Hilary Duff’s breakout function on Lizzie McGuire yielded years of success for the actress that continues as we speak, whereas her costars selected barely completely different paths.
The sitcom — starring Duff (Lizzie McGuire), Lalaine (Miranda Sanchez), Adam Lamberg (Gordo), Jake Thomas (Matt McGuire), Hallie Todd (Jo McGuire) and Robert Carradine (Sam McGuire) — aired from 2001 to 2004 and consisted of two seasons and 65 episodes. Duff additionally performed the main girl within the beloved Lizzie McGuire Film in 2003 alongside a number of of her castmates and a few new faces.
The present maintained such reputation within the years after its finish that Disney+ introduced a revival in August 2019. Duff agreed to reprise her function within the sequel collection, which was set to comply with Lizzie as she tried to determine life in New York Metropolis.
“Lizzie has additionally grown up, she’s older, she’s wiser, she has a a lot larger shoe finances. She has her dream job, the right life proper now working as an apprentice to a elaborate New York decorator,” the Youthful star revealed on the D-23 expo on the time. “(She has) the right man, who owns a elaborate restaurant (and is) on the brink of have a good time her thirtieth birthday.”
Duff elaborated on her pleasure round revisiting the character by way of her Instagram Tales. “I don’t actually have phrases. It’s loopy. I actually missed her,” she mentioned. “I believe now is a superb time for her to come back again in her thirties. She’s everyone’s finest buddy, and I can’t wait to go on this subsequent chapter together with her.”
Todd, Carradine, Thomas and Lamberg later joined the undertakingwhereas the “So Yesterday” singer teased what followers might anticipate from the revival.
“Her having a very completely different life than Hilary — she doesn’t have children — I assumed it will be a extremely enjoyable expertise to undergo it together with her,” she solely advised Us Weekly in November 2019. “I believe it’s going to be a extremely good mixture of giving everybody what they need from the present up to now, and in addition a brand new contemporary present and her at 30, which seems fully completely different.”
The collection hit a roadblock in January 2020 when creator and showrunner Terri Minsky stop. Duff later complained about “limiting the realities of a 30-year-old’s journey beneath the ceiling of a PG ranking” and requested to maneuver the present to Hulu. Nonetheless, the A Cinderella Story actress introduced in July 2020 that she and the streaming platform had “pressed pause” to regroup on their imaginative and prescient.
Duff confirmed in December 2020 that the revival was not shifting ahead.
“I’ve been so honored to have the character of Lizzie in my life. She has made such a long-lasting affect on many, together with myself. To see the followers’ loyalty and love for her, to at the present time, means a lot to me. I do know the efforts and conversations have been in all places making an attempt to make a reboot work however, sadly and regardless of everybody’s finest efforts, it isn’t going to occur,” she introduced by way of Instagram. “I need any reboot of Lizzie to be sincere and genuine to who Lizzie could be as we speak. It’s what the character deserves. We will all take a second to mourn the superb lady she would have been and the adventures we’d have taken together with her. I’m very unhappy, however I promise everybody tried their finest and the celebrities simply didn’t align. Hey now, that is what 2020s made from.”
In August 2022, Duff additional opened up in regards to the scrapped undertaking to Girls’s Well being. “(Lizzie) needed to be 30 years previous doing 30-year-old issues,” the “Coming Clear” singer defined to the journal. “She didn’t should be doing bong rips and having one-night stands on a regular basis, nevertheless it needed to be genuine. I believe they bought spooked.”
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