Fans of Nickelodeon’s smash hit series iCarly will no doubt remember Jennette McCurdy, who played series regular Sam Puckett.
But McCurdy, 28, doesn’t remember her time on the show all too fondly, revealing she’s “ashamed” of her past acting career in a recent episode of a podcast she hosts called Empty Inside.
The US actress also confirmed she will not be returning for the upcoming sequel season of iCarly, which was ordered last year.
“My experience with acting is, I’m so ashamed of the parts I’ve done in the past,” she said.
“I resent my career in a lot of ways. I feel so unfulfilled by the roles that I played and felt like it was the most cheesy, embarrassing.”
Alongside McCurdy, iCarly also starred Miranda Cosgrove (Carly Shay) in the titular role from 2007 to 2012, with the series streaming locally on Binge.
The actors were some of the highest paid teenagers on television, with Cosgrove earning a whopping $220,000 per episode, second only to Two And A Half Men actor August T. Jones, who was making $320,000.
McCurdy reportedly earned $65,000 per episode during her time on the series.
Her popular character was later spun off in the Nick series Sam & Cat, which launched the career of pop star Ariana Grande (Cat).
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“I did the shows that I was on from like 13 to 21, and by 15, I was already embarrassed,” McCurdy recalled.
“My friends at 15, they’re not like, ‘Oh, cool, you’re on this Nickelodeon show.’
“It was embarrassing. And I imagine there’s a very different experience to be had with acting if you’re proud of your roles, and if you feel fulfilled by them.”
Talking to Anna Faris, a guest on Empty Inside, McCurdy said she’d ultimately quit acting in favour of taking on more writing and directing work.
“It’s going great. I quit a few years ago because I initially didn’t want to do it,” she said.
“My family didn’t have a lot of money,” said McCurdy, whose mother encouraged her to begin acting as young as age six. “This was the way out, which I actually think was helpful in driving me to some degree of success.”
McCurdy said that “always, always, always, acting was difficult for me”.
“Once I started to get the nerves under control was when I started to actually get some traction, but I ultimately quit after my mum passed away because with her death kind of died a lot of her ideas for my life, and that was its own journey, and a difficult one for sure,” she said.
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She also talked about one of her most painful memories of acting – when she was passed over for a part in the 2005 film Because Of Winn-Dixie, around age 13, because casting agents thought she was too “homely” for the role.
When Faris asked if she’d ever act again, McCurdy confirmed that she bowed out of acting following the debut of her highly personal solo live show I’m Glad My Mom Died in February last year.
“I wrote this one-woman show, and I performed that, and I really did not want to because of the nerves. Because of feeling like I don’t want to f***ing act anymore,” she said.
But she wouldn’t say “never,” offering that the right director might be able to coax her back on set.
“I feel like I have a point of view, and I have a vision. We’ll see where things are in a few years,” McCurdy said.
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