Spn Con in NJ
First, Misha Collins is even prettier in person than he is on TV.
Second: he was amazingly sweet to the shaking, tongue-tied, possibly loony woman who showed up in front of him for an autograph.
He was equally sweet to my daughter, who, while not nearly as cripplingly shy as me, was visibly nervous about meeting him.
He signed our stuff & was smiling the whole time & apparently words came out of my mouth but I have no recollection what they were (my daughter says when he said something about Stonehenge Apocalypse, I joked back, and made sense!).
Did I mention Misha Collins is amazingly lovely to look at? He is. His eyes are really blue, and his hands are awfully pretty, too. Sadly there was no ruffled Cas hair. We stood in line for an hour while the Gold and Silver ticket holders went ahead of us, but our line had a perfect view of him signing things for everyone else, so it was a nice wait.
After the autograph session, we went out into the hallway leading to the convention rooms and sat on one of the benches so my daughter could text everyone she knew; there were panels of some kind going on, but we skipped them.
So we were sitting there, waiting for Misha's 2 p.m. panel, when my daughter's eyes bugged out. I looked up, and there walking past us is Misha & what I suppose was his bodyguard. They went in the men's room, which was directly across from our seat. And then they came out. And Misha Collins is really tall, people! He may look "short" compared to the Js, but he really isn't.
So then we went in the panel room (catching the tail end of some kind of quiz game) and found our seats and Misha came out and was completely entertaining for a solid hour. I was taking notes while my daughter handled the camera, but everything went so fast I didn't get it all down. Transcribed to the best of my recollection, but his answers may not be exact, I did the best I could.
Highlights:
"Do you have any projects you're working on?"
Misha: "A stone bowl. Marble -- British Columbia marble -- I'm carving it. I have the outside done. It's a lot rounder than I thought it would be."
Someone asked Misha how he was feeling. Not that great, actually, he said-- "I got some salmon for lunch, and they put this, this--jalapeno cheese sauce, they poured it all over the fish, and it was...that's not what you're supposed to do to salmon, is it? Chef, if you're in the audience--sorry, but don't do that."
Someone asked did he really have to eat many cheeseburgers during filming "My Bloody Valentine".
Yes, he did actually have to eat a *lot* of cheeseburgers. Then followed a long, deliberately gross dissertation on taking bites, masticating, holding food in one's mouth, swallowing, and waiting for Robin, the spit-bucket girl. Then he mentioned that doing numerous takes of eating leads him to a dread of swallowing.
A few snickers started up. Then people started howling with laughter and clapping enthusiastically.
"Stop applauding-- it's Sunday! Shame on you all!"
"Which Cas (long list of examples) was your favorite to play?"
Misha: "Drunk Cas. Which wasn't in your list, was it? So, 'E: None of the above'."
[For the (upcoming) episode that Jensen is directing], "will you be in it?"
Misha: "No. But I wanted to be, so that I could fuck with Jensen."
Someone got up to the mic & complemented Misha's appearance.
Misha: "It's the socks, isn't it?" and he rolled up his pants to show off his neon green and black-striped socks (His tie, btw, was wide red-white-and-blue stripes.)
"Any kind of animal. What would you be?"
Misha (without missing a beat): "Sauerkraut."
He pretty much didn't answer a single question seriously, he was wildly entertaining as long as one didn't expect deep, in-depth answers to his thoughts and processes and whether Castiel spent episode 5.21 smelling like dead fish. Except someone asked him about filming Karla, and there was nothing humorous about that.
I don't do photos, so after wandering around a bit longer, we headed home. It was completely & utterly worth it to see Misha Collins up close & personal, listen to him let loose on a (mostly) appreciative audience, and get his autograph.
In conclusion: Misha Collins is fucking hot and funny as hell.
Some other stuff will be posted later under flock.