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I wanted to be an actress
when I was young.
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My mom had been a legal assistant
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within the movie industry for years.
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She knew a lot of what went on
behind the scenes.
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And decided she never wanted, uh,
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my brother or I to ever have any involvement
within the movie industry.
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So I had some resentment over that.
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Years later...
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...my daughter, Brandi,
was very outgoing, full of life.
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Full of personality.
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Hi, little hambone.
How you doing?
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And she was very enamored with television.
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Disney Channel, Nickelodeon.
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She idolized these shows, and she thought
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what a fun life that looked like.
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She had found
what she wanted to do in life.
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Brandi absolutely loved
The Amanda Show,
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and they were looking for kids
to be in a schoolroom scene.
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Class dismissed! Bring in
the dancing lobsters!
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So, for her to get booked on a
show that she absolutely loved,
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at only 11 years old,
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she came out of that just on cloud nine.
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We, as parents, were not
allowed back on the set.
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We were greeted by a production
assistant, Jason Handy,
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who guided all the kids
to where they needed to be.
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Jason looked like the all-American
boy next door.
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Very charismatic, very charming.
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When he wasn't on set with the kids,
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Jason would come out
and talk with all the moms.
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Wanted to get to know about us,
what our families were like.
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You thought, "Oh, I could be
friends with this person."
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On the drive home,
Brandi was very excited.
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She said Jason started exchanging numbers
with the kids and the parents,
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and Jason wants to email.
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She thought, "Oh, this is somebody else
on the set that seemed to be so nice."
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And she would have
a friend in the industry.
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I thought, "Oh, this is going well."
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I was so happy.
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I was the parent that could give
my child what she wanted in life.
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About a week
after she was on that episode,
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there was an email from Jason.
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She let me read it, and it was
a very innocent email.
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It just talked about the shows
that he had been working on.
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After that, they were emailing more.
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She would tell me, "Oh,
I got an email from Jason.
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He's doing this.
He's doing that."
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I didn't see any harm in it.
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A couple months later,
she was sitting at the computer,
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and all of a sudden, I noticed she had suddenly
shut down the computer completely,
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and got up and ran into her bedroom,
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and slammed the bedroom door shut.
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And I said, "Brandi, what is wrong?"
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She started to cry.
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And she said, "I got an email from Jason."
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It was a picture of him naked...
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Masturbating.
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And he said he had sent it to her
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because he wanted her to see...
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That he was thinking of her.
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I went back and forth with,
"Should I call the police?
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They're gonna think
I'm a bad parent
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because I allowed her
to talk to this person."
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I struggled with this
and I finally told myself,
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"I can't call the police.
All I can do...
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Is make sure
I keep her far away from him."
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She left the business and never returned.
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The public still has
this image of Hollywood
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of this glitz and glam, and the limelight,
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and, "Oh, you have the best career,
and it's all fine and great."
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They don't know
what these kids went through.
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This is Amanda.
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I sure hope you like my act.
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- What is your name?
- Hi, my name's Amanda Bynes.
I'm nine years old.
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How old are you, by the way? Are you--
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- I'm ten.
- You're ten years old.
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- I'm 12, turning 13 April 3rd. Yay!
- Yay!
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Teenager!
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And I'm 14 years old.
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And I'm 16.
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Amanda Bynes was very, very famous
by the time she was, like, 16.
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And, at the time, she talked about wanting
to take on more adult roles.
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On Nickelodeon, I had to do
a lot of, like, slapstick-y.
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I was always wearing wigs
and doing all that.
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And I got to a point,
I was growing up,
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that I wanted to feel like my age,
and like a girl and do all that.
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She made a few movies,
What a Girl Wants and Big Fat Liar.
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So she's starting to pivot into this
different space in her career
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that's well beyond Nickelodeon and well beyond
being a figure of child entertainment.
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♪ What I like about you
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Dan Schneider created a show
called What I Like About You
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on the WB with a 16-year-old
Amanda Bynes.
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And Dan really wanted to follow Amanda
into this mainstream success.
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But there's already trouble on set.
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Dan had a very specific image
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of how he wanted
What I Like About You to go,
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but he was constantly fighting with the
co-creator of What I Like about You,
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Wil Calhoun from Friends.
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And there was just this massive
amount of tension there,
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where the network didn't really trust Dan.
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And they stepped in.
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He got pushed out from the writer's room.
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But Dan is still able to remain on set
with Amanda in his role as producer.
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Amanda's relationship
with Dan was very close.
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He thought that he should be the one to,
kind of, usher Amanda into adulthood.
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It's a very delicate transition
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to make from child star to adult person,
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never mind adult actor.
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- What's the cost of fame, in your opinion?
- Um...
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People like having to be involved
in your personal lives.
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Oh, enough out of you.
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She wanted to be a grown-up.
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She still lived at home, you know?
So there were some rules.
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Amanda and her parents
were not getting along.
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Amanda was dating someone.
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He was older.
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You know, you're 16 years old, and you think
you're an adult and you know everything.
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But her parents, being good parents,
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said, "Miss. Can't do that."
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And I think she didn't like
hearing, "I can't."
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Amanda tries to run away from home
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and, in this moment,
she turns to Dan for help.
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The details are a little bit murky,
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but we know from sources
that the police were involved.
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And we also know that Amanda's parents
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are really, really upset with
Dan's actions through this.
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But around this time, Amanda turns
to Dan and other representatives
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to come up with a plan
to get her emancipated
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and get her a new level of independence.
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This plan takes her parents
completely by surprise.
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They didn't say, "I do."
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So what rights do kids have when they
want a divorce from their mom and dad?
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Two teenage sisters went to
court to get a divorce,
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not from their husbands,
but from their parents.
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My child wants to be emancipated.
What does this mean?
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That's a really good question.
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What your child wants
is to be called a legal adult.
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In order to do that, your child
needs to petition the court.
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There's a pretty
lengthy history of teen stars
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getting emancipated from their parents.
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It lets them work a little more freely.
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They don't have to work reduced hours.
