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\n\t[This story contains spoilers for Netflix\u2018s The Wrong Paris<\/em>.]<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tMiranda Cosgrove is not a new face in Hollywood, but that doesn\u2019t mean there aren\u2019t new sides to her that she\u2019s ready to show.<\/p>\n \n\tThe 32-year-old actress got her start at a young age, starring in the Jack Black-led film School of Rock<\/em> and the Nickelodeon shows Drake & Josh<\/em> and iCarly<\/em>, just to name a few. She tells The Hollywood Reporter<\/em> that once she realized she loved acting, that\u2019s \u201cwhen I started auditioning for parts where the characters were evil or mischievous or really sassy. \u2026 As a kid, it was exciting to get to do these crazier characters.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tFast foward to years later, Cosgrove is now taking everything she learned growing up and leading her first rom-com, Netflix\u2019s The Wrong Paris<\/em>, opposite Pierson Fode. The film follows her character Dawn, who enters a dating show thinking it\u2019s in Paris, France, for an art opportunity, only to discover it is actually in Paris, Texas. But her plans get complicated when she ends up falling for the bachelor.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI\u2019ve never been the lead in a rom-com in my whole life, even though I love the genre and I feel like rom-coms have gotten me through a lot of tough moments in my life,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n \n\tBelow, Cosgrove gets candid about growing up in the industry, why getting cast in The Wrong Paris<\/em> felt like a dream, her favorite scene in the rom-com, whether an iCarly<\/em> movie is really happening and more.<\/p>\n \n\tHow did you first get attached to The Wrong Paris<\/em> and what did you initially think when you read the script?<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tIt kind of fell into place just through meeting people on the other [Netflix] projects and then I\u2019ve never been the lead in a rom-com in my whole life, even though I love the genre and I feel like rom-coms have gotten me through a lot of tough moments in my life. I just feel like they\u2019re comforting and fun, and there\u2019s certain ones like Notting Hill <\/em>where anytime I\u2019m in a funk or something, I\u2019ll just watch that movie and it makes me happy. So I was really excited to get to be a part of it because thinking I could get to be in something that\u00a0maybe could do that for someone feels good. I just love comedy and I like more lighthearted stuff, and I used to watch The Bachelor<\/em> a lot, so the reality show that\u2019s in the movie is most similar to The Bachelor<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tSince the movie features an exaggerated take on real-life dating shows, what was your experience like filming a reality show within a movie?<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tIt was definitely really fun because we would film on the scene like how we would normally film a movie, and then we would film\u00a0[what] we\u2019d call the Honey Pot cam because the reality show, The Honey Pot, in the movie. It\u2019s kind of fun because they got to do crazy, silly things where they zoom in on a person\u2019s facial expression, or they just got to do a lot of fun stuff they wouldn\u2019t have normally been able to do if it were just filmed the normal standard way. So I think later when they edited it all together, it helped a lot too because random things that you don\u2019t expect that weren\u2019t in the stage direction or in the script ended up being the things that they\u2019re cutting to a lot when it\u2019s the Honey Pot camera.\u00a0<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\tMiranda Cosgrove in \u2018The Wrong Paris.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNetflix<\/p>\n \n\tThere are some wild challenges throughout the movie. What was it like filming all those scenes and did you fave a favorite challenge?<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tI was most excited to go into that mud pit because that was definitely the craziest thing of all the challenges. And Madison Pettis, who I fight with in the mud pit, is the most game, just fun, easygoing person, and we went through it a week before we started filming and then one weekend before we did it, kind of choreographing it so we didn\u2019t like hurt ourselves. But when the day actually came, it was raining really hard and we weren\u2019t sure if we were going to be able to film it that day, and then it kind of let up a little bit. You can\u2019t tell in the movie, but it was actually totally raining the entire time we were filming that mud pit scene, and I think that added a whole other element to it in real life at least. Also I was really sick. I had a really bad cold when we were filming it, so it was crazy and I still had such a good time, despite like not feeling my best.\u00a0\u2026 Also riding a mechanical bull, I\u2019ve never done anything like that before and it is really hard to stay on a mechanical bull (Laughs<\/em>). Like I had no idea. I would see videos of people and think, \u201cWhy are they falling off? Like it\u2019s so so easy.