Hilary Duff dishes on the ‘How I Met Your Father’ script and why the ‘Lizzie McGuire’ reboot fell apart
She also told SiriusXM's Jess Cagle about her children's book, 'My Little Brave Girl.'spinoff, her new children's book and why the Lizzie McGuire revamp fell apart.'s co-host Julia Cunningham about the sequel,showrunners Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger."I mean, the script was so good. I literally called and I was like, ‘Please, yes, please have them pick me.
She said the third attempt at rebooting the beloved CBS series that ran from 2005 to 2014 and starred Josh Radnor, Jason Segel, Cobie Smulders and Neil Patrick Harris will definitely take place in New York, even though it's being filmed in Los Angeles."There's great characters and I'm going to get to have another on-set family, and another TV family," said the formerstar.
The 33-year-old singer-actress said it will focus on her character Sophie's experience looking for love and dating in the modern world while she tells her son about how she met his dad. What she was not as psyched to talk about was the attempt to revive the early 2000s Disney Channel series that made her a star.Well that's kind of been the battle.
"It was, like, lovely to relive that even for three weeks of my life, because, you know, there was a point in my life where I couldn't stand Lizzie McGuire," she told Cagle."And I was like, ‘I don't want to hear that name ever again.’ And now that I’m my age, I'm like, 'I love her.' She's, you know, this is where it all began for me. And she is, she is me and I am her. And I brought what I could to that, you know, which was very much just who I am inside.
The singer also talked about her newborn daughter, Mae, and how she's getting on with her kids Banks and Luca. Duff also discusseda her children's book,