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Emily Deschanel Talks Bones, Booth & Brennan, and More | Fan Expo Dallas Q&A Panel
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Jun 16, 2025
Catch Emily Deschanel live at Fan Expo Dallas as she answers fan questions and reflects on her time playing Dr. Temperance Brennan on the hit TV series Bones. In this Q&A panel, Emily discusses her favorite moments from the show, working alongside David Boreanaz, and her career beyond Bones, including her work in film and advocacy. 🎤 Unfiltered and engaging Q&A recorded live on the Fan Expo stage 🦴 Fans of Bones won’t want to miss her thoughts on the legacy of the series 💬 Be sure to like, comment, and subscribe for more celebrity Q&A sessions!
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hi everybody It's so nice to see you I hate mix chairs You know I I was a
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little disappointed to see that these would be the chair I mean I'm not complaining but it's fine And a long
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skirt I just I just short I've done the short skirt before and didn't like it I know it's dangerous It's dangerous And
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sometimes when you see yourself afterwards like in a in a photo or a video I'm like "Oh no."
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Yeah I mean yeah Sh You look wonderful Oh thank you Wonderful Are you excited
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for the weekend very excited for the weekend It's my first con
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Is this your first con panel yeah I mean we did ComicCon in San Diego when we
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were doing Bones Yes But it was a different kind of thing to do that you
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know with the network and the studio and all that This is on my own here So I'm
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really excited
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Will you have a chance to go wander the floor over the weekends do you think well I just walked through the floor
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just now and get here It was pretty cool to look at everything but I I if I have a chance I would love to I might go and
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wander and look around Do you have recommendations i saw they were selling hoverboards Oh for
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Back to the Future There's a Back to the Future cast reunion Yeah Yes And so somebody had one in their backpack and I
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thought "Oh that would look really good in my bathroom." Just that's what that's what you wanted
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Yeah Just you know you're just sitting on the toilet looking at hoverboard That's the flavor of it Does it actually
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work sadly not Then you might as well put on the wall What was it when you
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were growing up because obviously this is a safe space for nerds and people who love pop culture and things When you
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were growing up what is it that you loved in order to stay
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well when it comes to TV shows there was a TV show called Square
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One If anyone remembers this TV show it was a math television show on PBS and I
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was obsessed with it So I guess it's pretty nerdy That was my favorite show growing up Um and then
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what else was I into i don't know Well I mean I was into architecture and things like that but but the TV show that I
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loved was Square One but probably no one remembers that show but it was very fun
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math show that had a mystery at the end of every episode called Matt Dent And
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they would solve mysteries with a calculator instead of a gun And so I
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really they had a holster and they got the calculator in it and they measure things and it was um it was really fun
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So that was my first intro to mysteries But yeah I love how dorky it sounds Yeah
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it sounds very dorky And it was and I loved it Yeah And you were into architecture as as well when you were I
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don't know why I mean I was like the kid who got a Barbie but I wanted to build her a house so I built her a house you
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know That was the interesting thing to me But I love that No I used to collect
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my kind of It wasn't architecture or that show with the calculator but it was
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not had it where you grew up No we didn't No we didn't have that where I grew up We had really weird Scottish
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programs that were Scottish Um where you probably would understand what we were
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saying Probably not No this is my I can understand you so far But yeah when I left home my mother said to me "You must
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pronounce all your ST's or you'll never get hired." Okay you go Good advice Good
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advice You guys get the posh version Let's talk about bones Yeah
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bones Now we do have fan questions momentarily
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I will let the fans ask all the questions they want but I'm really interested in the fact that you learned
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how to take off gloves properly and do all these weird things on the show How do you take gloves off properly i saw
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you talk Oh Oh I probably talked about somewhere Yeah I mean that became a special skill I learned that so
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silly Pinch the outside of the glove and remove the one side And then with your
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bare hand you can go inside the other glove and take them off So you're not contaminating you're not touching any of
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the contaminants Got it Do you do that when you're wearing gloves no but I do think about contamination because we
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work So like if I have a cup that has a top on it I never turn it that way and
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put it on because that's where you know you twist your mouth to it So I I I don't know It may may have given me OCD
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to work on bones I don't know myself cuz I always wonder about that as an actor
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you know you're not only learning about the character and being a great storyteller but you're learning all
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these strange things along the way So like in terms of your other roles are
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there any other skills i mean that was the longest job I did So
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um probably I learned the most I mean I learned a lot about the skeletal system on bones I learned how to take off I
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learned about contamination Um trying to play other roles What I've learned I mean I've learned probably something
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from every role you know doing research and things for different um characters
