Drake Bell and Josh Peck get “not a dime” of residuals cash from their time starring on the Nickelodeon sitcom Drake & Josh, Bell stated in a current interview.
“The notion of the world has all the time been this manner. It’s like, you already know, ‘Oh, you made a Folgers Espresso industrial. You should stay in a mansion in Hollywood.’ Like, ‘I noticed you on TV. You’re wealthy.’ That’s removed from the case,” Bell stated on The Unplanned Podcast in an episode shared earlier this month. “And particularly, which is the bummer for many of us on Nickelodeon, we don’t get residuals for our exhibits.”
Bell defined that residuals is how TV stars “make the vast majority of their cash” and that the purpose is to get a TV present to 100 episodes to make it syndication-friendly and to get these residuals paychecks coming in. “Every solid member of Pals, simply in syndication alone, is making over $20 million a 12 months,” he stated.
He additionally revealed that Drake & Josh visitor stars get residuals, however not the primary stars. “[There are] individuals who stated two strains on one episode [who] nonetheless get checks within the mail,” he stated. “Josh and I? Not a dime.”
Bell expressed frustration about lacking out on Drake & Josh’s continued success in reruns and on streaming. “There are three channels doing Drake & Josh marathons. Netflix simply purchased it, it’s high 10 on Netflix, and I gotta work out how you can pay my lease this month. And a few fats cat with a cigar is simply sitting up on the high of Viacom [the former Nickelodeon parent now part of Paramount Global] simply going, ‘Isn’t it nice?’ … It’s similar to getting excessive on youngster labor.”
The previous youngster actor stated “numerous evil, corrupt individuals” are accountable. “That’s the one factor that’s the reply. There’s no different reply.”
After Drake & Bell led to 2007, Bell starred in a sequence of live-action Pretty OddParents TV films for Nickelodeon and voiced Peter Parker on Disney XD’s Final Spider-Man. Final 12 months, he opened up about his tumultuous Nickelodeon years within the Investigation Discovery docuseries Quiet on Set: The Darkish Aspect of Children TV.