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It would have made everybody
a lot more money
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and they could have worked her even
harder than they already were.
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And she really felt pulled in a
couple of different directions.
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You know, parents,
Dan Schneider...
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Dan Schneider is the guy
responsible for my career.
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She's a teenager and that's
a lot to put on somebody.
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Knowing that no matter
what decision you make,
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you're gonna hurt someone who means
something to you is difficult.
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Dan inserting himself into Amanda's life
like this is really ethically fraught.
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I think that there is an
argument that can be made
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that he was trying to help Amanda.
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But, unfortunately for Dan,
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this goes to court, and it entirely fails.
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Because of Dan's involvement in
this plan to emancipate Amanda,
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this creates this huge split in between
Amanda's parents and Dan Schneider.
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This is really the end of Dan's
relationship with Amanda.
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But her transition into adulthood
in the public eye
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will be incredibly fraught.
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Pretty soon after this, Dan parts
ways with What I Like About You.
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He stays on with the show in name only.
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Dan has basically lost his ticket
out of children's programming.
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It's a huge blow.
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So, now, he has to turn his attention
back to Nickelodeon.
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And Nickelodeon obviously wanted him
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because here's a guy,
he's responsible for a couple of
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really successful shows for them.
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The dark side of that is that it came
at a cost to a lot of people.
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Over at Nickelodeon, Dan had been growing
what would become an empire,
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reviving All That with a whole new cast.
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The all-new cast of all-new All That!
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It's All That!
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All That made Dan's career.
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He was able to capture
this really lively energy
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where it just looked like everybody
was just having a good time.
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What makes it really fun for me,
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working with young people,
is that it's fresh and new to them.
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This is often their first or second job.
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Fame is new, the whole process is new,
and they're excited to be a part of it.
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Dan was a writer and executive
producer on All That,
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and he was the primary person
in charge on set.
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There is a deference on a television set.
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It's very hierarchical.
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Dan is someone who holds economic power
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and emotional power over these kids.
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He had so much power
and he threw it around.
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I grew up watching All That,
and I remember the way they talked about Dan.
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It's the Dan Phone!
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There's a very telling scene
where Dan calls the cast,
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and it's like Charlie calling his Angels.
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- Hello, cast!
- Hi, Dan!
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He's parodying himself
as a big-shot producer.
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We lost him.
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Lost 'em.
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- How about a shrimp?
- Okay.
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He's being hand-fed shrimp tails,
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and then, the kids are literally
referring to him as God.
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Look, it is not our place to question Dan.
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- Yeah. Dan's a god.
- True.
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I can't argue that.
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To me, it looks like a moment
that really reflects
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what's happening behind the scenes.
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- Let's go make Dan proud!
- Come on!
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I was so excited, but I had no idea
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what kind of wild ride
I was getting into.
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You guys know Gail.
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Heidi heidi heidi hi!
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I am Giovonnie,
Giovonnie Samuels.
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I started on All That
for season seven through nine.
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I understood the magnitude
of being the token Black girl,
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but I didn't realize how significant
that was until years later.
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My name is Kyle Sullivan.
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I was a guest star on The Amanda Show.
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You people ripped us off!
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I was apparently, like, funny enough
that Dan took a liking to me,
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and was like, "Oh, wow. Okay."
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Inhale!
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I was on All That for, like, four years.
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My name is Bryan Christopher Hearne.
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I was a cast member on season
seven and eight of All That.
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Every time I booked a role,
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I felt like I was one step closer
to getting my family out the hood.
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And, so, it was freeing
to get the role on All That.
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But that wasn't the reality.
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The set on All That was dysfunctional.
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You could just kind of get away with more.
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Like going overtime in ways that were
sort of pushing the envelope.
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They would be like, "Hey,
can you stay an extra however-long?"
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"I guess. Sure."
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You kind of look at your mom like,
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"We're ignoring child labor laws
again, do you know that?
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All right.
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Let's... let's shoot."
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I remember we did this
sketch "Sugar and Coffee."
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It involved me and Lisa
running around this set,
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and basically, like, swallow a bunch of
sugar and swallow a bunch of coffee.
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That sketch required, like,
a ton of, like, physical work.
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- Welcome, Mrs. Nut-Hurst!
- Yeah!
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They had me come in dressed as an old lady
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that gets drowned in the sugar and coffee.
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I mean, you're pouring, like,
pounds and pounds of literal sugar in your mouth.
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And it's hitting you like sand.
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And, sometimes, we would choke.
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It was taxing and it...
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And, frankly, like,
if you look at the sketch,
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it's gross.
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Oh!
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Like, it would congeal into
this gross, viscous goo.
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It was weird.
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The show was full of, like,
these uncomfortable sketches.
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I think that Dan got a kick out
of walking a line with that.
252
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But, generally, I had a good
relationship with Dan.
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Dan was very professional and nice to me.
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Dan had a nicer relationship with...
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Some of the other white kids.
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I didn't feel close to him at all.
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My time on Nickelodeon
played a big part in how I...
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Dealt, and still deal, with racial issues.
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We got impressions on what the
climate was like immediately,
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first day filming.
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You wanna buy some girlie cookies?
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You're not a girl.
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They set up the scene
like he was selling drugs.
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And I was like, "Oh, the Black kid
gets to be the crack dealer?"
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And then, we were at the end of the scene,
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and there's a man sitting there
who was the producer.
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Behind him was a young lady massaging him.
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That was certainly pulled from
Dan getting massages on set,
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which was weird.
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Why are we having adult jokes?
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Are you showing the kids that
Hollywood is a casting couch?
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And, "Oh, Tracey." "Go do it."
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I was complaining too much.
I became the oddball.
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There was a sketch where I played
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the youngest rapper of all time,
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Lil' Fetus.
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Yo, yo, yo!
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Lil' Fetus in the womb, yeah!
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They were fitting me
for the Lil' Fetus role.
280
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And, essentially, you're
a fetus, so you're naked.
281
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But, you know, they had to
put a body suit on you.
