“Hannah Montana” star Mitchel Musso revealed he turned down an offer to join Miley Cyrus’ 20th anniversary special because “it wasn’t the right thing.”
The actor, who played Miley Stewart’s pal Oliver Oken on the Disney Channel sitcom, gave his first-ever podcast interview on “The Joe Vulpis Podcast” and expressed disappointment with how the televised reunion event shook out.
In the Disney+ special, Cyrus celebrated 20 years of “Hannah Montana,” shared a sweet moment on a replica of the set with her dad and co-star Billy Ray Cyrus and even performed three songs as Hannah. Musso, who was absent from both the telecast and the premiere event alongside his on-screen girlfriend Emily Osment, said he wishes the special was a reunion episode of “Hannah Montana.”
“Do an episode. Do the show. The set’s still there,” Musso said, referring to the rebuilt sets of the Stewart family living room and Miley’s bedroom that were used in the special.
“The kid in me was banking on it, like ‘I can’t wait for us to all be on set again,'” said the actor, who stepped away from Hollywood 10 years ago. “And it just didn’t work out that way.”
