Panopticist: Freaks and Geeks Status Report: John Francis Daley Now on Bones; Samm Levine Hired by Quentin Tarantino

December 9, 2008

Freaks and Geeks Status Report: John Francis Daley Now on Bones; Samm Levine Hired by Quentin Tarantino

Posted by Andrew Hearst

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John Francis Daley, who played Sam Weir on the world-historically brilliant NBC show Freaks and Geeks almost a decade ago, has had a relatively quiet career since finishing puberty, watching mostly from the sidelines as various F&G cohorts—James Franco, Seth Rogen, Jason Segel, and Linda Cardellini, not to mention Judd Apatow and Paul Feig—have reached stardom or near stardom.

Daley has worked occasionally since F&G, including a starring role in the apparently shelved Star Wars-inspired film 5-25-77, which I wrote about in 2005. He’s also done TV work here and there.

It turns out that Daley recently joined the cast of the Fox murder-investigations show Bones. The show seems pretty lame, and it’s not something I’d ever watch. But it’s interesting to see Daley as a young-adult version of the twitchy, sweet, geeky freshman he played on F&G. The first clip below is a short scene from Bones; the second, after the jump, is an interview with Daley on some cheesy entertainment show.

In other Freaks and Geeks news, Samm Levine, who played Sam Weir’s annoying pal Neal Schweiber, has joined the cast of Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming World War II film about Jewish-American soldiers in Nazi-occupied France.

Also: The extra-special Freaks and Geeks Yearbook Edition is available again after being out of print for several years. It’s one of the best DVD sets ever.

Tags: Freaks and Geeks, John Francis Daley, Judd Apatow, Paul Feig, television, video

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bones fan

December 11, 2008

4:20 AM

Daley has joined Bones at the beginning of last season, not “recently”. And why assuming Bones is pretty lame show when it’s not something you’d ever watch. Bones is a great show, that gets even better with time!

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