Overview

• Trainor was called in for a last-minute replacement after the original Crazy Steve was fired for not being ‘crazy enough.’
• He said the casting director repeatedly asked him to escalate his “calm-then-explode” bit until he offered to go fully “nuclear.”
• His over-the-top performance earned him a recurring role across eight Drake & Josh episodes and the TV movie Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh.
• Producers saw enough in his breakout turn to cast him as Spencer Shay on iCarly, where he starred from 2007 to 2012.
• Trainor reprised Spencer in the 2021 iCarly reboot, which was later canceled by Paramount+ in 2023.