One other Disney Channel success story! Hilary Duff’s breakout function on Lizzie McGuire yielded years of success for the actress that continues at the moment, 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 woman 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 sequence, 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 greater shoe funds. She has her dream job, the proper 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 proper man, who owns a elaborate restaurant [and is] on the point of have fun her thirtieth birthday.”
Duff elaborated on her pleasure round revisiting the character through 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 all people’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 challenge, whereas the “So Yesterday” singer teased what followers might count on from the revival.
“Her having a totally completely different life than Hilary — she doesn’t have children — I assumed it might 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 prior to now, and likewise a brand new recent present and her at 30, which seems to be utterly completely different.”
The sequence 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 an enduring 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 through Instagram. “I need any reboot of Lizzie to be sincere and genuine to who Lizzie can be at the moment. It’s what the character deserves. We are able to all take a second to mourn the wonderful girl she would have been and the adventures we might 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 manufactured from.”
In August 2022, Duff additional opened up in regards to the scrapped challenge 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 must be doing bong rips and having one-night stands on a regular basis, but it surely needed to be genuine. I believe they bought spooked.”
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