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um and worlds Um is there something you took from bones that you use now in your
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everyday life i'm wondering I mean it's handy to know about contamination and things Yeah which is great but like I'm
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wondering if you took anything for that I mean maybe I'd like to say that I'm not so queasy or you know squeamish I
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guess is the better word Um with gross things but then if it's my own child I'm
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not okay with my children uh cut open his
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chin and uh I thought I would be great They had to hold him We were He was like
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a toddler tried to hold him down while they were stitching him up and then I just started to faint I did not do well
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But my go my boyfriend my husband for a long time he's been my husband but all
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of a sudden he's my boyfriend now he's been maybe that's a good thing
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Um he and I both thought I would be really good with the with the sewing up but nope Nope That was not good That was
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not good So I mean I think with other kids I'm not so squeamish and I think I got that from Bones but um but not
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within my own children not with my own kids and Bones ran for such a long time
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Yeah What do you think makes a program like that a show like that so watchable
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what is it that people you think really connected to there i think Hart Hansen who created the show wrote some great
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characters Um and you know great world to live in I
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think it had something for everyone I mean it's hard for me to fully answer but now that there's been time and I'm doing the Rewatch podcast I'm looking
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back at the show and I'm trying to reflect on it and I think that um you
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know a huge part is the writing Hart Hansen did such an incredible job of
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creating these characters in this world and writing this great dialogue between the characters It's the actors bringing
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them to life of course too But I the show had so much So if you like dead bodies if you like gross things we got
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it If you like a mystery we got that too If you like characters and like you are
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rooting for Booth and Brennan to get together and you like that romance we got that That was a big
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one That's number one Um we got that We got um all kinds of things So all
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different interesting quirky characters and um and relationships Um but I think
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it starts with the writing Yeah Always I I love that you do the podcast though
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and I've watched quite a few episodes and it's just so wonderful to watch you
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reminisce and go back How does it feel doing the podcast now like it's it seems
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fun It's wild I'm really enjoying it I'm doing the podcast with Carla Gallow who played Dy Wick on the show who was a one
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of the squid interns Uh we became friends I'm still friends with pretty much everyone on the show But um we're
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doing a rewatch podcast looking back and so it's just fun to be with my friend and you know she can say what were you
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think cuz she came in season 4 so she can be like what were you thinking with those belts why did you wear those ugly
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belts and we can discuss why we made that decision Um but it's wild for me
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because it's so long ago now that um it was hard it's always been hard for me to watch myself acting in any part or
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character especially films And now I can watch it and I'm like this is pretty good This is bad This is not a bad show
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Um so that's been really fun um for me And I mean you know we got into the we
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started season 2 now and we're at the point where I'm I'm looking at an episode and I'm watching myself do
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something that I have no memory of myself doing but clearly I did that thing cuz there it's on screen and I'm
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watching right now So that's been wild as well So it's been um it's been a fun
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ride because you can't that's true You can't possibly remember every single
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thing and of course fans will connect to certain moments Yes Yes Does that s do
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you get a bit shocked by that sometimes and go oh no I don't really remember that episode or I don't really remember
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I mean yeah that does happen where people remember certain things that I don't remember Uh no I just feel bad if
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I can't remember I want to remember everything I feel like I have a fairly good memory but I don't remember every
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single thing that I did on the show nor anything that I nor every line that I said but um you know I remember a
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certain amount But people can remind me you know people can remind me where it came from if I don't remember a quote
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But yeah um it's always nice to hear that the show touched someone in real life you know So I love hearing it I'm
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sure you're going to hear a lot of that this I probably will definitely which is really nice because I feel like for
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actors if you're if you're doing voice or you're in studio you don't really get
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to see the reaction It's not like live Yeah But this is like a physical
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manifestation of the love that people feel Well it's great to interact with people who are fans who watch it But
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it's true We worked so hard for 12 years working crazy hours and you know but
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really having not not having great opportunities to connect with the people
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who are watching the show So it's like you like you said it's not live theater It's not a sitcom where you you know if
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a joke doesn't work if people aren't laughing or if it does work if people laugh So we didn't have that direct
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experience with our audience So that's one of the big reasons I'm here When you
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go back and you're doing the the re-watching of the episodes so when I look back at say old work that I've done
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there's some things I look at and I think I do a weird thing with my face or my voice changes there But then beyond
