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Bryan Cranston bares all for a nude scene in the new trailer for Malcolm in the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair
Jane Kaczmarek, Frankie Muniz and more original stars also return for the hilarity
The revival series begins streaming April 10 on Hulu
Bryan Cranston is putting everything out there for his sitcom return.
On Thursday, March 12, Hulu unleashed the trailer of the long-awaited Malcolm in the Middle revival series, Malcolm in the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair. And Cranston, 70, apparently leaves little to the imagination in the limited series.
Malcolm (Frankie Muniz), Lois (Jane Kaczmarek), Reese (Justin Berfield), Francis (Christopher Masterson) and Dewey (with Caleb Ellsworth-Clark taking over the role popularized by Erik Per Sullivan) return for more familial shenanigans.
The trailer kicks off with a look at Lois shaving her longtime husband Hal’s back, as Cranston poses nude while on a video call with Ellsworth-Clark’s Dewey. “You know, I can call back later,” his TV son says.
“Come on, Dewey, you’ve seen this like a thousand times,” Hal responds, before lifting a leg and giving his Dewey a rather … unfair view of things.
Frankie Muniz and Christopher Masterson in ‘Malcolm in the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair’
Credit: Hulu
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The cheeky moment is then followed by Muniz’s Malcolm teeing up the revival’s synopsis. Basically, “everything” about him is different after fans last saw the character in 2006. He has a girlfriend, a daughter and a “fantastic” life, but he’s been keeping it all a secret from his family. And he’s apparently keeping his family a secret from everyone else too.
“We just found out that Malcolm has been intentionally hiding himself from this family for years,” Lois says in the clip, before Reese quips to his dad “we all knew Malcolm would eventually betray us.”
Elsewhere, after Malcolm yells about his loves ones’ “nonstop antisocial behavior and mindless myopic priorities,” his girlfriend Tristan (Kiana Madeira) encourages him to “make peace” with his family. But as seven seasons of the original run made clear, that’s easier said than done.
The trailer eventually ends in a video call between the family and Malcolm’s secret daughter Leah (Keeley Karsten). “What do you want to do when you grow up?” Hal asks. “Crush you father’s soul and make him question his own identity?”
In the revival series, Emy Coligado also returns as Piama, while Vaughan Murrae joins the crew as Malcolm’s youngest sibling Kelly. A synopsis for the four-episode series teases that Malcolm shielded himself and his daughter “from his family for over a decade,” before being “dragged back into their orbit when Hal and Lois demand his presence at their 40th anniversary party.”
The series initially ran for seven seasons on Fox from 2000 to 2006.
Speaking with PEOPLE back in December about Life’s Still Unfair, the 40-year-old Muniz said he was “excited” for the miniseries, but wasn’t entirely sure what it would be like to bring the character back.
“When I was doing Malcolm 20 years ago, I was a kid,” Muniz said. “I was like 13 to 20 when I was on the show and I just kind of showed up and was excited to be there and said the words that were on the paper and it worked.”
He added, “As an adult, you tend to overthink things … and you put more pressure on yourself as well. So I didn’t know what it was gonna be like — if it was going to be easy to be Malcolm, if it was gonna be awkward back with the cast. And not to sound like cliché, but it was as if not a single day went by. All of us — every single person — like instantly fell back into their characters with, I’m talking the first table read.”
He added that filming the project marked “probably one of the best times I’ve ever had on a set.”
Malcolm in the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair begins streaming April 10 on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+ for bundle subscribers in the U.S. and on Disney+ internationally. All 151 episodes of Malcolm in the Middle are currently available to stream on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+ for bundle subscribers.
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