The Fairly Odd Parents has been a benchmark series for Nickelodeon, even going on to become one of their most successful franchises. Now, the series has found new life on Paramount+ thanks to Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder, a hybrid animated/live-action series that sees Cosmo and Wanda assigned to new kids Viv and Roy after series mainstay Timmy Turner makes his way to college. The show doesn't lose any of the cartoonish energy that the original brought to life for decades, with the live-action cast meeting the over-the-top energy of the animated series with gusto.

Ahead of The Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder's March 31 premiere on Paramount+, CBR got the chance to sit down with the show's cast to discuss bringing a full-throated enthusiasm to Dimmsdale and what it means to them to step into a Nickelodeon legacy like this. Among those present were Audrey Grace Marshall and Tyler Wladis, who bring Viv and Roy to life. Also present were Ryan-James (RJ) Hatanaka and Laura Bell Bundy, who play their newlywed parents Ty Turner and Rachel Raskin, and Garrett Clayton, who plays mega-music star Dustin Lumberlake.

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CBR: Because of the nature of this series and everything about it, the show really allows you all to be so cartoonish in your performances -- to be unrestrained in a way that I doubt you really get to do in any other role or part. What is that like, as performers, to get to jump so headlong into "I'm a cartoon today. Let's do this!"?

Audrey Grace Marshall: I mean, it was really, really fun. It's not hard, it's not a job. It's like, we're just coming to work. We're having fun. We're doing this silly fun stuff. It's like a kid's dream for a job. You just go to work and be a kid. It was really, really fun.

Tyler Wladis: Yeah, it was definitely so much fun because it's like they just took all these people from a cartoon and just threw them in this little town called Dimmsdale. I mean there's stunts, there's singing, there's dancing. There's everything you can imagine.

Ryan-James Hatanaka: I think something that really starts with the leadership, right? So, our executive producers, our showrunners, they have given us free rein. Chris Nowak and Sam Martin, they have given us this freedom to be our silliest, most ridiculous selves and try things. Sometimes, they don't work, but often they make the final cut. There's been a lot of time spent where we all are in there at lunchtime trying different things out just for fun because... in Dimmsdale, [everything] is just so much fun.

Laura Bell Bundy: When you take Dimmsdale, which is this bright, colorful, almost a character of its own... I have to take my character who is from Dimmsdale and go, "How does this character function? In the real world, what would she be like?" She would pop off in the same kind of way, in a cartoony way, but I do think that there is some... No matter how big it gets, it has to be grounded in some truth and some love with the family unit and all of that... It is just unadulterated joy, to be able to just go wherever my heart desires with the character until someone tells me to rein it in, which has happened. I give a bevy of takes. I give crazy big. I give the middle of the road. I give more grounded. What you see on-screen may be the big one.

Garrett Clayton: Honestly, in the words of Lesli Margherita, "We are just clowns." I will say from my first day on set, talking and also getting to watch RJ and Laura, really set the stage for the reality that was established in this world... The reality is everyone is really defined in a really loud and unique way. It's all just permission to be creatively free... You're like, "Okay, so we did this, now let's try something else. Let's see what else can work in this scene." My first episode where we were dancing at the end of it with me and Laura, it was so hard for us to get through these tapes because me and her were even making jokes about my character's name, "Dustin Lumberdump," right before they yelled action and then go. It was just... The joy just jumps off the screen because we are legitimately just having so much fun.

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This is a Nickelodeon production. That's been the brand for 30 years now. What does it mean to you to get to step into a Nickelodeon production like this? Not even just a Nickelodeon show, but a Nickelodeon legacy like this?

Marshall: My gosh, it's even crazy hearing you say it to me, but it's an honor to be a part of it. It's insane to think about. I've never really done kid stuff before, even with kids. This is the first thing I've done where there's other kid stars with me. So, that's already a dream come true. It's Nickelodeon now, it's Fairly OddParents. There are so many different legacies to carry on. It's an honor, really. It's been an amazing experience and I would definitely do it again.

Wladis: I wake up every day and I'm just [amazed] by the fact that I got this part that I can carry on this generation, me and Audrey. The coolest part is that we're at Nickelodeon and also my favorite show growing up was Henry Danger and Danger Force. They literally film right next to us. So I got to meet the whole entire cast and oh my God, it was insane. It was good.

Hatanaka: The history of Nickelodeon is... When I was quite young, my brother and I used to wake up early in the mornings, sneak downstairs, past our parents' room, and turn on the TV, [and] be playing video games while we'd be watching cartoons. [Those] are some of our fondest, fondest memories. So now, to be many years later and to be on a show and to be in Burbank Studios and working on these shows with such amazing people and have it be such an incredibly positive experience is... Really, it doesn't get much better than that. In Hollywood, you have a lot of different adventures and this adventure is definitely going to go down as very, very special. I hope it goes for a long time.

Bundy: I definitely want to honor what is the legacy of Fairly OddParents, which is part of why I think we're leaning into the cartoon-iness of our characters, too, wanting this to match the animation that is on screen so that it all flows together. So, I think there's that of it. I definitely was a Nickelodeon kid. I watched all the shows -- Can't Say That on Television and Clarissa Explains it All, all of those shows back in the day.

Clayton: It feels very lucky. [Fairly OddParents] is such a special property, as a fan of the show. To now be a part of it is like... It feels a little bit surreal because there are how many people that want to be doing these things and be a part of things like this? [It] really just feels like something special and even more special because we're all fans of it. We all want to honor it. It feels like that's through everything, the writers and producers and the animators and the actors. Every level feels like we just want to honor this and make everyone really proud of what we've worked towards. It feels like that's really happening. We're all just really excited that everyone gets to see the joy that we all felt.

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That is the dream as a performer, I'd imagine -- just getting to show up and play pretend on the grandest scale possible with the intent of, "I'm going to make everybody happy with this."

Hatanaka: Well, and there's this really fun thing, too, where people who are the camera operators and the assistant directors, they're encouraged to laugh when they find things funny. So, it's not a very sterile environment. People just have a ball and you're... It quickly becomes you making your buds, who are the camera operators, making everyone laugh.

Bundy: We have a great team. It really just starts at the top. The joy that you see on the screen is because there was joy in making it. Every player was bringing such a positive attitude and a sense of fun and play to the table. Then we have kids in our show, so there are also things that we do. We have Fashion Fridays. There are games on Fridays after our run-through. There are fun, fun things that the kids are doing. We also feel like we have to be a good example, but on one hand, we're given permission to play because we're playing with kids.

Clayton: It's very Nickelodeon humor in that, I think, the kids will appreciate what's happening. The adults will definitely have things to laugh about. It's Nickelodeon in that way. It's the sweet spot. It's what we wanted to make sure that everybody who's watching it has something to enjoy.

The Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder premieres on Paramount+ on March 31.

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