Emily Deschanel‘s run on “Bones” nearly led to Season 1 as a substitute of Season 12.

In a current interview on David Duchovny’s “Fail Higher” podcast, Deschanel recalled struggling to maintain up in the course of the first season of “Bones,” contemplating the demanding taking pictures hours and the copious quantities of dialogue she wanted to memorize.

“We have been working insane hours, longer than only a regular sequence,” Deschanel stated. “You’re working 14- to 16-hour days, after which I needed to memorize the traces. So I’d be staying up late evening memorizing traces. I’d joke that I’d go residence and simply cry in a tub each evening as a result of I used to be simply so overwhelmed.”

She added, “I’d come to set and I’d be attempting to recollect the traces that…I acquired no sleep and attempting to recollect the traces that I had memorized the evening earlier than after which I had them in my head and couldn’t keep in mind them.”

On the peak of the anxiousness, an accident in Deschanel’s commute induced her to reach half-hour late to set. The incident resulted in a stern speaking to from sequence creator Hart Hanson.

“Hart knocked on my trailer door, which was not a common factor, he wasn’t knocking on my door typically,” she remembered. “He took me apart and says, ‘The studio has issues about your work.’ They stated that I used to be late and unprepared. That to me — I get emotional simply eager about it now as a result of it was in all probability disgrace.”

“I imply, I used to be a wreck. I took it so exhausting,” she added. “I used to be such a fragile particular person on the time. I acquired hardened up doing that present for thus lengthy. I used to be not sleeping, I used to be so stressed. I used to be already, I’m an emotional particular person, so I used to be simply beside myself.”

Deschanel stated that afterward, she made positive to at all times be on time. And by chance, the day after the dialog, she realized the present had been picked up for extra episodes. Hanson additionally helped his lead actress going ahead, getting her a much bigger trailer and extra time to run traces.

“Hart helped me discover methods to be higher, get my job achieved by way of studying my traces and remembering them,” Deschanel stated. “Loads of it was having downtime or having some scene that I’m not in, and so forth. He’s only a good one. We have been so fortunate.”

“Bones” ran for 246 episodes throughout 12 seasons on Fox from 2005 to 2017. Starring alongside David Boreanaz, Michaela Conlin, T.J. Thyne and Tamara Taylor, Deschanel performed Dr. Temperance Brennan, a genius anthropologist who makes use of the bones of victims to assist the FBI remedy murder instances.