Josh Peck and Drake Bell.Photo: Nickelodeon
Josh Peckis getting candid about how much he really made while working onDrake & Josh.
On Dear Media’sTrading Secretspodcast Monday, the 35-year-old actor spoke about his salary on the Nickelodeon hit, and said the payday wasn’t as much as fans might expect. TheHow I Met Your Fatherstar acted alongsideDrake Bellon the sitcom for four seasons, which aired from 2004 to 2007.
“I think it’s quite public that if you were on a show likeTwo and a Half MenorModern Family, and you were the kid on a massive network, syndicated show –– the case could be made that you’d have enough money to last you for the rest of your life,” Peck told hostJason Tartick.
Peck said his lifestyle after the show was “very middle-class,” despite his early fame. “You live with about $450,000 over five years, which breaks down to a little less than $100,000 a year — now, certainly a great amount of money, but not enough to set you up for life,” the actor explained.
“And a lot of it, we lived on, and I’m not gonna brag: My mom and I had a used BMW 5 series. We lived in a two-bedroom apartment with amenities,” he added.
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Peck further argued that the idea of a “golden parachute” for most child stars is also an industry myth.
“But, the reality is that when we were making the show, we did 60 episodes and we made about $15,000 an episode. So, when all is said and done, we were sort of left after agents and managers and taxes,” he said.
AfterDrake & Joshwrapped, Peck added that the money he made at the time “went to their lifestyles when the show was over.” He also clarified that he didn’t net residual checks since there are “no residuals on kids' television.”
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Josh Peck (left) and Drake Bell.Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images; Paul Archuleta/Getty Images
“It was like we had 18 months of runway, you know,” he shared. “It’s as though someone had lost their job.”
Peck also recently addressed where he stands today with Bell, 35, when his former onscreen partner’s name came up during a “word association” game on theBFFs with Dave Portnoy and Josh Richardspodcast in March.
“I get married to my wife and I marry this good Irish Catholic girl. … We have this small wedding,” Peck said on the podcast. “The dirty little secret I guess was like, I knew that Drake and I didn’t stay in touch for the 10 years since we had made the show. But no one needed to know that. Like, I was happy to just die with that secret that we made this thing that people really love but maybe we weren’t that close. So I didn’t invite him to my wedding because I hadn’t really talked to him in many, many years.”
source: people.com
