EW Interview Hart Hanson & Emily Deschanel

Ausiello interview for Entertainment Weekly @ ComiCon 2009

(Thanks to Raquelle who sent the YT link.)

Hart Hanson & Emily Deschanel

Some interesting answers here folks!

Transcript:

Ausiello: Emily Deschanel, Hart Hanson, Bones. Thank you for coming.

ED: Thank you for having us. [looks at HH] We're sitting in the same position, except opposite.

HH:???

A: Yes, reconfigure.

ED: I was gonna change.

HH: Thanks, thanks. (sarcastically)

A: We good? We good?

ED: We're comfortable. I swear, very comfortable! How's this? Does this look natural?

A: Nice. I'm gonna ask you this question, but I'm not sure if I'm gonna get a straight answer.

ED: Uh-oh.

A: In the season premiere, do Booth and Brennan kiss?

ED looks at HH: The season premiere? Do Booth and Brennan kiss?

(a little exchange where Ausiello says that Emily can answer for herself.)

HH: It was scripted. It was scripted. Whether we shot or not I'm not saying.

A: OK.

ED: It was--

HH: Don't you say anything. (laughs)

A: An eye roll.

ED: I have a gag order apparently.

A: There was a little bit of a backlash (HH laughs sarcastically about the 'little bit') from fans about the finale, putting it mildly, about the sex scene that really wasn't... uh... Your thoughts about that? Are you gonna do a course correction early in the season and give them the scene that they have longed for?

HH: Wow is that a big question!

ED to HH: It's a big question. Um. There was a backlash from the season finale. I think that everything is answered in the season opener. We go on from there. Are we giving people what they want? Do people really know what they want, Michael? Do they? Or is it our job to provide for them as close to what we can of we we think they really want?

A: People really know what they want.

(Hart cracks up, "And we don't know what they want!")

ED: I think they probably want more, but it's a difficult thing to give them more, but it's tricky. We kind of knew that would happen from the season finale. We were giving them something--you got to see Booth and Brennan as a couple, which is, I guess, what people want eventually, but they want more from the love scene, which is understandable. I would've probably wanted more as a viewer. But it's probably good to keep wanting more, but we'll probably have to give them something in not so long, right? I don't know. (Looks at Hart.... he looks cheeky.)

HH: Yes, yes. We have to deal with this. We will.

ED: This is the only thing, this is probably our only conversation about this now, right? But it will. It will be addressed. But yes, things will be explained--different things are addressed in the season opener of season five for sure, but you know, we probably will continue to figure things out.

HH: That was a good answer. I should just let her talk right form the beginning.

ED: It's one of those things. Some people were disappointed by things and some people were happy to see the characters together. And people who watch the show regularly, I think, appreciated the kind of alternate reality--And there's, like, inside jokes in there--And so, people appreciated that. And we knew that we were kind of pissing people off--

HH: In retrospect, I'd say that the season finale went off really well with our loyal, loyal viewers. So, then you ask yourself what percentage of your viewers are those loyal, loyal viewers and it's not the vast majority.... I'd say it probably shouldn't have been our season ender... The idea was, this is the end of season four, this is for our loyal viewers who have followed us all over the schedule and have been with us for four years. It was kind of for them. They liked it. Not everyone liked it.