Kenan Thompson says he feels for individuals who have been mistreated whereas working as youngster stars at Nickelodeon again within the day — however he additionally makes clear … he simply wasn’t one among them.
The comic hopped on the ‘Tamron Hall Show’ Wednesday, the place he was plugging his “Good Burger 2” film — which, satirically, is a Nickelodeon manufacturing — and he was requested level clean what he fabricated from all of the horror tales that surfaced in ‘Quiet on Set.’
Kenan says, “It’s a troublesome topic as a result of, it’s powerful for me as a result of I can’t actually converse on issues that I’ve by no means witnessed … Because all this stuff occurred after I left, mainly, and Dan [Schneider] wasn’t actually on ‘Kenan & Kel’ like that.”
He goes on to say Dan Schneider may get credit score as a creator of the sequence, however there was really a special showrunner — in different phrases, KT is saying he did not take care of Schneider very a lot.
Of all of the alleged mistreatment occurring at Nick, Kenan says, “I wasn’t actually conscious of a whole lot of it, however my coronary heart goes out to anyone that’s been victimized or their households, you recognize what I imply? I imply I believe it’s a great factor that the doc is out and it’s placing issues on show that have to be, you recognize, tales that have to be informed for this, accountability sake.”
He says it is a powerful factor to digest, as a result of he personally has fond recollections of his Nick days … despite the fact that, a whole lot of his costars clearly had a nasty expertise with the community.
Kenan is simply the most recent former youngster star to converse out in regards to the documentary — Josh Peck stated one thing final week, this in mild of his costar Drake Bell detailing the abuse he endured whereas working for Nick.
Of course, there are scores of different ex-child stars we’ve got but to listen to from … massive ones too.