Conlin Wears White for ‘Bones’ Finale
Conlin Wears White for ‘Bones’ FinaleThe entire cast and one member of ZZ-Top are going to the chapelBy Daniel FienbergThere are certain unfortunate things that Michaela Conlin is used to encountering during a typical week on the “Bones” set — shattered skulls, mismatched limbs, vats of rendered viscera — but those challenges pale in comparison to the complications of a hastily organized wedding.“It was kind of crazy to end the year with a wedding,” Conlin laughs. “I didn’t realize — I don’t know why — that even though I was just playing a bride and not really getting married, you still go through all the stress of fitting the dress and taking the pictures and walking down the aisle and all that.“The second season finale of FOX’s “Bones” leads up to the wedding of Conlin’s Angela Montenegro and T.J. Thyne’s Dr. Jack Hodgins, a union many episodes and at least three proposals in the making. Although the “Stargazer in a Puddle” hour contains the requisite murder investigato n — a small body is found in a grocery cart — nearly as much time is spent on selecting Hodgins’ best man and Angela’s maid-of-hour and taking the necessary steps to make sure that the father-of-the-bride could attend.“It was very, very surreal. It felt very real,” Conlin says. “Billy Gibbons, who played my father, when we were standing in the foyer before the doors opened to walk down the aisle, he looked and he’s like, ‘My heart’s really beating. This is nervous.’ I said, ‘Why?’ He said, ‘It all feels so real.’ And it does. The production values are so high.“Yes, the Billy Gibbons in question is the bearded ZZ-Top icon, a character detail introduced in the first season and never exactly commented on, though Gibbons’ role is greatly expanded for the finale. Conlin has worked up a full back-story for the relationship.“He’s been gone for a lot of her childhood, traveling and on tour,” she explains. “And I know that a lot of Angela’s quote-unquote ‘free-spirited’ nature came from sort of raising herself as a child and being a bit of a wild banshee, not really having parental guidance. He’s not around very much, comes in and out, and I think that she’d love to have him around more. I think he will actually be around more, I hope, in the third season. It’s unexplained, but for a good reason. I think that Angela wishes that they were closer than they are.“At least one person couldn’t be happier about the character’s rock-n-roll paternity.“My real father, who I had to call up and say ‘They’ve cast someone as you, dad, and I hope that you approve,’ he’s so excited about the fact that it was him, because he’s such a big ZZ Top fan,” Conlin says. “It was one of my coolest moments to say, ‘It’s not going to be you playing you, dad, but it’s going to be Billy Gibbons playing you,’ and he was like ‘No way! That’s so cool.’”On a show so dominated by the chemistry between ostensible leads Bones (Emily Deschanel) and Booth (David Boreanaz), Conlin has enjoyed the chance to give Angela extra human shadings and to let the character move to the center of the narrative.“It’s an amazing experience to fall in love with someone on a show, as it is in life,” she says. “It’s the most humbling, grounding, moving experience and it teaches you so much and that’s what it’s done for her. It’s grounded both of them and put their feet on the ground. It’s a beautiful thing when you fall in love with someone and that’s what it’s done for both of them — given them a lot more to look forward to at work.“That being said, Conlin adds, “I like being involved in one relationship, but at the core of Angela’s character is that she says what she feels and she doesn’t edit before she speaks. It was fun for a season to be able to do that and she’s been a little more reserved this season, as well she should be, considering she’s walking down the aisle.“And how does the actress, whose character is one of the biggest cheerleaders for a Bones-Booth hook-up, feel about that potentiality?“I’ve been working with those guys for a long time, so I know that if it ever happens, I think that Angela would be in the front row with a VIP ticket and a big popcorn and a Diet Coke. She’s really into it. I would love to see them hook up, but once they do, what happens after that?“For now at least, viewers don’t need to worry. It’s Angela’s turn to wear white.The “Bones” finale airs Wednesday (May 16) night at 8 p.m. ET.
