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"Bones" Comic-Con 2009 Panel
Announcer: My favorite from last season was the one with the fraternity house bed sheets. Did you see that episode? We're going to have a lot of fun for you today. But ah, first, let's meet the creator of this amazing show, Hart Hanson. And you know her as the gorgeous, beautiful Temperance Brennan...You have to be strong because we have some disappointing news, but he taped something for us.
Video with David Boreanaz: I really don't know quite where to start, because there are people milling all over the place, and they're trying to get me into this and give a little salute and say hello to all of you because I'm a little bit stuck in Los Angeles due to the fact that my wife is on her 34th week of delivering our second child. And I do know it's going to be a girl. And don't ask the name, because I'm not going to give out any of that personal information. And it's funny because we were just doing this crazy scene back here, we were actually simulating the sunshine because the light was going down, and we're here in Long Beach and there were about forty pussy cats—well, maybe ten, I'm exaggerating—but they were eating the dead body. And Bones and I—Special Agent Seeley Booth—walked up to the crime scene and noticed these pussy cats eating this body, so um, I leave you with nothing more than a great season that's ahead of us. And I wish that I could be there on the panel because Hart is sweating bullets right now. If you look at his forehead, you'll see many more dripping down his forehead, and ever-so-slightly, he'll start to talk faster and faster and when he starts to go faster and faster, he'll just start talking faster and faster, and he'll become this kinda manic kind of a guy and become very hyperactive, and he'll become confused, and he'll start laughing and going up and down, and he may even fall off the stage, and Emily will just look. And stare. And take it all in. And be very calm. And peaceful. And if I were there, then I'd probably be making fart noises or attempting to throw water on somebody—I don't know—and answering your questions. Questions that you may have about...oh, my socks, maybe. That's always a good one, let's go to David's socks. That always works. I do still have socks on. See here? I just wanna say thanks to fans and people who support the show because we would not be able to do the things that we do without your support. And I know it's very important, and I also wanna thank Fox for allowing us to come up and talk. I'm just gonna keep talking while Hart laughs and Emily, you know, just rolls her eyes and does stuff, and maybe she'll just eclipse the background. I see you, Hart. That's right, Hart. You're sweating more. Have a glass of water. And, uh, I just wanna thank you. Thank you for allowing me to come into your lives and give you a character who I feel would be deeply deserving of AN AWARD this year. So think about it. I'm very proud of the show. Very proud of the fans that I have... And actually, one of the executive producers of Lefty and Tony Millis and one of the directors as well, all he does is laughing and he's wanting me to wrap it up with that. Meanwhile, everyone just wants to go to lunch, and I'm just gonna keep TALKING... You want me to stop bein'? OK. I'll stop. Thank you.
A: Thank you, everybody. That was a long, long speech. Thanks, Dave, for doing that. Well, if you were here last year, you heard Hart's tease about something special about that season that Booth and Brennan would hit the sheets, and it happened... sort of...My theory is that you guys, you're so passionate about these characters and love them so much that perhaps you felt a little obligated to give them sort of what they wanted...? Explain it.
HH: If I say yes to that, it would make me sound like a nicer guy, wouldn't it? No. It was the plan to have that happen. What I should've done is—what I should've—learned not to give spoilers. I've learned my lesson with you people. Don't give spoilers. Oh, and I just have to say one thing: that is what happens when you have David Boreanaz unedited. That's what happens.
ED: He won't stop talking.
HH: He will not stop talking. And fortunately, he's very accurate. He's a terrible tease. I think he's a bad man. But very, very amusing. I will just say, he's very sorry not to be here today. He loves Comic-Con. He loves his fans. Um, up until this morning, he was trying to find a way to justify to himself leaving when his wife is so close to giving birth and him being over two hours away. So he really is very sorry not to be here today.
ED: You're so Canadian. David's not sorry (sore-ey). He's sorry (saw-ry).
HH: He's sorry {copies ED's pronunciation}.
ED: Also, this is why David said, "Bullets" (boolets). He said it the other day. Boolets as opposed to bullets. I just feel the need since he's not here, we poke fun at him.
A: Let's do a lot of that today.
ED: Let's bash on David Boreanaz.
A: Let's roast David. Well, you know Hart, you fooled us in TV Guide, too, because we actually did a cover of "He's just that into her!" about hook-up acting. So, tell me about in your head, was it an experiment to see if the show could work if the two are a couple solving crimes?
