Jane Kaczmarek never stopped being Lois. She told me almost everything the Malcolm in the Middle matriarch did was something she might have done herself under the circumstances. Holding Reese’s face over broken glass was the exception. “I would have put it in dog poop.”
Now she’s back with Bryan Cranston for Malcolm in the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair, while also reflecting on Erik Per Sullivan’s decision not to return, finding fulfillment in a church-basement production, and learning that actors don’t need Broadway or Netflix to find what they love about the work.
Jane Kaczmarek on Returning to Malcolm in the Middle, The Boroughs, and Knowing When You’re Good
