She was so lovely! She shook my hand and said my name was beautiful and was generally so gorgeous and friendly and charming. I stumbled away in a daze, clutching the amazing Ruby picture she had signed, and then collapsed into Susans arms and started crying. AND I WAS BEING SO DIGNIFIED UP TO THAT POINT. I swear I was not that excited about any of the official guests. Jared and Jensen? Yeah, theyre pretty awesome. Genevieve? HEARTS AND INCOHERENCY. The next day, I had Jared autograph my DVDs. The exchange we had went like this: Jared: Hi! Riona: Hi! Um, I spoke to Genevieve Cortese yesterday, and I was wondering whether you could thank her for me, because she was so lovely. Jared: She is! She is. Shes a doll. I definitely will. Riona: Thank you! And thank you for coming as well; I hear you play something on Supernatural. Jared: (throws back his head and laughs) Yeah, now and then. Thats right: I got a full head-thrown-back laugh out of Jared Padalecki. It felt pretty awesome From: rionaleonharts live journal blog of meeting Gen Padalecki way back at Asylum Convention in 2009.
Posted on: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 00:36:02 +0000