Folks have been dreaming of a Lizzie McGuire revival virtually because the present ended, and lately it is begun to look like a risk. Hilary Duff has stated she’s on board, and outdated exhibits are getting new reboots each different day. However it nonetheless hasn’t occurred. Do not quit hope! Duff hasn’t but.
On a latest episode of Watch What Occurs Reside, she instructed host Andy Cohen that she would “after all” nonetheless be all the way down to do a brand new tackle the present. Cohen needed to know why a earlier try at Disney+ failed some time in the past, and Duff had a diplomatic response.
“Disney+ was very new, you already know,” she stated. “And I feel they have been like determining their — and we have been determining our — and like, and so — I’m optimistic.”
When the primary try was axed in 2020, Duff was a bit much less peppy in regards to the prospects.
“I do know efforts and conversations have been making an attempt all over the place to make a reboot work however, sadly and regardless of everybody’s finest efforts, it is not going to occur,” she wrote on the time on Instagram. “I would like any reboot of Lizzie to be sincere and genuine to who Lizzie can be at the moment. It is what the character deserves. We will all take a second to mourn the superb girl she would have been and the adventures we might have taken along with her. I am very unhappy, however I promise everybody tried their finest and the celebrities simply did not align.”
The actress actually cares about her “imaginative and prescient” of what the brand new McGuire can be, since it’s a character very near her coronary heart. When issues did not work out with Disney+, she reached out to Hulu to request they choose up the present as a substitute to keep away from “limiting the realities for a 30-year-old’s journey to dwell below the ceiling of a PG score.”
That is undoubtedly a model of Lizzie McGuire lots of people wish to see, like all of the 30-year-old followers who grew up with Lizzie to start with.
Aimée Lutkin is the weekend editor at ELLE.com. Her writing has appeared in Jezebel, Glamour, Marie Claire and extra. Her first guide, The Lonely Hunter, shall be launched by Dial Press in February 2022.
