Since Quiet On Set: The Dark Side Of Kids TV started streaming for those with a Max subscription , tons of Hollywood actors who worked as kids on popular television shows have been asked to respond to the startling documentary. The latest to talk about the subject is Wednesday and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice actress Jenna Ortega , who got her start on the Disney Channel. Before Ortega became the Gen Z scream queen she is, her first significant main role was as the lead of Disney Channel’s Stuck In The Middle , which she was on from the ages of 13 to 16.
When speaking to The New York Times , the actress shared that she didn’t watch the documentary herself, but she received a call from her mom after she viewed the series. In her words: I think for her, it was more pain, because she had seen the way that other children maybe weren’t protected or weren’t as looked after. She watched over me like a hawk, so I think for her, it was more empathizing and wishing she somehow could have done something to help.
She just called me saying she was so grateful that things were OK and that she was there to witness everything. While Ortega’s mom didn’t necessarily resonate with the events of the series, she did have a deep emotional reaction as a parent who was likely afraid of some of the circumstances spoken about in the documentary. The series is about Nickelodeon workplace culture specifically during the 1990s and 2000s.
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