Sorry, iCarly fans; Jennette McCurdy is not returning for the show’s revival. In fact, she might not return to acting at all. On her recent podcast Empty Inside, she revealed to Anna Faris that acting is not in her future:
“I quit a few years ago to try my hand and writing and directing—it’s going great. I quit a few years ago because I initially didn’t want to do it. My mom put me in it when I was 6 and by sort of age, I guess, 10 or 11, I was the main financial support for my family. My family didn’t have a lot of money, and this was the way out, which I actually think was helpful in driving me to some degree of success.”
She continued:
“Once I started to get the nerves under control was when I started to actually get some traction, but I ultimately quit after my mom 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.”
When asked [by Faris] if she’d return to acting, McCurdy responded:
“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–king act anymore, ‘I’m done.’ So I did it just for that show, but I think that one-woman show would be the most of it.”
McCurdy also expressed “embarrassment” over her past projects:
“My experience with acting is, I’m so ashamed of the parts I’ve done in the past. 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. I did the shows that I was on from like 13 to 21, and by 15, I was already embarrassed. 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.”
McCurdy also recalled not getting a role because of her appearance and how that affected her when she was ten:
“My agent, I literally hear her on speakerphone go, ‘They want an ethereal beauty. Jennette is not an ethereal beauty. She is homely. She reads homely’. And I was like, OK, guess I read homely.”
Would McCurdy ever return to acting for the right director? She answered:
“I feel like I have a point of view, and I have a vision. We’ll see where things are in a few years.”
What do you think of McCurdy retiring from acting?
Source: E! Online
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