\u201d I could barely do it.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tHow did you approach balancing Dawn\u2019s independence and personal goals, while also telling this love story between her and Trey?<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tAfter playing a character for so many years that just such a nice person, it was fun getting to play a more flawed person. Obviously she has a good heart, but when she signs up for the show, her heart really isn\u2019t in the right place because you\u2019re supposed to sign up\u00a0looking for love. You\u2019re not just supposed to be trying to get a trip to Paris and money. So it was fun getting to play a character that\u2019s so willing to go after their dreams and wasn\u2019t really interested in the guy and then getting to see all the other girls like clamor for him (Laughs<\/em>). That was just fun to get to put myself in that headspace, but also just being a part of a rom-com I haven\u2019t seen a ton of, so I thought that was cool that it was a unique take.\u00a0<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\tMiranda Cosgrove and Pierson Fode in \u2018The Wrong Paris.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNetflix<\/p>\n \n\tThe movie has such a stacked cast, including you, Pierson, Madison and Yvonne Orji. What was it like working with them all?\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tBeing in a new place, like exploring a new city and also getting to meet all these people for the first time,\u00a0it was a really special experience because most of us all stayed in the same apartment building in Vancouver and that was really cool. I could just text them and be like, \u201cWant to meet in the lobby in 5 minutes?\u201d and we can go walk around the city together.\u00a0So I haven\u2019t really had a lot of experiences like that where you\u2019re just so close to the people and getting to hang out all day every day. I loved it! I loved getting to make so many new friends and be with my friend Hannah [Stocking]\u00a0and try so many restaurants. Also me and Pierson [Fode], we did a lot of horseback riding on the weekends.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tI have to also ask about iCarly<\/em> \u2014 having been on that show when you were younger, and then coming back to play that same character as an adult for the reboot, what was the experience like since you kind of grew up with this character?<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tI will say it was very strange, like the first day when we got there and we saw all the sets built again, but the sets are all a little different, because it\u2019s supposed to be like all this time has passed. So it was a kind of a crazy, almost felt like a social experiment (Laughs<\/em>). I remember when I walked through the\u00a0set\u00a0with Jerry [Trainor] and Nathan [Kress], they were like, \u201cThis is so strange,\u201d because it brings back so many things too about your childhood. Like, imagine walking back through the hallways of the high school that you went to and then you\u2019re with all the people you were best friends with at the time walking through it for the first time in 10 years. It was really cool, but it\u2019s definitely kind of strange and crazy and not something that I think everyone gets to experience. It\u00a0was really fun getting\u00a0to play that character again as an adult in a new environment and getting to actually have a say in what the character does and the scripts and the cast and all that stuff, that was really exciting.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tI know there\u2019s been talks of an iCarly<\/em> movie to wrap up the series after it was canceled. Can you tease anything about that?<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tThe script is almost finished and it looks like we\u2019re gonna be filming it early next year, so I\u2019m really excited. I think the biggest challenge now is gonna be casting the character that\u2019s gonna be the mom because that\u2019s a character I don\u2019t think any of us ever really thought we were gonna meet within that universe, so we just really want to make sure we get it right.\u00a0<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\tMiranda Cosgrove and Jerry Trainor in \u2018iCarly.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n \n\tHaving grown up in the industry since you were a child, how did that experience impact the actor you\u2019ve become today?<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tI definitely feel like I view child acting in a very specific way just because I lived it, and I definitely don\u2019t think that it\u2019s for everyone. Like it was my first time working with a kid as an adult on the\u00a0iCarly<\/em> revival, and luckily Jaden, who was in the revival, she loved acting so much and that made me feel good about it. Like she was there because she wanted to be there, but I do feel like a lot of kids that are in acting, their parents are definitely pushing it a lot more than like they actually want it. So having my perspective on child acting has definitely changed over the years and it\u2019s complicated just because of my experiences, but other than that I would just say I feel very comfortable with acting just because I\u2019ve been doing it for so long, so I feel lucky\u00a0in that sense because I\u2019ve been on set since I was a kid.