Mitchel Musso opens up on what Hannah Montana cost him

Musso said his favourite Hannah Montana memory is the lifelong bond he built with Miley Cyrus and Emily Osment.

Mitchel Musso has admitted that he lost out on several opportunities because of his Hannah Montana contract with Disney, reflecting on a defining but restrictive chapter of his early career.
The 34 year old actor and singer appeared on the Wednesday, June 24 episode of The Joe Vulpis Podcast, where he opened up about turning down various offers while Hannah Montana aired on Disney Channel from March 25, 2006, to January 16, 2011.
Musso, who played Oliver Oken, the best friend of the titular character played by Miley Cyrus, said all the cast members made career sacrifices because of how big the show became. “I don’t know if you could have done anything bigger than Hannah when Hannah was on, right? That was bigger than life,” he said.
He explained that the show’s exclusivity with Disney limited what the cast could pursue elsewhere. “I’m sure there were things that were offered to my agency, but it was impossible to do it because we were so locked in with Disney. If it wasn’t a DCOM, a Disney Channel Original Movie, then we couldn’t do it,” the Pair of Kings star shared.
When asked to share his most treasured memory from the set, Musso said the bond he formed with his co-stars, particularly Cyrus and Emily Osment, remains something he will cherish forever. “It was the cast. Like this is our middle school, high school, college. This was our formative years. We graduated a class of three. It was just me, Miley, and Emily, right? So it was everything to us,” he said.