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And, obviously, it has to be skin tone.
283
00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:14,586
Someone said the skin tone
should be charcoal.
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I started to get teary-eyed.
285
00:16:19,172 --> 00:16:22,275
Whoever was doing my makeup
at the time was kind of, like,
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hand on my shoulder, like,
"It's gonna be okay."
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Like, "Don't worry about that
he just said."
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That was a moment where I felt like,
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"Oh, I could go get my mom about this."
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But also, I know my mom,
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and I know that she would have rose hell.
292
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I saw things differently
than everybody else.
293
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Now, ultimately,
I did try to tell his agent,
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'cause she called me.
295
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She's like, "Tracey, come on.
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Do it for Bryan.
Just shut up."
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And I was like, "Yeah,
but things are weird here."
298
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The person at the top sets the
tone for the entire production.
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If you run a show dealing overwhelmingly
with children,
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then you are responsible for creating
an environment where those kids feel
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beyond comfortable to tell you
that they're not comfortable.
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It needs to be so safe that your
most vulnerable person on set
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is able to say to you,
the most powerful person there,
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"I don't wanna do this."
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From Nickelodeon Studios in Hollywood,
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welcome to this week's
Snick On-Air Dare!
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The On Air Dares were the Fear
Factor of Nickelodeon.
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We would be standing
in these tube chambers.
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It was, like, this ominous
thing that was deciding,
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"Who is it gonna be?"
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Will it be Bryan,
Kyle, or Chelsea?
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And then, it would be lights.
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And then, it would shine on,
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you know, all the cast members,
and it would stop.
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Bryan Hearne!
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Those were particularly traumatic,
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and they were, sort of, designed to be.
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The whole idea was that you would have
to do something scary on camera.
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And they got pretty scary.
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I did the peanut butter one.
321
00:18:07,379 --> 00:18:09,931
So, I had to be submerged
in peanut butter.
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00:18:10,034 --> 00:18:11,862
All right, lay him down on the floor!
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That was weird.
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- Release the hounds!
- But then, the dogs come.
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I'm laying on the ground
and, then, the dogs,
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00:18:17,275 --> 00:18:19,931
they gotta lick peanut butter off my body.
327
00:18:20,034 --> 00:18:22,482
That sounds like some kind of
awkward fantasy
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00:18:22,586 --> 00:18:25,000
from some freaky dude.
329
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It was really uncomfortable.
I didn't like that.
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And when you question it, it's like,
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"But it's normal, isn't it?"
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Right? They begin to teach
the parents, "This is normal."
333
00:18:39,206 --> 00:18:43,137
I didn't need to have dogs
lick the peanut butter off.
334
00:18:43,241 --> 00:18:47,068
Jack didn't need to be submerged
in a pool of worms.
335
00:18:47,172 --> 00:18:49,482
I don't think that any of that
was necessary.
336
00:18:50,793 --> 00:18:52,931
There was, sort of,
this weird dynamic with it,
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where they were taking something that,
338
00:18:55,206 --> 00:18:58,655
you know, exists in an adult
context, like Fear Factor.
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And, like, transmogrifying it into kids.
340
00:19:05,241 --> 00:19:07,793
When you do that, it's actually, like,
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an inappropriate thing to do.
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00:19:10,275 --> 00:19:12,103
There was a scorpion there!
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The thing that was most uncomfortable
is having to watch
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your fellow castmates...
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Be, essentially, tortured.
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If there's anything on set that
I wish I could have yelled,
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"Stop! Let's not do this.
I'm out,"
348
00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:33,034
it's still On-Air Dares.
349
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I think that people
just kinda look at us and go,
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"You made some money. So what
are you complaining about?"
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00:19:40,620 --> 00:19:44,344
And, yeah, we collect our money, sure.
352
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But at what cost?
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The environment on set really matters
when we're talking about kids
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because, if they aren't protected,
then they're vulnerable to much worse.
355
00:19:59,344 --> 00:20:00,896
- Hey, Anthony.
- Yes.
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- Do me a favor.
- Yes.
357
00:20:02,448 --> 00:20:04,517
As Dan grew more powerful,
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he became more verbally abusive,
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00:20:06,758 --> 00:20:10,275
more aggressive, more demanding of people.
360
00:20:10,379 --> 00:20:14,206
Dan's presence in the room can
change the vibe of the room.
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00:20:14,310 --> 00:20:18,344
Everybody would kind of just be like,
"Okay, shut up. Shut up."
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00:20:18,448 --> 00:20:22,413
Dan would come down and yell and scream.
363
00:20:22,517 --> 00:20:24,000
There was many times where I had to go,
364
00:20:24,103 --> 00:20:29,344
"Okay, you're creating an atmosphere
on this set that is not healthy."
365
00:20:30,689 --> 00:20:33,000
I worked with Dan on All That.
366
00:20:33,689 --> 00:20:35,620
And then came The Amanda Show.
367
00:20:35,724 --> 00:20:38,206
And then came Drake and Josh.
368
00:20:38,310 --> 00:20:41,655
When I worked with Dan, I felt like
the bar was always being risen,
369
00:20:41,758 --> 00:20:44,758
and I had to reach that bar.
370
00:20:44,862 --> 00:20:48,965
You had to be as good, or better,
or put more hours in,
371
00:20:49,068 --> 00:20:51,379
or do longer things than Dan did.
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00:20:51,931 --> 00:20:54,137
And we all did it...
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00:20:54,862 --> 00:20:56,000
Or you got fired.
374
00:20:57,689 --> 00:21:00,689
The edit bay was like
a Starship Enterprise.
375
00:21:00,793 --> 00:21:03,551
Dan Schneider would sit
in the very back row
376
00:21:03,655 --> 00:21:05,586
and make comments the whole time.
377
00:21:05,689 --> 00:21:07,655
And they were sometimes very degrading.
378
00:21:08,620 --> 00:21:10,310
He would not talk to me directly.
