Supernatural is ending on The CW after fifteen years on the air, and stars Jensen Ackles (Dean Winchester) and Jared Padalecki (Sam Winchester) have opened up on how COVID made an already emotional shoot even more difficult when they were filming the final couple of episodes.
"As we were moving into the nineteenth episode, and it was like the second-to-last episode - we've only got one more after this. There were tears happening on set and there was emotion," Ackles says in the video below. "I felt that this was one of those things where I did not know how to really process all the emotions. So I just sweeping them under the rug, knowing that I was eventually going to have to deal with it. And then COVID happened and I didn't have to."
Describing COVID as a "derailment," Ackles praised the safety measures the network took upon their return to se. "There's a lot of precautions being taken, which I'm all for. I'm all for being safe and let's send everybody home and let's keep a very safe work environment."
Padalecki added to that, noting, "But, by and large, it felt like, for the most part, just going back to work." For Misha Collins (Castiel), however, it wasn't an overly easy experience.
"It felt like a long process of saying goodbye and mourning the end of the show. We have not been able to have a wrap party with extended cast and crew," Collins said. "Not being able to do that, and having this truncated and restricted finish is really hard. There is something to these ritualistic celebrations of milestones that are actually important, and not being able to have that big goodbye, and also stretching it out over the course of six months, was strange."
More comments from the fan-favorite trio of actors can be viewed in the newly released featurettes.
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