Bones Stars at Comic-Con 2012 - July 13th

Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz

This is so exciting! Last year, The Bones stars and executive producers pulled out of Comic-Con at the last minute. This year, Hart Hanson, Stephen Nathan, Emily Deschanel, and David Boreanaz WILL be at Comic-Con in San Diego.

The event takes place on July 13th. Who's going?

From Hollywood Reporter: 

Bones (Fox): EPs Hart Hanson and Stephen Nathan join stars David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel, who had to pull out last year, to talk about the pregnancy-sidelined seventh season and the upcoming run of the primetime procedural.

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Emily Deschanel's Views on Being A Mommy

Emily Deschanel is one busy, busy lady! She plays a mom in real life AND at work!

On being a mommy on and off screen:

The challenge is that you want to be everything to your child when you’re with your child and you want to be everything at work when you’re at work, and it’s impossible to do everything. I think committing to whatever you’re doing at the time is important. But that’s been challenging for me because the minute I’m at work I just want to be with my baby. I can’t say that when I’m with my baby I want to be at work so much.

Emily talks about that classic new mother syndrome, dubbed “Mommy Brain”:

It’s definitely challenging learning my lines with my ‘Mommy Brain.’ You know they tell you about this ‘Mommy Brain’ and then you experience it. I guess you have to believe it’s true. Not getting sleep for many months I think helps contribute to it. But, yeah, it’s a challenge. I can’t remember things. I’ll have no recollection of an email I sent or a phone call and somebody will have to re-send it to me and I'll go ‘Oh, OK, I guess I did do that.’

On how parenthood has informed her acting:

I think I’m a more sensitive actor having become a parent and a mother. I’m more maybe emotional certainly to things on my show, like dead bodies and thinking about dead people. It’s bleak, even when I just talk about it right now. I’m much more sensitive to things in general, but to children especially.

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Emily Deschanel: "I thought three seasons, tops."

You've been playing Bones for over seven seasons. Did you expect the series to have such a long life?

Brennan and Booth

We just got picked up for our eighth season. When we did the pilot, I thought we'd be really lucky if it goes. I mean, how many stories can you tell from Bones? Cut to 140-something episodes later, I can't believe it. I thought three seasons, top. That didn't happen, and I realize that I am lucky and have a great job that I enjoy. I love doing a series because you get to see changes in a character and see her grow. It's a journey with change, and you don't get to see that long-term type of development with just a film.

I like seeing the softer side of Bones, and it was nice that she became a mother when I became a mother, despite the fact that they would never have been able to cover up my pregnant belly. Now there's a whole new dynamic between Booth [David Boreanaz] and Bones because they are a couple raising a child together. I like seeing the softer side of her, and I would like to explore that more.


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Hart Hanson talks "Bones"

There's been a lot of talk about Booth and Brennan and their relationship. You sort of blew off the “Moonlighting” curse with them. How did you decide to do away with having a couple madly in love?

Booth and Brennan

In Season 6, we knew that Brennan and Booth would sleep together.... But then Emily, God bless her, came and whispered into my ear that she was pregnant. I thought, "This is not a good show for hiding a pregnancy." I worked on "Judging Amy" when Amy Brenneman was pregnant and she could just wear big black robes and sit behind a desk. But we couldn't hide it, so I realized we should just make her pregnant.

The “Moonlighting” curse is, you watch a couple go back and forth in a romantic comedy way -- vacillate over whether they’re going to sleep together; then they do, and then they become something that I hate, which is a googly-eyed, I’m-in-love, I’m-the-only-person-who-has-ever-been-in-love, I've-never-been-so-happy type of person. I don’t even want to go to dinner with people who have recently fallen in love because you just want to kill them. 

David Boreanaz, Hart Hanson, Emily Deschanel

I realized, "Oh, we don't have to do that." We are going to slam them into a relationship because of the baby and I think in our season ender this year, Brennan says something to Booth that is very, very profound about their relationship.

LA Times Interview with Hart Hanson

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Bones, "The Past in the Present"

Here are some previews for the next episode of Bones!

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