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that sometimes I think no my skills are better now Obviously I get better through time and I'm a bit hard on
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myself Do you look back upon yourself like that and go I could have acted that in a slightly different way i mean it
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can happen but I I mostly felt feel that way when I w if I ever watch myself acting but now with the it taking place
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so long ago I don't feel that way if I watched it right after I'd be like ah why did I do that now I just look back
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and like oh it's nice look at me I love that oh this is just it just
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looks fun Yeah this is funny I think sometimes I have to edit things of my own face and I'm just kind oh my god
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don't do this Don't do that Like I'm like just you got to be kinder with yourself That's I think I've learned that with age and that's one reason why
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it's easier to watch is you just you know got to be kinder with to ourselves I wanted to talk about Devil
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in Ohio Oh yeah Um I was watching an interview with you where you said that
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there's three words that describe on Netflix Oh yeah yeah yeah Ominous
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psychological satanic Yeah Was that just for you so when we were shooting this
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was the Netflix um limited series that I did about a girl who escapes from a cult
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like a teenager It's based on a true story I mean it's inspired by a true
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story is what I guess the language is Um a teenage girl who escapes from a cult
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Her psychiatrist brings her home to live with her family and it just ruins things and I play the psychiatrist And um while
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we're filming you know you have Netflix and you always have the three words that describe a show on Netflix So sitting
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around on set I be like "Guys what do you think words are going to be?" And I think we came up with ominous um psychological Well we did we
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came up with different things but then when I went to look for it on my Netflix
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it didn't say what were what were the ominous was it psychological psychological maybe I didn't think of
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ominous but I didn't think of psychological I'm going to say psychological and um so I I said ominous
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psychological satanic and I was like oh my god no one
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is going to watch this show it says it's satanic that's insane So I complained
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when I said they need to remove the satanic because there is a satanic component in it Like the show is not
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satanic but there is a character who escapes from a satanic cult Sounds wonderful when I describe it but it
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isn't too um but um and I complained and they said well
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that's personal to you They describe it in a way they think will be appealing to
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you So they think that I want to watch satanic things and so there you go I
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mean I was horrified and yet there that was for me I guess other people might get
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psychological teenage teenager I don't know what they get Psychological algorithmic is algorithmic
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Oh yeah So I guess I'm like really into satanic stuff
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Well I wanted to ask what your three personal words would be to describe yourself if you if it was just you or a
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Netflix show Just Emily's show Your three personal words be
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okay Um creative
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Okay Um empathic sometimes to fault
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Um and weird Maybe goofy Weird I like Yeah not satanic Not satanic I wouldn't
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like that word Not sat but I guess I'm into it I like that I like that I like
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goofy as well Yeah I like that I But the I'm just imagining you like watching the
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calculators Oh yeah Nerd I mean nerdy nerdy you know dorky nerdy is part of that too There's a reason why I was
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chosen to blame Love it I love I think they knew they just threw Did you know when you were We
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know that this kid was watching calculator We have a feeling Is that a calculator
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in your pocket or are you just pleased to see us did you Did you know though
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when you stepped into the audition and then and did or sent something did you know did you have a
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good feeling about it do you think i never have a good feeling about anything I'm so I don't No I did not I mean I
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wouldn't say I felt bad like I came in and felt like I came what I did want you know intended to do But with an audition
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you do that a hundred times and it's not necessarily what they're looking for And that's fine I just I go in to please
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myself and I knew I'd done Sometimes your nerves get in the way and you don't
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do what you intend to do in you know when you're practicing at home And so I was just okay I went in and did what I
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meant to do And it felt good in that regard but it didn't feel like I was like I nailed that I'm getting this part
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That was not how I felt when I came to audition but it felt good I got to audition My first audition was just on
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my own And then I auditioned with Dave Morianis And it was a good good chemistry between us So it felt it felt
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good but it wasn't like I thought I nailed it I'm on fire I'm on fire I
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nailed that I guess it's hard to get into that creative flow state I think they call it when you're like athletes
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feel that where you're just almost like not really paying too much attention You're just flowing You're in the zone
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You're in the zone That's I think I think too much and I'm like picking up
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all the little things cuz I'm a perfectionist So I'm like like everything has to be just bad I'm Libra so like everything Oh what was your
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birthday 12 or 11 12th Oh we're very close Check it out Almost twins Almost
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perfect Almost Are any Libras in the house perfect Great You guys are all You guys
