drunkenwords:

Misha Collins on the sigils on his chest

People say it looked painted on? The truth is, I went through a hell of a lot for people to think it was just painted on. I’m permanently disfigured. I read the script, and they had an image there of how they wanted the sigil to look like, and I did it before coming in to shoot that morning at home with a straight razor. And then they had a special effects make-up person, unbeknownst to me, who is there for the day. Well obviously, they didn’t have to do anything, coz I had already done it. But yeah, I guess they were planning to do some sort of prosthetic and make it look like it was carved in, but they didn’t have to coz I had already done it. The shooting took a little longer than usual because I kept fainting from bloodloss. But I think you would agree, that it led to authenticity.