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Brennan’s Pregnant (Again)
Due to Emily Deschanel’s real-life pregnancy, Brennan will follow suit on ‘Bones’ — for the second time — and exec producer Stephen Nathan reveals the character’s pregnancy will have a bit more impact on the show than last time, “because Brennan now realizes what it is to have a child, having the family expand and grow and now she knows the tremendous risk that she and Booth’s job have in terms of how it affects their family. So, she’s going to have to deal with that, something that I think she was a bit oblivious to before, because she didn’t have the experience. So there are emotional considerations that surprise Brennan and will affect the pregnancy for the rest of the season… Brennan’s pregnancy will have a tremendous impact on this series, certainly giving us a season finale that is deeply affected by it.”
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From Start to Finish
“You’ll see Brennan going through a whole thing,” reveals Emily Deschanel. “She doesn’t really accept her pregnancy for a period of time. I think that having a second pregnancy is different than having a first pregnancy and each one is different. Brennan is experiencing that and she realizes what it means when you’re working in this kind of world, crime, putting yourself in danger, what that is. So she’s out of the field a little bit more this time and you’ll see there’s a lot of emotional things that happen for Brennan because of this pregnancy.
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Favourite Upcoming Episode?
Does exec producer Stephen Nathan have a favourite among the upcoming season-10 episodes? “You know, it’s always hard for me to pick favourites, but I think the storyline that is the most emotionally rich for us is Booth’s relapse into gambling and how it affects Brennan, the family and it just has the ripples go out from that and cause a lot of changes not only for Brennan and Booth, but for the other characters as well.” Of course, he adds, “There’s always all of the revolting bodies that delight us.”
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Complications Coming
Brennan’s second pregnancy will be more difficult than the first — not because of any medical issue but because of the emotional ramifications. “[It’s] the realization of Brennan having another child and then, of course, coupled with Booth’s relapse into gambling that makes things complicated,” says Deschanel. “At the same time, it seems like Brennan is a little more delicate this pregnancy, but there’s nothing major like that that she’s on bed rest necessarily or that she’s having many babies that we know of yet.”
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Parenthood Changes Them
As Nathan explains, Booth and Brennan about to become parents for the second time causes them both to question their line of work. “Do they want to keep getting shot at,” says Nathan. “That’s a real question.” Adds Deschanel: “They had their house blown up last season. It’s big risks in this job. Booth is in prison or jail, it’s a really dangerous, risky job to have, especially the way they do it, so it’s something that they’re considering heavily.”
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More ‘Bones’?
Now in season 10, both star and showrunner think the show’s got a lot of life in it yet, and there’s no reason to think fans can’t look forward to more seasons of the adventures of Booth and Brennan. “As an actor you can see other shows — I’m not going to name anything — but you could see how people could get bored after several years,” says Deschanel. “But when I think about all the different things that I’ve been able to do on the show, it just keeps it so interesting. And between character dynamics, but also just working with snakes or working in the Everglades with an alligator right there and scuba diving into a tank in an aquarium and being weightless in the vomit comet at one point, and tightrope walking and all the martial arts that I’ve done, I’m sure there’s something that’s going to happen and you’re like, ‘That’s awesome! I get to do that now in my job.’ This is so fun.” Adds Nathan: “It’s easy for us to write tightrope walking. Emily has to DO it.”
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A New Big Bad?
Fans can expect to see a new villain enter the scene later and recur throughout the rest of the season. “We have an interesting new serial killer who appears and gets somewhat resolved in the second half of the season,” says Nathan, “and is resolved when someone is on death row about to be executed. But at the very end someone resurfaces from beyond the grave and comes back to alter everybody’s life yet again.” Could that someone be notorious Pelant? “I would imagine people who have been committed to the show will know that our favorite serial killer was Pelant,” hints Nathanson. “And although Pelant is in fact dead, Pelant himself does not resurface. The effects of Pelant’s life have not gone away.”
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Talkin' 'Bout An Evolution
Over the course of 10 seasons, viewers have seen Booth and Brennan evolve in numerous ways, and Deschanel believes this is one of the keys to the show’s longevity. “I think that’s one of the beautiful things about doing a television show for a long period of time: you really get to see people change slowly in a lot of ways,” she says. “It’s something that even from the beginning, Hart [Hanson], who originally created the show, and I talked about from season one about how the character would be changing and taking down the walls that she’s built up. I always looked at it as people change when somebody comes into their life that is important and meant to be there and a good match for you is that they help you be the best person you can be — not that Brennan wasn’t the best person, but she’s opened up emotionally over the period of time. So, I think that Booth has opened her up a lot or she’s opened herself up as a result of being involved with Booth in her life. It’s been a really lovely thing to explore this character in different ways and see how she is still her same self, but she is able to be more vulnerable and open. At the same time, she’ll say some things that are very kind of insensitive to people sometimes still and all of that, which is fun to play.”
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The Return of Cyndi Lauper
In this week’s return episode, frequent guest star Cyndi Lauper returns to play kooky psychic Harmonia Avalon — which is good news for fans AND Deschanel. “Cyndi, that’s like a dream come true,” she says. “Growing up I’ve always been a huge fan of Cyndi Lauper, and she’s a dream to work with. She’s such an interesting, eccentric, lovely, talented person, so much fun and she does a good job as an actress as well. Obviously she’s an amazing singer, so we’re already fans of hers in that way and we loved having her on set. She brings such surprises; she’ll surprise you with choices she makes and just she’s so interesting to work with. She’s such a unique human being… she’s Cyndi Lauper for God’s sake.”
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‘Bones’ Is Like A Family
After 10 seasons, Deschanel says the cast and crew have developed a tight-knit dynamic that feels like a family, free of the kind of ego battles and tensions that have cratered other series. “I love working with the actors. I love working with the writers. I love working with our crew. We have an amazing group of people. It feels like a family,” says Deschanel. “We’ve worked together for ten years. Sometimes there are odd tensions and things like that on different TV shows. We don’t have that, and David Boreanaz and I have always thought that it was very important to continue working on your acting and putting as much into everything you’re doing as you can. Can I say that I always put everything I possibly can into things? Some days it’s really hard. I’m not saying I’m so incredible that I’m always doing everything I can, but I think that in putting that investment into the show is important.”
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Buckle Up!
“You will not be disappointed with the second half of this season,” says Nathan. “We’re going from death row to miniature golf to Tehran to yoga studios and I would strongly recommend you get a seat on the bus because it’s been a terrific year. We left off with the 200th episode. We’ve been gone for a long time, but we have been packing little surprises away in our little sack for you, and we’re really looking forward to the second half of this year and I can promise you won’t be disappointed.”
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Not Done Yet
If it were up to Emily Deschanel, ‘Bones’ would run for many more seasons to come. “I still love doing the show,” she says. “It’s a really interesting character I love playing, and I’m interested in continuing to see where — and it doesn’t feel like we’re at the end of the story yet. Maybe we will by the end of next season, if hopefully we do another season, it’s not official, but I don’t know when that will be, but it doesn’t feel like we’ve ended.”
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