The CW Source

Next up at the Supernatural Con – Richard Speight, Jr., the man who brought The Trickster to mischievous life. This was Richard’s very first convention, so he begged the crowd to be gentle with him. He needn’t have worried – the crowd loved him!

Richard was all set to talk about Supernatural, but first he got a few questions about other projects – Band of Brothers, Jericho, even Earnest Goes to Camp. Things we never knew about Jim Varney – he drove a DeLorean, he wore leather pants, and he had good tips for how to win a knife fight. All righty then!

Things we learned about Richard:

• Richard had no idea what he was getting into on the show – he’d worked with producer Robert Singer before so he didn’t have to audition for the part. His agent told him he was going up to Vancouver to play a janitor. He didn’t read the script until he was on the plane – and that’s when he figured out he was playing a god!
  
• The fight scene at the end of Tall Tales was “one of the easiest days work I have ever had.” He just had to sit there, laugh and applaud while Jared and Jensen got their butts kicked. The one hazard? He had to keep eating candy bars. “But you don’t get a lot of sympathy for having to eat too much chocolate!”
  
• Still, Richard wasn’t feeling too bad for Jensen – “He was getting punched by girls in bustiers. I was not weeping for him.”
  
• Will the Trickster be coming back? “I’ll know that just a few weeks before you do,” he said. He’s sure hoping, though – and so are we!
  
• Richard has a unique take on why the Trickster was trying to hard to break through to Sam in Mystery Spot – because the boys were just too perfect! “I think there’s something about the boys that rubs the Trickster raw. There are these two dudes that are so good looking and are best buddies and they fight evil…. Nobody likes those dudes! They’re so loyal to each other that it really chaps the Trickster’s hide.”
  
• The guys never pranked Richard, but he did get one heck of a surprise – he was going to meet the guys in Jensen’s trailer to watch a Cowboys game, but he accidentally went to the wrong trailer – and met Jared’s huge, slavering dogs. Oops!