Frankie Muniz Calls Former Costar Bryan Cranston a ‘Father Figure’

Bryan Cranston might have been Frankie Muniz’s dad on Malcolm within the Center, however their relationship transcends extra than simply TV.

“I discuss to Bryan Cranston a good quantity,” Muniz, 38, completely informed Us Weekly whereas selling his #NotInTheMiddle partnership with Spirit Airways. “He’s at all times been like a father determine to me because the present ended and at all times sort of checked in on what I used to be doing, the place I used to be. If I used to be in a band, he got here to the present. If I’m racing now, he involves the races or checks in and watches on TV, tells me how he’s watching.”

Muniz gushed that his relationship with Cranston has “at all times been superb,” including that he hoped to reconnect with extra of his former costars sooner or later.

“We’ve all truly been speaking just a little bit recently. It’s virtually the 20 12 months anniversary because the present ended and it’s loopy to suppose that it’s been that lengthy,” he informed Us. “I’m virtually the age that Bryan Cranston and Jane Kaczmarek have been when Malcolm began, once they have been our mother and father. It’s a bizarre thought. All of us have households of our personal, we have now children now ourselves. We need to get the gang collectively for certain and I feel it’d be enjoyable simply to sort of catch again up.”

Airing from 2000 to 2006, Malcolm within the Center centered round center baby Malcolm Wilkerson (Muniz) and the ups and downs he confronted in his dysfunctional household life. Hal Wilkerson (Cranston) and Lois Wilkerson (Kaczmarek) starred because the mother and father of Malcolm and siblings Francis Wilkerson (Christopher Masterson), Reese Wilkerson (Justin Berfield) and Dewey Wilkerson (Erik Per Sullivan).

Within the practically 20 years since Malcolm within the Center got here to an finish, followers have been begging for a revival to see what the Wilkerson household is to this point. Muniz, for his half, revealed to Us that he’s fascinated about reprising his function from the Fox sequence.

“There’s positively been discuss it,” he teased. “I do know that it’s less than me for it to occur, however I might positively find it irresistible. We’ll see what occurs for certain.”

Whereas Malcolm within the Center was airing within the early 2000s, Muniz admitted that he “didn’t watch” the present on the time due to limitations surrounding streaming TV. Years later, Muniz and his spouse, Paige, sat down to observe the present — and he gained a newfound appreciation for the sequence.

“I watched it with my spouse as a result of she had by no means seen the present, and I don’t know, it made me so grateful,” he informed Us. “The present was one thing utterly totally different than I believed we have been making, as bizarre as that sounds. Nevertheless it made me go, ‘Man, I’ve to know what Malcolm and his household are to this point,’ as a result of the probabilities are actually infinite.”

For Muniz, it’s laborious to foretell what Malcolm’s life right now would appear like. “The final episode, his mother and father and everybody inform him that he can’t take this million greenback beginning wage job straight out of highschool as a result of he’s acquired to undergo, and he’s acquired to do that and he’s going to do that as a result of he’s going to be President of america,” Muniz famous. “That’s numerous stress to placed on a child. Do I feel that he’s there? No.”

Muniz defined that he thinks Malcolm “at all times felt just like the world was out to get him or towards him” and may very well be “nonetheless caught in that destructive mindset.”

“Who is aware of what it may very well be, nevertheless it may very well be something,” Muniz informed Us. “I simply need to know. I want a definitive reply. We have to know.”

Even when the present by no means returns, Muniz will at all times maintain a particular place in his coronary heart for Malcolm within the Center. “It’s one of many biggest issues that would have ever occurred to me,” he mentioned. “I’m so fortunate to have been part of one thing that folks love all these years later.”

When he’s not reminiscing on his Malcolm within the Center days, Muniz will be discovered racking up miles on Spirit Airways and selling his #NotInTheMiddle marketing campaign. Somewhat than being caught within the center, Muniz can take pleasure in some further elbow room with a assured blocked center seat as a part of the brand new Go Comfortable journey possibility — in addition to one checked and one carry-on bag, precedence boarding, snack and non-alcoholic beverage.

With this marketing campaign, one factor is for sure: Malcolm would have been the recipient of a greater journey expertise along with his members of the family.

“I feel I do know what seat he would in all probability be caught with,” Muniz quipped to Us of Malcolm, “but when he’s flying on Spirit Go Comfortable he doesn’t have to fret about it.”