Josh Peck in The Wackness Credit: Sony Pictures Classics

If you are used to seeing cute actor Josh Peck in the "Drake and Josh" TV series, get ready for a more adult Josh with a dramatic flair in the off-center dramady The Wackness. Peck plays Luke, a misfit teen in 1994 New York. Everyone loves him for one reason. He's a drug dealer. Luke desperately wants a life and a girlfriend but the object of his affections Stephanie (Juno's Olivia Thirlby) seems to be just toying with him. Will his last Summer before college give him what he longs for? "Life has a funny way of turning you into the one thing you don't want to be".

We sat down with Josh in Beverly Hills recently and got the real candid and personal scoop on his feelings about doing his first real love scene (he was scared to death!), a recent heartbreak that helped fuel his acting in the film, his awesome costars, including Olivia and the amazing Sir Ben Kingsley, his own teen angst, the new "Drake and Josh" movie and a lot more. Pull up a chair and join us....

TeenHollywood: Josh, you grew up in New York, right?

Josh: I did, in Hell's Kitchen.

TeenHollywood: How old were you in '94?

Josh: I was eight so I was still rockin' Bugle Boys and watchin' Power Rangers, had lights in my shoes, had Joey Lawrence albums and Spice Girls lollypops [we laugh].