Last month’s Creation Supernatural convention in New Jersey was extra fun – one, because I could drive to it; two, because my friend Mary actually did the driving (fangirl roadtrip!); and three, because I missed the cast of my favorite show. Especially Jared Padalecki, who didn’t make the Creation cons in January. It had been way too long!
In between selling books and chatting with friends in the vendor room, I caught some panels with the rest of the best cast ever.
Ruth Connell said she knew she could play Rowena when she saw the line “it breaks my heart to see what a colossal pussy you’ve become” (later changed a bit).
She told some stories of her childhood, including loving the Kelpies, saying that her grandfather was a ‘horse whisperer’.
Perhaps the most heartwarming moment of Ruth’s panel was when she shared that Rob and Ruth’s young daughter Margaret is learning to swim, using Felicia Day’s daughter’s water wings. #SPNFamily
Ruth, like so many guest actors on Supernatural, feels that her life was changed by being on the Show. She writes about that in her beautiful chapter in the book Family Don’t End With Blood (and you can almost hear her accent in it).
Ruth: That’s what Supernatural is for me, that your dreams can come true.
Ruth also had some exciting news – she’s preparing to produce a film after securing the book rights! Congrats, Ruth!
Friday night Mary and I had an absolutely amazing dinner at a restaurant across the street which had a lovely outdoor porch. I have to say, the driving is so insane in this part of Jersey that it took us like ten minutes to finally navigate our way there when we could literally SEE the restaurant from the con hotel!
However? Worth it.
Saturday I caught Misha Collin’s panel as always, though I missed the beginning when everyone sang happy birthday to him. Happy birthday, Misha!
His very first convention was in New Jersey, and he reminisced about how nervous he was during his panel. (We were at that convention too and were the only familiar faces there for him, having just met and interviewed him on the set in Vancouver – on his first night at the con, he sat between me and Kathy on a couch in the hotel bar, a little overwhelmed by the whole thing. You can read that entire story in the book ‘Fangasm: Supernatural Fangirls!’ with more Misha chaos.)
I chatted with him later about it, both of us marveling that it was so long ago!
