{"id":8916,"date":"2025-07-14T11:08:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T11:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/8916\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T11:08:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T11:08:06","slug":"bones-star-emily-deschanel-was-called-unprepared-in-season-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/8916\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Bones’ Star Emily Deschanel Was Called ‘Unprepared’ in Season 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEmily Deschanel<\/a>\u2018s run on \u201cBones<\/a>\u201d almost ended in Season 1 instead of Season 12. <\/p>\n

\n\tIn a recent interview on David Duchovny\u2019s \u201cFail Better<\/a>\u201d podcast, Deschanel recalled struggling to keep up during the first season of \u201cBones,\u201d considering the demanding shooting hours and the copious amounts of dialogue she needed to memorize. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe were working insane hours, longer than just a normal series,\u201d Deschanel said. \u201cYou\u2019re working 14- to 16-hour days, and then I had to memorize the lines. So I\u2019d be staying up late night memorizing lines. I would joke that I would go home and just cry in a bathtub every night because I was just so overwhelmed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShe added, \u201cI\u2019d come to set and I would be trying to remember the lines that\u2026I got no sleep and trying to remember the lines that I had memorized the night before and then I had them in my head and couldn\u2019t remember them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAt the peak of the anxiety, an accident in Deschanel\u2019s commute caused her to arrive 30 minutes late to set. The incident resulted in a stern talking to from series creator Hart Hanson. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHart knocked on my trailer door, which was not a usual thing, he wasn\u2019t knocking on my door often,\u201d she remembered. \u201cHe took me aside and says, \u2018The studio has concerns about your work.\u2019 They said that I was late and unprepared. That to me \u2014 I get emotional just thinking about it now because it was probably shame.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI mean, I was a wreck. I took it so hard,\u201d she added. \u201cI was such a fragile person at the time. I got hardened up doing that show for so long. I was not sleeping, I was so stressed out. I was already, I\u2019m an emotional person, so I was just beside myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDeschanel said that afterward, she made sure to always be on time. And luckily, the day after the conversation, she learned the show had been picked up for additional episodes. Hanson also helped his lead actress going forward, getting her a bigger trailer and more time to run lines.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHart helped me find ways to be better, get my job done in terms of learning my lines and remembering them,\u201d Deschanel said. \u201cA lot of it was having downtime or having some scene that I\u2019m not in, etc. He\u2019s just a good one. We were so lucky.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBones\u201d ran for 246 episodes across 12 seasons on Fox from 2005 to 2017. Starring alongside David Boreanaz, Michaela Conlin, T.J. Thyne and Tamara Taylor, Deschanel played <\/a>Dr. Temperance Brennan, a genius anthropologist who uses the bones of victims to help the FBI solve homicide cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emily Deschanel\u2018s run on \u201cBones\u201d almost ended in Season 1 instead of Season 12. In a recent interview…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[6262,236,6264,88],"class_list":["post-8916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-bones","tag-celebrities","tag-emily-deschanel","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}