At the New York Comic Con earlier this month, ComicBook.com caught up with Eric Millegan. Millegan is an accomplished actor on television and stage, but is best known to fans–and especially to the convention crowd–as Dr. Zack Addy from the hit Fox series Bones.Millegan was a fan-favorite character on that series–brilliant, socially awkward and intensely likable, the actor made Addy relatable, likable and half of one of the best non-romantic relationships on TV (with T.J. Thyne’s Jack Hodgins). As a character who didn’t always know what to say, Millegan mastered the art of using timing and sparse dialogue to his advantage, turning silence into a powerful tool and making his occasional monologues and pseudo-scientific explanations even more effective. After he left, the chemistry on the show has never quite been the same, with showrunners and writers strugging to fill the hole left by his character’s departure with a rotating cast of recurring characters rather than attempt to replace Millegan with a new series regular in the role.With Bones seemingly nearing its end in the next couple of years, a number of fans came up to Millegan at the show lamenting the loss of his character (who was written out of the show in 2008 and has returned infrequently since) and asked whether he might be return someday in the future.”That would be cool” was his stock answer to most fans, indicating that he either didn’t know of any such plans or at least was playing them close to the vest.
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