""We were best friends from 12, 13 years old until then," he told " Page Six" on October 29, following up on his podcast appearance. It began when Muniz guest-starred on Duff's Disney Channel showin 2002. "I was on the set of Lizzie McGuire, and I was in Hilary's dressing room and her mom was there," he said on the podcast. Duff's mom asked what Muniz was working on that summer."
""And I go, 'Oh, I'm filming this movie where I'm playing like a junior James Bond,'" Muniz says Mama Duff got Hilary cast as Natalie Connors by the next morning. (He'd wanted Smallville 's Kristin Kreuk for the part.) "Needless to say, I wasn't thrilled about it. And not because I didn't want it to be Hilary," he continued. "I don't know how much I want to say. I'm trying to think about it because I've already said way too much.""
Frankie Muniz attributes the end of a close childhood friendship with Hilary Duff to Duff's mother intervening to secure Duff the romantic lead, Natalie Connors, in Agent Cody Banks. The sequence began after Muniz guest-starred on Lizzie McGuire in 2002 and spent time in Duff's dressing room, where Duff's mother asked about his summer plans. Muniz reported telling her he was filming a movie in which he played a junior James Bond. Muniz notes the casting decision occurred by the next morning, that he had preferred a different actress, and that he has not spoken to Duff since the last day of filming. Muniz expresses regret for not maintaining the friendship.
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