Sisters and actresses Emily and Zooey Deschanel have never shared a screen – until now.
Zooey (“(500) Days of Summer”) guests on her older sister’s show as her long-lost relative, on Fox’s “Bones” tonight at 8 on WFXT (Ch. 25).
“I think that we’ve had different career paths. It seems weird, but it’s difficult to schedule. I talked about doing a ‘Bones’ episode for a couple of years now, but it never ended up working in my schedule,” Zooey said in a conference call with reporters last week.
“I think that both of us like to let each other have our space. . . . You always want to make sure you don’t bring any silly bickering or anything like that to the set. We don’t really do so much anymore, but you worry that it will bring up your little family things. I was hesitant, not hesitant, but I just wanted to make sure that everything was right. It was really fun. Emily was extremely welcoming and accommodating and very sweet. It ended up being really fun. I was glad I did it.”
The daughters of cinematographer Caleb and actress Mary Jo Deschanel credit their parents with helping them both become successful actresses.
“Our parents couldn’t really tell us not to be actors, because that would be hypocritical,” Emily said. “But yet we also saw a lot of actors, family friends and our mother. We saw lots of people struggle. It’s a hard business. It’s a hard profession to pursue, so we didn’t have any delusions, I guess, about it going in, so we knew that we had to be really perseverant and work hard.”
What can viewers expect tonight? In one preview, Booth (David Boreanaz) strips down to his underwear.
“I think that the episode brings up a lot of questions for Booth and Brennan,” Emily said. “You’ll see in the episode, Brennan has a new level of compassion and starts to have a paradigm shift in how she’s looking at certain situations. So Booth holds her hand through that. I think when you go through something, it changes you, it’s profound in a way. And if somebody is there helping you, that brings you closer together. I think that’s definitely what happens in this episode.”
This season, the series has played with the potential romance between Booth and Brennan.
“I think it makes sense,” Emily said. “We’re in the fifth season of the show where the two characters have this chemistry together. Yet nothing has happened, and I think that it’s a great way to explore this relationship and take it to another level without actually necessarily having some physical connection. I think it’s clever. I like this aspect.”
