David Boreanaz Says It's 'So Trippy' That Young Fans Are DiscoveringBones: 'It Was Such a Fun Show'

Mar. 15, 2025

David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel in Bones.Photo:FOX Image Collection via Getty

FOX Image Collection via Getty

“I was doingLIVE withKelly and Markthe other day [for the final season ofSEAL Team], and these two younger girls were there for a fashion show, literally like 10 years old and 12,” he tells PEOPLE.

“Their mom was there, and she said they were just so excited I was there because they loveBones, and I’m just sitting there going, ‘This is so trippy!'”

Of course, he says it was certainly fun to play FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth oppositeEmily Deschanel’s Temperance “Bones” Brennan, who played a forensics pathologist.

“Emily Deschanel and I were like, ‘How do we change the spectrum of half-hour procedural?'” he says of working closely with his costar, noting that they even studied together with his acting coach on weekends.

“You have to have it be character-driven,” he says. “You have to be talking over dead forensic bodies, cracking jokes. You have to be in tune with each other. And we created something special.”

Emily Deschanel, David Boreanaz, ‘The Man in the Mud’, (Season 3, aired April 14, 2008).20thCentFox/Courtesy Everett Collection

20thCentFox/Courtesy Everett Collection

“I was lucky to be a part of it. It went back to the consistency, to the dedication to taking weekends off, studying with Ivana [Chubbuck], and having Emily say, ‘Yeah, I’ll do that with you.’ That’s a gift, that’s an inspiration. You don’t usually get that with other actors.”

“But that’s how we created chemistry. It wasn’t just like, ‘Here are the lines, say them. We rewrote a lot of those scenes, we presented them, we played with them inside and out, we added our subtext.”

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So did he learn anything about forensics along the way?

“Nah,” he says. “Emily was the forensic. I was just the sarcastic cop with the weird props, and I just engaged in that humor.”

He adds, “The show made me a better artist in a lot of ways. It was just a fun show.”

Boreanaz, who talked to PEOPLE this week aboutwrapping up his seventh and final season ofSEAL Team(August 11, Paramount +) saysBoneswas also so different from hisSEAL Teamrole, which was physically daunting.

“I take good care of myself, but it gets to a point where your body’s not moving like it used to… I think I’ve had four MRIs in the past four months, for my knees, hips, shoulders. It’s been quite a journey," he says of why he was ready to wrap up the series.

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David Boreanaz (right) in SEAL Team.Erik Voake/CBS via Getty

Erik Voake/CBS via Getty

“I have plans," he says. “My work ethic is always head on a swivel, be in the now, don’t look back, don’t look far down the pipeline.”

The first two episodes of the final season ofSEAL Teampremiere Sunday, August 11 with the remaining episodes airing weekly on Paramount+.

source: people.com