During a recent episode with Anna star Anna Faris, the couple talked about the concept of “fish out of water”, where Faris told how she first broke into the business after she started acting as a child.
McCurdy could tell and said, “My mom put me in it when I was 6, and at some kind of age, I think, I was 10 or 11 the most important financial support for my family.”
“It was a lot that the pressure from my family didn’t have a lot of money, and that was the way out,” she said, “that I think was helpful in promoting me to some degree of success.”
McCurdy said she never really wanted to be in the industry and stopped acting a few years ago to try and write and direct.
She initially had a hard time acting for her because of the anxiety she had – especially with auditions.
While finally starring with Ariana Grande on Nickelodeon’s’ iCarly ‘https://news.google.com/’ Victorious’ spin-off ‘Sam & Cat’, McCurdy said acting caused her to sit down ‘ own emotions in the background “to focus on the character’s.
“I finally quit after my mother passed away because with her death, many of her ideas for my life died, and it was his own journey and a difficult journey,” McCurdy said.
The whole experience led her to say, ‘I resented my career a lot,’ and made her feel so unfulfilled by the roles I played and felt it was the cheesy, embarrassing thing.
Faris asked her if she would be tempted to return to acting at all.
McCurdy said she wrote a one-woman show and eventually acted in it despite anxiety.
“I think the one-woman show would be the best of it,” McCurdy said.