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The documentary series "Quiet on the Set", which brought with it many testimonies about systematic abuse experienced by Nickelodeon employees, including the staff members but especially the children, managed to shake many people around the world and spur other actors who were affected by acts of pedophilia and harassment on the set as young boys, to publish the stories as well their.
Of course, the shocked surfers immediately took out their anger on the infamous producer,
Dan Schneider
, but also on the actor
Josh Peck
. They accused him of not acting to help his friend and colleague on the show,
Drake Bell
, who was routinely bullied as a young child until he became an adult: "Josh worked on the Amanda Bynes show, so he knew what was going on," Drake said on the podcast. "Not Skinny But Not Fat" and continued: "But I appreciate the fact that he contacted me privately and didn't go straight to the media, because he was there and he knows what I went through."
Not long after the series came out, Bell came to Peck's defense against the angry crowd, but without much success and this was probably his other attempt to redeem his friend from the pangs of conscience that fans put him through.
A fifth bonus episode of 'Quiet On Set' will air on April 7th. pic.twitter.com/vXKNJtY5kj
— Pop Base (@PopBase) March 26, 2024
"I don't think he knew exactly what was going on there, but there were people who worked on this show who knew exactly who he was," referred to the man who is responsible for all the severe harassment he went through,
Brian Peck
, and then returned to refer to Josh: "He knew how sensitive this is to me After watching the documentary, he found out about so many things I went through and I think it was very sensitive of him to address me one on one," he reinforced the message.
As mentioned, following the dizzying commercial success of the docu and the huge buzz that the series created on social networks, other actors were also willing to speak and tell their story for the first time, which caused the creators of the series to start working on a fifth bonus episode that would include additional testimonies.
This is a no less fascinating series, but heartbreaking for anyone who grew up on Nickelodeon content and the details in it are not easy to digest. The phenomenal production work is one of the most impressive things there and the fact that, except for one interviewee, all the interviewees speak openly and are not afraid to go into the details of the horrors that happened there, evokes emotions that could not be achieved in any other way.
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