NEED TO KNOW
- David Boreanaz is revealing what Betty White advised him once they first met on the set of Bones a decade in the past
- Throughout the Bones: twentieth Anniversary Retrospective panel on the inaugural Televerse Competition on Aug. 16, the actor, 56, shared that White mentioned she wished to “f—” him throughout a gathering with the forged forward of her guest-starring stint
- “I simply began laughing,” Boreanaz recalled of the second
David Boreanaz is remembering his Bones visitor star Betty White — and her sassy manner with phrases.
Whereas talking with fellow forged members through the Bones: twentieth Anniversary Retrospective panel on the inaugural Televerse Competition on Saturday, Aug. 16, Boreanaz, 56, revealed that White made an surprising, and fairly direct, remark towards him on set. And he apparently took it in stride.
White’s first of two appearances as Dr. Beth Mayer got here within the sequence’ Eleventh-season episode “The Carpals within the Coy-Wolves,” which aired in 2015. After actor T. J. Thyne admitted she was “somewhat troublemaker” on set, Boreanaz — who performed protagonist Seeley Sales space within the long-running drama — shared through the Bones panel that White’s hassle additionally prolonged to at least one NSFW remark.
“She confirmed up within the diner. They drive her in and put her — Ms. White — [they] usher her in. And he or she says hey to everyone,” he mentioned of their first interplay. “And Emily [Deschanel] and I are ready for her. And he or she’s like, ‘Good to see you. Oh, good to see you. You’re so good. You’re so fairly.’ She goes as much as Emily — ‘Oh, you’re so fairly.’ ”
“She seems to be at me, she goes, ‘Holy s—, I need to f— you. I need to f— you!’ I simply began laughing,” Boreanaz recalled.
Deschanel, 48, then clarified through the reunion speak — moderated by ipromiseyoumedia’s Sean Mandell and likewise that includes perception from Thyne, Hart Hanson, Tamara Taylor, Michaela Conlin and Eric Millegan — that she did not bear in mind the alternate herself.
“I’m not saying it didn’t occur, I am saying I did not hear that, however that is wonderful,” she mentioned, as Taylor referred to as White a “legendary potty mouth.”
White’s second look on Bones got here through the present’s twelfth season in 2017, within the episode “The Radioactive Panthers within the Occasion.” The sequence was only one by which the Golden Women star would make the occasional visitor look earlier than her December 2021 loss of life. She additionally made cameos in Ugly Betty, 30 Rock and SpongeBob SquarePants.
Bones ran for 12 seasons from 2005 by 2017. The sequence earned two Primetime Emmy nominations, in 2009 and 2012. Since then, Deschanel and Bones costar Carla Gallo launched their rewatch podcast, Boneheads, in 2024.
Talking with ipromiseyoumedia at Televerse, Deschanel mentioned that trying again on the sequence for her podcast has been “enjoyable,” particularly after not seeing a few of the episodes in 20 years.
“It has been actually fascinating to see the present as a result of all of them I hadn’t watched for 20 years mainly. After which there is a couple to this point that I hadn’t seen but, I do not assume. After which positively as we go alongside, there will be ones I by no means have seen,” she mentioned. “So it is fascinating to look again and see like, ‘What did we do?’ And I suppose one takeaway is, hey, it was fairly stable. The present is fairly stable.”
Yamillah Hurtado contributed reporting to this story.