Chicago Con 2008 - Day 2 Photos - Samantha Smith

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Boy I had such trouble seeing Mary in Samantha.  Different hair color, different make up.  Even looking at these photos I have trouble seeing it.  I guess she's one of those women who can look very different with different make up and hair.

Sam was very sweet.  She talked about her 4-month-old son.  She mentioned that her husband was best friends with Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk.  She told a story about Nathan playing "drunk baby" using her son as a "puppet" (very carefully of course!)  She said she could not stop laughing.  Her son, like any baby, is very limber and loose and Nathan was waving his arms around while making jokes.

Sam is a fan of the show and is a sci-fi geek.  She also watches the new Battlestar Galactica. 

She also told a "Jared's dogs" story.  She has a small yorkshire terrier who bit Harley on his nose!  Harley is about 100 lbs (or more?), Sam's dog is about 3 lbs!

Here are some photos from Sam's panel:


























Again for my reference later--from the CW Source report on Sam's panel:

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.”