On a show likeSupernatural, the title essentially implies that most of the cast will be pretty heavily costumed. Luckily, for its leading stars,Jared PadaleckiandJensen Ackles, the everyday attire for their characters, Sam and Dean Winchester, respectively, was a lot of blue jeans and long-sleeved shirts with jackets. But, when an episode involved them taking a walk on the wild side and transforming into something else, they got a taste of their co-workers’ medicine — specifically that ofDJ Qualls, who appeared in the series as a werewolf named Garth.
From his first appearance in Season 7 to his last in the fifteenth and final season, Garth tagged along with the siblings to help them fight the powers of evil, oftentimes using his own supernatural powers to aid in the battle. To do so, Qualls would be forced to pop in a fake set of werewolf teeth, which led to plenty of memorable moments on set. During aSupernaturalpanel over the weekend atMegaCon Orlando, at which Collider’sMaggie Lovittwas in attendance, Qualls, Padalecki,Mark Sheppard,Alexander Calvert,Samantha Smith,Ruth Connell,andJim Beavergathered to talk about their time on the show, with Padalecki and Qualls opening up about the usage of the painfully annoying prop.
Giving credit where credit is due, Padalecki praised Qualls for his patience and persistence in using the fake teeth, telling the crowd:
“I will say having worn vampire teeth and werewolf teeth and this and that as Sam, DJ is my absolute favorite other actor/actress on the show to wear it because – in person at least —they look fucking stupid. [Laughs] And they’re really sharp, and they cut the insides of your mouth, and so they’re like, ‘Okay, let’s put the teeth in,’ and so they come in, and they dry your gums so they can put them in, and they’re like, ‘Okay, we got to cover it,’ so they pull your lip down, but they were hard…They’re like spikes. And so DJ — God love him — he would just stand there and be like, ‘I feel stupid.’”
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Calvert revealed that he found himself in perhaps the least desirable position during the filming of one episode, when his character,Jack Kline, was pinned underneath Garth. Despite his best efforts, Qualls remembers accidentally dripping some drool down onto his co-star, sharing:
“I drank Michael’s grace, and I was on top of you trying to bite you when they gave me these newwerewolf teeth that were too big for my mouth, so I couldn’t close my mouth over them, and so they were making me go at him for a long time, and I was like, ‘You need to call cut,’ I couldsee drool coming out of the side of my mouthgoing toward him, and I’m trying really hard not to drool on you, Alex.”
Stay tuned to Collider for more to come from MegaCon Orlando and head over to Netflix to streamSupernaturalin its entirety.
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