David Boreanaz: I Got to Talk to Him Yesterday!
April 12, 2008 by Lynn
It’s true, Bones fans; I got to take part in a conference call interview with none other than David Boreanaz. Talk about excited, I was thrilled. 
[Photo: © 2008 FOX BROADCASTING CR: FOX]
As anyone who is familiar with David would expect, he was charming, witty and seems like a very nice guy. I really enjoyed asking him questions and hearing his responses to everyone’s questions. I’m typing up all the Q&A stuff, but the first four questions here were the ones I asked him. (I hope you approve of my questions!!) Here’s what we talked about:
Q: I want to talk to you about your creation of the character. How much of Booth is your doing, and how much of it were you given?
David Boreanaz: Well, I was given the pilot. I read the pilot and I created everything that you’re seeing on screen. As far as that character is concerned what you’re seeing physically. It can’t happen without the words, obviously, but as far as the physicalities, the belt buckle, all that stuff that you see is stuff that I brought to that character.
Q: So what kind of research did you do to find out about FBI agents and their personalities and qualifications?
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David: (He laughed) Everything they told me about the FBI I threw out the door, in a lot of ways. I respected it; I went through the idea of it. I took the approach of they guy working for the military and went to the FBI rather than a guy who came right out of Harvard and he’s a penny loafer wearing pencil-pusher guy. That’s a guy that’s afraid to get his feet wet. For me, it was more interesting from the angle of the military guy who was a blue-collar guy. From there, everything exploded. I highly, highly respect what they do and when it comes to using any kind of firearm or entries into buildings I don’t mess around with that. I do it as cleanly and as professionally as I can, the way they would do it. I work with a great guy, Mike Rosso (sp?) on the show, who is with the LAPD who is fantastic, so for me, that is very authentic to a “T.” But the other stuff is character stuff.
Q: Which has been your favorite Bones episode to work on so far?
David: You know, I really enjoy anything I do with Emily, obviously. As far as one complete episode is concerned, I liked the Halloween episode. That was a lot of fun. I got to play a nerd. (laughs) I also liked the season opener of season two, that was a lot of fun. I loved the pilot. You have to go back to the pilot, that’s when it’s fresh and new. The possibilities are endless. (chuckles) It’s always hard to answer those kinds of questions.
Q: Will Booth sing with the American Idol stars?
David: (laughing) You’re going to have to wait to find out. I may dance with the American Idol stars.
Be sure to read the rest of the questions David answered in the conference call yesterday too!
Lynn – Great interview! Thanks for giving us the inside scoop!
I havent been on the site in a couple of weeks and I am confused about the American Idol comment or am I just kinda dumb?
ow my god Lynn thx for posting.very good questios.love him nd u’r my hero
Oh, your are AMAZING!
and the questions were great too! good choice!! I think it must be difficult to reduce the amount of questions one wants to really do to just a few. He seems like a pretty nice guy, well no doubt he IS, heh…I read that there was a little misunderstanding with one of the journalist during the conference call, something about the network changing Bones’ times lot…but then everything went back to normal…
thanks for taking the time for posting this!
and I read the complete interview on the other post
Thanks Lynn, loved your 4 questìons to David (so jealous you talked to him hee hee:) and loved his witty and honest replies…… (RE: another interview on a different site, the writer (not loving the writer’s questionable writing style) actually agreed that DB (as do I) was totally correct to call the journalist on naming their source when they said that Bones was on the bubble cos of it’s move to Mondays and what a shocker that the journalist couldn’t! That is just rude, lazy journalism and ìncorrect as Bones has got renewed for Season 4 as stated by Hart and co. at the Paley panel..ok end of rant!!
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So amazingly jealous right now!
Lucky you!
I really hope he does sing…..or dance. Either will do
I think it’s so</em) cool that he threw all that FBI stuff out of the window.
I think many of us wonder sometimes about how accurate the portrayals are, and I’m glad his portrayal is so unique. Great questions and interview!
Season ending episode was a disaster. I have never seen a show, a series, a successful series self distruct that way. Totally unbelieveable that team would not know he was still alive. Worse that they turned a trusted and well liked character into a mindless villian. I feel I cannot trust the team any longer and they will have to carry this mantle into the future, if indeed they still have one.