If you haven’t seen the tell-all Nickelodeon documentary Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV let me tell you, it’s a doozy. Growing up and being introduced to Amanda Bynes and Drake Bell absolutely meant that you had a good childhood.
Remember when they both went down spirals? You can thank the weight of Dan Schneider on their shoulders for their respective shows.
Granted, we can thank the foot-happy producer for finding two of many very talented stars, but after his interview with BooG!e (who played T-Bo on iCarly), Schneider tried to save face 20-something years too late.
“Facing my past behaviors — some of which are embarrassing and that I regret — and I definitely owe some people a pretty strong apology,” Schneider said.
BooG!e, the only sane one in the room, kept the interview going discussing some of the horrendous treatment highlighted in the documentary. He, among other workers, got uncomfortably too close to the child actors. But besides what we already know, Schneider also created a hostile work environment for the women writers and children.
“It was wrong that I ever put anybody in that position,” Schneider said when he was asked about massages that happened at work. “I apologize to anybody that I ever put in that situation.”
“There were lots of people there who witnessed it who also may have felt uncomfortable. So I owe them an apology, as well.”
Schneider, a former actor, found himself emotional around the 4-minute mark of the interview. Soon after, however, he finds that composure. I’d say he didn’t cry enough to illicit a response worth feeling sympathy over.
While Schneider was trying to save face, actresses such as Alexa Nikolas, who played Nicole Bristow on the Schneider-created “Zoey 101” on Nickelodeon weren’t having it. In a livestream on Tuesday, she called out the producer for basically making her life hell on set.
“I don’t feel bad for you, Dan Schneider, because it’s sad that it took you this long to apologize to us,” she said.
“If I could go back I would get it done in different ways,” Schneider said. “I would be nicer.”
Imagine not knowing to just naturally be a better person. Dan Schneider’s apology means, and should mean, nothing. No criminal in the entertainment industry will be protected anymore. Not when it actively contributed to the downfall of some actors he found years ago.
Catch the full response to the documentary, Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV below. The Nickelodeon documentary can be found on Hulu or Max.
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