WETPAINT: Exclusive! Bones' Eugene Byrd Would Like Clark Edison to Keep His Clothes On
March 23, 2011
by Lisa Costantini
The last we saw of squintern Clark Edison, he was romancing his honey in Bones’ Valentine’s Day episode — by stripping down to his skivvies. The typically private lab geek has grown chattier over the past few episodes of Season 6, revealing far more about himself (and his sex life) than we ever expected to learn. Without verging into TMI territory, Eugene Byrd, the talented actor behind the squint, recently opened up to Wetpaint about everything from Zack’s return to why Clark is the only intern in a different color lab coat.
T J Thyne, Michaela Conlin and Eugene Byrd from Bones
... Q: We’ve seen more of you but will we ever learn more about you?
Eugene Byrd: "There’s a lot about the guy you don’t know. Like, for instance, this is going to sound so cocky, but who knew that he was going to be built like that under the coat? … There is a lot about Clark that no one knew, or thought of. And sometimes I do read the comments of the fans. Some guy I think wrote. ‘Oh man, I do not like what they’ve done with Clark’ and then at the end of the Valentine’s Day episode he wrote again, ‘I take it all back. Clark is awesome.’ It’s because people got a surprise. They got to see something different. I like that.
I want people to start seeing that yes, Clark is a stickler and he can be very business, but there is a lot of him that is very caring. He wants to do the right thing. He wants to be perfect. He wants to compete. That’s why the whole him saying King of the Lab, he never wanted to say it because he never wanted to open up. He didn’t want to get close to these people. He thought it would be unprofessional and not how he views a work environment..."
Bones airs Thursday at 9/8C on FOX.
