Emily Deschanel Opens Up About Season 1 Struggles On "Bones"

My longest day on a film set was 24 hours in the Philippines. It was a 2-hour shuttle ride (both there and back) from Manila to a beach resort, followed by a 20-hour camera day. By the time I was done I felt like Joe Biden on Ritalin.

Emily Deschanel recently revealed on David Duchovny's podcast "Fail Better" that the first season of Bones was a nightmare for her as the long hours made the Hollywood dream feel more like the working schedule for P. Diddy minus the baby oil shopping at Costco.

“We were working insane hours, longer than just a normal series,” Deschanel said. “You’re working 14- to 16-hour days, and then I had to memorize the lines. So I’d 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.”

“I’d come to set and I would be trying to remember the lines that…I 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’t remember them.”

The show ran for 12 seasons ending in 2017 and co-starred David Boreanaz as FBI forensic investigators. It was created by Hart Hanson who would eventually be her biggest ally in getting her a bigger trailer and hiring someone to run lines with her. In season 1 he was forced to confront her.

“Hart knocked on my trailer door, which was not a usual thing, he wasn’t knocking on my door often,” she remembered. “He took me aside and says, ‘The studio has concerns about your work.’ They said that I was late and unprepared. That to me , I get emotional just thinking about it now because it was probably shame. Hart helped me find ways to be better, get my job done in terms of learning my lines and remembering them. A lot of it was having downtime or having some scene that I’m not in, etc. He’s just a good one. We were so lucky.”

I personally never watched the show, I was always into CSI: Miami and using David Caruso's method of talking to people which didn't come in handy on dates as I was asked repeatedly why I kept taking off my sunglasses. Comment below with your thoughts.

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Source: Variety

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