Frankie Muniz’s Family Made Him Realize How Similar He Is To His ‘Malcolm in the Middle’ Role After 20 Years: “You Weren’t Acting At All”

Frankie Muniz is stuck in the middle again, 20 years after Malcolm in the Middle ended its seven-season run, and getting back into character was like coming home for the actor.

Ahead of Friday’s release of the four-part Hulu revival Malcolm in the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair, Muniz explained to Deadline how playing the title boy genius during “so many of the formative years of my life” influenced him as an adult.

“My wife and I watched the show for the [first time], she had never seen the show, and we watched it a few years ago,” he recalled. “And we got to the end of [the series finale], and she looked at me and she goes, ‘You weren’t acting at all. You are Malcolm.’ And I didn’t know how to take that at first.”

Muniz continued, “I kinda realized that so many of the formative years

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