@TamaraT_Bones @HartHanson Before I spoke with Bones creator Hart Hanson at the FOX/TCA summer press tour party in Malibu, I ran into the always lovely Tamara Taylor and had a quick chat amidst the party goers. Did she really tell me anything I didn’t know? Or did I fill her with cocktails and then ask the probing questions? (Come on…would I really do that?!). [In case you missed my chat with Hart, CLICK HERE…and I also chatted with Michaela Conlin and The Finder star Geoff Stults so those will be coming later this week!]
Jim Halterman: You haven’t been back to work all that long, right?
Tamara Taylor: Right, just since the end of July.
JH: I’ll be talking to Hart so we’ll see what I can get him to tell me about the new season…
TT: …and Hart is really good at not blowing it and we are not so great at that! I’m not sure what I’m allowed to say. Certainly, we know that Brennan is pregnant…
JH: …yes, we know that.
TT: …we are flashing forward a little bit…
JH: Okay…
TT: …that is probably all I am allowed to say!
Cam (Taylor, C) on the job with Booth (David Boreanaz, L) and Brennan (Emily Deschanel, R)
JH: [noticing the drink in her hand] We need to get like three more of these in you and then we can talk!
TT: Exactly!
[A waiter walks by with these amazing little shrimp cups so I urge Tamara to take one…but then I keep asking her questions so she doesn’t really get to enjoy it! Just like a hard-hitting journalist, right? Don’t worry…I didn’t keep her too long and she was able to indulge!]
JH: What about with Cam? What’s she up to with the new season
TT: She’s hanging out in the lab. She has new squinterns to deal with. One is eighteen and slightly a troubled genius. I think my daughter is coming back and she’ll be back this season. I’m not sure if my boyfriend will be back. I haven’t heard.
Will Cam get some lovin' this season??
JH: Cam needs a little somethin’ somethin’…
TT: Cam does need a little somethin’ something’. She works so hard…
JH: And one of the squinterns was killed last year…
TT: …and one of my favorites. But he got a show. [Ryan Cartwright can currently be seen on SyFy’sAlphas] They had to sacrifice him.
JH: But with these new squinterns, will things go back to being lighter than the dramatic turn that Vincent’s story took?
TT: Definitely! We actually have…it’s very inappropriate and not supposed to be funny but it just is…a memorial for Vincent Nigel-Murray and there’s a plaque and the picture of him is so ridiculous and now it’s on the wall at the Jeffersonian.
JH: And it will hang there forever, right?
TT: Yes!
JH: How are you working around Emily’s pregnancy?
TT: You know what? Because we’ve fully claimed it and she is what she is and it’s part of the show, she’s just been a trooper. Her belly is huge and we’re just doing it!
JH: What did you do on your hiatus? Anything fun or were you working?
TT: I wasn’t working. I went on a little trip and had a break and then just sort of landed in my house, which I didn’t get to do much last season. I know it sounds silly but this stay-cation thing was a great thing.
JH: I want to come by the set this season to see you in the lab!
TT: Come play! Come play!!
Bones returns with new episodes on November 3rd on FOX.