Season 12 of The CW’s Supernatural introduces Rick Springfield as Lucifer and brings Mary Winchester (played by Samantha Smith) back to life. Mary and Lucifer are going to drive the season 12 story, and Misha Collins (‘Castiel’) says the hunt for Lucifer will be front and center for his character. During our interview at the 2016 San Diego Comic-Con, Collins also teased a storyline involving Mary Winchester and Castiel that he’d love to see come into play this season.
The CW’s set an October 13, 2016 premiere date for Supernatural season 12.
Misha Collins Interview:
What can we expect from this coming season?
Misha Collins: “I’m sure that people mentioned it but we’re going more intimate, more family this season. We’re not dealing with the politics of heaven so much, from my character’s perspective. It’s more about the human scale, which I’m excited about. I think it’s good that we keep shifting the emphasis because it gives us new material to focus on and gives us something different to do.”
Do you ever lose track of whose side you’re on or what Castiel’s doing?
Misha Collins: “There were moments last season when I had to pay very careful attention to what was going on. Like when I was playing Lucifer who had occupied Castiel’s body who was pretending to be Castiel to other people, that was a little bit hard to keep a handle on. That was a pretty challenging moment for me. So, yeah, there’s moments when you have to make double sure you know what’s going on. But more or less I think we keep the thread most of the time. Sometimes we occasionally shoot episodes out of order and that makes it a little bit harder because, ‘Wait a minute…I got it.'”
What was the joke you made during the Supernatural panel about having some connection with Mary Winchester?
Misha Collins: “Well, Sam (Smith) and I have been shooting some scenes together and we’ve been joking behind the scenes that there’s a budding romance between Cas and Sam. I keep standing too close to her, or things like that, when we’re shooting. So far I don’t think the writers have picked up on that very obvious storyline choice but hopefully, they will.”
How will Castiel’s story arc change this season?
Misha Collins: “Well, so far in the beginning of the season Cas is on a mission to hunt down Lucifer and he’s got a very sort of single-track mind and he’s kind of militant in his approach to solving that problem. Where we go I can’t tell you because I don’t know.”
Have you shot any scenes with Rick Springfield who is playing Lucifer?
Misha Collins: “No, I haven’t. He arrived Friday when I wasn’t shooting.”
How much have they told you about this season?
Misha Collins: “Well, in the beginning of the season we see more than we see later on. Like we get a longer lead in the beginning because the writers have been working over hiatus so they build up sort of a library of material. We kind of catch up to that throughout the season, so the advance notice that we get narrows as the season goes on. But right now I’ve seen an outline through episode eight. That’s the biggest lead time that we get. By the time we’re shooting the end of the season, I probably have the outline for the final episode maybe a month before we shoot it.”
Do you have a preference for knowing that much ahead or not?
Misha Collins: “Oh, like knowing.”
Watch the full Misha Collins interview:
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