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"I got this postcard from a woman who is one of the set designers on Supernatural, gushing about you, saying we watch your stuff, we think it's really funny, your attention to detail is amazing – it's my job to pay attention to detail, so watching you do it, we love." I was just like "You're kidding me!" Alyssa says "No, it gets better. It's the actual postcard from Dead Man's Blood. Part of the note on it was saying that we thought you'd enjoy this little piece of the set, because you give us so much, we'll give you a little joy there." It's a piece of the set!

So that night, we were going through Dead Man's Blood, trying to find it, and there's John and there's the postcard right over his shoulder, tacked on the wall. It's so cool! You look at the postcard, and you can tell they PhotoShopped these people doing silly things in front. When you flip it over, on the back, where postcards have that little byline on the top, it says "Come to Colorado where we have bloodthirsty vampires!" or something cutesy like that. Then they have the name of the motel on the bottom and a fake 555 phone number. I was looking at that thinking, "She sent this to me, a person on the show that I do this for, that's amazing."

I do it for the fans of the show, everyone who is in the same boat as I am, but to have the people that are doing something that I appreciate so much appreciate me, it blew my mind. It was just, holy cow! That was very validating.

CWS: I know you went down to Texas to see Jensen perform in "A Few Good Men." You've said you were taking pictures of Plastic!Dean outside the stage door, and when the door opened, you sprinted away. Why?
When Jared was coming to Fangoria I had every intention of showing him Plastic!Sam. It's just Jensen was a little more… not unapproachable, but ... I didn't want him thinking "Oh, another silly fangirl." It wasn't that I was embarrassed about the dolls, I just didn't want to make him uncomfortable.

Out of the two of them, I figured Jared would be like "Oh my god, it's a Barbie that looks like me!" and just flip out and think it was funny. Obviously I don't know either of them, so I don't know how Jensen would have reacted to it. So that's where the flight instinct came from. If he's coming out here, and he's trying to get to his car, I don't want him to think "Hey, what's the girl with the Barbie doing out here? That's odd."

CWS: Do you find a big difference in the Plastic!Characters – Plastic!Sam vs. Plastic!Jared?
Besides the potty mouth? (Laughs) It was funny, because I think the first time used them as Jared and Jensen was when they went to Asylum, and I had to make it so you knew it wasn't Dean and Sam. You needed to know they were different people. I was trying to think about what we know about them in real life and exaggerate that. Jared became even more of a spaz. The problem was Sam's already a spaz, so to differentiate from that. It's a fine line, but I think it's there.

I think you can tell when it's Jared and when it's Sam. Whereas, I think Dean and Jensen, it's very easy to tell when he's being each one. The clothing doesn't hurt either – stick him in flip flops and they know Sam's not going to wear flip flops.

CWS: Does it change things for you when you know you're doing a real person as opposed to a character?
It does to the point where I think, "Oh, if he's actually reading this, how embarrassed would I be right now!" Part of it is, I understand that they are real people, but we see only one side of their personality. We see the television actor, "I'm whoring my show" side of it. I think of it as taking that one facet of their personality and that's what I'm playing with, not necessarily their entire lives.

There's still more to come! We'll be talking to Andie about her favorite episode, what it takes to make Plastic!Winchester Theater, and more. Check back later for part three!