379
00:21:10,413 --> 00:21:13,103
He would say to his associate producer,
380
00:21:13,206 --> 00:21:17,103
"Tell her to make this certain edit." Or,
"Tell her to trim this."
381
00:21:17,206 --> 00:21:21,310
Or, "Tell her to, you know,
start over," or "Better take."
382
00:21:22,344 --> 00:21:24,862
Dan was a golden child at the time,
383
00:21:24,965 --> 00:21:28,379
and there was always
the next show, the next show.
384
00:21:28,482 --> 00:21:33,172
He would run to the mailbox on Monday
mornings and get the Nielsen ratings.
385
00:21:33,275 --> 00:21:36,172
I think it put a lot of pressure on Dan
386
00:21:36,275 --> 00:21:38,482
to maintain some kind of number.
387
00:21:39,793 --> 00:21:44,068
I would be editing
from 8:00 a.m. to midnight.
388
00:21:44,172 --> 00:21:46,655
You didn't eat,
you didn't go to the bathroom.
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00:21:46,758 --> 00:21:48,344
Dan would be like,
390
00:21:48,448 --> 00:21:52,000
"Wait. Wait a minute." You know?
"Can you hold it? Can you wait a minute?"
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00:21:52,103 --> 00:21:57,655
So, every day was constant
pressure to get things done
392
00:21:57,758 --> 00:21:59,241
faster, faster, faster.
393
00:22:00,482 --> 00:22:02,724
One day, I keeled over,
394
00:22:02,827 --> 00:22:05,379
and I ended up
having to go to the hospital.
395
00:22:05,482 --> 00:22:08,241
And, as I'm leaving and curled over,
396
00:22:08,344 --> 00:22:12,448
I could hear someone say...
397
00:22:12,551 --> 00:22:15,896
"How is the show going to get finished?"
398
00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:19,448
And I just remember saying,
"I'll be right back!"
399
00:22:19,551 --> 00:22:21,206
"I'll be right back."
400
00:22:23,379 --> 00:22:27,068
And then, he promised me a job
and didn't give it to me.
401
00:22:27,172 --> 00:22:31,241
Not only was this job that Dan promised
me given to someone else,
402
00:22:31,344 --> 00:22:34,068
it was a younger man
403
00:22:34,172 --> 00:22:36,103
who had no experience.
404
00:22:36,206 --> 00:22:38,724
I was livid.
405
00:22:38,827 --> 00:22:42,482
I got up out of my chair
and I never came back.
406
00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:48,206
I had enough of promises from
Dan that didn't come true.
407
00:22:54,379 --> 00:22:57,000
He was just an egomaniac.
408
00:22:57,103 --> 00:23:00,241
You know, when everybody
is just kissing your butt,
409
00:23:00,344 --> 00:23:02,275
and the money's crazy,
410
00:23:02,379 --> 00:23:05,379
yeah, how do you avoid that?
I don't know how you avoid that.
411
00:23:05,482 --> 00:23:09,655
In the end, I was going through
a disaster in my marriage,
412
00:23:09,758 --> 00:23:11,689
and I was not on my game.
413
00:23:13,034 --> 00:23:15,517
And he never pulled me aside
414
00:23:15,620 --> 00:23:19,310
and said, "Hey, man.
Talk to me. What's going on?"
415
00:23:19,413 --> 00:23:22,793
Instead of giving me the note,
he would play little games on the set,
416
00:23:22,896 --> 00:23:24,586
almost trying to get me to quit.
417
00:23:25,965 --> 00:23:28,620
I was doing an episode of All That.
418
00:23:28,724 --> 00:23:31,965
We were in the middle of rehearsals,
419
00:23:32,068 --> 00:23:35,965
and Virgil got mad at something.
420
00:23:36,068 --> 00:23:38,482
I don't know what the exchange
was or what happened.
421
00:23:38,586 --> 00:23:40,448
The stage manager came to me and said,
422
00:23:40,551 --> 00:23:43,172
"You can go. We'll shoot it
and it'll be fine."
423
00:23:43,275 --> 00:23:45,482
I was like, "Okay.
424
00:23:45,586 --> 00:23:49,275
If Dan wants me to go, then have Dan
come over here and tell me that."
425
00:23:49,379 --> 00:23:52,000
And she said, "Look, man.
426
00:23:52,103 --> 00:23:53,172
You can go."
427
00:23:54,310 --> 00:23:56,517
I really considered Dan a friend.
428
00:23:56,620 --> 00:24:00,896
And the way it ended,
and the way he didn't talk to me,
429
00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:02,344
yeah, bothered me.
430
00:24:02,448 --> 00:24:03,413
A lot.
431
00:24:03,517 --> 00:24:04,517
To this day.
432
00:24:05,310 --> 00:24:06,344
Yeah.
433
00:24:07,931 --> 00:24:10,689
When Virgil left,
434
00:24:10,793 --> 00:24:13,000
you definitely felt a difference,
435
00:24:13,103 --> 00:24:15,931
'cause Virgil was always fighting for us,
436
00:24:16,034 --> 00:24:18,793
going to bat for us,
making sure we were okay.
437
00:24:19,655 --> 00:24:21,793
Virgil was very good about that.
438
00:24:23,620 --> 00:24:25,862
I was excited to start my third season.
439
00:24:25,965 --> 00:24:28,517
I thought my dream of being
able to take my family,
440
00:24:28,620 --> 00:24:31,551
quite literally, out the hood
was on its way.
441
00:24:31,655 --> 00:24:35,275
I kind of knew by this time
I was the real problem.
442
00:24:35,379 --> 00:24:38,172
Dan treated Bryan
443
00:24:38,275 --> 00:24:39,931
with caution.
444
00:24:40,034 --> 00:24:41,689
Like, he side-eyed him.
445
00:24:43,206 --> 00:24:48,241
And so, we're in New York City
expecting to go back.
446
00:24:48,344 --> 00:24:50,482
We get a call from the agent.
She was like, "Come down."
447
00:24:54,517 --> 00:24:56,206
And she told me
448
00:24:56,310 --> 00:24:58,620
Bryan wasn't being invited back.
