Hannah Montana star Mitchel Musso turned down an offer to join Miley Cyrus’ 20th anniversary special, saying that “it wasn’t the right thing.” Musso played Miley Stewart‘s friend Oliver Oken on the Disney Channel sitcom. During his recent podcast appearance, which was also his first, the actor opened up about why the televised reunion event disappointed him.
Mitchel Musso explains why he didn’t return for Hannah Montana Special
Mitchel Musso, who starred as Miley Stewart’s friend Oliver Oken on the Disney Channel sitcom Hannah Montana, opened up about why he turned down the offer to join Miley Cyrus’ 20th anniversary special, which became a hit on Disney+.
In his first-ever podcast appearance on The Joe Vulpis Podcast, Musso expressed his disappointment with the reunion.
“Do an episode. Do the show. The set’s still there,” Musso said, expressing his desire for an episode of the show instead of the special. “The kid in me was banking on it, like ‘I can’t wait for us to all be on set again,’” he added. Musso stepped back from the industry over a decade ago. “And it just didn’t work out that way,” he added.
When asked if he was offered a role in the anniversary special, Musso said, “Of course they asked me. But, like I said, it wasn’t presented correctly. … It’s too long of a wait to do it in a way that isn’t even close to, in my opinion, correct.”
“They just did it differently, and it is what it is,” he explained. “It wasn’t the right thing. And I was busy doing something that was more important. But it would have been way more important if it would have just been an episode, or a movie. Of course that would have been more important. That would have been everything. I would have dropped everything, eat, breathe, sleep it.”
The Hannah Montana anniversary special aired on Disney+ in March and reached 6.3 million views during its first three days of streaming.