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tWas there ever a point where you thought about leaving the industry or could you even see yourself doing something else career-wise?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tWhen iCarly<\/em> ended and I went to college, the whole reason I went to college is because I was trying to find something else that I loved as much as acting because I felt like I never really had that opportunity. When people are in regular middle school and high school, a lot of the time they find their passion and they kind of figure out what they want to pursue. So because I had been acting for so long and kind of just working so much and always busy, I didn\u2019t really have that opportunity. So I\u2019m really happy I went to USC because I explored a lot of different avenues and took a lot of different classes and, in the end, I realized that I love acting and it probably is my number one passion.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tSince there\u2019s been so much conversation surrouding the early days of Nickelodeon, especially after the Quiet on Set <\/em>docuseries, what was your experience like with the network since you were on several shows as a child?<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tIt\u2019s always gonna be complicated when a child is doing an adult\u2019s job. I guess it\u2019s not the same hours because you can only work a certain amount of hours [as a child], but it very much feels as a kid like you\u2019re doing just a normal job and I feel like that\u2019s the strangest part for me at least. I got really lucky and I do feel like I had mostly a positive experience. I think my parents have a lot to do with that because when I started out, I was trying to save money for college. And I did really enjoy acting, so there are a lot of things in my favor that I think made it a pretty good experience, but I definitely won\u2019t say everything was always\u00a0absolutely perfect because I was still a child with a bunch of adults around, like it\u2019s kind of strange to be in that work environment.\u00a0But I had a lot of other kids with me and I formed really tight friendships with the other kids that I was with, like Nathan and Jennette [McCurdy],\u00a0getting to be on iCarly<\/em> with them helped me a lot.\u00a0<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\tMiranda Cosgrove in \u2018School of Rock.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEverett Collection<\/p>\n \n\tWhat does your perfect day off of work and filming look like?<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tI have two older dogs, they\u2019re both 13, and I\u2019ve been trying to take them to do bucket list things, like hopefully they still have a few years left, but I\u2019ve been trying to just do more fun stuff with him. Like I realized one of them had never been to the beach before, so I took him recently. And just hanging out with a couple of my close friends and my dogs and going somewhere fun and relaxing, or even just going to the movies. I really love going to the movies. I go like all the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tWhen you look back on your career so far, is there a moment you\u2019re most proud of?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tThe best experience I\u2019ve ever had in acting is one of my first experiences acting, and I think it\u2019s why I fell in love with it, which was working on School of Rock.<\/em> I knew at the time that I was having an amazing time and that it was something special, but I think as an adult looking back on that, I realize now more than ever how special it was. I feel really grateful for that whole experience because getting to work with Jack Black, I think that\u2019s why I love comedy as much as I do.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tIf you had to describe what makes Miranda Cosgrove, Miranda Cosgrove, what would you say?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tI definitely\u00a0try really hard to be a good person. I love animals a lot. That\u2019s like one of my biggest passions. I\u2019m a huge animal advocate and I foster cats and dogs. I actually have like six foster cats right now and I\u2019m always looking for homes for cats. It\u2019s something I kind of fell into maybe four years ago and it\u2019s brought a lot to my life. I\u2019m always getting pictures from people, like updates of different fosters I had, and it makes me feel really good.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [This story contains spoilers for Netflix\u2018s The Wrong Paris.] Miranda Cosgrove is not a new face in Hollywood, but that doesn\u2019t mean there aren\u2019t new sides to her that she\u2019s ready to show. 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