HH: I saw the season finale as a love letter, I've said this before, that this is a love letter to our very, very loyal fans. The people who have been watching the show from the beginning. Our loyal fans are the people who have kept us on the air. We've had lots of schedule changes. We've been all over the schedule. Preempted many, many times. And this group on somewhere around 8 million people, God bless you if you're all in here, you've followed us from place to place to place, everywhere. And I know that the network schedulers scratch their heads at Bones' success. So the next season finale, which a few of you emailed me or Twittered me the word "fail-nale". Oh, I hear it! I hear it. I'm human. Today Emily was trying to make me feel better by telling me that on the message boards some of the people said that her jaw was too big. A man's jaw.
ED: A man's jaw. Boo. Thank you. I can handle it.
HH: Anyway, the season finale was full of inside jokes and layers from the our four seasons and would be what would it look like, what it might look like if Booth and Brennan were a married couple. Also, I think, a lot of the other characters. We kind of showed what they were like inside. And if we could kind of go toward those characters in the upcoming season. So I hope in retrospect the season finale will become more and more likable to our loyal fans, although I think the loyal fans got it. The people who tuned in every once in a while didn't like it, and boy, did I hear from it. And I definitely heard from loyal fans as well that I did not enchant.
ED: I think they are two people that do belong together. I think they compliment each other in great ways and really have love for each other. And I would love to see them together, as—if I can separate myself as just a viewer, but I do see that it's dangerous to put two characters together. It's really tricky. And that's maybe why he didn't end up with a season finale last year where he put us together. But it's not really "put us together" where we got to see that um, it's tricky because we don't want to lose the sexual tension that's between us. It would be odd if Booth and Brennan were, like, a married couple. It wouldn't be terrible, but it would definitely change the show. It's something to be thought long and hard about. I don't know, I'd like to see them together, but yeah, maybe REALLY TOGETHER, towards the end. That's how I feel.
A: Whenever that is.
ED: Whenever that is.
A: Eight years, nine years to go. What was it like stripping down with David Boreanaz?
ED: Woo hoo! I think that, you know, it's never a BAD thing. It's not a bad thing to strip down with David Boreanaz, let me tell you. Um, no, I mean, it is awkward because you're working with the person for four years, and you're making out and weird in bed, so it was awkward. But at the same time it was very comfortable. David was very respectful and, you know, it was fairly tame. But, um, yeah.
HH: I have some raw footage. And we may have to put it on a DVD some day. No, you have the wrong idea. Because at points it's extremely romantic and hot and sexy, but in other points it's David and Emily like trying to pretend that they're feeling hot and heavy and sexy. So it's actors going into a place and coming out of it, going to a place and coming out and it's, it's—
ED: It's not "going into a place".
HH: Oh, she is so bad. She's bad.
ED: You're the one that said it.
HH: I said an innocent thing...
ED: I'm sorry (sore-y), I'm sorry (sore-y).
HH: The in and out is very amusing, and we might put it on a DVD someday.
A: Are you going to comment on that?
ED: I'm not commenting on what you just said.
Announcer: So what happens now? What we do know is that Booth—he's in the hospital bed, he's not sure if you're his regular Brennan or if you're the one in his dream Brennan—
ED: If we're married, or if I'm the Brennan that he knew before. He wakes up very confused from this coma...I think someone's phone is ringing.
Announcer: Oh—it was David. Stop talking about him.
ED: We'll never get out of this place. Um, yeah. He's confused because whoever saw the season finale, um, where Booth says, "Who are you?" meaning, "Who are you, this woman I just met for the last few days, or are you Brennan whom I know in another life?" I'm losing this, I'm—But basically—I'm sorry?
HH: Which version, which version of the human being is very confusing.
ED: It gets confusing that they have the same name, for me who's trying to explain it. So, he's confused and we pick up six weeks later in the—
HH: Six weeks. Six weeks later.
ED: Are we even allowed to say that?
HH: Yeah, yeah. We can say, six weeks later, is Booth going to go back to work and is he ready? And how much utter confusion remains and is it confusion?—are the questions that we'll try to answer in the season opener. Is he confused or is he actually reading his heart correctly? Tune in and find out.
ED: So, it's six weeks later and Brennan has just kind of taken off for Guatemala, just kind of avoiding the situation. And she gets back, or I get back, however you wanna say it, so basically that's where it starts off. Six weeks after the last season ended and there may still be some confusion.
Announcer: There's also the matter of Booth's frozen sperm because you wanted to be a mom. Could you do the dancing phalanges?
ED: Dancing phalanges!