449
00:25:01,172 --> 00:25:03,000
I was crying...
450
00:25:03,103 --> 00:25:06,862
Because I'm 13, 14,
and I've built this family,
451
00:25:06,965 --> 00:25:08,655
and now, I'm not a part
of the family anymore?
452
00:25:08,758 --> 00:25:11,241
Like, dang, I didn't even get
to say goodbye to my people.
453
00:25:11,344 --> 00:25:13,655
Like my Gio, my Jack, my Kyle.
454
00:25:13,758 --> 00:25:16,275
Like, when am I gonna see them again?
455
00:25:16,379 --> 00:25:19,931
I definitely blamed myself,
but I also kind of felt like...
456
00:25:20,034 --> 00:25:22,931
The times that my mom was,
you know, raising hell,
457
00:25:23,034 --> 00:25:25,620
that, maybe, that had a lot to do with
458
00:25:25,724 --> 00:25:27,620
the collective decision to kick me off.
459
00:25:27,724 --> 00:25:29,482
It was "Get them out of here!"
460
00:25:30,379 --> 00:25:31,655
And that's Hollywood.
461
00:25:31,758 --> 00:25:33,724
But I wasn't prepared for that.
462
00:25:37,103 --> 00:25:39,827
The day that we were told...
463
00:25:41,931 --> 00:25:46,172
In that moment, he grew up,
and his body language showed it.
464
00:25:46,275 --> 00:25:49,068
Just showed this man protruding out,
465
00:25:49,172 --> 00:25:52,965
and that's a man that didn't
trust his mom anymore.
466
00:25:53,068 --> 00:25:54,344
It ruined us.
467
00:25:57,758 --> 00:25:59,068
And you can't get that...
468
00:25:59,172 --> 00:26:01,448
Like, the moment, you can't get it back.
469
00:26:03,620 --> 00:26:06,896
Getting kicked off the show definitely
was the stage-setter
470
00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:09,862
for a lot of issues
that I still face today.
471
00:26:09,965 --> 00:26:12,551
As a Black man in therapy,
472
00:26:12,655 --> 00:26:15,413
a lot of issues
that I'm currently overcoming.
473
00:26:15,517 --> 00:26:18,068
But I feel like everything
happens for a reason.
474
00:26:18,172 --> 00:26:19,034
You know what I mean?
475
00:26:20,137 --> 00:26:24,034
Maybe I wasn't supposed to be
on set anymore.
476
00:26:24,137 --> 00:26:28,379
I had no idea
what I was saving my son from.
477
00:26:28,482 --> 00:26:30,068
It was a house of horrors.
478
00:26:30,896 --> 00:26:32,034
No kidding.
479
00:26:32,137 --> 00:26:34,241
House of horrors.
480
00:26:39,827 --> 00:26:41,758
Van Nuys division officers have arrested
the suspected child predator,
481
00:26:41,862 --> 00:26:44,103
28-year-old Jason Michael
Handy of Sherman Oaks.
482
00:26:44,206 --> 00:26:46,137
Handy has connections to the TV industry...
483
00:26:46,241 --> 00:26:49,758
Phone rang and it was
a woman on the other line.
484
00:26:49,862 --> 00:26:54,862
She announced herself as a detective
from the LA police department.
485
00:26:54,965 --> 00:26:59,241
And she said, "We'd like to speak
with Brandi about Jason Handy.
486
00:26:59,344 --> 00:27:02,241
Are you familiar with that name?"
487
00:27:02,344 --> 00:27:06,793
And I said, "I am very familiar
with that name."
488
00:27:08,793 --> 00:27:10,344
Jason Handy,
489
00:27:10,448 --> 00:27:13,344
he looked like a goofy
white boy from Nebraska.
490
00:27:15,241 --> 00:27:17,000
"Hey, guys, how you doing?
491
00:27:17,103 --> 00:27:19,206
Okay, We're going to sit now."
492
00:27:19,310 --> 00:27:22,068
Jason was a regular member of the crew.
493
00:27:22,172 --> 00:27:26,103
He even appeared on screen at the
end of a number of episodes.
494
00:27:27,620 --> 00:27:31,793
Jason Handy was a PA,
production assistant.
495
00:27:31,896 --> 00:27:35,034
I remember him being a pretty nice kid.
496
00:27:35,137 --> 00:27:37,896
He was around a lot
497
00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:40,310
because, as the PA,
498
00:27:40,413 --> 00:27:42,517
like, it was his job
499
00:27:42,620 --> 00:27:45,827
to basically walk the kids around the set,
500
00:27:45,931 --> 00:27:50,000
often outside of the presence
of their parents.
501
00:27:50,896 --> 00:27:52,586
There's Jason.
502
00:27:52,689 --> 00:27:56,344
Lisa and I would have Bible study on set,
and Jason would join us.
503
00:27:56,448 --> 00:28:01,448
He appeared to be this really
nice, genuine person.
504
00:28:01,551 --> 00:28:06,241
I had people write notes to me,
like a yearbook.
505
00:28:06,344 --> 00:28:08,620
And this is Jason.
506
00:28:08,724 --> 00:28:11,931
"Keep your trust in God
and don't forget me.
507
00:28:12,034 --> 00:28:17,034
You and all the kids are why I
work for free half the week.
508
00:28:17,137 --> 00:28:19,172
I love you. Jason."
509
00:28:22,172 --> 00:28:24,000
Law enforcement had been tipped off
510
00:28:24,103 --> 00:28:27,206
about Jason Handy's inappropriate
behavior towards children.
511
00:28:28,275 --> 00:28:30,827
So, in 2003, they searched his home.
512
00:28:30,931 --> 00:28:35,344
They find this enormous trove
of child pornography.
513
00:28:37,206 --> 00:28:39,482
"Over 10,000 images of children,
514
00:28:39,586 --> 00:28:44,586
including 1,768 images of young
girls in erotic poses,
515
00:28:44,689 --> 00:28:49,103
238 images of young girls
in sexually explicit poses,
516
00:28:49,206 --> 00:28:52,965
and two images of girls engaged
in "bondage activity".