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are all great Oh wonderful We don't need balance We're Libras We're Libras I'm going to play a little game of this or
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that Okay Um and then we're going to go to the fan questions Okay Great If you're good with that Okay Okay So this
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or that What is this or that uh you just choose one of the things I know Oh okay Oh okay Okay Okay
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So out of these two TV series longevity or film variety which would you rather i
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mean I guess I have to choose TV series
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longevity Okay Period piece or sci-fi thriller i might pick period piece
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Period piece Also I have like zoomed up these things so far cuz I look I can't
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see anything No I'm I'm the same way Are you with Are you with my You You get to a point where
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you can't move your arm far enough away and then it gets too far and then Yeah I
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need the glass This is the ghost of Christmas future Large large print Super
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super large Philosophy podcast or true crime true crime podcast 100% Logic
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puzzle or improv game probably improv game I'd be better at
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that Okay And scripted drama or documentary voice over am I doing it or
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am I doing it oh I'm doing it I do scripted drama because I get to do more than just a voice over because with a
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documentary voice over you also don't you're not acting as a it's a different skill but you know scripted drama I
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don't need to explain it all Yeah I'll just get answer Love that Okay All right
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We're close for the first part of this panel [Applause]
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question All right my gorgeous people There is a mic just here and then there's a mic right over there Uh
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Felicia they called this one the shade mic Don't worry it was nothing shameful It
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was just cuz it was over here So please make your way Please mind your fellow fans And let's start here cuz you're
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over at the site Hello What's your name my friend my name is Daniel Welcome to FX Thank you Daniel Um I love bones And
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I'm sure all these lovely people will ask you about bones I have a question about Spider-Man
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Okay We got a Batman shirt on Asking about Spider-Man Spider-Man 2 Yes I was
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in it Your character has a lot of attitude I took a reception Was that a
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direction was that how the character was written did you bring some of that what What was your experience kind of like
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doing that in Spider-Man so my experience so I auditioned for Spider-Man 2 for another part and I
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didn't get it And then kind of last minute the day before for filming I was offered this part and it had no lines as
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written And I don't honestly remember what the description was of the character or what it was I think it was
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a a mix I think I came in with that where my that was my idea for that that
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receptionist that play receptionist who uh tells um Spider-Man to well like wait
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this is the funny story my grandpa went to see the movie at the time he's like you are so mean to Spider-Man
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2 like he's not called Spider-Man 2 he's just Spider-Man in the second in the
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sequel um um so I think it was a mix I think it
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was a mix I think I came in with that but then Sam Ramy the director liked a certain amount and took me down in some
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ways and um but it was a lot of fun to film Yeah it was a lot of fun Thank you very much Thank you Let's go over here
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Hello my dear What's your name hi my name is Sarah Um I'm so excited I love
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the books I love the show I pretend the books were written by
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you I read them You What did you say you think the books were back in my left hand well you protect the books I love
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it I love that they're written I did write all those So like you are my kind of thing Um two
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questions One of them what I know you don't remember everything it went on for
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so long but what story line or death did you the most and stuck with you and my
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other one is can y'all please come back for a revival
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um well I think the answer is it's got to be Sweet's death
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That is was so upsetting That was just so upsetting overall to lose the character to lose
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John Francis Dailyaly Um as an actor who's gone I don't know if you guys know but John Francis Daly who played Lance
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Sweets on the show has gone on to be an incredibly successful screenwriter and
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director He did um uh what do you call the lampoons what did he do one of the
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Lampoons yes he did But the more recently now Dungeons and Dragons Thank
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you He did the Dungeons and Dragons movie which is quite good And so he is
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off doing all of those amazing things and he was off directing and that's why they killed him off But it was so
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devastating to lose both the character and the actor So that was I that's
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something I would have ch I would change if I was in charge of it and figured out I would get it back here and there or
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something Um and then yeah you want to know about like a re re that was the
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second question but yeah I mean I don't know if it's possible but I keep an open
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mind We will we'll see I don't know Thank you Yeah Thank you
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Hello friend What's your name brena I'm thrilled to see you Thank you
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for being here But there's a holiday episode of Bones where different is introduced to a distant family member
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who looks a lot like you Yes my sister Zoe Yeah Could you share
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how that came about um I don't remember who idea it was
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Um but yeah I wish I could remember how I mean I think my sister said she was
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open to it in some way and then Hart Hansen the creator of the show and showrunner worked to try and write some
