critical, their off-screen counterparts have been fairly a bit sillier whereas on the present’s set.
Throughout a Q&A panel on the January 2026 Supernatural Conference in Las Vegas, Ackles and Misha Collins, who performed angel Castiel, shared behind-the-scenes info in regards to the sequence. Ackles revealed that he and Padalecki as soon as obtained kicked off the present’s set as a result of they have been repeatedly attempting to get Collins to interrupt character.
Collins, who joined the Supernatural forged throughout its fourth season, interjected that it was a typical prevalence for Padalecki and Ackles to attempt to get him to snicker whereas filming.
“The best way it labored on a standard filming day on Supernatural, the routine was we would go in, we might do a fast rehearsal,” stated Collins in the course of the panel. “All people roughly knew their strains. We would block it out after which we are available and we would shoot the primary setup and the digital camera can be sometimes on me with Jared and Jensen. I am speaking to Jared and Jensen. The digital camera can be on me and Jared and Jensen would make it their mission to f–k me up by making me snicker, for a few hours.”
Collins stated he would strive completely different strategies like biting his cheeks or “star[ing] off into the gap” to cease himself from laughing. Nonetheless, “none of them ever labored.”
Ackles stated that he and Padalecki’s habits towards Collins annoyed one of many episode’s administrators, Nina Lopez-Corrado. In keeping with Ackles, Lopez-Corrado advised them to depart the set, despite the fact that they have been filming a scene with Sam, Dean, and Castiel.
Collins then defined that Padalecki and Ackles have been in a position to be dismissed as a result of their characters “had already gotten their protection.” Collins additionally stated that the members of the present’s crew have been tasked to learn “Jared and Jensen’s strains” whereas he acted out Castiel’s elements in entrance of the digital camera.
“It was one of the best appearing I’ve seen him do on the present,” quipped Ackles.
Ackles, Collins, and Padalecki remained on the Supernatural forged till the present’s closing season, which resulted in 2020.
