Listen Again - Directing Bones with Greg Yaitanes

Boneheads with Emily Deschanel and Carla Gallo

Lemonada Media

Tv & Film

4.6 • 704 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

What famous movie star auditioned for the role of Zack Addy? What was really in that Christmas present from Brennan’s parents? And who the hell is Crazy Dennis? Greg Yaitanes, the director of the Bones pilot, answers all this and more in this week’s episode of Boneheads. Greg, the Emmy award-winning director of House, Banshee, House of the Dragon, and Presumed Innocent, among others, tells Emily and Carla about casting Emily as Brennan, testing the pilot with audiences, and how the show went from “Brennan” to “Bones.” Plus, he shares behind-the-scenes stories from the other Bones episodes he directed, The Man in the Fallout Shelter and The Woman at the Airport. To stay up to date with Boneheads and send us your fan questions, follow us on Instagram @boneheadspod. Keep up with Greg Yaitanes on Instagram and X @GregYaitanes. Find out more about other shows on our network @lemonadamedia on all social platforms. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:14.6	and their hard-earned wisdom. Every conversation leaves me a little smarter and definitely more inspired.
0:22.0	And yes, I'm still calling my 91-year-old mom, Judy, to get her take on it all.
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0:46.3	What up?
0:47.7	Oh, what up, Gallo?
0:48.7	Oh, what up?
0:49.9	Seagall.
0:50.8	What's up, Seagall?
0:52.2	Hey, E. Dej.
0:54.7	Do do, do, do, do do do do do do.
1:01.0	Do do do do.
1:04.2	Hi, I'm Emily Deich now.
1:06.4	And I'm Carla Gallo.
1:07.8	And this is Boneheads.
1:14.0	I'm Carla Gallo. And this is Boneheads. I'm literally like two days unemployed. And you're already freaking out. Yes. So Platonic
1:20.3	Season 2 just wrapped and I will not enjoy it. I refuse to enjoy it. I cannot enjoy it. I was in, I was telling you right
1:30.0	when I got here that, so I finished on Wednesday night, I started Tuesday night. And then on
1:35.0	Wednesday, my husband came home from like a meeting and stuff at like 3 o'clock. And he was like,
1:39.6	oh, oh, still in your pajamas. And I said, well, I don't have anywhere else to be. And he was like, all right. That was quick. So I'm already in the depths of despair. Oh, my gosh. I know. It's not cool. But like a good amount of your life, not yours, but any actor's life is spent like not working. So you might as well enjoy some of that show but I kept saying
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