Jerry Trainor went all out within the audition for his breakout function of Loopy Steve on the Nickelodeon basic “Drake and Josh.”

Throughout a dialogue at GalaxyCon, Trainor defined how he landed the function of Loopy Steve, an aggressively temperamental movie show worker who would explode on fellow forged members Drake Bell and Josh Peck on the slightest inconvenience.

“After I auditioned for Loopy Steve, it had already been forged. Any person else was already forged as Loopy Steve,” Trainor defined. “However I assume when he bought to the set, he was not loopy sufficient for them, and they also fired him.”

Trainor was introduced in for a “rush audition,” which meant the “Drake and Josh” casting administrators wanted to fill the function ASAP.

He stated of his appearing expertise on the time, “It’s important to perceive, I had simply gotten out of school, majoring in theater, the place they’re telling me to love, tone it down, convey it in, drop it in. Subtext, subtext, subtext.”

On the audition, Trainor stated he first performed the character as “calm, after which I fly off the deal with.” Nevertheless, the casting director wished extra and stated to him, “‘Oh my God, are you able to go larger?’” Trainor obliged.

“And so then I did it, like, crazier, and she or he goes, ‘Are you able to go crazier?’ And I went, ‘Let me cease you proper there. I can go nuclear,’” Trainor stated. “‘What would you like?’ She was like, ‘As large as potential.’ And I’m like, ‘You don’t need that.’ And he or she goes, ‘Actually, that’s what we’d like.’ And I used to be like, ‘OK, right here it’s.’ And I did it. The remaining is historical past.”

Trainor first appeared as Loopy Steve in “Drake and Josh” Season 2, and went on to seem in eight whole episodes. He additionally performed the eccentric brother of web celebrity Carly Shay in one other Nickelodeon staple, “iCarly.” That present ran for 93 episodes throughout six seasons from 2007-2012.