Hillary Duff just answered a question fans have been dying to get answered after the Lizzie McGuire reboot.
The entire conversation took place while the 38-year-old sat on Jake Shane’s Therapuss podcast and presented one of the most requested takes, about whether McGuire would end up with Adam Lamberg’s character, Gordo.
According to Duff herself, “I think there were just disagreements about how far we could go [Lizzie] and where it is, as you know, it would have been when we were filming this 30th or 31st.”
“And for me, I was that age and so I also felt deeply connected to her as a character because we were the same. And I was like, oh, man, we can’t the Mary Tyler Moore, it’s not, I don’t know, it was 2023. You know what I mean?”
“There’s social media and we weren’t trying to get her to wake up and do bangs or anything, but she was a normal 30-year-old woman, you know? So there were some things that I think they just weren’t like, totally willing to go for.”
The last version of McGuire before this was in 2003, when the series concluded her story via The Lizzie McGuire Movie and featured her kissing Gordo.
However, the actor doesn’t think they would have ended up together because “I don’t think they had a thing. I think they maybe almost had a thing. I know of, again, another swing that didn’t happen. But I think there was an affair with someone else that was very quick.”
“In my mind, I like to think that she finally had a thing with Ethan Craft,” the star concluded by saying.
For those who don’t know, Craft was Lizzie’s middle school crush, played by Clayton Snyder.
