" It just all happen so quickly , and now , look back on some of the clips , I ’m like , ' Damn , really ? ' I reckon about if I had a girl . "
Warning: Discussion of childhood exploitation.
Ariana Grandespoke about “reprocessing” her relationship to child stardom following the release of the docuseriesQuiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV.
Ariana was just 14 when she was cast as Cat Valentine in the Nickelodeon showVictorious, created bycontroversialshowrunner Dan Schneider. Some of her time on the show has beenreexaminedin the post-Quiet on Setconversation, especially given the sexual innuendos between the characters and several disturbing online extras that show a teenage Ariana doing suggestive actions.
In a newepisodeof the podcastPodcrushed, Ariana was asked about her current relationship with child acting. She replied, “Obviously, my relationship with it has and is currently and has been changing, and I’m reprocessing a lot of what the experience was like.”
“I think that the environment needs to be made safer if kids are going to be acting,” she continued. “I think there should be therapists. I think there should be parents allowed to be wherever they wanna be. Not only on kids' sets — I think if anyone wants to do this or music or anything at the level of exposure that it means to be on TV or to do music with a major label or whatever, there should be in the contract something about ‘therapy is mandatory twice a week.'”
Ariana added that she spoke to producer Max Martin about the topic, as he is someone who she talks to about the “stressful parts” of fame. She continued, “A lot of people don’t have the support that they need to get through performing at that level at such a young age, but also dealing with some of the things that the survivors who’ve come forward. And there’s not a word for how devastating that is to hear about.”
Later, she continued, “There’s also a strange pattern that occurs where it’s really taken advantage of how much it means to the young performer to get a laugh from [the crew watching]. You’re like, ‘Oh shit. I’m doing something great. This is funny. This is good!'”
“Speaking specifically about our show, I think that was something that we were convinced was the cool thing about us. We pushed the envelope with our humor and the innuendos were…we were told and convinced that it was the cool differentiation,” Ariana explained. “It just all happened so quickly, and now, looking back on some of the clips, I’m like, ‘Damn, really? Oh shit.’ I think about if I had a daughter.”
Emphasizing that “so many adults” had to approve what went on, she continued, “The things that weren’t approved for the network were snuck onto to, like, our website or whatever it was. That is another discovery. I’m going into it, I guess I’m upset.”
You can read other actors’ responses toQuiet on Sethere. You can listen to the full interview with Arianahere.
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