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interesting quirky character for her to play And I believe her character is obsessed with Benjamin Franklin and had
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all these Benjamin Franklin quotes Um yeah that was also very fun I never got
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to do a New Girl episode so doesn't seem fair but
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Exactly Thank you Thank you Thank you very much You're welcome Thanks Let's go
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over here Hello my friend What's your name laura Hi Laura Um why did you call Dr Missouri dr
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or something You called him everybody else Yeah I was trying to pronounce it
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as close to the Farsy pronunciation as I could And not everyone does that but I
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would always pee Badak who played the character I check in with him and I would practice it before So I
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mean I can't say that it's exactly the right pronunciation but I was doing it as close as I could to that I figured Dr
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Brennan would try to have the correct pronunciation being that she's also a cultural anthropologist and been around
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the world And so Baziti Dr Baziti
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Thank you Thank you Thank you Let's go right here Hello friend What's your name
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my name is Adam Hi Adam Hi Emily Um have you ever asked your boyfriend/husband
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to write you on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia i mean
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I I feel like I've mentioned like I'm not doing
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anything I'd love to do a character I mentioned it He works on the show Mythic
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Quest It's now been cancelled but I've mentioned it more recently for that show
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but it's not happened and now it's sadly over But maybe maybe uh next season of
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It's Always Sunny Maybe What character would you want to play oh my god I mean
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I could play Rickety Cricket's girlfriend not wife
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Thank you I love right up to the mic please What's your name my name is Natasha Hi Natasha
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Um nice to meet you Nice to meet you Pleasure to have you here So what words
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would Tim have for the new uh it's been 20
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years It's the 20 year anniversary of Owens which seems crazy And I grew up watching it and a lot of science shows
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and it really I work in the medical field I'm a nurse So amazing And uh what
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words would she have for younger you know aspiring those like in like
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anthropology coal or any kind of science i mean that's a lot to put on me I did
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not write the show Uh I mean I think she say
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perseverance perseverance perseverance because that's something I think is
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great advice for anyone starting out in their life no matter what career they're in Um uh you know she would encourage to
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people to have objectivity and to not be um you know
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not let emotions get in the way of what they're doing and um and to focus on the
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work That's my guess That seems that seems like much like your answer
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Thank you so much Thank you my dear Hello my lovely What's your name hello
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I'm Christina Um I absolutely love Bones like everybody in here But um I wanted
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to know do you have a personal favorite episode that you filmed or a favorite
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memory from filming Bones okay So so far watching the show I did
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not remember it as a favorite episode but now it is a favorite episode which is
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um is the Christmas episode from season one I can't now remember the M No not
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the Mel Man shelter Thank you for checking I
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mean you guys know more than I do I've now watched all these episodes Um I also love the alien Aliens in a or aliens in
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a spaceship too Um so those are two favorite episodes of mine Um but I mean
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there's a lot there's a lot uh and there's a lot that I really love that aren't those two but I'll just say that
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And then favorite memories I mean any Friday night into
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Saturday morning we we call Saturday on TV shows happens when you work late into
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the night and you just and and you end up getting real loopy and TJ Stein who
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played Hajins and Tamara Taylor who played Cam Soyan would be the goofiest
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giggliest of two people and I'd be like trying to focus
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trying not to laugh you guys come on come on stop laughing and then we'd all
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end up laughing so I'd say it's more of a general memory But that happened many times where we all that And then maybe
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second would be singing show tunes with Eric Milligan We played Zach Annie We
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sang the entire the entire musical of Annie together on set They did not appreciate
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that We got talked to about it But we had a great time Thank you Thank
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you Okay Hello my friend bring the mic up because I think it's too too small
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too short for a lot of people My name is Gwen Hi And Love Bones Love your podcast
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Thanks But my question is about uh Animal Kingdom Oh okay How did that come
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about and did you enjoy that character or was it hard for you to play someone kind of
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pitiful yes The answer is yes It was both I really
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enjoyed playing the character It was such a departure after playing Temperance Brennan for so long After we
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finished Bones I was kind of like don't talk to me about acting Don't even say acting the word acting to me And then
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two years passed and then this came out Um uh John Levy the casting director I had
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auditioned for you know years before for different things And I guess they thought of me out of the blue for this
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character that I I mean I so appreciate that they thought of me for this character because as a recovering addict