Announcer: So is she still committed to becoming a mom?
HH: {looks smug}
ED: Um... you wanna talk about it?
HH: Don't answer.
Announcer: Oh!
HH: Or lie, or tell the truth. Which ever one you want.
ED: It's something that probably will be addressed... in the next season...?
Announcer: Early in the season, or, uh...?
HH: We have some other things to get past before Brennan is back to thinking about having a child. I think it was very meaningful that the moment Booth was um, reticent about having a child with Brennan that maybe the hurry was dropped away, too.
ED: Very telling.
HH: Very telling.
A: I guess...that David insisted that you guys write the lines about the "28.8 million viable sperm per 3 milliliters of ejaculate"? Is that David's edit?
HH: Well, David didn't have the numbers...?
ED: Have you read that the members of your audience...?
HH: You know, David didn't have to answer to that, you know, Booth has swimmers. He's a sniper, so even if he had ONE swimmer...
A: He's going to be directing...
HH: He's terrified I was going to tell people. Yeah, right now David is scheduled to direct our 100th episode. Things can change, but right now that's our plan, so he's a very good director.
ED: He is. You know what, I've never seen him so happy. And it's very good that he has so much energy when he's doing nothing, he always has energy, but it's like he has this crazy passionate energy when he's directing. And, I don't know, I really like working with him as a director.
HH: I was shocked. I said it before and he got at me, but I said I meant it as a compliment, is that... I thought, Oh my God, when he gets into prep... prep for a director is terrifically hard work, amazing, tons of focus, long, long hours. Prep is probably harder than the actual shoot for a director. And I thought, Oh David's gonna be tired not that much focus, and boy he did a good job. And he did a good job.
A: Have you heard David sing?
HH: Yeah, he has.
ED: I don't know, is that in an episode? Oh, yes! He has! That was kind of awesome, actually.
HH: Your singing did do something kind of great for the show.
ED: Yeah, but I don't know if it was THAT that made it happen.
HH: It did, too.
ED: You wanna tell them?
HH: Emily sang, "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun". It was actually the last episode before the strike happened, the writer's strike happened, and, uh, wrote in, wrote in, "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun". And the—
ED: He wouldn't discuss it with me before the writer's strike happened when I asked— He wouldn't even tell me that I was singing...
HH: Wasn't anything—
ED: This is where I air out all of my dirty laundry!
HH: Anyway, I wrote in "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" thinking we'd have as much prep time as ever, then the strike happened and Emily called to say, "This isn't a good song for me, it's not in my register." And I said, "I can't change it. I cannot go in today, I'm on strike. I can't go in today to change it." So Emily had to sing, "Girls Just—" And then, I when I was like—
ED: Cyndi Lauper has a HUGE range as a singer.
HH: She's AWESOME!
ED: I can't, I'm not a professional singer.
HH: It was very charming. Was it not very charming?
HH: That's what Cyndi Lauper saw and got in touch with us and said she'd like to be on the show, which is awesome. And so she's in the season opener. She's, uh, she plays a character called Avalon Harmonie, and she's Angela's psychic.
A: So, as a psychic does she see you [Brennan] with a certain man?
ED: Yeah, she may see me with a certain man.
HH: She is definitely.
ED: She is definitely She likes to tell us how things are gonna be and she may or may not be involved in a case...?
HH: She's involved. She's involved in the case.
ED: I just mentioned...
HH: I told her to say that.
ED: Everything is like, "I may or may not, um, have an episode this season..."
HH: She likes to dive right in and say, "He is either lying or telling the truth or something we don't know."
ED: No, I was going to say that she... Can I just say? She is a psychic, and she leads us to some bodies that are buried, but we have questions about how she knew where this was, and of course, Brennan doesn't believe in psychics, and neither does Booth, even. So, uh, we face whether she was involved in this, and there are some other things that are revealed that don't make us really think she might be involved in this—
HH: She's a funny, amazing actor.
ED: She is awesome! She likes saying 'side-winder'(side-winduh).
A: I got to sit with you and David last year for the circus episode.There were no animals. And you did a zoo episode. No animals.
ED: There were animals.
A: There were requests about it, though. Tell us about...?
ED: Well, the circus episode had no animals. They were historically treated very terribly in entertainment that way and I didn't want to perpetuate that and and then Hart came to me and said that there was a zoo episode and they couldn't really avoid having the animals, and so we came to some agreement on some level about having a character who is opposed to it discussing his concerns about zoos and animals in captivity and whatnot, so at least we had an opposing view there. I'm involved in different animal charities and it's been kind of a passion...