Thyne Makes His Romantic ‘Bones’
Thyne Makes His Romantic ‘Bones’His character has gone from geeky scientist to romantic leadBy Daniel FienbergMay 2, 2007In the first season of “Bones,” it was easy to predict Dr. Jack Hodgins’ role in each week’s mystery — He’d give a wacky conspiracy-laden quip, stare intently into a microscope and deliver a jargon-heavy monologue about spores, biological viscera or mineral composition before going back to his microscope.“The question of ‘Would it have been enough to just kind of be the quote-unquote “sidekick”?’ I don’t think it would have been,” reflects T.J. Thyne, Hodgins’ thespian alter-ego. “I don’t think it would have been satisfying enough, which is why I kind of get on my knees and bow down to the writers that they gave me this opportunity in Season Two.“With presumptive leads Temperance “Bones” Brennan (Emily Deschanel) and Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz) caught up in an endless will-they-or-won’t-they tango, Hodgins and fellow “squint” Angela Montenegro (Michaela Conlin) have become the FOX drama’s heart this season, going from hesitant flirtation, to awkward dating to full-fledged love. This isn’t the way Thyne, a veteran of literally dozens of TV guest parts and recurring arcs before “Bones,” expected things to go when he signed on.“I think originally, Season One, I looked at Angela’s character as just a sister, a sister who was the fun, funky sister who was just always out partying and having a good time — we laughed together and had a good time,” he remembers. “I actually thought that Jack had a little something for Brennan. I always thought he was very enamored by her for what she was in her mind, how she was as a scientist.“While Brennan has had a couple love interests while waiting to inevitably pair off with Booth, none of them has been Hodgins. Instead, Thyne says he began to notice another romantic alternative at the Jeffersonian, a spark he spotted perhaps even before the show’s creative team.“I just started to find that a lot of my lines that I was delivering, even though they were scientific and a lot of Latin words, I was somehow directing them towards her and the intention seemed to be one of wooing, so to speak,” he says. “I think it’s something that the other actors picked up on and I think it’s something that the writers started picking up on and that’s what slowly started to blend into this beautiful arc that we finally had of Jack really falling madly and passionately in love with Angela and kind of pursuing her.“The new episode of “Bones” that airs Wednesday is a showcase for Thyne to show off his character’s new layers. Titled “Spaceman in a Crater,” the episode’s weekly corpse — a body that seemingly fell from outer space — feeds Hodgins anti-government paranoia, but the discovery of alien technology doesn’t take his attention from his plans to propose to Angela. Given the choice between playing wise-cracking comic relief or earnest love interest, Thyne doesn’t hesitate to express a preference.“One thousand percent, definitely the romantic, human element is much more fun for me to play. I just love that,” he says. “I don’t know, maybe it’s just me, T.J., is kind of an romantic. The idea of falling for a woman and having to figure out a way of expressing that to her and being confused and just misinterpreting the signs, to me that’s what we all deal with, that’s what life is full of.”“Bones” fans will probably notice a few narrative gaps in the budding relationships, gaps caused by FOX’s decision to pull the April 19 episode (“Player Under Pressure,” featuring a murdered college athlete) in the wake of the tragedy at Virginia Tech.“I thought it was smart that they said ‘Let’s not do this, let’s not pile it onto the audience at this point. Let’s give them a break,’” Thyne says. “Meanwhile, then we screened Brennan and I being buried alive. So we went from one intensity to the next, but at least it was a little more removed.“Asked if “Bones” is somewhat underappreciated on a network where the hype usually goes to critical darlings like “24” or “House” or pop culture sensations like “American Idol,” Thyne laughs and pauses.“Let me ask you — Do you think that we are?” He continues, “I don’t think the people that watch us underestimate us.“Not that he’d shy from a few million more viewers …“For me and just always as an actor, it’s just the more you can pack an audience in, the better you feel. You feel like the more people you can actually touch and communicate to, the more exciting it is,” he says. “I mean, ‘House’ is a great show and they’ve got a strong audience base and I feel like our show is definitely strong enough to handle that kind of audience base. And I feel that if we got above the radar, we could take the heat. Let the eyes come on us. We can handle it.”“Bones” airs on Wednesday nights at 8 p.m. ET on FOX.
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Fox renews ‘House’, ‘Bones’
Fox is showing some early love for “House” and “Bones,” picking up both for next season.News is no surprise for “House,” which will enter its fourth season this fall. Show, which launched to tepid numbers, eventually burst into a mega-Nielsen performer and now is one of Fox’s top-rated tentpole dramas.“Bones,” meanwhile, hasn’t yet turned into a blockbuster but has seen its fortunes improve at the net, turning into a decent player for Fox. Show marks its third season this fall.Season to date, “House” has averaged a strong 7.1 rating/18 share in adults 18–49, as well as 17.4 million viewers. It’s Fox’s top-rated scripted skein, and No. 3 among all webs with adults 18–49.Show stars Hugh Laurie as Dr. Gregory House, an acerbic but brilliant infectious disease specialist. Omar Epps, Jennifer Morrison, Jesse Spencer, Robert Sean Leonard and Lisa Edelstein also star.David Shore created and exec produces “House,” which earned him an Emmy for writing in a drama in 2005. Katie Jacobs, Paul Attanasio, Bryan Singer and Dan Sackheim also exec produce “House,” which comes from NBC Universal TV Studio.As for “Bones,” the drama has averaged a 3.1 rating/8 share in adults 18–49 season to date, as well as 8.8 million viewers.Show stars Emily Deschanel as Dr. Temperance Brennan, a forensic anthropologist who assists in murder investigations. She’s frequently teamed with FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth (played by David Boreanaz).“Bones” also stars Michaela Conlin, Eric Millegan, T.J. Thyne and Jonathan Adams; 20th Century Fox TV is behind the show exec produced by Barry Josephson, Stephen Nathan and Hart Hanson.
