Miranda Cosgrove on Still Living with Her Parents
Miranda Cosgrove, 22, has been busy lately promoting her new NBC sitcom Crowded. The show centers on the Moore family, whose parents (Patrick Warburton and Carrie Preston) had been enjoying an empty nest when their two adult daughters (Mia Serafino, 26, and Miranda) decide to move back home after college. In this this interview with Glamour magazine, Miranda said that even though she owns her own house, like her character on Crowded, she still lives with her parents.
Miranda arriving at AOL Build, March 2016
"I do. I could see where people might think that kids aren't working hard enough, but all my friends live at home and go to college and are working towards something, and they still love being with their families." Later, when asked about the future: "I'm still trying to figure out if there are other things I'd like to do in life. I'm going to college right now, and the show does touch on that, but there's a whole arc about us trying to get jobs and a lot of my friends are going through that. Even I feel like that sometimes with figuring out what I want to do. I've taken photography classes, film classes-just trying to figure it all out."
Crowded hasn't received very good reviews so far (Glamour calls it "a throwback sitcom, like something you might've seen on TGIF in the late '90s," while The Guardian writes that it has "little new to say"), despite the show's attempts to be relevant and edgy. Mia Serafino, playing Miranda's sister, said, "I was talking with one of the writers, and they were saying, 'Your character is what we call sexually fluid.' One of my lines is, 'That doesn't make me a lesbian. I'm not even bisexual. I'm just going with it.' That's acceptable now. I have a lot of gay friends, and I think this is one of the first multi-cam sitcoms where we're really pushing the envelope and showing what is going on with families and real dialogue, not just cookie cutter. In one episode, my character, as you mentioned, is kissing a girl, but we don't even make that big of a deal of it. It's not like, oh my God! It's just, whatever."
Miranda and the cast of Crowded on NBC's Winter TCA Tour, January 2016
Later, while promoting Crowded on AOL Build, Miranda took questions from the audience, one fan asked about iCarly, the long-running Nickelodeon sitcom that made Miranda a teen idol. "Yeah, I would totally do a reunion," she said, adding that she has reunions all the time with her iCarly costar Jennette McCurdy, 23, who she's remained friends with. She even pitched a possible plot: "I'd also like to know what's going on with Carly's mom because nobody ever told me."
Jennette has shown her support by plugging Miranda's show on her social media account: watch my real life bestie tonight in the premiere of her new show on NBC, #crowded! After Jennette's rather public feud with Ariana Grande, it's sweet to see that she and Miranda have stayed close.
Miranda arriving at AOL Build, March 2016
"I do. I could see where people might think that kids aren't working hard enough, but all my friends live at home and go to college and are working towards something, and they still love being with their families." Later, when asked about the future: "I'm still trying to figure out if there are other things I'd like to do in life. I'm going to college right now, and the show does touch on that, but there's a whole arc about us trying to get jobs and a lot of my friends are going through that. Even I feel like that sometimes with figuring out what I want to do. I've taken photography classes, film classes-just trying to figure it all out."
Crowded hasn't received very good reviews so far (Glamour calls it "a throwback sitcom, like something you might've seen on TGIF in the late '90s," while The Guardian writes that it has "little new to say"), despite the show's attempts to be relevant and edgy. Mia Serafino, playing Miranda's sister, said, "I was talking with one of the writers, and they were saying, 'Your character is what we call sexually fluid.' One of my lines is, 'That doesn't make me a lesbian. I'm not even bisexual. I'm just going with it.' That's acceptable now. I have a lot of gay friends, and I think this is one of the first multi-cam sitcoms where we're really pushing the envelope and showing what is going on with families and real dialogue, not just cookie cutter. In one episode, my character, as you mentioned, is kissing a girl, but we don't even make that big of a deal of it. It's not like, oh my God! It's just, whatever."
Miranda and the cast of Crowded on NBC's Winter TCA Tour, January 2016
Later, while promoting Crowded on AOL Build, Miranda took questions from the audience, one fan asked about iCarly, the long-running Nickelodeon sitcom that made Miranda a teen idol. "Yeah, I would totally do a reunion," she said, adding that she has reunions all the time with her iCarly costar Jennette McCurdy, 23, who she's remained friends with. She even pitched a possible plot: "I'd also like to know what's going on with Carly's mom because nobody ever told me."
Jennette has shown her support by plugging Miranda's show on her social media account: watch my real life bestie tonight in the premiere of her new show on NBC, #crowded! After Jennette's rather public feud with Ariana Grande, it's sweet to see that she and Miranda have stayed close.