{"id":365500,"date":"2026-04-05T23:38:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T23:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/365500\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T23:38:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T23:38:17","slug":"malcolm-in-the-middle-revival-offered-dewey-actor-buckets-of-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/365500\/","title":{"rendered":"Malcolm In The Middle Revival offered Dewey actor &#8220;Buckets of Money&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe folks behind the much-anticipated <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/malcolm-in-the-middle\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Malcolm in the Middle<\/a>: Life\u2019s Still Unfair apparently pulled out the big guns to lure <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/erik-per-sullivan\/\" id=\"auto-tag_erik-per-sullivan\" data-tag=\"erik-per-sullivan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Erik Per Sullivan<\/a> out of acting retirement. Too bad it wasn\u2019t enough to get the young man who played the inimitable Dewey to take a break from studying literature at Harvard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn an interview with <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2026\/apr\/03\/bryan-cranston-malcolm-in-the-middle-return-breaking-bad\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a>, star <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/jane-kaczmarek\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jane-kaczmarek\" data-tag=\"jane-kaczmarek\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jane Kaczmarek<\/a> said Per 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     \">\n\tPer Sullivan is the only castmember from the original ensemble to be recast for the upcoming four-episode revival of the old Fox comedy series. Caleb Ellsworth-Clark will play him, instead. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn the revival, titled after the original series\u2019 theme song, Malcolm is dragged back into his family\u2019s orbit when Hal (<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/bryan-cranston\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bryan-cranston\" data-tag=\"bryan-cranston\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bryan Cranston<\/a>) and Lois (Kaczmarek) demand his presence at their 40th anniversary party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe trailer for the revival features the return of <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/frankie-muniz\/\" id=\"auto-tag_frankie-muniz\" data-tag=\"frankie-muniz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frankie Muniz<\/a> as Malcolm, Cranston and Kaczmarek as the parents as well as Christopher Kennedy Masterson and Justin Berfield as Malcolm\u2019s brothers Francis and Reese, respectively, and Emy Coligado as Francis\u2019 wife Piama. It also introduces Anthony Timpano and Vaughan Murrae as the youngest siblings Jamie and Kelly \u2014 seen as a baby\/toddler (Jamie) or not at all (Kelly) on the original series \u2014 as well as Keeley Karsten as Malcolm\u2019s daughter Leah and Kiana Madeira as his girlfriend Tristan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLife\u2019s Still Unfair will premiere April 10 on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+ for bundle subscribers in the US and Disney+ internationally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The folks behind the much-anticipated Malcolm in the Middle: Life\u2019s Still Unfair apparently pulled out the big guns&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[122122,156,110249,71957,110250,71958,191998,111,139,69,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-365500","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-bryan-cranston","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-erik-per-sullivan","11":"tag-frankie-muniz","12":"tag-jane-kaczmarek","13":"tag-malcolm-in-the-middle","14":"tag-malcolm-in-the-middle-lifeu2019s-still-unfair","15":"tag-new-zealand","16":"tag-newzealand","17":"tag-nz","18":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}