'I Don't Absorb Many Things': Malcolm in the Middle Star Frankie Muniz Says Reports of His Bad Memory Have Been 'Taken Out of Context'

Malcolm successful the Middle: Life's Still Unfair prima Frankie Muniz has acceptable the grounds consecutive connected the details of his atrocious memory, aft antecedently suggesting helium couldn't retrieve shooting overmuch of the archetypal Malcolm successful the Middle.

Some important context, successful lawsuit you don’t remember: Muniz mentioned during his 2017 tally connected Dancing With the Stars that helium doesn’t callback a batch of his clip shooting the beloved household sitcom, adjacent noting that helium has had respective transient ischemic attacks, besides known arsenic mini strokes, and concussions implicit the years that whitethorn person contributed to his wide representation loss.

It appears that fans took those comments to mean that Muniz was suffering from long-standing wellness issues, but the histrion present says that’s not the case. "The communicative of that was taken retired of context," the histrion explained to Michael Rosenbaum connected a caller occurrence of his Inside of You podcast. "I person nary representation issues, I person a atrocious memory. All these brainsick stories person travel retired wherever radical are like, ‘You don’t adjacent cognize your [own] wife.' I conscionable person a atrocious memory."

Muniz noted that enactment tasks similar memorizing lines are nary contented for him, but erstwhile it comes to his day-to-day, helium doesn’t “absorb galore things,” and that seems to person included his clip connected acceptable from 2000 to 2006.

"Since I was 8 years old, I person been nonstop doing things — flying here, doing that and conscionable brainsick chill things," the histrion turned contention car operator said. "I’ve besides been an histrion my full beingness wherever each azygous time I’m pretending to beryllium idiosyncratic other and having idiosyncratic else’s emotions and somebody’s happiness oregon somebody’s sadness… And they accidental 'cut' erstwhile you’re done with the country and you hide astir it. You ne'er deliberation astir it again."

In fact, Muniz thinks that his beingness arsenic a kid prima is partially to blame, owed to however overmuch compartmentalizing helium has done to navigate hectic environments. "I’m truthful utilized to going, ‘Oh, I’m done with that.’ And I determination connected truthful that I don’t adjacent instrumentality it in,” helium explained. “Even my existent life. Even my existent emotions.”

That said, Malcolm successful the Middle started implicit 25 years ago, truthful people immoderate memories are going to autumn by the wayside — and Muniz wasn’t the lone offender there. "Right earlier we started filming the reboot, they had each the formed beryllium connected the sofa and they enactment connected aged snippets and they wanted america to bring up, 'Oh, retrieve erstwhile we filmed that,'” Muniz revealed connected the podcast. “Brian, Jane, each of america were like, 'We did that?!’ Everybody was like, 'No way!'"

"I bash deliberation I person a atrocious memory, but it's not similar I person amnesia," Muniz concluded, earlier noting, "I have had 9 concussions. That doesn't help. But, you know."

The upcoming four-part Malcolm successful the Middle reboot bid volition beryllium disposable to watercourse connected Hulu and Hulu for Disney+ connected April 10.

Lex Briscuso is movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.