Frankie Muniz says moving to Arizona saved his life after Hollywood

Frankie Muniz says buying and selling Los Angeles for Arizona modified every thing.

The 40-year-old actor, who rose to fame as one in all Hollywood’s highest-paid little one stars, informed Fox Information Digital that leaving Los Angeles gave him perspective he did not have earlier than. Muniz spent a few years in LA, together with starring in ‘Malcolm within the Center’, earlier than transitioning to racing full-time.

“I say that shifting from Los Angeles to Arizona saved my life within the sense that I actually began to benefit from the little facets of life. I spotted that I left my home feeling like I used to be simply trying down on a regular basis. And after I moved to Arizona, I began trying up.”

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Frankie Muniz mentioned the transfer to Arizona helped him get pleasure from life extra. (Chris Graythen/Getty Photographs)

Muniz mentioned the slower tempo in Arizona helped him reconnect with on a regular basis life in a means LA by no means allowed.

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“I imply, going to the shop, similar to simply doing stuff, was lots simpler. Los Angeles was simply actually hectic and busy, and everybody in Hollywood was attempting to be seen or no matter it was, and it simply actually wasn’t my factor.”

Muniz mentioned Arizona supplied a way of normalcy he could not discover in LA, the place the tradition typically saved him indoors and disconnected from on a regular basis life.

He defined, “Transferring to Arizona undoubtedly allowed me to… it made me wish to do extra regular issues, if that is smart. I discovered myself simply staying at my home in Los Angeles except I needed to go to work. I simply did not actually wish to go away.”

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Muniz is one in all many celebrities who’ve left Hollywood for a extra non-public, simplified household life. He now enjoys desert life in Arizona together with his spouse Paige and their four-year-old son Mauz. As he put it, “It was the little issues that grew to become, ‘Oh wait, that is really what life is. That is what life is meant to be.’ And I simply fell in love with it.”

Muniz additionally shared a childhood story that formed his connection to Arizona lengthy earlier than he lived there.

“That is going to sound actually creepy, however I’ll inform you the story that I do not assume I’ve ever informed in public.”

Whereas filming “My Canine Skip” as a toddler in New Orleans, he visited the French Quarter together with his household.

“We had been within the French Quarter and all of us had our palms learn,” he mentioned, explaining that through the studying he heard one thing that caught with him for years.

Frankie Muniz performed Malcolm within the 2000s sitcom “Malcolm within the Center” alongside Christopher Masterson, Erik Per Sullivan, Bryan Cranston and Justin Berfield. (Vince Bucci/Getty Photographs)

“The person learn my palm and mentioned, ‘Do you wish to know who you had been in your previous life?’… He mentioned I used to be a choose within the previous Southwest and defended the Indians.”

Muniz had by no means been west of the Mississippi River on the time, however the prediction was shortly reversed when he lastly set foot in Arizona.

“From the second I got here to Arizona for the primary time, I felt like I needed to be there.”

Immediately, he says that feeling hasn’t modified.

“I really like the desert, I really like the climate… Each time I go away my home, I am completely happy to be the place I’m as a result of I simply love the place I reside.”

As soon as he settled in Arizona, Muniz began serious about what he needed the following chapter of his profession to appear to be — together with whether or not racing, which he first began in 2006, nonetheless match into it.

“Effectively, a giant a part of the rationale I began racing once more was due to my son,” he mentioned.

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“I believe most individuals are normally the alternative,” he mentioned. “Like, they’re slowing down, you recognize, they’ve a child, they’re like, ‘Oh, I do not wish to… promote the bikes,’ you recognize, like I do not wish to do something harmful.”

For Muniz, the change occurred the second he held his new child for the primary time.

“However I used to be holding my son within the hospital the day he was born. And I checked out him, I had a really unusual thought: Who will my son develop up considering his father is, or what am I doing.”

He mentioned he realized his complete profession in performing, music and enterprise was residing up to now tense.

Frankie Muniz throughout follow for the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Collection Baptist Well being 200 at Homestead-Miami Speedway on March 21, 2025 in Homestead, Florida. (James Gilbert/Getty Photographs)

“The whole lot I had completed was in my previous. You recognize, I used to be an actor, I used to be in a band, I raced vehicles, I owned these corporations, no matter it was.”

He continued, “However I needed him to see me working actually, actually arduous for one thing that is not straightforward, proper? The truth that only a few folks really get to that stage after which have success at that stage is difficult. And I made a decision proper then and there that I needed to get again into racing.”

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Muniz mentioned he hopes his son sees each the trouble and honesty behind his profession decisions.

“I take advantage of it as inspiration, to be a job mannequin for him, but additionally for him,” he mentioned. “I would like him to develop up and see what arduous work and dedication can do for you. Nothing is straightforward about what I do, however I’ll present him that.”

For now, his son is totally on board.

“Proper now he likes daddy being a race automotive driver.”

Frankie Muniz poses together with his spouse Paige and their son Mauz. (Ethan Miller/Getty Photographs)

The NASCAR and GT4 America driver admitted that he thought final 12 months could be his “final 12 months of racing,” explaining that the game requires greater than folks would possibly assume.

“Placing within the time, the trouble and every thing that goes into being a full-time racing driver is way more than simply displaying up on the monitor… It truly is a full-time job,” he mentioned.

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However every thing modified after his final race of the season.

“I had that final race in Phoenix, and I believed, there isn’t any means that is it. There isn’t any means I am completed,” he mentioned. “I’ve means an excessive amount of unfinished enterprise within the racing world.”

Now he’s making ready for the busiest season of his profession.

“I’ve 42 races deliberate for subsequent 12 months, so will probably be a really busy schedule, however I am very excited.”

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