Make no ‘Bones’ about it, Michaela Conlin is happy
Make no ‘Bones’ about it, Michaela Conlin is happyBy Kathy Lauer-Williams Of The Morning CallFor Allentown native Michaela Conlin, the second season of the Fox TV series ”Bones,” which started earlier this month, will bring the chance of romance for her character, Angela Montenegro.Conlin, whose character is the best friend of forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, played by Emily Deschanel, says Montenegro will heat things up with the ”bug guy,” fellow scientist Dr. Jack Hodgins, who is an expert on insects and spores in the forensic lab.”It’s a little strange because [actor TJ Thyne] is a good friend of mine, and I have to pretend to have a crush on him” Conlin says. ”But it’s nice for Angela to get out of the lab.”However, she gave a quick ”no comment” to whether fans will see Montenegro and Hodgins in a love scene.Conlin says she had suggested last season that the character have a romance and the producers were open to the idea.”The character is so much fun,” she says. ”She’s so wise and irreverent. She’s a little wacky and likes to live life to the fullest.”Conlin, a 1996 graduate of Parkland High School, says she is thrilled that the series, which airs at 8 p.m. Wednesdays, is in its second season.”It’s really hard just to get anything on the air,” Conlin says. ”Having been on shows that didn’t stick around I understand how fortunate we are.”The 28-year-old had leading roles in the short-lived series ”MDs” and ”The D.A.” before joining the first season of ”Bones” in 2005.She says she already has filmed half the episodes for the second season of the series, in which she plays an artist who creates three-dimensional images of crime scenes.”The show has changed a lot from the first season,” she says. ”We’re all very comfortable and a lot is happening organically that isn’t scripted.”Conlin, whose parents, Denise and Fran, still live in Allentown, says she has loved acting since she performed in the musical ”The King and I” at Muhlenberg College when she was 6.”This is the only thing I ever wanted to do,” she says.After graduating from New York University in 2000, Conlin left the East Coast for Los Angeles. She says she still misses the change of seasons.”It’s taken me a while to get used to Los Angeles,” she says,Conlin worked steadily after her move, getting a role in the Bravo documentary series ”The It Factor,” as well as guest spots on series like ”JAG” and ”Law and Order.”She also had a role in ”Open Window,” an independent film starring Cybill Shepherd and Elliot Gould that screened at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year.Conlin says the 12–14 hour days shooting on ”Bones” prevents her from working on other projects now, but during the summer hiatus, she worked on ”Enchanted,” Disney’s latest project. Scheduled for release in fall 2007, the movie will be part animation and part live-action.Conlin calls it a ”modern-day fairy tale set in New York City,” in which a princess played by Oscar-nominated actress Amy Adams is banished from a cartoon world to the present-day city.Conlin plays a ”funny fashion designer” who works with the princess’ friend, played by Idina Menzel of ”Rent.”She says she also is writing short stories and hopes to do a play when she has some down time.”The thing I love and hate about this business is you really are only worth your current job,” she says. ”You always have to be working on something and can’t take a break.”But for now, she says she feels a little bit of security in a very insecure business with ”Bones.””The show’s doing well, so, hopefully, we’ll be around for a long time,” she says.
Fox closes press tour on high note
THE COURTYARD between two areas of a Pasadena eatery was packed with stars as Fox threw the best party of the entire winter press tour.Up against a tree decorated in white lights, reporters pressed Kiefer Sutherland for even more intel on “24.” We know there will be a romance between two secondary characters, and that there will be a big dust-up between Jack and his dad, who appears later in the season.Fewer folks were gathered by “The O.C.” creator Josh Schwartz, whose once white-hot series takes its final bow in a few weeks.“I’m not forgetting the support we got, and continue to get, from The O.C. at Boalt fans,” says Schwartz, referring to UC Berkeley’s law students, who even started a scholarship in the name of the series’ attorney dad, Sandy Cohen. “I’m going to do a very special homage to them in the final episode.“Former “Angel” star David Boreanaz used a very non-FCC friendly word to tell people that his show “Bones,” about Brennan, an emotionally distant forensic scientist (Emily Deschanel) and the FBI agent Booth (Boreanaz), was “not a (insert word) procedural show.”“I don’t give a (insert word) about who got murdered or who was murdered,” the smiling and very animated Boreanaz says. “Because this is a (insert word) relationship show between Booth and Brennan. It’s about your (insert word) friends, people you work with. That’s what interests me and that’s where this (insert word) series is going.”
Character relationships the backbone of ‘Bones’
Character relationships the backbone of ‘Bones’By BRIDGET BYRNELOS ANGELES (AP) ? Emily Deschanel is comparing Dr. Temperance Brennan of “Bones” to a cracked egg.“She’s very flawed in odd ways, but there’s something admirable, I think, in her attempt to move forward and put herself back together, like Humpty Dumpty,” says Deschanel, who plays Brennan in Fox’s wry-humoured crime series.
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