Nathan Kress recently got candid and revealed how he felt when his oldest daughter, Rosie Carolyn, watched iCarly after almost twenty years.
While conversing with PEOPLE magazine for his recently released animated show A Chuck E. Cheese Christmas, the 33-year-old American actor admitted that it feels “surreal” that new generations are enjoying iCarly and those who enjoyed the show when it was released are all grown up now.
Kress, who played the role of Freddie Benson in iCarly, said, “I feel like I belong to a very, very small cadre of actors who are able to say that they truly grew up with their audience, but then also is experiencing kind of growing up again with their own kids because of the fact that now the show is on Netflix and on Paramount Plus, and it’s just sort of evergreen on these streaming services.” (sic)
Laughingly, he added, “They’re just available to everyone at all times. I feel like such a boomer when I’m like, ‘Back in my day, we had to wait a whole week for a new episode and we had to sit through commercials and we had to Tivo it.’ Now these kids have it so easy. They can just pop it on and say, ‘Watch iCarly.’ And then boom, there’s just a hundred episodes in front of them.”
The Into the Storm star went on to share that he frequently receives praise from fans of all ages and feels grateful that he “happens to be making a living off of my ‘for fun’ hobby.”
Kress, who shares two daughters, Rosie, 7½, and Evie Elise, 4½, and son Lincoln William, 2½, with his wife London, recalled, “And the fans have kids! I went to the park the other day with my two-year-old, and I got surrounded by a bunch of 8 to 10-year-olds, and I forgot that now that’s my audience too. It’s a weird circle-of-life thing I’m finding myself in.”
“And now my oldest daughter is just about to turn 8 and she’s watching it! It’s so weird hearing my prepubescent voice rattling on in the other room. And she’s in there just cracking up at jokes that I forgot we ever said,” the father of three explained.
Before concluding, it is pertinent to mention that A Chuck E. Cheese Christmas, which starred Nathan Kress as Chuck E. Cheese, was released on November 27, 2025 on streaming platforms like Amazon Prime Video, Roku, Fire TV, and YouTube.
