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Just because “Supernatural” ended doesn’t mean Richard Speight Jr.’s time on the show ceased. The world of “Supernatural” continues in “The Winchesters,” a prequel series focusing on John and Mary, the parents of Sam and Dean Winchester. Produced by and featuring Jensen Ackles as Dean, “The Winchesters” is full to the brim with callbacks to the original series, the biggest arguably being Speight. 

Not long after the “Supernatural” prequel premiered in October 2022, it was announced Speight Jr. would be guest starring on “The Winchesters,” reprising his role as The Trickster. Showrunner Robbie Thompson revealed the appearance the same month that “Winchesters” premiered and said bringing Speight back was in the works since the production of the second episode. Thompson told TV Insider he was reading notes from the show’s writers when he saw a prime opportunity for Speight to return.

“I was reading [the writers’] notes and was like, ‘Hey, wait a minute …. and then I just got really, really excited because it felt like [they’d come up with] an opportunity for us to welcome a friend that we’ve seen before, but maybe not in a way that folks … expected,” the showrunner said. 

On top of appearing on “The Winchesters,” Speight is also working behind the scenes on the prequel. He directed the seventh episode (“Reflections”), and Ackles revealed during New York Comic Con in October 2022 that Speight would ultimately be directing multiple episodes of the series (via TV Insider).