This article contains mentions of child abuse, racism, and sexism.
The four-part docuseries details alleged abuse that occurred at Nickelodeon.
These are the biggest bombshells to come out of “Quiet On Set.”
In fact, the second episode is called “Hidden in Plain Sight.”
Behind the scenes, Peck made his young co-stars uncomfortable on several occasions.
“Looking at it now, as an adult, that was kind of weird!”
Drake Bell was the anonymous victim of Brian Peck
In 2003, Brian Peck was arrested.
TheLAPDnoted, “The minor’s family reported that Peck had molested the child over a six-month period.”
To protect the victim’s privacy, they were not named, nor come forward in the intervening decades.
Peck began coaching the young actor, which caused his father, Joe Bell, to worry.
“[He’d] just touch Drake.
And the thing is, this is in front of people.”
“Imagine the worst thing someone could do to someone as sexual assault.
Peck took on a bigger role in Drake’s career, meaning the abuse continued.
“It just got worse and worse and worse, and I was just trapped,” Drake recalled.
“I had no way out.”
“His entire side of the courtroom was full.
“I just sat there wanting to die,” Friedle said (viaUs Weekly).
“It was like, ‘What the hell am I doing here?'”
Bynes has had a tough time since she was a child star and was evenplaced under a conservatorship.
“He wanted us to keep that a secret.”
It turns out many of those shows featured their young cast being put in thinly disguised sexualized situations.
“There are jokes about being slapped with a sausage,” explained journalist Kate Taylor.
“There’s a joke about being ‘on the wood.’
You have actors shaking weights in a way that seems very clearly sexual.
And these actors, for the most part, are minors.”
In another sequence, “Zoey 101” star Jamie Lynn Spears had her face covered in goo.
We heard the boys saying, ‘It’s a *** shot.’
And I had no idea what that meant.”
In a statement published byThe Wrap, Schneider emphasized that there were other adults around at all times.
“When you do that, it’s actually like an inappropriate thing to do.”
“That sounds like some kinda awkward fantasy from some freaky dude.
It was really uncomfortable,” he recalled.
“I didn’t like that.”
I’m out,’ it’s the on-air dares,” he revealed.
The documentary even includes photos of this happening.
It was humiliating."
Shortly after “Quiet On Set” was released, Schneider addressed the allegations in a statement toVariety.
“Dan deeply regrets asking anyone for neck massages.
Though they happened in public tweaks, he knows this was highly inappropriate and would never happen again.”
Schneider said simply, “It was wrong.
It was wrong that I ever put anybody in that position …
I’d never do it today, I’m embarrassed that I did it then.
I apologize to anybody that I ever put in that situation.”
“I was referred to as a ‘piece of charcoal.’
Remarks like that are harmful.
They stay with you,” he reflected.
Hearne’s mother, Tracey Brown, also participated in “Quiet On Set.”
“They set up the scene as if he was selling drugs.
And I was like, ‘Oh, the Black kid gets to be the crack dealer?'”
Brown ultimately became uncomfortable with the atmosphere on set and felt persecuted for calling it out.
“I was complaining too much,” she said.
“I’d become the oddball.”
Hearne was let go from “All That,” potentially as a result of his mother’s objections.
“In that moment, he grew up, and his body language showed it,” Brown said.
“… That’s a man that didn’t trust his mom anymore.
It ruined us.”
Handy, it turned out, had sent her a photo of himself naked.
Ultimately, MJ decided not to contact authorities.
Instead, she pulled her daughter out of entertainment.
“She left the business,” MJ said, “and never returned.”
In April 2003, mere months before the arrest of Brian Peck, theLAPDannounced that Handy had been arrested.
“Handy, an employee in the entertainment industry, was using those connections to contact children.”
He was ultimately sentenced to six years in prison.
She and another writer, Christy Stratton, experienced several degrading moments while working for Dan Schneider.
She tried to duck the peer pressure, but eventually, she did what she was told to do.
Kilgen also faced discrimination in the room.
Kilgen was made to split her salary with another female writer.
