iCarly Season 2 Cast Reacts to Josh Peck’s Role

The cast of the iCarly reboot have shared their reactions to Josh Peck joining the cast of season 2 in a guest star role. iCarly originally aired on Nickelodeon from 2007 through 2012, following Miranda Cosgrove as Carly Shay, who hosts a wacky web series with her best friend Sam. At the time, Cosgrove was best known for playing Megan Parker, Drake’s judgmental little sister on the sitcom Drake & Josh. Even though she was younger than the titular stepbrothers (played by Drake Bell and Peck), she constantly got the upper hand over them.

Although Peck has worked consistently since the end of Drake & Josh in 2007, in the past few years his career has experienced a major resurgence. After starring in season 1 of Disney+’s reboot series Turner & Hooch, he landed a role opposite another former teen star, Hilary Duff, in the Hulu series How I Met Your Father. Last month he also released a memoir titled Happy People Are Annoying in addition to being cast in Christopher Nolan’s new movie Oppenheimer. The cherry on top of his rising stardom is this reunion with Cosgrove, who he hasn’t worked with since 2010.

Screen Rant had the opportunity to sit down with the cast of iCarly season 2 ahead of the premiere of the iCarly reboot episode 1 and 2 on Paramount+. The actors were given the chance to react to Peck’s appearance on the show. Cosgrove was delighted by the reunion, reminiscing that she first met Peack when she was eight, and that doing a scene with both him and Nathan Kress was “fun to get to see two people that I pretty much grew up with act together.” Kress also chimed in, saying that Peck’s role was “a dream come true” for him as a Drake & Josh fan. Jerry Trainor, who also starred on Drake & Josh, joked that Kress “still gets starstruck” by him. Read the iCarly cast’s full quotes below:

Cosgrove: It was so much fun. I first met Josh when I was eight years old. So to have him be on iCarly and play my character, Carly’s, manager, it really felt like a full-circle moment, getting to see him again and act with him. And I love the rivalry between the Freddie character and Josh’s character on the show. It’s really fun to watch. I think that you guys have a lot of chemistry, [Nathan] and Josh. So that was fun to get to see two people that I pretty much grew up with act together.

Kress: It was a dream come true for me because I grew up watching Drake and Josh and he was one of my comedy idols. So getting to be opposite him and improv him a little bit. I got over that with Jerry in season one of the original show, where I was like, “Fine. Crazy Steve. Great.” But Josh, that was that was definitely a dream-come-true for me and then even getting to direct that episode as well was just next-level of exciting for me to be able to have that kind of professional–

Trainor: Nathan’s never gotten over his admiration for me. He still gets starstruck when he sees me, every day.

In the iCarly reboot series, Peck plays a character named Paul, who is Carly’s manager. Although the full details of his involvement have yet to be revealed, the official iCarly season 2 trailer has shown certain details from his episode, including his almost instant friction with Kress’ character, Freddie Benson. This includes humiliating him by having him dress in a chicken suit to help Carly’s show become “the most successful web series in history.”

iCarly has certainly proven that reboots can recapture the sensibility of the original series, while still pushing forward with new storylines. Now, the show is applying the same challenge to Peck, inviting him to recapture the ‘lightning in a bottle’ that was his onscreen chemistry with Cosgrove over a decade ago. From the clips that have already been shown, it seems like hardly any time has passed at all, which will certainly delight fans of both Drake & Josh and iCarly.

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