517
00:28:53,068 --> 00:28:55,586
One of the CDs included
seven video files of minors
518
00:28:55,689 --> 00:28:57,793
engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
519
00:28:59,551 --> 00:29:04,827
The officer said, "We found Ziploc bags,
520
00:29:04,931 --> 00:29:07,620
each one with a girl's name on it,
521
00:29:07,724 --> 00:29:10,068
and each Ziploc bag had...
522
00:29:11,551 --> 00:29:14,034
Some kind of token in it."
523
00:29:14,137 --> 00:29:18,000
And she said that, "The reason I'm
calling is we found a Ziploc bag
524
00:29:18,103 --> 00:29:19,551
with Brandi's name on it.
525
00:29:20,931 --> 00:29:24,896
And there were letters
from her in that Ziploc bag."
526
00:29:28,172 --> 00:29:32,655
She had started describing some of the
other bags and what were in them.
527
00:29:32,758 --> 00:29:34,758
There was a Ziploc bag...
528
00:29:36,758 --> 00:29:38,862
With a girl's name on it.
529
00:29:38,965 --> 00:29:42,896
She was seven years old and it was a
pair of her underwear in that bag.
530
00:29:46,586 --> 00:29:48,793
She started telling me
that a lot of parents
531
00:29:48,896 --> 00:29:51,793
did not wanna be involved
in the investigation,
532
00:29:51,896 --> 00:29:54,517
and they said we would really
like to speak with Brandi.
533
00:29:57,344 --> 00:30:02,413
I didn't want people to lay
the blame on her in any way.
534
00:30:04,724 --> 00:30:10,448
But my decision in allowing Brandi
to talk with the detectives
535
00:30:10,551 --> 00:30:13,344
was that we would find justice for her,
536
00:30:13,448 --> 00:30:16,413
and that we would get closure.
537
00:30:16,517 --> 00:30:19,206
One of the most disturbing things
that law enforcement found
538
00:30:19,310 --> 00:30:22,689
when they searched Jason Handy's
home was Handy's own journals,
539
00:30:22,793 --> 00:30:28,034
where he spells out how he feels
about these young children.
540
00:30:28,758 --> 00:30:31,241
"I am a pedophile, full blown.
541
00:30:32,931 --> 00:30:37,827
I really have been giving in to my desire
for little girls these past few weeks."
542
00:30:37,931 --> 00:30:40,620
And, "I even struggle
on a day to day basis
543
00:30:40,724 --> 00:30:43,758
of how I can find a victim
to rape if I have to."
544
00:30:46,724 --> 00:30:51,965
Eventually, Brandi had to go to
court and testify against him.
545
00:30:53,758 --> 00:30:56,448
There was another family there.
546
00:30:56,551 --> 00:30:59,275
Their daughter was there
to testify against Jason.
547
00:31:00,655 --> 00:31:03,344
They fell into his trap also.
548
00:31:04,862 --> 00:31:08,275
It went a little bit further on their end.
549
00:31:08,379 --> 00:31:11,896
Jason Handy meets another girl on
a different Nickelodeon show,
550
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:13,068
Cousin Skeeter.
551
00:31:14,793 --> 00:31:16,551
She was just a guest star on the show.
552
00:31:16,655 --> 00:31:18,689
They became friendly and...
553
00:31:18,793 --> 00:31:21,206
On one day in the spring
or summer of 2000,
554
00:31:21,310 --> 00:31:23,103
when the girl was nine years old,
555
00:31:23,206 --> 00:31:26,310
she and Jason Handy were playing
video games in her bedroom.
556
00:31:31,034 --> 00:31:33,000
He kissed her twice
and, on the second kiss,
557
00:31:33,103 --> 00:31:35,068
he tried to force his tongue
inside her mouth.
558
00:31:35,172 --> 00:31:37,827
She backed away, feeling uncomfortable
about the kisses.
559
00:31:43,172 --> 00:31:46,241
He told her not to tell her
mother about the kisses.
560
00:31:46,344 --> 00:31:49,275
He had also told this young girl,
561
00:31:49,379 --> 00:31:53,275
"I can get you on other shows."
562
00:31:53,379 --> 00:31:56,275
So, there was that promise of...
563
00:31:56,379 --> 00:32:00,482
He's going to take her far
in this business.
564
00:32:02,620 --> 00:32:05,689
Ultimately, Jason
was sentenced to six years
565
00:32:05,793 --> 00:32:10,241
on two felony counts and one misdemeanor
involving two girls,
566
00:32:10,344 --> 00:32:11,724
one of whom was Brandi.
567
00:32:11,827 --> 00:32:13,482
- Brandi!
- Hi!
568
00:32:13,586 --> 00:32:15,965
Hello, Brandi!
569
00:32:16,068 --> 00:32:22,931
I no longer trusted anybody with
children in this industry.
570
00:32:24,206 --> 00:32:28,206
I felt abandoned.
571
00:32:30,206 --> 00:32:33,137
There was never any apology
572
00:32:33,241 --> 00:32:36,896
to Brandi herself for what happened.
573
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:42,310
Everything got swept under the rug.
574
00:32:45,241 --> 00:32:47,275
He was gone.
He was disappeared.
575
00:32:47,379 --> 00:32:50,931
And folks talked about it a little bit.
576
00:32:51,034 --> 00:32:54,620
But there's this sort of,
like, steamroller effect
577
00:32:54,724 --> 00:32:58,206
of the pressure of the environment...
578
00:32:58,862 --> 00:33:00,724
That the show must go on.
579
00:33:03,172 --> 00:33:07,275
Jason was arrested in April of 2003.
580
00:33:07,379 --> 00:33:12,241
Just four months later, another
member of the crew was arrested.
581
00:33:12,344 --> 00:33:15,724
Wait! Two pedophiles?
What is that?
582
00:33:15,827 --> 00:33:16,827
What is that?