HH: Emily is incredibly an activist for animals. She has definite opinions and she does not have the same opinions that Brennan does. And Emily does a very wonderful thing in that she gets that. I mean, she doesn't just understand that, she GETS that. So we do—and she's a very good influence, I think, on our show, but there's stuff where, we know— and you, you've been awesome for us on our show. We've come to an agreement on our show, I think, so far. And she is not shy about bringing up her opinion in that she's, um,... she is really not shy. And we do the best that we can and it's a TV show and Emily gets it and Brennan and Emily Deschanel are really not the same person. So in that case, we decided, "Hey, let's get Emily's, or at least close to Emily's opinions in our—"
ED: Our guests.
HH: "Our guests and the interns who are guests." And that works for us, so.
A: Are there any more animal episodes coming up this season?
HH: Chicken farm.
ED makes a face. HH laughs and points at her.
A: What do you think about that one, Emily?
ED: Well, it's something that we will have to be discussing. Um, well, I think that it's good that it's exposing some of the stuff that goes on the farms for chickens.They're horribly treated animals because there are no laws to protect them, and I think that it could be a great thing.
HH: Hey, how come you people come in groups? Can somebody please explain to me how you're not spread evenly and you come in groups?
ED: I think we should move down here because I feel like I'm focused over here. {Hart gets up and moves to the other side of the table}
HH: Did you just mean one?
ED: Yeah. Broken toe!
HH: Emily has a broken toe.
A: What do you feel about Jared? Do you like working with Brendan Fehr?
ED: Absolutely! I really liked working with Brendan and I really like the whole storyline as well. I thought it was interesting as well that Brennan kind of went out with A Booth, it's not THE Booth. But he was also the one that asked me out. Not that Brennan wouldn't ask the other Booth out himself, but you know, I thought it was kind of an interesting dynamic. I just liked the way she discovered who he was and kind of deepened her relationship with Booth, so I like that storyline and it's interesting. You know, I don't know if it's kind, we explored that or done...
HH: We're not done with Brendan. We're not done with Jared. He has a great thing going with Emily. It's an odd thing. It's a certain chemistry there that's fun and he has a great thing with David. It's kind of two alpha males going at each other is not bad for our show. David tends to dominate almost everybody on our show. He's very tall and has huge shoulders and and it's a good thing to bump chests a little bit. And it's a good thing.
ED: Brendan does not, uh, shy away from confrontation—
HH: No. He does not.
ED: Any conversation he'll take an opposite point of view. He's an interesting person to have around.
HH: He's basically a Candian hockey player.
Audience Q: Who is the most squeamish cast member?
ED says that it's Tamara.
Audience Q: Is Eric Millegan coming back? {audience cheers}
HH: We love Eric Millegan, and we love Zack. In fact, we are probably two of his biggest fans, you and I.
ED: Oh, I'm sure that these people would defend that. We love Eric.
HH: Um, yeah. The answer is yes, we'd love to have Zack back. If you want, the boring producer answer is that young Eric Millegan has a full life. He's moving back to New York City, he's gonna be attempting to produce on stage, works on Broadway work, he's a buffer. He's a buffer and a singer. It's his first love. So he has to be available on the show date when we need him, and we have to be able to afford on that show to fly him back. So that's all very dull, but it's, uh, you know. We can—we love him, and we'd love to have him back.
A: This is our last question.
Q: In the Gravedigger episode, season two, Dr. Brennan wrote her last good-bye. Are we ever going to find out what she wrote?
HH: Did you ask me that on Twitter? Be honest.
Q: No.
HH: OK!
ED: Oh.
HH: Um, episode 5, right now... five or six...
ED: I forgot about that 'til now.
HH: Episode five or six of this year is the trial of the Gravedigger. And, um, {buzz in the audience} and not a lot of evidence survived if you watched the, um, our last episode—got blown up.
ED: The Hero in the Hold? Is that what that's called?
HH: Yes. You remember titles.
ED: I remember that, but I didn't remember the note.
HH: I call it The Boat Show. So, uh, it's very likely that what she wrote will surface as evidence on that case. How's that?
ED: We have no more questions, so is that the end of it?
HH: We're getting booted, we're getting booted.
ED: Boo!
A: Unfortunately, we're unable to manufacture more time...
HH: Well, if you're out of time, you're out of time.
A: Well, if you're able wave to us and excuse yourselves!
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