‘Malcolm In The Middle’ Revival Offered Erik Per Sullivan “Buckets Of Money” To Return, Says Jane Kaczmarek: “He's studying Dickens and is an incredible student. They offered him buckets of money to come back, and he just said, ‘No thank you.’”

It was picked up on, they asked him to take the gifted test just like Malcolm and he almost certainly would've ended up in the Krelboyne class if he didn't get Reese to take the test for him which landed him in the class with the troubled kids.

All of the kids were a savant in something. Dewey had music, Reese had cooking, Francis was a born rebel, and Malcolm had general intelligence that crippled him socially

It's always fun when an actor is still loving a role they had even long after it came out. I remember seeing Malcolm McDowell in an interview, and they hesitantly mentioned about how much they loved A Clockwork Orange, like they were sure he was sick of hearing about it. But he starts reciting whole monologues from it and talking about it enthusiastically. It was a great

\*points to the college babes watching his movie\* I'm flocking... I'm flocking this way. - kid probably.

No shame in that. The guy that played Chunk (Jeff Cohen) in the Goonies went to ~~USC or UCLA~~ Berkeley and would get up in front of the student section during football games to do the truffle shuffle. And the kids went nuts. College is fun. Edit: thank you u/samandfrodo

The dislike of being seen as your one most famous role seems more common for TV show and Video Game actors. Like I think of Steven Ogg who played Trevor in GTA V, he famously kinda hates being seen just as Trevor, I wonder if it's because him, other video game actors, and TV show actors get recognized a lot, but usually not by their name, almost always by their character name. Versus movie actors where you'll probably forget a characters name but you'll remember that George Clooney played him. I'd like to think I'd be appreciative of any recognition by fans, but I can also understand how it could be very annoying to hear "DEWEY!!" or "TREVOR!!" forever.

I’d do the same thing

lol he posted from his nephew’s dinosaur themed birthday party a few years ago about how his family doesn’t care about his PTSD 😆

Tobi McGuire is my favorite Spider-man after Tammi Hall and Andi Garfunkel

What a great guy

Really seems like an amazing dude who was able to have some life changing roles. I think lots of people have benefited from him, even if he did convert to Judaism just for the jokes.

honestly believe Rupert is just waiting to age into becoming the first Ginger Doctor

Justin belfield aka Reese didn't know that Malcolm in the middle was big in Mexico until the revival when Frankie just said, "Welp, I am off for a bit to go to Mexico for a con." Then he reached out to the convention people in Mexico, how would the Mexican people would like if he visit one of the cons? The guy got back to him like, are you kidding? We would love you in Mexico. We just didn't know how to reach you. He is planned to visit mexico in April.

Being one of the main actors in HP would be a VERY different level than this role though. At any point in MitM, they COULD just write Dewey off of the show. You absolutely can't do that with Ron, which definitely affects the negotiations. That being said, for a show that goes that long (7 seasons), he would've been making very good money by the end. He likely would've made in the low 7 figures (total) by the end of the series.

Nickelodeon doesn't pay residuals to the kids who played in their shows. Devon Werkheiser (Ned from Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide) talks about this, as do the actors who played Drake and Josh. Neither of them got ever residuals from appearing in their respective shows. Malcolm in the Middle however does pay the kid actors residuals. Frankie Muniz talked on a podcast about still getting checks from the show, albeit smaller ones these days. So I'm assuming that goes for all of them.

Actor here. All actors working under a SAG network television contract get residuals. It doesn’t matter your age. Before streaming, residuals were very good. I did a co-star on Malcolm in the Middle a long time ago. I was paid SAG scale, which at the time was around $900 for the day. Since then I’ve made roughly $12k in residuals over the years. Every time my episode plays on cable television I make a small amount of money. And it plays fairly regularly in reruns. These actors will continue to make tons of money in residuals as long as the show airs on television, sells DVDs, etc. However, when it went to streaming services I get a big fat zero in residuals.

It depends on their contracts. I'm sure some do.

I don’t know the actual rules but the show was very popular and ran for quite a while. He’d have the worst agent in history if he didn’t leave with some kind of residuals

Nick and Disney network contracts worked differently than network tv contacts. But also they don’t license their shows out for syndication and more often than not ended shows before they hit syndication mark which is 100 episodes where popular CBS/NBC/ABC/FOX do or did run for 100 or more episodes so the show gets licensed out to other television stations to run the reruns which the actors gets a cut from the syndication. Not sure how much is the case anymore but The Friends cast got just as much from syndication residuals years after the show ended as they did on the last season because it was on 100’s of stations both local and cable across the country at the same time. The adult actors that worked on the Nick and Disney shows get some residuals but not much so if the former child actors did get residuals it would not be much

And he's probably swimming in Christmas with the Kranks residuals.

Elizabeth Olsen could've played the role in their place. :P

I guess I havent seen it shaved? He has hair, just not spiked because it's not 2005 anymore lol.

You need to see his recent podcast appearance and not rely on that one photo. He looks good, speaks well and is exactly like Reese. I feel bad for all the comments after that unfortunate picture now

I think it depends on your age and who you relate to the most.

I am absolutely loving the projects that Daniel Radcliffe chooses to do.  And his coming round the mountain scene in Miracle Workers is on another level.

"Dewey died on the way back to his home planet."

Like the fuller house reboot constantly breaking the fourth wall to directly address the Olsen twins

Thanks for the knowledge friend I’ll remember this

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcxcVOorhJ0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcxcVOorhJ0) I wasn't looking for an opportunity to post this, but there it is.