David Boreanaz Opens Up About a ‘Bones’ Resurrection
“It’s lightning in a bottle,” David Boreanaz says of Bones, the Fox procedural that followed FBI agent and forensic anthropologist Emily Deschanel and her team as they solved cases. It ran for 12 seasons, from 2005 to 2017. So, at a time when revivals are happening more frequently, would he return to Seeley Booth?
Boreanaz recalls the connection he and Deschanel had while working on the show together. “I cherish that, and it would be great to relive that again,” he tells TV Insider.
After all, he knows how much fans still love the show, its characters, and the central relationship between Booth and Brennan. “It’s the work ethic that we put into these characters and what we put out there is entertainment for them, and I can’t tell you how much love and admiration we get from the fans for these two characters. And it’s great to see them come back,” Boreanaz said.
Yes, he would be involved in a revival. “I mean, it’s an easy thing to do because it’s so much fun,” he shared. “It’s not like, really, what are you going to do with it? It’s just a lot of heart.”
In fact, he points to how Bones changed procedural dramas. “When that show started, procedurals were very plot-driven, and we broke that mold and we were proud of that, that we could have these characters having fun with dead bodies that [Brennan] was just talking about,” Boreanaz says. “And I was just, like, catching the killer and talking about how the blender didn’t work last night in the morning or at night and how much you don’t like eggs and how much I love [something] and you’re going to criticize me because I’m Catholic. Like those philosophies, sung to the viewer and then you slowly see the procedurals around us turn into that. And that was enlightening. So for us, that was lightning in a bottle and we wrote it.”
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