583
00:33:23,689 --> 00:33:26,482
Look, there's Brian Peck,
584
00:33:26,586 --> 00:33:28,793
AKA Pickle Boy.
585
00:33:28,896 --> 00:33:33,724
Pickle Boy likes to hurt
and tease pickles.
586
00:33:36,344 --> 00:33:39,344
Pickle Boy was this, like, character
587
00:33:39,448 --> 00:33:43,655
that returned again and again and again
588
00:33:43,758 --> 00:33:46,344
throughout the seasons of All That.
589
00:33:46,448 --> 00:33:48,655
Pickle Boy appeared in every episode,
590
00:33:48,758 --> 00:33:50,758
and he's often
interacting with a celebrity.
591
00:33:50,862 --> 00:33:52,896
Hello!
592
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:54,206
Anyone?
593
00:33:55,724 --> 00:33:57,344
I gotta get something to eat!
594
00:34:04,241 --> 00:34:05,413
A pickle.
595
00:34:07,241 --> 00:34:08,758
We just went with it.
596
00:34:10,482 --> 00:34:13,896
Pickles? Look, this is the mind of
Dan Schneider. You gotta ask him.
597
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:15,827
There was this referencing to like,
598
00:34:15,931 --> 00:34:19,379
"Oh, yeah! Dan just has
a weird sense of humor."
599
00:34:19,482 --> 00:34:21,068
That was like...
600
00:34:21,172 --> 00:34:23,724
"The pickles don't look
like penises to you?"
601
00:34:29,827 --> 00:34:32,965
This is a children's television show.
602
00:34:33,068 --> 00:34:35,241
Wait, why is this in the show?
What is...
603
00:34:35,344 --> 00:34:38,137
What is the joke here exactly?
604
00:34:38,241 --> 00:34:40,241
There's this weird element of, like,
605
00:34:40,344 --> 00:34:43,655
they all were able to, like,
pull a fast one and get away with it.
606
00:34:44,862 --> 00:34:47,413
And that's, like, a part of the joke.
607
00:34:47,517 --> 00:34:51,000
Brian Peck worked closely with
Dan as this dialogue coach.
608
00:34:51,103 --> 00:34:55,413
And Brian is seen as this guy on set
who's just helping with the kids.
609
00:34:55,517 --> 00:35:00,000
He's very much one of the cogs
in the Dan Schneider machine.
610
00:35:00,103 --> 00:35:01,862
I'll see you in hell!
611
00:35:01,965 --> 00:35:03,793
Brian first connected with Dan's World
612
00:35:03,896 --> 00:35:06,862
playing small roles in Good
Burger and Kenan and Kel.
613
00:35:06,965 --> 00:35:08,965
Let's get these balls a bouncin'.
614
00:35:09,068 --> 00:35:10,724
And there are these
behind-the-scenes clips
615
00:35:10,827 --> 00:35:13,620
where you see Brian Peck
joking around on set.
616
00:35:13,724 --> 00:35:17,482
I... I'm not just Pickle Boy,
but I'm also a trained professional
617
00:35:17,586 --> 00:35:19,724
who works here on the set of All That.
618
00:35:19,827 --> 00:35:22,448
You can tell by my very
important-looking headset.
619
00:35:22,551 --> 00:35:24,482
I'm sorry. Hang on.
620
00:35:24,586 --> 00:35:26,275
Yeah, do you want fries with that?
621
00:35:26,379 --> 00:35:29,448
Everybody loved Brian.
622
00:35:29,551 --> 00:35:31,586
He was charming, he was clever,
623
00:35:31,689 --> 00:35:34,620
and he was around all the time.
624
00:35:34,724 --> 00:35:36,586
We played foosball with Brian.
625
00:35:36,689 --> 00:35:39,517
We played Nintendo with Brian.
626
00:35:39,620 --> 00:35:41,068
He was funny.
627
00:35:41,172 --> 00:35:43,758
It's also important to note, like,
all the parents loved him, too.
628
00:35:43,862 --> 00:35:46,379
Like, everybody trusted Brian.
629
00:35:46,482 --> 00:35:49,586
I would walk on Brian's back.
630
00:35:49,689 --> 00:35:52,034
I guess, looking at it now as an adult,
631
00:35:52,137 --> 00:35:53,965
that was kind of weird.
632
00:35:56,206 --> 00:35:59,724
"Hey, Giovonnie, thank you
for walking on my back.
633
00:35:59,827 --> 00:36:03,172
It really cut down on my
chiropractic bills."
634
00:36:03,275 --> 00:36:06,965
But there are moments where
Brian joking around on set
635
00:36:07,068 --> 00:36:08,689
feels a little bit off.
636
00:36:11,137 --> 00:36:12,413
Later, Kyle.
637
00:36:13,724 --> 00:36:16,275
But we were there for so many hours,
638
00:36:16,379 --> 00:36:18,172
you'd get comfortable with people...
639
00:36:24,103 --> 00:36:25,068
Until you're not.
640
00:36:28,448 --> 00:36:30,551
I remember, at the time,
641
00:36:30,655 --> 00:36:33,137
I think it was about, like,
two and a half years in,
642
00:36:33,241 --> 00:36:37,620
everyone went to Brian's house
for a barbecue.
643
00:36:37,724 --> 00:36:39,793
And his house was a little off.
644
00:36:41,413 --> 00:36:43,965
He had a room that was just
dedicated to, like,
645
00:36:44,068 --> 00:36:46,413
vintage toys and comic books,
646
00:36:46,517 --> 00:36:52,344
and he converted his garage into, like,
a Planet of the Apes shrine.
647
00:36:53,931 --> 00:36:59,137
I noticed a painting in the
room that stuck out to me
648
00:36:59,241 --> 00:37:02,034
because it had nothing to do
with Planet of the Apes.
649
00:37:02,137 --> 00:37:05,551
It was of a birthday clown
holding balloons.
650
00:37:05,655 --> 00:37:08,586
And Brian got very excited
when I asked him about it.
