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I thought he couldn't remember any of it:
https://time.com/4975749/malcolm-in-middle-frankie-muniz/
Or maybe not so much?
https://www.ladbible.com/entertainment/frankie-muniz-memory-malcolm-in-the-middle-805851-20230512
He went on the Steve-O podcast to clarify things, and the media just went with some absurd story based on a comment he made once. He didn't lose his memory, it seems.
"I don't remember most of the details of hectic days on set."
"He can't remember anything that happened ever while on the show!" - the news
Hell, I don't remember most of what happened in high school and barely anything from middle school and prior with zero brain injuries. It is mostly not memorable, and I would expect a job to be pretty similar.
Not to mention, when shooting scenes for a show, actors are often only there for the scenes they're in, and they're not even necessarily shot in order, so he often had no idea what was going on until he saw the completed episode, which he mentioned in the podcast he often didn't bother watching. So it wasn't uncommon for the things he had "forgotten" to be things he actually wasn't aware of in the first place.
Yeah I believe that's the jist of what he said on the podcast, spot on. Like my university days seem like a blur, but that has more to do with the constant work and tiredness so I can understand from a different perspective.
I went through a health scare and spent 65 days in the hospital, I could probably recall about 10-15% of my time there because other than the procedures and the talks with the doctors and nurses, I watched the food network and slept the whole time. I imagine its a somewhat similar deal. If something was worth remembering in the moment, I remember it.
Memory is unreliable in general.
So are people and their honesty, but memory is truly fickle in some people.
“Everyone was so afraid to stand up when certain people were controlling or rude or disrespectful,” he continued. “They walked on pins and needles.”
I wonder if one of them was the actress who played Lois. Jane Kaczmarek shared how she had constant headaches and admitted to being difficult on set when she was suffering.
I mean, it's possible, but far more likely that it was producers/showrunners/etc whose name we have never heard before tbh
Yeah he called Jane his second mother in some interview. I think we have to remember for the 6 of them there were dozens more off screen, we can't assume it was an actor.
Oh absolutely! I do wonder if she was using the headache excuse just to leave and hide in her trailer until the chaos blows over.
Women actresses who speak up have been known to be blackballed so...