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who's just come out of prison who's struggling with her soiety and struggling with uh some questionable
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choices sometime she we don't know exactly what Angel's up to Um uh but I had a lot of
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um fun playing the character I had a lot of compassion for the character and I really but I got it was also hard It was
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a hard character to play cuz she was going through a lot and also she's like
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manipulative kind of it was it was really fun though in a lot of ways but you gave her a lot of jokes Oh thank you
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Thank you Thank you my friend Thank you Let's go over here This this is the
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cutest looking meager Okay we're we're still going to pay attention to you Yes
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What is your name hi Um my name is Denise and I am an all-time favorite fan
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of I watch all the episodes all the time It doesn't matter reruns all the time Um
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I was going to ask you what your favorite episode was but unfortunately that question was already asked So well
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you got to hear it for free So now you got a bonus question Yeah Um so I was
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wondering now throughout Bones there was a lot of um throughout the different episodes there's a lot of different
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things that have kind of occurred that happened in real life you know it's like I know um Cely dealt with gambling
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addiction and you know there was also racism that was also dealt in some of it
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And um I was wondering how you know any of those episodes just kind of shaped
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your viewpoint or if it changed anything Um you know with just any of the
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experiences it's I really enjoyed a lot of a lot of the episodes but it it
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touched on a lot of different things that actually happen out in the real world So yeah I thought you were actually going to say because we did a
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couple episodes that predicted things that happened in the future which was really crazy They might have already happened before they aired but for
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instance there's an episode about an earthquake that happened in DC And I
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remember reading it thinking "This is preposterous There's never going to be an earthquake in DC." And then there was
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an earthquake in DC like a month later So I I stopped questioning Um in terms
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of that I mean I think there was one episode that I think of that was about a trans character and I I a trans victim
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and so I don't want to speak about it because I haven't watched it since we did it but I I remember
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um thinking that it was handled well but I I need to watch for the p for the
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rewatch podcast because some episodes I'm not necessarily surprised but I'm I
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I don't feel like some things have as much sensitivity as I would like But um I remember um you know appreciating that
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representation I guess I would say Yeah I would like to say thank you for being here and for bones and I really hope you
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guys reboot it Thank you
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Hello my friend What's your name my name's Britain Uh I grew up watching
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Bones with my family actually and we were my sister and I my younger sister
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and I were recently re-watching some of season 1 and we were re-watching the
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episode in Washington I believe with the bear Oh yeah The man and the bear Yes
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And we were watching through that and at the end there's just a tiny little scene
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with Brennan and Booth where Bren Booth is trying to eat his breakfast and then
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is like I don't want to eat this steak and then Brennan's like have some have some corn flakes And my sister and I
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were kind of like was that an improv moment and even if you don't remember that one specifically were there any
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improv moments that either you improd or somebody else did that you really enjoyed it's so funny you mentioned that
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That was an improv moment as far as I recall cuz I looking at that I kind of remember and it it just was that kind of
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a moment and I didn't watch it that long ago because we've been re-watching them for the podcast So um I can say that I'm
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almost positive that is an improv Yes especially the end scenes between Booth and Brandon David and I So I don't know
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when it really took hold but uh at a certain point all the episodes basically
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had like a sweet kind of scene between Booth and Brennan It was just them and
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and we would just be kind of talking back and forth and usually we would have room for improv there So I'd say
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definitely there and then some other places as well We would definitely improv but I say the majority of the
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show was scripted But the end scenes especially as we got into a groove and had those special end scene just between
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the two characters we we definitely did a lot of information improvisation
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It was a very fun scene that really stuck with me after watching it So thank you Thank you
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Hello my friend What's your name my name is Kaylee It's lovely to meet you
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Really big fan of Bones cuz I grew up watching it I think I started watching it in like fourth grade with my mom So I
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actually really wanted to be a forensic anthropologist I'm not going down that route but it's still something that
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sorry still something that is very baby to me Um I think my question is who do
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you who was your like all-time favorite intern
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i mean Sophie's choice I'm just going to say Betty White
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Thank you Thank you very much Hello my dear What's your name hi my name is Sarah Hi Sarah Hi Um I wanted to ask you
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I'm a huge fan of Bones but I'm also a massive City Locker fan What was it like
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to work with her same Wait what was it so did you say the question you said you worked with her I
