Justin Berfield Breaks Silence After 20 Years (Malcolm in the Middle Reese Interview)
The Joe Vulpis Podcast
Joe Vulpis
4.9 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2026
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Justin's very first podcast! I want to give a warm welcome and a HUGE thank you to Justin for sharing incredible stories of our favorite show from childhood, Malcolm in the Middle! Justin Berfield is an American actor and producer best known for playing Reese, the mischievous older brother on Malcolm in the Middle. He began acting at a young age and became one of the standout comedic talents of early 2000s television. After his acting career, Berfield transitioned into producing, working behind the scenes on various television projects. Let's see what hes been up to!
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| 0:00.0 | Thanks for doing your first podcast. I know, very first podcast. Every other interview I've done part of this was like a, it's like a magazine or like a TV segment. We're not going to fourth this season. We always knew we were coming back. Then when we got to the seventh season, we kind of had the idea that this is probably it, even though I think they left the sets up for like five months afterwards because there's a chance they might bring us back. |
| 0:23.6 | So you just blithely gave away your government issue rucksack and poncho? |
| 0:28.4 | Well, the pack I figured I could eventually get off a dead guy. And the poncho? Come on. Does it look |
| 0:32.9 | like rain to you? I think they hired Frankie first. And then I think Eric and I were next. |
| 0:39.8 | I'm not sure where Chris, and I think Jane was, like, very early on, casted. |
| 0:45.6 | And then Brian wasn't cast until we'd already started filming. |
| 0:50.6 | It's not even a school night. I can stay up. |
| 0:52.5 | You really think you're old enough? |
| 0:53.6 | I totally am. Well, if you really think so. Part of the show, I hadn't seen him for like 10 years. Really? And then like, then we saw each other like on set, like the first day and it was like, it was awesome it feel like no are you ready to start yeah let's |
| 1:11.0 | start did it feel like no time passed absolutely like it it felt like a really just a really long hiatus |
| 1:17.8 | so like you know when we were filmed in the show you'd you'd film for like eight months and then |
| 1:22.6 | you'd take like two three months off and then you kind of like go back you do like some things again |
| 1:27.3 | and start seeing everyone and then that was of like go back and do like some things again and start |
| 1:27.7 | seeing everyone and then that was like your year for seven years straight and then when we did |
| 1:32.7 | this it was obviously it was like 20 years since we'd see each other for most of us and you just |
| 1:40.6 | kind of it it felt like time stopped like we just got right back into it and then there's new characters which is kind of, it felt like time stopped. Like we just got right back into it. |
| 1:45.7 | And then there's new characters, which is kind of cool. |
| 1:48.0 | Like, so there's like a different element there. |
| 1:49.7 | But yeah, I felt like nothing really, I feel like nothing really changed. |
| 1:53.9 | Except like now like Frankie and I have like and Chris have like kids running around. |
| 1:58.6 | It's like on set. |
| 1:59.3 | It was like a bunch of like little kids. |
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