“It was a high point of my career,” Wester says of his time on the show.
EW spoke with A.J.
Buckley and Travis Wester about their journey as the fan-favorite duo.
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TRAVISWESTER:Jensen and I go way back.
I was working on a show calledMr.
Rhodesand he was the heartthrob on that show.
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Then he went over toDays of our Livesand I got a guest-starring role so we hung out there.
I didn’t really think anything of it.
And then I got an audition forSupernatural, went in and read for it and I booked it.
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And that was it.
There’s not too many actors where you get on the same show repeatedly.
BUCKLEY:David Nutter, who directed the pilot, is a really close friend of mine.
He’s the reason I came down to Los Angeles.
I did a movie with him and on his advice, I convinced my parents to come down.
Do you want to reach out to Nutter?"
So I did and the audition came through.
WESTER:When they said A.J.
Buckley is going to be the other guy, I was not familiar with him.
And it was cool because it shot up in Vancouver and A.J.
was from Vancouver so it was really great to have a buddy that knew the area.
BUCKLEY:Travis and I were likeStep Brotherswhen we met.
It was like,“Did we just become best friends?
“We had a really good energy together.
But I had no clue then what it was, we were just playing these nerdy guys.
WESTER:We had a great time shooting that first episode and I kind of assumed that was it.
So to get that call that we were going to come back, I was really stoked.
And what a great idea.
I was like, “Are you kidding me?
This is so awesome!”
WESTER:I didn’t read the script [right away].
I figured it would be the Hell Hounds guys come back.
I get on the plane and I see Brittany [Ishibashi] and we’d worked together before.
I was blown away.
BUCKLEY:Jared and Jensen I remember loved it because they worked like two days.
But they just embraced it.
They’re such great human beings anyways, but they’re just always down to riff.
That was the first time I’d ever done anything like that.
And I think that was one of the first times anyone did anything like that.
BUCKLEY:We all got along and then [director] Phil Sgriccia was this warm, loving guy.
He’s got this little giggle that he does.
He’s almost like Santa Claus, so every scene we’re rehearsing, he would be laughing.
He’s like, “Just keep riffing.”
We just went off and started doing stuff.
WESTER:Crew members and the director and producers got involved as well.
I said I didn’t like rats.
So I made his character decision in the moment.
So the whole crew got to get involved and that was really fun.
We’re like, “Holy s—!”
It was a high point of my career for sure, just from the perspective of artistic merit.
BUCKLEY:The cool thing is our characters never died.
To have lived from season 1 until now was pretty remarkable.
I was hoping that we’d come back in the last little bit but it didn’t work out.
