Digging Up ‘Bones’ with Emily Deschanel
Filed Under: Uncategorized Posted On: 10-03-2007 No CommentsEmily ChristiansonHollywood.com StaffRomantic tension continues this season on Bones, despite a cliff hanger that left Dr. Temperance ‘Bones’ Brennan [Emily Deschanel] and her partner, Special Agent Seeley Booth [David Boreanaz], standing at the altar. The duo won’t be walking down the aisle any time soon, but Deschanel confesses the two will end up in therapy together, so there is “”no need to buy gifts just yet.”"With a new season underway and Season 2 now on DVD, Hollywood.com caught up with Deschanel to talk about life at the Institute.Hollywood.com: Do you think the characters will eventually give in to their urges, or is better for them to just flirt?Emily Deschanel: I think they should at some point. I think it gets really dangerous, though, to do it on the show. I think the writers and producers are very much aware of that and the dangers of putting characters together and what that can mean for the show. You know, it’s possible it could kill the thing that holds the show together: the chemistry, and sexual tension between the two characters … At the same time, I don’t think they want to leave the characters in the same holding pattern they’ve been in for awhile. I think that they’re all trying to put the characters in a different situation.HW: A lot of the other characters are getting into different situations, like Angela [Michaela Conlin] and Hodgins [T.J. Thyne] running off together and Zack [Eric Millegan] going to Iraq. Are there any changes coming for the Institute?ED: Angela and Hodgins go looking for the man that she married a few years ago, which is the whole reason why they had to leave their wedding. She got married to a man in Fiji and so they go looking for this guy. Zack comes back from Iraq, but we’re not sure for how long and he was discharged early and so that is an interesting thing that we’ll be exploring. Tamara [Taylor]‘s character, Cam, is no longer seeing Booth, but they kind of develop a friendship this season and she asks him a favor, to pretend to be her boyfriend for her dad’s birthday and there’s a little situation with Cam’s sister and Booth that you’ll see. And Booth and Brennan go to therapy, couples therapy, because the FBI is concerned that they’re not able to work together because of tension after Booth arrested Brennan’s father.HW: Do you think in a strange way that having Bones’ father arrested will somewhat help their relationship?ED: It certainly makes them address issues and it makes them say things head on, which I think is always a good thing. It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced to face issues and emotions, feelings, that they have.HW: Are you more of a science and data type person like Brennan, or a people person like Booth?ED: That’s a very good question. In school, math and science were my favorite subjects, but I probably–in my true self–am more of a people person. At the same time, I don’t think that’s how I recharge. I guess they say you can find out if you’re an extravert or an introvert by how you recharge yourself and I guess I’m more of an introvert in that way because I like to be by myself to recharge, but I’m definitely a people person. I love socializing and being around people and having good conversations. I like to read. I don’t have that much time outside of my job, but I have been fixing up my house.HW: How much input do you have in the writing and how much do you stray from the actual script?ED: We have input in the writing to a certain degree, but there is definitely an open dialogue between the writers and producers and the actors. David and I will always kind of try and find things to add to a scene, little lists or different things, but they’re usually kind of add-ons rather than content, you know, lines. But they definitely weigh our opinions when writing scenes. If we have issues with dialogue or plot, we’re always encouraged and welcome to voice those opinions and for the most part, they’re addressed.HW: You get several takes to do a scene on a film set. How long do you spend on scenes for the show?ED: Not that long. You know, there are days when we shoot eight, nine pages in a day and that’s a lot to get through. We get a couple of takes, I’d say. We can’t spend all day trying to get the performance exactly right and you just have to move on and accept the medium you’re working in and, you know, there’s a beauty in working under constraints and limitations. I think a lot of great things can come out of that.














