{"id":636041,"date":"2026-04-29T08:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T08:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/636041\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T08:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T08:47:08","slug":"malcolm-star-justin-berfield-says-leave-eric-per-sullivan-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/636041\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Malcolm&#8217; Star Justin Berfield Says Leave Eric Per Sullivan Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/malcolm-in-the-middle\/\" id=\"auto-tag_malcolm-in-the-middle\" data-tag=\"malcolm-in-the-middle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Malcolm in the Middle<\/a>\u201d star Justin Berfield, who plays Malcolm\u2019s older brother Reese, told the \u201c<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9aWxYsIueEo\">Howie Mandel Does Stuff\u201d podcast<\/a> that he feels bad that his former co-star, Erik Per Sullivan, was thrust back into the public eye even though he declined to return as Dewey in the recent series revival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWhen asked if Sullivan regretted his decision not to appear in \u201cMalcolm in the Middle: Life\u2019s Still Unfair,\u201d Berfield said, \u201cNo. I know they asked him a whole bunch. They asked him like four or five times, and every time he was like, \u2018No.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cHe\u2019s a good guy, and I love Eric,\u201d Berfield added. \u201cI actually feel bad because he wants to stay out of the business and I\u2019ve been seeing paparazzi shots of him. And I\u2019m like, just leave Eric alone. He didn\u2019t want to come back to the show. No hard feelings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tSullivan, who played Malcolm\u2019s youngest brother Dewey, was the only original star not to return for the reboot. Caleb Ellsworth-Clark took his place in the role.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn a recent interview with The Guardian, \u201cMalcolm\u201d star Jane Kaczmarek, who played Sullivan\u2019s on-screen mother, said the show offered him a serious payday for his return, but he still declined.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/tv\/news\/malcolm-in-the-middle-revival-erik-per-sullivan-money-1236708796\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">She said<\/a> Sullivan is \u201cstudying Dickens and is an incredible student. They offered him buckets of money to come back, and he just said, \u2018No thank you.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe \u201cMalcolm\u201d revival sees Frankie Muniz\u2019s titular middle child all grown up with a kid of his own. The show picks up as Malcolm is sucked back into his family\u2019s orbit when his father, Hal (Bryan Cranston) and his mom, Lois (Kaczmarek), demand his presence at their 40th anniversary party. All episodes are available to stream on Hulu. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cMalcolm in the Middle\u201d star Justin Berfield, who plays Malcolm\u2019s older brother Reese, told the \u201cHowie Mandel Does&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75,65107],"class_list":["post-636041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-malcolm-in-the-middle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}