Malcolm in the Middle Reboot Recasts Our Favorite TV Little Brother Dewey — But For a Pretty Good Reason

The Malcolm successful the Middle reboot bid is, successful fact, happening with the full archetypal formed returning — that is, with the objection of our favourite TV small member Dewey. Erik Per Sullivan, who primitively played the character, volition not beryllium returning to the show, with Caleb Ellsworth-Clark taking implicit the relation for the revival.

The show’s patriarch, Bryan Cranston, precocious revealed the quality successful a speech connected Dana Carvey and David Spade’s Fly connected the Wall podcast. “I talked to Erik and I said, ‘Hey, we got the show! It’s going to travel back,’” helium explained. “He goes, ‘Oh, that’s fantastic!’ And I go, ‘Yeah, truthful we’re looking guardant to having you back.’ He goes, ‘Oh, no, no, I don’t privation to bash it. But it’s fantastic.'”

The formed of Malcolm In The Middle successful 2001. Photo by Vince Bucci/Getty Images.

The erstwhile actor, who is present 33-years-old, has a beauteous bully crushed for sitting this 1 out. “He’s really going to Harvard,” Cranston gushed during the podcast. “He’s really, truly smart, and he’s getting his master’s astatine Harvard close now. He said, ‘Oh God, no, I haven’t acted since I was 9 oregon something. So I’m not into it.'”

Following the show’s archetypal tally from 2002 done 2006, Sullivan stepped backmost from acting conscionable 4 years aboriginal astatine property 19 to prosecute different interests — and clearly, that led him down a beauteous chill way adjacent if it didn't see performing. As for the returning cast, Cranston volition beryllium joined by Malcolm himself, Frankie Muinz, arsenic good arsenic Jane Kaczmarek, Justin Berfield, and Christopher Masterson.

Production wrapped connected the task past month, and a merchandise day has yet to beryllium announced — but hopefully we’ll spot the revival, which volition dwell of 4 half-hour episodes, connected Disney+ soon.

Photo by Vince Bucci/Getty Images.

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