Bones - Season 6 - Hart Hanson Interview

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Let’s talk BONES season 6. Are we going to see Eric Millegan return as Zack?
Hart Hanson: I don’t know. I don’t know. We are around episode 10 [in planning] and he’s not in [any scripts] so far. We’ll get together to start talking about the next 13 and then we’ll decide whether or not we’ll have Zack come back or not.

How about Stephen Fry popping up as Gordon Gordon?
HH: Tell Stephen to quit taking every job in the world!

Fair enough. When we talked earlier this year, you had mentioned that you wanted Cyndi Lauper back for last spring’s 101st episode, but had to pull her story since she was sick. Any plans to bring that story — and/or her — on this season?
HH: Yeah, it’s a pretty modular B-story, so as soon as she’s available.

Well, she says she’s available for you guys whenever you want her.
HH: It’s not [totally] true. Her availabilities are like, “I can do this day” and we need two or three beyond that date [that she's free]. The scheduling on BONES is one of the most ridiculously complex things on the planet. Do you want to know why?

Let’s hear it.
HH: We have to build these bodies. They’re really hard to make and they cost a fortune. You can’t shoot them at the beginning of the show because it takes towards the end of the show [to finish building them]. So now all the scenes with the bodies in them have to go to the end of the show. And then we can only afford to be on so many locations. So starting with the bodies and availabilities of actors and trying not to kill [BONES stars] David [Boreanaz] and Emily [Deschanel] who are in the most scenes, all of a sudden, we don’t have all that much flexibility [with guest actors]. Plus, all that stuff that goes up on video has to be made, so it has to go up towards the back or be shot as a splinter unit. Are you bored yet? Because I can go on and on.

No, I’m not bored. But you’re trying to distract me from asking the questions that you don’t want to answer. Let’s talk about relationships for a minute. We saw Booth try to move on a little bit at the end of last season with Catherine. Brennan was with Hacker. But then we never saw those characters again, so I assume those relationships ended?
HH: Well, they never really went out. They just went on dates.

Hacker pursued Brennan for almost an entire season. And last we saw, Catherine had bought Booth a tie. It seemed like there was something going on there. But with Booth’s new girlfriend, Hannah, are we going to see more of a genuine relationship? And are we going to see Brennan’s reaction to this relationship?
HH: Well since I have never yet admitted Hannah exists, you should ask Stephen about [her].

I did talk with Stephen about Hannah. But if you won’t talk about Hannah, what will you talk about?
HH: I’ll do the big stuff.

Fine, let’s talk about episodes. What kind of cases can we expect in season 6?
HH: Well, [pause] we’re going to go to the Jersey Shore. Do you mean stuff like that, the arenas? You don’t care!

I do care! I’m actually really fascinated by the fourth episode, where Brennan investigates a body that resembles her own. Is this going to be a literal thing, or is this something that’s manifesting in her mind or subconscious and she’s projecting herself on the remains? What can you tease about the episode?
HH: [pause] It’s not crazy that she looks at this person and thinks, Oh my God, this is me. It’s not crazy. It’s strange for the show. I don’t know if we’re going to do the thing I was about to say, because if we don’t do it, I don’t want [everyone] to say I lied. But here’s something that was interesting to me that led to this episode — which we may or may not do literally. But I thought, Sweets says something psychological and Brennan says, “I don’t know what that means.” And you think, Why? The language is perfectly clear! Why don’t you know what that means? And I thought, wouldn’t it be interesting to hear what she hears when he speaks? And that led to this episode that is told totally through her eyes and ears, what she sees and hears. And it’s just a little bit different from what the omniscient camera sees, the objective seer. We’ll do a subjective episode [for that hour]. And I haven’t told anyone else that.

That sounds really intriguing. Will you being doing another episode where the gang is trapped in the lab again, a la “Proof in the Pudding” or “The Man in the Fallout Shelter”? Those episodes tend to come out amazing.
HH: Our bottle shows? We have to do those. It’s great that you like them because you have to make up for the lack of going out into the world and stuff with some pretty good directing and acting, you know?

Absolutely. And how about the holidays? Will you be doing a Christmas episode this year?
HH: We have to get our final, ironclad schedule and then we’ll decide if we do a Christmas episode. We probably will.

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