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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Why Malcolm in the Middle’s Original ‘Dewey’ Erik Per Sullivan Didn’t return for the Reboot · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: We're closing in on the arrival of one of the
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  Speaker 2: most anticipated reboots in years, Malcolm in the Middle Life's
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  Speaker 2: Still Unfair. Impressive. They've managed to get the entire cost
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  Speaker 2: to come back and return, but one no mission, one
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  Speaker 2: glaring omission.
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  Speaker 3: M Eric Persullivan, who played Malcolm's little brother Dewey, could
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  Speaker 3: not be pulled out of retirement, but it does.
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  Speaker 4: Sound like producers didn't just let him say no without
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  Speaker 4: giving him everything they had.
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  Speaker 2: Jane Kusmarrick, who plays Lois aka Mom, tells The Guardian
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  Speaker 2: they offered him buckets of money to come back. He
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  Speaker 2: was like, Nope, not doing it.
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  Speaker 3: But let's give Dewey some extra credit because the reason
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  Speaker 3: he did pass on it was because he's going to Harvard.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he's going to Harvard to study classic literature like
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  Speaker 4: Dickens and Shakespeare.
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  Speaker 2: So while Eric does that, which is pretty impressive, Caleb
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  Speaker 2: Ellsworth Clark has stepped in to inherit the role of
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  Speaker 2: Dewey with Eric's blessing. Malcolm in the Middle Life Still
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  Speaker 2: Unfair premieres on Hulu and Disney Plus tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.