Kenan Thompson says he feels for individuals who had been mistreated whereas working as baby 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 Corridor Present’ Wednesday, the place he was plugging his “Good Burger 2” film — which, sarcastically, is a Nickelodeon manufacturing — and he was requested level clean what he product of 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 communicate on issues that I’ve by no means witnessed … As a result of all this stuff occurred after I left, principally, 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 unique showrunner — in different phrases, KT is saying he did not cope with Schneider very a lot.
Of all of the alleged abuse and weirdo stuff that was supposedly happening at Nick — inappropriate jokes for youths, and so forth. — Kenan says, “I wasn’t actually conscious of lots of it, however my coronary heart goes out to anyone that’s been victimized or their households, you understand what I imply? I imply I believe it’s a very good factor that the doc is out and it’s placing issues on show that should be, you understand, tales that should be instructed for this, accountability sake.”
He says it is a powerful factor to digest, as a result of he personally has fond reminiscences of his Nick days … regardless that, lots of his costars clearly had a nasty expertise with the community.
Kenan is simply the newest former baby star to communicate out in regards to the documentary — Josh Peck mentioned one thing final week, this in mild of his costar Drake Bell detailing the abuse he endured whereas working for Nick.
In fact, there are scores of different ex-child stars now we have but to listen to from … huge ones too.