Hilary Duff Says A "Lizzie McGuire" Reboot Is Still Possible: "It’s Always Going To Be Somewhat Interesting To People To See Where She Ended Up"

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“I think there’s always a possibility there."

You know Hilary Duff from a LOT of things: How I Met Your Father, Younger, '00s pop hits like "Come Clean"...

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You ALSO know her from the Disney Channel classic show Lizzie McGuire.

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For a while, Lizzie was in talks to be rebooted; unfortunately, the project was stalled at Disney+ in 2020.

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In a new interview, Hilary said a reboot was still possible: "I think there's always a possibility there. And even if she’s 40, I don’t think people care. It’s always going to be somewhat interesting to people to see where she ended up."

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Though she doesn't "love" talking about it because "the internet seems to explode whenever Lizzie stuff is brought up."

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If you'll recall, the reboot didn't happen due to a series of creative differences between the star and Disney+. "I think they’re really trying to figure out what kind of content they want living on Disney+," Hilary said on SiriusXM last year. "That doesn’t totally align with where I see Lizzie right now. I’m, like, very protective of her, and they’re very protective of her."

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When the revival was scrapped, the mom of three wrote on Instagram: "I know efforts and conversations have been everywhere trying to make a reboot work but, sadly and despite everyone’s best efforts, it isn’t going to happen."

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"I want any reboot of Lizzie to be honest and authentic to who Lizzie would be today. It’s what the character deserves. We can all take a moment to mourn the amazing woman she would have been and the adventures we would have taken with her. I’m very sad, but I promise everyone tried their best, and the stars just didn’t align."

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For now, we'll have to make do with the plot from the scrapped Lizzie revival pilot, which Hilary recently described to Cosmopolitan: "My character was moving back home with her parents because she caught her soon-to-be fiancé cheating on her, and she was falling flat on her face at the moment and being like, ‘I need to pivot because everything that I thought was wasn’t, and I’m turning 30. What the fuck?'"

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