Malcolm in the Middle’s Frankie Muniz is setting the record straight. He is clarifying a comment he made about his memory loss.
Frankie starred in the hit sitcom for seven years, up until 2006. He is also a professional race car driver.
The actor says he has “a bad memory” but “not memory issues”
On the Tuesday, April 7 episode of Michael Rosenbaum’s Inside of You podcast, Frankie discussed past comments he made about his memory. “Just to bring up the memory thing a little bit, almost to clear the air. The story of that was taken out of context in a sense. I have — not memory issues — I have a bad memory.”
He refuted this, saying his memory is good as it must be when learning his lines. “This is now years of trying to figure out why I don’t absorb so many things,” he said. “Well, since I was 8 years old, I have been non-stop doing things, flying here and doing that and just crazy cool things. And then I’ve also been an actor my whole life, where every single day, I’m pretending to be somebody else and having somebody else’s emotions and somebody’s happiness or somebody’s sadness or somebody’s anger or someone’s love interest and all these things.”
Frankie says after a scene is done, he tends to forget about it. “And I almost feel like some of it has to do with the fact that I’m so used to just going, ‘Done with that,’ and moving on that I don’t even recall. I don’t even take it in,” he explained.
And though he doesn’t attribute racing injuries to memory loss, Frankie admits it could be a factor. “It’s not like I’ve got amnesia,” he said. “I have had nine concussions. That doesn’t help.”
He also noted his memory issues may be because he’s detail-oriented. “I’ll watch episodes and I’ll be like, ‘Whoa, I don’t remember that episode. I don’t remember what happens,’” he admitted. He equates it to forgetting irrelevant high school phases.
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