In 2004, the Nickelodeon Channel featured a youth adventure series called Drake and Josh. Sparkling comedy with numerous characters immediately gained an extensive audience. An exciting crime story keeps the viewer in suspense from beginning to end.
Features of the picture
The actors of the series "Drake and Josh", who play the main roles in the film, in fact, played themselves. The role of the main character of Drake Parker was played by actor Drake Bell, and the role of another central character named Josh Nichols was played by film actor Josh Peck.
Of course, such exciting adventures that the protagonists had to go through during the script, they would hardly have experienced in real life. And then the filmmakers tried: the action-packed events followed one after another, the actors Drake and Josh barely managed to reincarnate. Gradually, they entered the rhythm and shooting of the series.
Is physical hardening necessary?
The leading actors - actors Drake and Josh - set an example of endurance to other participants in the project. There was no such thing as fatigue in the group. The unprecedented success of the series encouraged everyone, from the director to the technical staff. The work did not stop even for a minute, the Nikolodeon channel demanded to shoot the next series in the shortest possible time.
Leading actors Drake and Josh, so as not to waste time rehearsing, got to know the script in advance and went through all the scenes before filming. Thus, the operator could only shoot the episodes in a certain order and send the films to the editing room.
Drake and Josh are indefatigable actors, but they also needed rest. The producer of the series had to introduce a mandatory break for all participants in the filming process, and the role performers began to relax in turn.
It so happened that for several seasons, the first at the door of the pavilion before its opening were Drake and Josh. Actors as if did not go home from last night.
Criminal notes
In January 2006, in the middle of the third season, 32, 33, and 34 episodes were created under the general title Drake and Josh in Hollywood. The actors who participated in the filming of the new series were the same, but the artistic component of the plot has changed somewhat. For the heroes, adventures began that were frankly criminal in nature. Actors Drake and Josh were supposed to play incorruptible citizens of their country, who entered into a single combat with counterfeiters.
Background
The detective story began when Drake and his stepbrother Josh mistakenly put their sister Megan on the wrong plane and the girl flew to Los Angeles instead of Denver. When the young people realized what they had done, they had to fly after them so that nothing bad would happen to Megan.
Already on the plane, the brothers crossed paths with the criminal elements that stole a printing machine for circulating dollar bills at the US Treasury. In the hands of Josh accidentally was a tablet with access codes for technological files, on which the operation of the printing press depends.
Detective genre
The Counterfeiters, wanting to get their laptop back, start chasing Drake and Josh. Having dressed in the form of FBI agents, the criminals overtake the brothers and take them to their safe house.
There, Josh and Drake see a stolen printing press and begin to realize that they are embroiled in a deadly game. The bandits enter the codes into the device’s memory and start the machine. The machine prints dollars, and the counterfeiters decide to destroy the brothers.
Meanwhile, Megan, looking for Drake and Josh, finds in the hotel room the wallet of one of the criminals, in which there is a note with the address of the safe house. She hurries to the address and, arriving at the place, calls the police. Soon the bandits are arrested, and Josh and Drake are released.
The main characters of the series
Drake Parker (played by Drake Bell) is one of the three main characters, the older brother of the girl Megan and the half brother of Josh Nichols. He loves to play the guitar, never does homework, loves sweets, lazy to indecent. However, if there is an opportunity to spend time with girls, laziness disappears without a trace.
Josh Nichols (as Josh Peck) is the second protagonist, half brother of Drake and Megan. He’s smart, he goes to school perfectly, has a cheerful, kind disposition. However scattered, often falls into an awkward position. By nature, it is an altruist to love helping people regardless of whether they need his help. He is well-educated, respects adults and obeys them in everything.
Megan Parker (played by Miranda Cosgrove) is the sister of Drake and Josh. Likes to pretend to be brothers, especially over the unrequited Drake.
Nichols Walter (Jonathan Goldstein) is Josh's father, husband of Audrey Nichols-Parker. An announcer on television, works in the weather forecast department. He is trying to find ways to contact Drake, but he is constantly evading the conversation.
Audrey Nichols-Parker (Sullivan Nancy) is the mother of Megan and Drake, the wife of Nichols Walter.