Frankie Muniz says he stormed off Malcolm in the Middle set and didn’t return for two episodes

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Malcolm in the Middle star Frankie Muniz has revealed that he as soon as walked off set in frustration and didn’t return for two episodes.

The actor, 38, starred as the fundamental character in the common household sitcom from 2000 to 2006, having been forged whereas he was 13 years outdated.

Muniz is presently showing on the Australian model of the actuality sequence I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!. He recalled the fraught incident on Malcolm in the Middle to his fellow campmates on the newest episode.

“There were two episodes I’m not in. I walked off the set,” mentioned Muniz, who starred alongside Bryan Cranston, Jane Kaczmarek, Christopher Masterson, Justin Berfield and Erik Per Sullivan on the sequence.

According to the actor, it was on-set tensions and the behaviour of “certain people” that had prompted him to depart.

“Everyone was so afraid to stand up when certain people were controlling or rude or disrespectful. Like they walked on pins and needles,” he mentioned.

“I was so mortified by seeing people afraid to stand up for themselves, I was like: ‘Say something.’ I didn’t care if they told me I was never going back, because it was worth it to me. It helped that the show was based around me.”

While Muniz claimed to have been absent from two episodes as a result of the walk-out, his character does in fact feature in every episode of the show (though the episode “Clip Show #2” only shows his character in archival flashback footage). However, it’s potential that pre-shot footage that includes Muniz was included into the episodes the place Muniz was absent from the shoot. TV exhibits generally document “cold opens” – standalone comedian scenes that run earlier than the opening credit – out of sequence with the remainder of the manufacturing.

After discovering success with Malcolm, Muniz took a break from performing, and turned an open-wheel racecar driver.

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Speaking to information.com.au earlier than his look on I’m a Celebrity, Muniz mentioned: “I never felt like I fully fit in the Hollywood world, even though I was in the world. I was nominated for Emmys and Golden Globes, and I was going to all this stuff, and I was there, and I was like, how am I here?

“I hated LA, so I kind of stayed in my own little world, my own little bubble. And moving to Arizona, I did it on a whim, and I realised immediately that I started looking up. I started enjoying looking at trees and birds in the sky. Going to the grocery store was a fun thing. You don’t get that in LA. It’s a miserable experience.”