Bones - The Deadbolt: Hart Hanson Interview

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Digging Up Bodies and 'Bones' with Hart Hanson

By Reg Seeton

After jetting off to London, England to film the season premiere of Bones, creator and executive producer Hart Hanson has settled into life on the Fox airwaves, as show stars Emily Deschanel and David [Boreanaz] continue their investigations back on the western side of the pond. As the season progresses through November, both Brennan and fans will learn more about Booth's past as former Roswell actor Brendan Fehr steps into the show as his younger brother. And while we love the chemistry between Brennan and Booth, the younger brother attracts the attention of his older brother's partner.

When we took at look at the storylines of the upcoming November episodes, beginning on Wednesday the 5th, one in particular stood out above the rest. Later this month Booth and Brennan board a plane bound for China where they discover a burned body in a giant microwave while flying the friendly skies. Crazy, we know!

Late last week Hart Hanson jumped on the line for a conference call where we got to the bottom of casting Brendan Fehr and how the idea of a burned body on a flight to China came to life.

THE DEADBOLT: Can you talk about casting Brendan Fehr for Jared Booth and why he was right for the role?

HANSON: Oh, it was one of those things. God, it is so hard to find somebody who is in fact of leading man caliber who isn’t on a show. And we needed somebody we thought the character of Booth would care about deeply, but had a dark side and bore at least some physical resemblance to him. I said while we were doing it, ‘Oh, that’s it. I’m not casting any more family members. It’s too difficult.’ And then in came Brendan who I knew from Roswell, who’s also a nice Canadian boy, you know.

And he has grown up nicely. He’s got some wisdom on his face, some experience on his face, and he’s a very good actor. And it didn’t hurt a bit that he and David [Boreanaz] had conflicts on the ice. They both play hockey in their leagues and they’ve had some conflicts on the ice that comes into their relationship on the show, and he just knocked it out. He came in and - I think it was two days before we were shooting, and we had to change some air dates because we just weren’t going to go with somebody who wasn’t right, and he was very good. He was very impressive to us...