Frankie Muniz<\/a>) and his mother, Lois (Jane Kaczmarek), finally get into a serious conversation about how Malcolm grew up, and the pressure he felt after being told his parents expected him to become president of the United States.<\/p>\n\n\t\u201cI love that scene, because Malcolm has put so much pressure on himself and he\u2019s avoided talking about it, kind of the elephant in the room,\u201d Muniz tells Variety. \u201cSo when he\u2019s confronted in the bathroom, he really gets to unleash and say, \u2018This hurt me. The way you guys parented me, and the pressure you put on me, it really affected me as a person.’\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tOf course, it wouldn\u2019t be \u201cMalcolm in the Middle\u201d if the scene was played totally straight. Craig (David Higgins) charges into the bathroom at one point while experiencing, shall we say, digestive issues and locks himself in one of the stalls, proceeding to make some very disturbing sounds.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cIt was probably one of the most difficult things I did, because Craig was in the next stall making those noises,\u201d Kaczmarek says. \u201cI said \u2018He\u2019s not really going to be doing that? Can\u2019t you just lay those in when we after we shoot the scene?\u2019 They said, \u2018No, they have to be now, because you have to know the timing of it. I thought it was impossible. You cannot possibly have a serious conversation with someone while that\u2019s going on in the next stall. That was the genius of that scene, because it cut any sentimentality of this mother and son finally realizing what the score was and that they loved each other.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tMuniz went on to say that Malcolm finally that his parents did what they did during his childhood out of love rather than malice. <\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cHe realizes in that moment that because they did that, because they put that pressure on him, it made him be the success that he is, as a father, as a boyfriend, as a business owner,\u201d Muniz says. \u201cHe has success, and it was because of that pressure.\u201d<\/p>\n
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