The CW Source

Hello again from the Supernatural convention! We just saw Samantha Smith, who plays Mary Winchester. Good news: She's a fan of the show! Yes, she started watching because she was in it, but that first episode got her hooked.

This was Samantha's first convention, but she took to it naturally, bantering with fans and delving into episode issues. Here are some of the highlights:

• The boys never pranked Samantha -- "They know better because I'm their mother!"
• When asked to sum up the experience of working with Jeffrey Dean Morgan in three words of less, her response was "Sadly, no kissing." Hee!
• She had no idea that Mary had been a Hunter in her youth -- "Kripke said nothing. I've been meaning to have a word with him..." -- but she said the revelation made sense. Plus, she was happy that her character had been such a badass!
• Her most challenging assignment on Supernatural came in What Is And What Should Never Be, when all of a sudden she had to be "a normal person with a personality," instead of an ethereal and occasionally flaming) idealized mother figure.
• Samantha loves the show, but she prefers the episodes that are creepy, not gory. But she TiVos them and watches them during the day – they’re too scary for her to watch after dark!
• Her favorite supernatural adversary that the boys have encountered was the Trickster. Not the Yellow-Eyed Demon? “No. The actor was lovely, and the character was great and snarky, but he killed me, he tried to kill my kids, he killed my husband… I hold a grudge.”
• Although the audience is divided on Ruby, Samantha is willing to give her the benefit of the doubt: “Just like there can be fallen angels, there can be good demons, too.”
• Even Samantha has a dog story – she has a 3 1/2 pound Yorkshire terrier who isn’t even big enough to go down the trailer stairs by itself. One say, as she was sitting in the trailer with the door open, one of Jared’s enormous dogs came tearing up the steps into the trailer. Her tiny Yorkie bit Jared's huge hound on the nose. Jared’s dog “went flying across the field, and he never bothered my trailer again.”