oisheeshemontee Sat May 15, 2010 5:04 pm
Nathan Kress, or as most of us know him as the nerdy tech-producer, Freddie, on iCarly, is no one [none] other than a regular teenager. There are a lot of things we don’t know about him, and a lot of things we want to find out.
This all [specify what - his acting career] started when Nathan was about three years old. [He "did a few jobs..."] “[He] did a few small jobs here and there,” but nothing that would get him hooked on acting. He started going to regular school after a few years, but, in fifth grade, he started to be [began performing] in some of his school’s productions, which introduced him to acting again. Finally, in sixth grade, he went back into the acting business, and here we are now!
The first TV appearance he had when [His first TV appearance after] he went into acting a second time was playing a young Simon Cowell in a sketch on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
Now, as you all know, he is on the Nickelodeon show iCarly. “One of [his] favorite things about being in the cast is that we’re able to make a show that a lot of people like!” Although acting and making a show that people like is fun, Nathan agreed that “it’s tough to put your mind to both schooling and acting” and that “the most important thing is time management.”
You may be wondering what it would be like to be an actor/actress on a hit TV show. Well, this would be your typical week:
Monday: The script is handed out and all the actors, producers, writers, and whoever else, sit around a table and read the whole entire script. Then rehearsal takes place the rest of the day.
Tuesday: More rehearsal, then they have a “run- through.” During a run-through, the cast acts out the entire episode so that the writers can make any necessary changes to the script.
Wednesday: More rehearsal and another run-through, but everything thing is more polished and lines are mostly memorized and all the props are set out.
Thursday and Friday: Shooting days!
Luckily, [they "all get along on set"] “[they] all get along on set,” because they spend a lot of time together! But, “[he hangs] out with Jennette (Sam) the most, since we have the most in common.”
His favorite episode of iCarly is “iEnrage Gibby.” For those of you who haven’t seen this episode, it’s the one where Gibby has a girlfriend and he thinks Freddie tried to kiss her. Nathan continued saying that [he's "not sure why, but that [episode] was a blast to shoot"] “[he’s] not sure why, but that [episode] was a blast to shoot.”
After all this, Nathan responded saying “he’s got the best job in the world!”