I needed time to decompress after doing Bones and to have an exorcism [to] get the character, Brennan, out of my system, having played that character for so long.
I took a full two years off and as I was starting to think of working again and thinking about what I wanted to do, the main thing [was] I wanted to do something different — a different tone and a different character.
I didn’t want to just jump in.
The last thing I wanted to do at this moment is to jump in and be the lead of a network show because I’ve done that and I know how demanding that is.