The folks behind the much-anticipated Malcolm in the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair apparently pulled out the big guns to lure Erik Per Sullivan out of acting retirement. Too bad it wasn’t enough to get the young man who played the inimitable Dewey to take a break from studying literature at Harvard.
In an interview with The Guardian, star Jane Kaczmarek said Per Sullivan is “studying Dickens and is an incredible student. They offered him buckets of money to come back, and he just said, ‘No thank you.’”
Per 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.
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In the revival, titled after the original series’ theme song, Malcolm is dragged back into his family’s orbit when Hal (Bryan Cranston)
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