Frankie Muniz hasn’t talked to Hilary Duff since her ‘intense’ mother interfered in “Agent Cody Banks” casting

• Frankie Muniz mentioned that he used to have an "superior relationship" with Hilary Duff.
• The actor mentioned the whole lot modified after Duff's "intense" mother interfered within the Agent Cody Banks casting course of.
• Muniz mentioned, "I remorse not simply persevering with to be pals along with her" regardless of her mother's alleged conduct.

Frankie Muniz hasn't spoken to Hilary Duff since they completed Agent Cody Banks in 2002 — and he claims that her mother is guilty.

The Malcolm within the Center star detailed his falling out together with his former pal on a September episode of The Joe Vulpis Podcast. “Hilary Duff was most likely considered one of my first pals after I moved to L.A.," Muniz started. "We grew to become actually, actually good pals. We had a extremely nice relationship for a very long time. She requested me to do Lizzie McGuire, which I used to be like, 'Yeah!'"

Muniz mentioned that whereas he was taking pictures a 2002 episode of Duff's Disney Channel sequence, he had a clumsy encounter along with her mom in his costar's dressing room. "Her mother was, I'm gonna say the epitome of a stage mother. Momager," he opined. "She was intense. Hilary was so cool, we had an superior relationship, however her mother was tremendous intense."

Representatives for Duff didn’t instantly reply to Leisure Weekly's request for remark.

The actor mentioned that Duff's mom requested what tasks he had lined up for the summer season of 2002, when Malcolm within the Center can be on hiatus. "I am going, 'Oh, I'm filming this film the place I'm enjoying like a junior James Bond. It's referred to as Agent Cody Banks,'" he remembered telling her. "And he or she's like, 'Is there a woman that may very well be Hilary, that will be good for Hilary?' And I used to be like, 'Yeah, however I dunno.'"

Muniz mentioned that he declined to inform Duff's mother that he had enter on who can be forged as Natalie Connors, the feminine lead of the spy comedy — and that he personally hoped that Smallville star Kristin Kreuk would land the half. "In my thoughts, after I learn the script, I pictured her because the lady," he mentioned. "So I actually thought that that was what it was gonna be." (EW has reached out to a consultant for Kreuk for remark.)

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The Racing Stripes star was stunned to listen to that Duff can be becoming a member of him in Vancouver simply sooner or later later. "The subsequent morning I present as much as the set, I am going into her dressing room to hang around, and her mother's like, 'Guess what? We're gonna be spending the summer season collectively!'" he recalled. "She was like, 'We're gonna be up in Vancouver collectively!' I'm like, 'Oh, what's Hilary filming? Is she filming a film up there too? That's superior! We'll get to hang around, we'll have dinners.' She goes, 'No, she's doing Cody Banks with you.'"

Muniz was flabbergasted. "I checked out her and I went, 'No she's not!'" he remembered. "She's like, 'No, yeah, yeah, she is. They signed the contract final night time.' And I'm like, 'The film you knew nothing about yesterday, you signed — how — it's not doable! It's not humanly doable.'"

The actor mentioned that he referred to as his brokers to determine how Duff may have been forged with out his enter. "I'm like, 'Hey, I'm simply questioning' — I wasn't mad, it was simply stunning, 'trigger I had the say, they didn't ask me," he mentioned. "Supposedly, calls have been made, they usually knew that Hilary and I have been actually shut, and I used to be filming her present, so they simply assumed it was high quality. So for sure, I wasn't thrilled about it. And never as a result of I didn't need it to be Hilary. Simply because they went round me."

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Muniz mentioned that the casting drama forged an uncomfortable shadow over the Agent Cody Banks set. "I used to be very unhappy when Hilary's mother would come on set," he mentioned. "I'm being trustworthy, you realize what I imply? I'm sufficiently old to the place I understand I don't thoughts individuals understanding the reality."

He continued, "I've by no means talked to Hilary for the reason that final day of filming. I've not mentioned one phrase to her since then. In order that's the reality that nobody is aware of about."

Muniz is remorseful about his falling out with Duff. "I look again at it now, and I am going like, what a dumb — I remorse not simply persevering with to be pals along with her," he mentioned. "We have been pals. We had an amazing friendship for such a very long time. And I let her mother — it pissed me off."

He concluded, "I might like to meet up with her. I might like to even speak about that, 'trigger I'm positive she doesn't know any of that occurred."

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