651
00:37:08,689 --> 00:37:12,344
He flipped the thing around
and, on the back, it said,
652
00:37:12,448 --> 00:37:16,206
"To Brian, I hope you enjoy the painting.
653
00:37:16,310 --> 00:37:20,000
Best wishes.
Your friend, John Wayne Gacy."
654
00:37:22,793 --> 00:37:25,827
It was a self-portrait of serial
killer John Wayne Gacy.
655
00:37:28,655 --> 00:37:31,241
At this point, I'm, like, 14.
656
00:37:31,344 --> 00:37:34,275
I didn't know, like, the details,
657
00:37:34,379 --> 00:37:36,724
but I knew, like, this guy
is a serial killer
658
00:37:36,827 --> 00:37:41,000
who, like, killed
a lot of young men and boys.
659
00:37:41,103 --> 00:37:43,965
My instinct was, like,
everyone has to see this.
660
00:37:44,068 --> 00:37:46,931
And so, like, all the parents and
the kids come into the room.
661
00:37:47,034 --> 00:37:49,448
And, then, Brian presents
the painting again.
662
00:37:51,206 --> 00:37:55,344
And Brian actually developed a
pen pal relationship with John.
663
00:37:55,448 --> 00:38:01,724
He kept, like, this pile of letters
and photos from John Wayne Gacy
664
00:38:01,827 --> 00:38:03,482
in his nightstand next to his bed.
665
00:38:03,586 --> 00:38:09,000
And he, like, pulls them out
and starts showing them to me.
666
00:38:09,103 --> 00:38:11,827
Your instinct is to give someone
the benefit of the doubt
667
00:38:11,931 --> 00:38:13,827
if you've known them for that long,
668
00:38:13,931 --> 00:38:18,344
even in the face of, like,
this really bad sign.
669
00:38:18,448 --> 00:38:22,758
It was one of those, like,
classic failures of group psychology,
670
00:38:22,862 --> 00:38:25,655
this man who is, like, trusted
671
00:38:25,758 --> 00:38:28,000
as basically a supervisor of kids...
672
00:38:30,034 --> 00:38:31,137
Is not safe.
673
00:38:34,103 --> 00:38:36,862
It was probably just, like,
several months after this.
674
00:38:36,965 --> 00:38:40,034
One Monday morning,
we have the table read.
675
00:38:41,724 --> 00:38:44,586
That table read was so weird.
676
00:38:44,689 --> 00:38:47,931
The energy was really off.
677
00:38:48,034 --> 00:38:50,586
There were people
that I had not seen before.
678
00:38:50,689 --> 00:38:54,793
And after we, like,
do the table read, Dan says,
679
00:38:54,896 --> 00:38:59,172
"Would it be possible for the parents
to leave the room for a moment
680
00:38:59,275 --> 00:39:02,000
so that our friends can talk to the kids?"
681
00:39:02,931 --> 00:39:04,689
We thought it was an announcement.
682
00:39:04,793 --> 00:39:08,275
Like, "Hey, we're gonna
go over some stuff."
683
00:39:09,758 --> 00:39:12,896
And this happens just after
Brian Peck is arrested
684
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:16,620
on 11 charges of child sexual abuse.
685
00:39:24,517 --> 00:39:27,793
And these charges
are related to a child actor.
686
00:39:34,103 --> 00:39:36,689
We were like, "What?
687
00:39:36,793 --> 00:39:38,758
Are you sure? Brian Peck?"
688
00:39:39,965 --> 00:39:42,724
And, then, these guys
689
00:39:42,827 --> 00:39:46,655
said something to the effect of, like,
"Brian isn't gonna be here anymore.
690
00:39:46,758 --> 00:39:49,931
Does anyone have anything
they'd like to say?"
691
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:57,965
That was one of the most
awkward silences of my life.
692
00:39:58,068 --> 00:39:59,413
Everyone was, like,
looking at everyone else.
693
00:39:59,517 --> 00:40:02,241
Basically wondering, like,
is someone gonna admit
694
00:40:02,344 --> 00:40:05,827
that, like, they were abused by Brian?
695
00:40:05,931 --> 00:40:08,206
Thinking about it now, as an adult,
696
00:40:08,310 --> 00:40:10,896
and having the parents leave the room...
697
00:40:12,758 --> 00:40:14,103
That was a little sus.
698
00:40:17,137 --> 00:40:23,310
At the time, that experience
was really disillusioning.
699
00:40:23,413 --> 00:40:27,896
It left a lasting impact on me in
terms of how the world works.
700
00:40:29,344 --> 00:40:31,689
We go through enough as child actors,
701
00:40:31,793 --> 00:40:34,448
and for us to not feel like
we have a voice,
702
00:40:34,551 --> 00:40:37,103
that's worse...
703
00:40:37,206 --> 00:40:39,620
'Cause you don't know
who you're supposed to trust.
704
00:40:42,034 --> 00:40:46,931
After this, like,
very awkward pregnant pause,
705
00:40:47,034 --> 00:40:50,793
the lawyerly fellows were like, "Okay,
thank you very much."
706
00:40:50,896 --> 00:40:53,000
And, then, Dan was like, "All right!"
707
00:40:53,103 --> 00:40:56,551
And then, everyone got up,
and that was that.
708
00:41:05,344 --> 00:41:08,379
To hear that Brian Peck
was a sexual predator,
709
00:41:08,482 --> 00:41:12,172
it made me wonder immediately about...
710
00:41:13,413 --> 00:41:16,793
Who was being hurt.
711
00:41:16,896 --> 00:41:21,862
Who it is, when it happened,
where it happened,
712
00:41:21,965 --> 00:41:24,379
I have no idea.
713
00:41:24,482 --> 00:41:27,793
It wasn't dealing with anybody on
the shows or anything, right?
714
00:41:27,896 --> 00:41:29,137
It was a child actor.
715
00:41:29,896 --> 00:41:31,620
On one of our shows?
716
00:41:31,724 --> 00:41:32,724
Yes.
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