Josh Peck
Josh Peck
Joshua Michael "Josh" Peckis an American actor. He is best known for playing Josh Nichols in the Nickelodeon live-action sitcom Drake & Josh. He began his career as a child actor in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and became known to young audiences after his role on The Amanda Show. He has since acted in films such as Mean Creek, Drillbit Taylor, The Wackness, ATM, and Red Dawn, along with voicing Eddie in the Ice Age franchise. He also...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth10 November 1986
CountryUnited States of America
I think as working actors, it's like sales. You're only as good as your last sale, so you put your all into something and you just hope that from that you can get your next job.
I don't really understand why I should be a role model but I know that children do look up to me, so it is my responsibility to motivate people and be inspiring. I hope that I can do that for kids.
All the things you can do to prepare for a role that free you, in the moment, are great. You have this muscle memory for things. You don't have to act it as much, once you've done it enough.
When you're an actor or any kind of artist, you use your life as something to draw from in every experience.
Real artists take the misery and sadness of life and translate it into art.
I don't think it's very difficult to bring a virginal, angst-ridden, hip-hop grunting white boy to the screen. Not that I have any experience with that. I don't know man. I understood where his head was at, because he was this 18-year-old cat that thought he was a man, but didn't really know what it meant to be a man.
I know about hip-hop culture, whether it's graffiti writing or DJ-ing or being an MC.
I had to battle it out with all the usual suspects and whatnot and go to the callback. I was lucky that (writer-director) John (Levine) and I were sort of these two white-boy hip-hop-heads from New York. I think that alone got me in the door.
I grew up as a really sick kid; I had really bad childhood asthma and was at home all the time in New York.
To me, there's nothing greater than making people laugh.
I do work too hard sometimes, but my mom is such an inspiration. She tells me to 'chill out' and not take things so seriously. She will say: 'Go and have a massage.
I'm not built for war. I'm built for entertainment. I'm built for jokes - either telling them or being the butt of them.
Gratuitous fat jokes always hurt, no matter what.
I was raised by a single mother.