Investigation Discovery’s docuseries Quiet on Set: The Darkish Aspect of Children TV sparked a wave of conversations after its debut in March 2024. The five-part present (which is streamable with a Max subscription) featured ex-Nickelodeon stars discussing the community’s allegedly poisonous tradition amid the tenure of former producer Dan Schneider. Since then, different former little one stars have opened up as properly. Now, Nick vet Avan Jogia has seen the doc, and he’s getting candid about how his experiences in comparison with exhibits mentioned.
What Did Avan Jogia Have To Say About Quiet On Set And His Time As A Teen Actor?
Followers who grew up with the Nickelodeon exhibits of the early 2010s most likely know Avan Jogia finest for his function because the laid-back Beck Oliver on Victorious. He performed the function of the heartthrob all through all 4 seasons of the teenager sitcom, which ran from 2010 to 2013. The present was additionally notably one of many many applications developed for TV by Dan Schneider. After watching Quiet on Set, Jogia defined that his experiences as a younger actor have been “so totally different” from the accounts that have been shared, however he additionally shared a balanced level:
My experiences on set with my associates and colleagues have been so particular and so totally different than what I witnessed on the documentary. However I additionally know that two truths can exist on the identical time.
What the now-33-year-old Canadian actor is conveying is that simply because he had a extra constructive time working at Nick, it doesn’t undercut the tales that others have shared. That cheap logic is much like that of Kenan Thompson, who admitted how “robust” it was to debate the subject material, provided that they didn’t line up together with his personal experiences on the community. Nonetheless, he did categorical solidarity with “anyone that is been victimized or their households.” As for the Twisted alum, he does have a eager takeaway from the early years of his profession:
If I look again at my time on that present, and now understanding as an grownup how arduous I work, I believe we simply labored actually arduous. We have been on planes on a regular basis to go to openings of issues. We shot a present 5 days every week. We have been on all summer season doing stuff. Now as an grownup wanting again at that, I’m going like, ‘Oh, that is an excessive amount of to placed on an 18-year-old child.’ My expertise wanting again making an attempt to discern between what’s childhood reminiscence or younger individuals’s reminiscence is attention-grabbing. It is all fragmented.
Lengthy working hours have been lengthy mentioned in regard to younger actors in Hollywood. Within the case of Avan Jogia, although, it sounds as if his time working with Nickelodeon was principally useful. His recollections, nevertheless, starkly differ from the accounts shared by those who took half within the docuseries.
What Have Different Nickelodeon Alums Mentioned About Their Time Working With The Firm?
One of many stars featured on the present was All That alum Giovonnie Samuels, who stated Dan Schneider reached out to her forward of its premiere as a way to ask for a quote of assist. Whereas discussing her time as a toddler actor, Samuels – the one Black actress on the present on the time – recalled being put in less-than-flattering conditions amid manufacturing. She recalled being instructed on the right way to swallow copious quantities of pretend sugar and low for a sketch and felt she may solely snicker alongside when others on set started chuckling over that. Samuels additionally stated that in contrast to her friends, she was not granted a private hairstylist.
Giovonnie Samuels stated she felt “tokenized” as did co-star Bryan Hearne, who additionally stated he was put in demeaning conditions. That included the On-Air Dare segments and sketches involving him enjoying a pre-natal rapper named Lil’ Fetus. Hearne additionally alleged that he was known as a “piece of charcoal” by one of many grownup crew members.
One other account the doc featured got here from former Amanda Present and Drake & Josh star Drake Bell. Throughout the collection, Bell revealed he’d been sexually abused by former dialect coach Brian Peck. In 2003, Peck was arrested and charged with 11 counts of lewd conduct with a minor, ultimately being discovered responsible on two counts. With that ruling, Peck ultimately spent 16 months in jail and, upon his launch, he registered as a intercourse offender. When Dan Schneider issued an apology after the doc, he claimed he hadn’t employed Peck personally.
These experiences from Avan Jogia and extra additional drive house the previous’s level that a number of “truths” can exist concurrently. In the end one would hope that those that had constructive reminiscences can maintain onto them. And, as for anybody whose time working within the trade was destructive, with the right assist, they are often heard and course of their experiences in a approach that works finest for them.