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TVGuide.com has out now its own interview with David Boreanaz and Hart Hanson from Comic Con. TV Guide’s own Lisa Chambers was the moderator for the Bones panel there, so we get a whole new look at Season 2 for Bones. Stuff about the cinemaphotography, the changes in writing and the new drama we can expect.
Here are some snippets from the TV Guide interview:
TVGuide.com: You must feel a certain confidence going into Season 2, after a successful first season.
David Boreanaz: Well, I felt confident going into the start of last season, too. Being confident is part of the work you do on a show. But going to work this season is very exciting. Hart has made some considerable changes as far as writers and producers that have come on, and [as far as] the new director of photography. The stuff I’ve seen [from this season] looks fantastic, totally different. It’s good to be in the position we are in, where we have an identity for what the show is. Last year at this time we knew that the show worked overall, but we had to find out what didn’t work. You always do that as the shows progress.
Hart Hanson: We know what everybody can do now, and we’ve seen where the good mixtures are. For example, David and T.J. [Thyne, who plays Hodgins] have a good thing going that we’re exploiting.
Well, that’s news! So there will be Hodgins/Booth interactions that are interesting.
TVGuide.com: Has anything else changed for this season?
Hanson: We brought in a pathologist [to be played by Lost's Tamara Taylor] who is in charge of forensics at the lab, so Brennan now has a boss and they have completely different agendas about what the lab should do. They’ll always have different points of view, and David is stuck in the middle.
Notice the reference to "always" there. Nice!! So this will be a season long feud and Agent Booth’s emotions will come into play.
TVGuide.com: Last season ended with a major revelation about Brennan’s family. Are there any big surprises in store for Booth this year?
Hanson: We get lots more of Booth’s life this season — he’ll have women, for example. And, of course, as we delve into the onion skin of Temperance’s story, we’ll find that it goes back into Booth and his early days in the FBI. There are also troubles with the mother of his child (The Practice’s Jessica Capshaw). Plus, we’ll find out what some of his fatal flaws are.
Boreanaz: Which is exciting because it all goes back to Emily and her character and what is affecting her in her search for her father. It’s exciting how it affects Bones in terms of how she runs her stuff.
Ok, is it me or did he just say that Temperance’s family history is somehow tied up with Booth’s work in the FBI?!?
TVGuide.com: Will the simmering sexual tension finally blossom into a full-fledged romance?
Hanson: Actually, there’s so much sexual tension between David and Emily when you don’t write it that you don’t have to write it into the script. In fact, it’s kind of bothersome when she comments on his dates and so on. But we mine it for all it’s worth.
Boreanaz: It’s great to have that interest as far as the healthiness of the character. Is he going to cross a line with her, or is he not? The flirtatious stuff will happen and if the other elements come in, I think it’s normal. This season we’re just more and more at ease with each other [as actors]. There’s a great scene in the first episode where the two of us are on a stakeout and we’re waiting for this deal to go down, and it becomes intimate and flirtatious. Will they kiss, or won’t they?
So I guess Brennan is kinda coming out of her emotional shell. Nice. But she’s so gonna get burned. Ups and downs of all the women in Booth’s life this season.
TVGuide.com: The penultimate episode last season delved into the controversy surrounding the Iraq war. Was that a difficult show to act in, let alone write?
Boreanaz: It was a fine line to kind of walk, politically. Some things you support politically and some things you don’t. That’s the great thing about this character — he always seems to be going back and forth over the line of what’s correct and what’s not. I like that juxtaposition. It was a great episode to work on and it really went to his past. Of course, I’m not into the whole crying thing. [Laughs]
Hanson: You could see [David] wresting with how to do that scene. He takes it seriously. A lesser actor — and I’m not just kissing ass here, David — would say, "It makes me nervous, I’ll skip over it." But David worked at it and what we had in the editing room was great. On the political front we were honestly surprised that people found us to be knocking Bush. We were very careful to knock war, because war is bad!
Now that’s good stuff. A show that really tries to deal with the political environment and the real world as it stands. It’s like Bones is a slice of reality – not just a fancy view of some surreal perfect existance where all crimes are solved and everything works out ok. People have issues and countries have issues. It’s all related.
TVGuide.com: David, have you gotten a little more used to the procedural speak?
Boreanaz: I don’t think about that — Emily’s the damn scientist! [Laughs] I enjoy being able to interpret what they’re saying. I find it fun to be on the audience side, saying, "What the hell did you just say? Let me define it in my terms." Like, "Why don’t you just call a jar a jar?"
Look forward to my posts, I am going to define everything I can get my hands on!!
TVGuide.com: Are there any specific things you’d like to see happen on the show this year?
Boreanaz: I’d like to see a car chase, like an homage to Bullitt or something like that. And I’ve always wanted to run on top of a train, jumping from one car to the next. I just like fast trains and fast cars.
Hanson: David has a knack for coming up to me and saying, "I’ve got an idea…." And I put all of his ideas in my computer. The last one was, "A body under home plate in Wrigley Field."
Boreanaz: Yeah, Bones goes to the ballpark. For some reason I want to get stuck in a rolled-up carpet. She’s looking for me, and I’m rolled up in a carpet. I’m like, "I’m down here and I can’t get up." I’d like to play a scene like that.
Hanson: He doesn’t stop! [Laughs]
lol, I love it! David Boreanaz sounds so interested in Bones and in his role. He wants to do so much, and he is right when he tries to tie them in with his character. With his love for cars (heck, look how often he lets Temperance drive!) and baseball. I wonder if we’ll see any "David" ideas this season!
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