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Josh Peck Talks About The Wackness

Wednesday July 2, 2008
Josh Peck, one of the stars of Nickelodeon's Drake & Josh series, takes on the role of a drug-dealing pot-smoking loner in the coming of age tale, The Wackness. Written and directed by Jonathan Levine, the R-rated independent film was a hit at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and marks a real departure from the characters Peck has played on TV and in past feature films. "I never really wanted to be typecast. That’s something I was worried about. But more so, it wasn’t like this big definitive decision that I was going to make this part to blow any preconceptions people had of me out of the water," explained Peck about his decision to take on the lead role in The Wackness. Read On...

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