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frankie muniz has revealed that he was not originally keen to work with Hilary Duff in the 2003 children’s spy film Agent Cody Banks.
malcolm in the middle alum And Lizzie McGuire star Muniz played a teenage CIA agent named Cody Banks who is trying to spy on Duff’s character, Natalie Connors, in an attempt to get closer to her scientist father and his invention of killer nanobots that are destroying the country.
However, before Duff and Muniz worked together on the film, she guest-starred on an episode of Duff’s Disney Channel sitcom, where she was also introduced to her mother, Susan Duff.
“I was on the set of Lizzie McGuire And I was in Hillary’s dressing room and her mom was there and her mom was, I would say, the epitome of a stage mom,” he said during a September episode. joe fox podcast“Hillary was great. We had a great relationship.”
Muniz said Duff’s mother asked what projects he was working on and whether there would be a role for her daughter.
Muniz brought up Agent Cody Banks and the character of Natalie, but failed to mention that she had a say in who was cast.
When the NASCAR driver came out Lizzie McGuire The next day on set, he was surprised with the news that Duff had been given the role.
“His mother said, ‘Think of something? We’re going to spend the summer together,'” Muise recalled. “And I say, ‘What do you mean?’ ‘We’ll live together in Vancouver,’ she says. I say, ‘Oh, what is Hillary filming?'”
“I wasn’t mad. It was just shocking. I said my thing. They didn’t ask me,” he continued on the podcast. “But allegedly, calls were made and they knew that Hillary and I were really close and that I was filming her show, so they assumed it was OK. Needless to say, I was not thrilled about it.”
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After shooting the film, Muniz revealed that he never spoke to Duff again.
He said, “I haven’t talked to Hillary since the last day of filming. I haven’t said a word to her since then.” “There was a little bit of a dating element at that time. So there was that element that’s not happening anymore, so it was weird because of that.”
Muniz put her acting career on hold at the age of 21. in an interview us weekly Last month, he confirmed he was leaving Hollywood for Phoenix saved his lifeHis retreat from acting allowed him to pursue his passion for racing.
He admitted, “I’m very fortunate to have taken that step back, because it made me appreciate everything more.” “It gave me the opportunity to do other things and learn a lot about myself.
“I feel like it saved my life in the sense that I started enjoying the little aspects of life more, like hiking [and] Going to the grocery store, because it was easier,” he added. “I didn’t have to fight [to] Find a parking spot or pay for valet.”