Irrespective of the place life takes him, Frankie Muniz will at all times have a TV dad in Bryan Cranston.
The 2x Golden Globe nominee not too long ago revealed that his Malcolm in the Middle co-star nonetheless checks in on him “each couple of weeks” after enjoying his dad Hal on the Fox sitcom that ran for seven seasons from 2000 to 2006.
“I began working with him after I was 11, 12 years outdated. He actually turned like a father determine to me,” he defined on Michael Rosenbaum’s Inside of You podcast. “After which even nonetheless to today, he’s primarily like a Hollywood god at this level. You understand what I imply? He’s executed unimaginable movies, unimaginable exhibits, gained tons of awards. He’s actually It.”
Muniz added, “He nonetheless reaches out to me each couple of weeks, verify in on me. He actually cares about what I’m doing, involves the races, if my band was enjoying, got here to exhibits. I imply, he’s such an inspiration, and like I mentioned, that’s what I attempt to be that for another person sooner or later.”
Malcolm within the Center starred Muniz because the titular pubescent genius, whose mother and father Hal and Lois (Cranston and Jane Kaczmarek) wrestle to boost their working class household, together with Malcolm’s three trouble-making brothers (Christopher Kennedy Masterson, Justin Berfield and Erik Per Sullivan).
Final yr, Cranston mentioned the “chance” of reuniting for a revival of the sequence. “There was some discuss the opportunity of doing, like, a reunion film of Malcolm within the Center,” he informed E! Information in January 2023.
“We had such an incredible household on that, and I definitely can be open to that if there was a good suggestion that got here up — like, ‘Oh, that may be unbelievable to discover what occurred to this household 20 years later,’” added Cranston. “I can’t consider it’s already that, however that may be enjoyable to do.”
After Muniz announced his NASCAR debut final January, he was promoted to full-time for the Reaume Brothers Racing crew’s 2025 season, driving the No. 33 Ford F-150 in February. He continues performing as effectively, most not too long ago starring within the comedy Half Baked: Completely Excessive and an episode of Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens.
