Lizzie McGuire star Hilary Duff: Disney should've listened to me
Lizzie McGuire star Hilary Duff feels Disney were "a little scared" to revive the 2000s comedy TV series, and she believes the company should have "listened" to her when it came to a potential reboot.
Hilary Duff feels Disney were "a little scared" to revive Lizzie McGuire, but she thinks they should have "listened" to her.
The 38-year-old star feels "sad" that the planned revival of her beloved Disney Channel show was scrapped, because she wanted to see what her titular character was like "grown up".
Speaking to i-D magazine, she said: "I’m sad [those ideas] are going to waste, but maybe I feel slightly happy because I don’t know if I would have made music a priority. But I’m sad that we didn’t get to explore what her life would be like now. I have a great relationship with Disney, so no disrespect, but I feel like they should have listened to me.
"I’m the age of the people that would watch this, and I know what they would want.
"It wasn’t like I wanted something crazy, but I wanted her to be grown up.
"I think they were a little scared."
However, Hilary hasn't completely ruled out a reboot of the show - which also featured Adam Lamberg, Jake Thomas, and Hallie Todd - in the future.
But, now, she would want to wait a couple of decades before stepping into the character's shoes again.
She said: "I feel like I wouldn’t do it at 40, but I might do it at 60."
Hilary recently claimed Disney weren't "willing" to embrace Lizzie in her 30s.
She told Jake Shane's Therapuss podcast: "I think that there was just disagreements on how far we could take [Lizzie] and where she is, as you know, she would have been when we were filming that 30 or 31.
“And for me, I was that age and so I just also felt so deeply connected to her as a character because we were the same...
“And I was like, oh, man, we can’t Mary Tyler Moore her that’s not, I don’t know, it was 2023. You know what I mean?
“There’s social media and we weren’t I wasn’t trying to have her wake up and do bong rips or anything, but she was a normal 30-year-old, you know?
"So, there was some things I think they just weren’t like, totally willing to go there.”
