United Kingdom, Nov. 6 -- Hilary Duff insists Disney weren't "willing" to embrace Lizzie McGuire in her 30s

The 38-year-old actress has opened up on the planned revival of her beloved Disney Channel show, which was scrapped in late 2020 over creative differences between the star and producers.

She told Jake Shane's Therapuss podcast: "I think that there was just disagreements on how far we could take [Lizzie] and where she is, as you know, she would have been when we were filming that 30 or 31.

"And for me, I was that age and so I just also felt so deeply connected to her as a character because we were the same...

"And I was like, oh, man, we can't Mary Tyler Moore her that's not, I don't know, it was 2023. You know what I mean?

"The...