“If we do something, it should be something special,” says the actor, who imagines the two making more buddy comedies.
Drake Bell has some ideas for a reunion with Josh Peck.
The Amanda Show The actor recently spoke about a possible new collaboration with his Nickelodeon co-star – but it would not be a continuation of their popular sitcom Drake and Josh.
“I would love to,” Bell said in an interview with The Patriot News“We talked about it. But I didn’t want to do it when everyone was doing the reboots.”
Nickelodeon certainly has a precedent for producing direct sequels to the series that made Bell and Peck teen stars. It has revived several of its 1990s and 2000s properties with their original casts, including Good burger, Zoey101And iCarlyin the latter played Drake and JoshMiranda Cosgrove. Bell, however, is not interested in this model and rejects the idea of ”doing a reboot because everyone is doing reboots”. He believes a DJ The reunion should take an alternative approach. “If we do something, it should be special,” he said. “Let them be surprised with a bang instead of saying, ‘Oh, another reboot.'”
Bell would prefer to work with Peck again on a new project. “I don’t think we would be playing the characters from the show or having Meg (Cosgroves),” he said. “I think fortunately, it’s our names, so we can still play Drake and Josh. But I think it would be funnier if we did more buddy comedies, you know? Something that’s kind of a surprise, a little different. That would be more interesting.”
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