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said "Oh no What was it like to work with?" What was it i mean it's you know No I've been a huge huge Cindy Loer fan
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since I was a girl Um and so like I
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would have to pinch myself every day when I got to work with her She's
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hilarious Just hilarious and um she's a joy to work with and so much fun and um
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yeah I mean it it was uh one of the best things about doing
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Bones was getting to work with Symper Yeah thank you That was the theme I thought for years
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She's she lives up to the dream She lives up to the dream She's amazing Yeah
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Thank you Hello my friend What is your name so you're going have to crunch down Yeah that's okay Uh my name is Sammy Hi
37:51
Sammy Hi Emily Hi How are you good How are you good Thank you Um I'm here
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because of my lovely and talented wife Brandy Uh she basically made me watch
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your show Uh I'm so sorry I'm so sorry Every
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rerun and uh it's great Thank you Uh so without getting too personal I know
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Brian you and I have a relationship uh you and uh your co-star obviously did
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that uh had a relationship on the show Um who's the better kisser
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who's the better kisser between me and David Bianis I mean it's a
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man of a kiss I mean it's really hard for me to assess
38:39
how good of a kiss are Honestly they do
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Thank you for your question Uh hello my dear What is your name uh I'm Jillian Hi Jillian I grew up
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watching films with my mom and stuff I'm 13 so I wasn't able to like watch at all with her but I have watched a lot
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Um my big question is in Hodge's office with all of the like liquids and the
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bones and stuff like how are those made and stuff like what are all the liquids and everything you mean the ukie room we
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called it yeah Um you know I think that a lot of
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the things in that room were real There's things in formaldahhide that looked very real and we were never going
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to open them cuz we didn't want to find out But there were a lot of weird specimens of different kind of animals
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and things that um I didn't want to know what is really going on Um if that's
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what you mean Like the things in the background that were you know the jars that we're talking about Yeah Yeah I
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think they might have been real And like all the bones too like no the bones were
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not real I get that question a lot And I will say it would be really expensive to
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use actual bones Um we had um guys that we were they were the Jagger brothers
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but not all of them were Jerger Brothers but we just called everyone Jagger Brother Um Chris and Kevin Joerger Um
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they made all of our dead bodies and they're incredible And they would do all
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of it that they'd make the bones that look so real and they would do fleshy bodies that look real and they would do
40:31
all the goo the corpse gravy as we like to call it Taylor coined that phrase the
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corpse gravy They would do all of the things that had to do the bodies and then other people would put the bugs on
40:44
top of them and stuff but they were those were not those were not real dead bodies
40:51
What about the bugs the bugs were real Oh
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That was that didn't bother I'm not I don't think about bucks but um Tamara Taylor who played Cam Zeroy that was an
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adjustment for I'm sure it's okay for me to say she had to adjust had to talk you know give her back talk when she first
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started to work with the bugs but yeah thank you very much for your
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hello there friend what's your name Hi my name is Lauren Hi Lauren um I just
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kind of have more of statement I just really wanted to thank you for being an inspiration as a woman in science for me
41:30
to watch and be you know look up to and
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um also portraying a character that is neurodeivergent and watching her get to
41:44
have a relationship and a family and evolve in her own neurode divergence and
41:52
adjust um was really inspiring to watch as somebody who's also neurode divergent
41:58
and you definitely were an inspiration for me getting into a scientific field myself Um I work with exotic animals
42:06
veterinary science and I love taking inspiration from I think Brennan would
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look at things scientifically and objectively as as you said earlier So just thank you for that Thank you so
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much That's my favorite thing to hear is some is a young woman going into science being inspired by the characters on
42:29
Bones We had three main and plus other characters who were women incredible
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women who were working in science And I just love being a part of a show that had powerful smart women in the science
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field Um and a character that we never really talked about but who was neurode
42:50
divergent i'm neurody divergent I have ADHD And um so I love I mean we never
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really talked about that but it's something we talked about I talked about with heart And I love that people can
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recognize that about her and also be inspired by that as well And um so thank
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you That's like my favorite thing to hear Thank you for that
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and love your name Hello I'm Grace Hi Grace Hello Uh so first of all my um
43:22
sister-in-law sister-in-law and I are huge fans and my three-year-old nephew
43:27
loves his favorite thing So he was very jealous to hear
43:32
that Dr Jeff Brennan Um but my question was when you guys started the show did
43:38
you guys have any inkling that it would go on as long as it did no not at all
43:44
when we started you know I'd done a couple pilots before Um and I was just excited
43:51
I got picked up for like 12 episodes when it started And when we started this
43:57
you know working on the show for the season I remember sitting around with cast saying I mean this could go for
44:04
three years Like that seemed like the longest time it could ever last for So
44:11
not at all like and that seemed insane to be three years So you know I had no clue that my whole life would change for
44:18
someone that I would spend my entire 30s that I was you know started out single and I was be married with two children
44:24
by the time I finished the show Um I had no no clue at all Yeah Thank you so much
44:30
Thank you Emily you're running out of time I want to go through all speed
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round Yeah speed round Same question Okay Hi my name is Evelyn and I have a question When you were acting on these
