Miranda Cosgrove Says If She Ever Wrote a Book, It Would Be About This

Miranda Cosgrove. (TODAY Illustration / Getty Images)

Miranda Cosgrove has lived many lives — from starring in "School of Rock," her first movie at age 9, to taking on the leading role in Nickelodeon's "iCarly" and now, tackling a rom-com.

Despite all of her acting accolades, the 32-year-old tells TODAY.com she's not sure if she'd write a book about her life yet.

"I don't know if I'm talented, like in that way," she says through laughter. "If I ever did, it would be like crazy LA dating stories."

Cosgrove's "iCarly" co-star Jennette McCurdy's memoir, "I'm Glad My Mom Died," shot to the top of bestseller lists after it was released in 2022, and she's set to release her debut novel next year.

Cosgrove said she can't wait to read McCurdy's upcoming book, titled "Half His Age."

"I'm so happy for her and proud of her. We were like, best friends after 'iCarly' ended — we would hang out like, every day," Cosgrove said. "I don't see her quite as much, but I love her and I always will."

In Netflix's "The Wrong Paris," which premiered on Sept. 12, Cosgrove plays Dawn — who has some dating stories of her own.

Dawn aspires to go to art school in Paris, and when her finances take a turn, one of her sisters convinces her to audition for a reality dating show that is filming in the city of love.

She ends up getting cast on the "The Honeypot," a show that appears to be loosely based on "The Bachelor." But when Dawn steps off the plane, she realizes she's not in Paris, France — they've been sent to Paris, Texas, just a few miles away from her hometown.

Dawn starts scheming ways to get eliminated from the show, but in classic rom-com fashion, Dawn ends up actually falling for the leading man, Trey (Pierson Fodé).

Miranda Cosgrove as Dawn and Pierson Fodé as Trey in "The Wrong Paris." (Diyah Pera / Netflix)

Cosgrove, who also serves as an executive producer on the film, says she watches rom-coms all the time with her friends, and that she's always wanted to act in one.

"I've always wanted to do a rom-com because it's pretty much my favorite genre of film," she says. "I just feel like rom-coms have cheered me up, and it's kind of like an escape."

In "The Wrong Paris," Cosgrove stars alongside Fodé and Madison Pettis, the former Disney Channel star who plays Lexi, one of her fellow "Honeypot" contestants.

"It's funny, because she was on Disney and I was on Nickelodeon at the same time, but we never met each other in all those years," Cosgrove says of Pettis. "So this was our first time meeting and working together. She's so cool."

"She's amazing. I got to fight her in a mud pit. It was really fun," she adds, referring to a scene in which Dawn and Lexi get down and dirty during a challenge to win a date with Trey.

"She's amazing. I got to fight her in a mud pit... it was really fun," Cosgrove says of her co-star Pettis. (Diyah Pera / Netflix)

After promoting the Netflix film, Cosgrove is set to be returning to the "iCarly" universe — the actor said on TODAY on Sept. 18 an "iCarly" movie is in the works.

The Nickelodeon show ran from 2007 to 2012, and some of the show's original cast members returned for the show's revival on Paramount+ in 2021.

Cosgrove confirmed there's a script for the film, and that they're planning to start filming early next year. She shared more details about the movie with TODAY.com.

"It's going to focus a lot on where we originally grew up, and also the mom character, because I'm not sure that anybody realized they were going to really meet that character right after watching the series," she says. "It's largely about her and where she's been."

Cosgrove adds they've been searching for an actor to play Carly's mother, but they haven't cast anyone yet.

"That's probably the most important thing," she says.

When asked if she plans to keep the iconic late 2000s fashion in the movie, Cosgrove burst outs laughing.

"When I was wearing them, I was like, 'I could not look cooler.' And now, when I see it, I'm like, 'I was wrong,'" she says. "It was a lot of layering and different patterns."

"Hopefully we'll dress better," she says of the new film.