Josh Peck Once Played Pugsley Addams in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade Opposite Alexandra Daddario as Wednesday

Josh Peck is recounting his childhood visit to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade — when he appeared on a float as Pugsley from The Addams Family alongside a young Alexandra Daddario.

Speaking on the Thursday, Dec. 4 episode of his podcast The Good Guys, Peck, 39, told co-host Ben Soffer. “I was in the Thanksgiving Day Parade. It rained from 5 AM to when it was done at 11. But let me tell you: there was an after party at Macy’s on 34th Street that was fabulous… I mean, I was 11, so I basically had to do anything my mom made me do.”

Peck recalled that he got the gig following an audition, saying, “Short story, there was a casting in New York for The Addams Family. I was a chubby boy, so I was perfect for Pugsley. I get the part. Wednesday Addams is played by a miss Alexandra Daddario.”

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“And we proceed to basically rehearse this thing where we’re gonna do this dance on the float once you get to sort of the main center,” he said. “But you have to start at, like, 90th Street, make your way all the way to the telecast, like, three hours later on 34th Street. We did this, like, 45-second dance, and then I went to the after party. I probably got paid scale,” he added, referring to the minimum acting compensation set by a union.

Peck added that. when there was an issue with his wardrobe for the parade, his mom saved the day with some quick thinking.

“The best part was, I remember, my mom — the shirt that Pugsley wears, it’s famously a horizontal, like, Hamburglar black-and-white striped shirt. And she couldn’t like, there was some problem with the shirt where they couldn’t get it, and my mom was like, ‘I got this covered,'” he recounted. “She goes to a Foot Locker and pays one of the employees for their referee shirt. She’s like, ‘Here’s $20. My son’s a star. You should understand.'”

Peck continued: “And she brought the shirt to wardrobe. They cut it open, turned it around to make the lines horizontal, and then just, like, safety clipped it… to a white t shirt. But, like, with the jacket over it, all you saw were the stripes.”

“And the whole time she was doing it, she’s like [singing], ‘There’s no business like show business…’ Mom, stop singing that. Why are we doing this?” he said.