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sets throughout all the episodes has there ever been a time where you would disgusted and what was going on and what
44:48
you were looking at yeah I mean I got pretty desensitized but I remember one day there was an episode I think it's
44:54
the first season cuz I think we already covered it where I put my hand in a a
45:00
hand glove like the like the skin of a hand We rehydrate the skin of a hand and
45:06
I put my hand in it I could not eat my breakfast that morning
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Thank you Thank you Name and question Hi I'm Taylor Hi Taylor Bones is my
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all-time favorite show So it's such a pleasure to have you here I'm wondering what is the most bizarre thing you ever
45:23
had to research for a role cuz I imagine with Bones there may have been some things where you're like did I just end
45:29
up on a watch list the writers probably had to do more than I did in terms of storyline They
45:36
would talk about that thinking that they might like how to dismember a body you
45:42
know how you know how fast does a body decompose in the desert or whatever they
45:47
had to look up Um you know I mean really forensic anthropology in general I had
45:52
to research and I got books and I did what I could and learned a lot about I
45:58
went to the morg um which was an experience I couldn't
46:04
get that smell out of my nose for about a month Um but I don't know for other shows I think bones in general that show
46:12
probably the weirdest research that I did Yeah Thank you Thank you Okay 5
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minutes What's your name hi I'm Aaron Um I actually haven't finished Bones yet So
46:24
it's my first time watching through it My friend Cass convinced me to watch it because we watch basically every other
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procedural that's on TV Um so I was wondering if you could be in any other procedural TV show which one would you
46:36
want to be in oh my goodness Okay I mean
46:41
I am a big Law and Order fan and I Law and Order SVU is my fave and I already
46:47
did an episode of it cuz I did it before I ever did film So I I I guess I'd say
46:53
that but I already did it Trying second choice Huh second choice then I don't know Well I like
47:00
honestly I don't want I don't watch a lot of other of those shows cuz once I started Bones I kind of had no time to
47:08
watch things and now I'm only watching things because I have kids I'm just going to go with you I'm
47:15
sorry Thank you What's your name and question hi I'm Carrie Uh my question is
47:21
if you had the opportunity to play historical figure good person bad person who would you like to play oh Lord
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I mean Margaret me or something I mean
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that's why I think of it from a friend's perspective Um
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who I don't know Guys I mean some queen
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maybe Queen would be fun A queen Some queen
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Some queen is a Thank you Hello friends Damn Hi Hi Emily
47:57
I'm Stacy I did not grow up watching both cuz I'm older than you but that's
48:03
okay Um I teach eighth grade math and I'm wondering if you have any advice for
48:10
to give my students when we start back to school in August Oh my gosh I
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mean do do I have advice or does Brennan have advice because we got someone
48:22
asking Brennan's advice Um I mean I've been studying man Keep working hard You
48:30
got watch the mountain Find the TV show Find the square one TV
48:37
show It's probably for a little younger than 8th grade Um but I've got a son
48:42
going into grade Oh nice So maybe I should think about what I tell him
48:48
for Um you kind of keep working You might not think you have you know use
48:53
for math later on in life but you do I mean there's lots of times when I have to use math and I sometimes I'm kicking
49:01
myself that I don't remember some of the things I learned in my math class and I love math Math is my favorite class you
49:06
might guess It's my favorite subject Well I love to hear that So thank you Thank you for teaching
49:13
math to kids Thank you so much Two minutes People want to do it Okay let's do it
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Speed round Hi mine
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So um how long did it take you to really find your character and well like really
49:33
get into it i mean I think we were trying different things out in the first season So I'd say probably halfway
49:39
through the first season we felt like we're in a more of a groove and we were trying you know we tried different
49:46
things with the character and the show in general Um but I'd maybe say halfway through the first season But what's wonderful about doing a show for a long
49:52
time is the character can grow over time and sometimes slowly but she's still growing So that was fun Yeah Thank you
49:59
And quickly question same question Hi Emily Did you or David either one take
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anything special from the set when it was open i took the plaque that says my name I
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took my name tag Um I have a bone or
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two Um and I can't speak for David but I didn't take the Oh no I had like I got a
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couple jackets Couple coats Thank you I want to make sure everyone
50:32
gets their question Hi my name is Lisa I am also giant fan of bones Wanted to go
50:38
into forensic anthropology Ended up in clinical trials Um and I a mom in
50:44
science and so I'd love to hear your perspective of how becoming a mom and
50:50
how that kind of changed either yourself or your character in the show Oh my gosh
50:56
I mean I think your heart opens up so much more when you have kids Um and so I would say that probably
51:04
happened for both me and Brennan And I think we both probably started looking
51:09
at things a little less black and white and seeing more gray and having a bigger open heart I'm trying to do quick
51:17
answers I can go on longer Maybe if you had more time but this is the last minute Let's go Um did you have fun
51:24
doing the fight scenes at Bones with Booth with Booth or when I would fight other
51:29
people with my martial arts watch the show My mom just asked me to ask
51:37
Thank you for your honesty I did I did martial arts in college I did karate I
51:43
was technically on the karate team I was very beginner but somehow that it didn't matter in my college So I I did enjoy it
51:51
but sometimes it felt like it was unprovoked So I I kind we kind of moved away from it after the beginning seasons
51:59
of the show But I I not love a fight scene Yes I did enjoy it Thank you Thank you Thank you to your mom You've just
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made it What's your question right up to mate Hi Uh my name is Britney and I uh
52:11
was wondering if any of the victim stories when you were filming impacted you in a really big way Oh my
52:17
gosh I mean I Yes Well I will say the thing that
52:22
comes to mind is when we had the the early on in season one we had
52:28
the boy in the bush Um and that just gutted me that was about a kid in foster
52:35
care and he's murdered and it's so horrible to see the tiny bones of a child Like that just felt so horrible
52:42
and wrong It was hard to walk into the room with those bones and not start crying and then the the story line has
52:48
to do with foster care and characters in foster care and abuse in foster care specifically So that that touched me for
52:56
sure and I think a lot of others did too but that's the one that just comes to mind at the top of my head Thank you
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Thank
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you Yes Thank you so much Yes Put your hands together and make a giant noise
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