Frankie Muniz Says ‘Malcolm in the Middle’s Bryan Cranston Still Reaches Out To “Check In On Me”
deadline.comNo matter where life takes him, Frankie Muniz will always have a TV dad in Bryan Cranston. The 2x Golden Globe nominee recently revealed that his Malcolm in the Middle co-star still checks in on him “every couple of weeks” after playing his dad Hal on the Fox sitcom that ran for seven seasons from 2000 to 2006. “I started working with him when I was 11, 12 years old.
He really became like a father figure to me,” he explained on Michael Rosenbaum’s Inside of You podcast. “And then even still to this day, he’s essentially like a Hollywood god at this point.
You know what I mean? He’s done incredible films, incredible shows, won tons of awards. He’s literally It.” Muniz added, “He still reaches out to me every couple of weeks, check in on me.
He really cares about what I’m doing, comes to the races, if my band was playing, came to shows. I mean, he’s such an inspiration, and like I said, that’s what I strive to be that for someone else in the future.” Malcolm in the Middle starred Muniz as the titular pubescent genius, whose parents Hal and Lois (Cranston and Jane Kaczmarek) struggle to raise their working class family, including Malcolm’s three trouble-making brothers (Christopher Kennedy Masterson, Justin Berfield and Erik Per Sullivan).
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