{"id":112136,"date":"2025-09-03T18:34:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T18:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/112136\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T18:34:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T18:34:13","slug":"frankie-muniz-says-shooting-malcolm-in-the-middle-reboot-has-been-the-best-time-of-my-entire-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/112136\/","title":{"rendered":"Frankie Muniz says shooting &#8216;Malcolm In The Middle&#8217; reboot has been &#8220;the best time of my entire life&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frankie Muniz has spoken about the recent Malcolm In The Middle reboot, describing the shoot as \u201cthe best time of my entire life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Airing from 2000-2006, Malcolm In The Middle was a hit sitcom in which the title character, gifted middle son Malcolm (Muniz), navigates life with his eccentric family. The show also featured <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/bryan-cranston\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bryan Cranston<\/a> as Malcolm\u2019s father, with the actor later finding critical acclaim as the star of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/series\/breaking-bad\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Breaking Bad<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/tv\/malcolm-in-the-middle-revival-confirmed-with-bryan-cranston-and-frankie-muniz-returning-3822213\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A new series was confirmed as returning for a four-episode revival in December,<\/a> following a now-adult Malcolm and his family. Muniz, Cranston, and Jane Kaczmarek (who played Malcolm\u2019s mother) are also returning, although Erik Per Sullivan, who played younger brother Dewey, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/tv\/dewey-actor-turned-down-malcolm-in-the-middle-reboot-to-go-to-harvard-instead-says-bryan-cranston-3869430\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">declined to return<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/tv\/malcolm-in-the-middle-recasts-dewey-for-reboot-series-3849415\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has been recast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about the new series on the Lightweights podcast, Muniz was enthusiastic about the experience. \u201cI\u2019m not exaggerating when I say filming this reboot, like I loved it so much, way more than I ever thought I could have,\u201d he said. \u201cWe ended in May, and I haven\u2019t talked to anybody since, you know what I mean? I\u2019ve been gone. I\u2019ve only been home, I think, for 12 days since the beginning of the year. I\u2019m just always crazy, and I think next week, I\u2019m going to have time. I\u2019m going to reach out (to the rest of the cast).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the interview, he discussed what people can expect from the follow to the original series. \u201cI think people will be surprised, in a sense, where everybody is and the story,\u201d Muniz said. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to fit in 20 years of stuff into four 30-minute episodes, right? But I think people are going to be very happy with what they came up with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The reboot, titled Malcolm in the Middle: Life\u2019s Still Unfair, is scheduled to premiere in December on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/brands\/disney\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Disney+<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In February, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/tv\/frankie-muniz-calls-malcolm-the-worst-character-on-the-show-he-sucked-3836885\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Muniz revealed he had rewatched the original series with his wife, and was unimpressed with his character.<\/a> \u201cMalcolm sucked,\u201d he said, \u201che was the worst character on that show!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Frankie Muniz has spoken about the recent Malcolm In The Middle reboot, describing the shoot as \u201cthe best&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-112136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}