Just over a week after the premiere of the new episode of Quiet on Set, a former Nickelodeon star revealed that he turned down an offer to work on the series.
The 40-year-old actress and activist, who starred on Nickelodeon’s Even Stevens and voiced the lead character in Kim Possible, criticized the producers of the ID series as “trauma terrorists.”
She revealed in an upcoming interview for Mayim Bialik’s Breakdown podcast (via Entertainment Weekly) who hasn’t even seen the docuseries yet.
‘I think it’s extremely triggering. I have made the decision for several reasons to choose not to view those images. “I know many details, I know many of the people involved,” Romano admitted.
“I chose not to talk about this with anyone, including ID, who originally came to see me to see if I would be interested in a doctor like this. I don’t know if it was this doctor (Quiet on Set),” he said.
Just over a week after the premiere of the new episode of Quiet on Set, a former Nickelodeon star revealed that he turned down an offer to work on the series.
The 40-year-old actress and activist, who starred on Nickelodeon’s Even Stevens and voiced the lead character in Kim Possible, criticized the producers of the ID series as “trauma terrorists.”
“But when I started championing my own YouTube channel three years ago, they approached me with my own experiences that I did in different, separate episodes, so to speak,” he said.
“A lot of reality TV producers started coming up to me and saying, ‘Hey, how do we do this?’ And I fought them by saying, ‘Hey, guys, the only way we’re going to do this is if we talk about how to fix it.'” He admitted.
She added of the docuseries: “I felt like there was no hope in the narrative.”
Romano added that the producers of the series are “people who do not belong to our community.” These are strangers.’
‘And maybe they, maybe if they knew where to invest the money’ [fixing] A problem, they would, but again, a lot of this has been perceived in a way that is outside of baseball. It’s not inside baseball, it’s outside baseball. “These are traumatized tourists,” he said of the Quiet on Set producers.
She added that another former child actress turned activist, Alyson Stoner, “is a fantastic advocate in this space and has really impacted me on the importance of understanding trauma porn.”
“I actually have a degree in film from Columbia and we know that the art of montage and the collision of images is going to incite a certain type of emotion,” he said.
‘That’s what documentary film is supposed to do in social movements. And that’s why we’re so manipulated by the media, and we have so many little snippets of misinformation and things that get thrown out there, that echo chambers, to me, are not helpful,” Romano continued.
“But they approached me when I started championing my own YouTube channel three years ago with my own experiences that I did in different, separate episodes, so to speak,” he said.
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‘And maybe they, maybe if they knew where to invest the money’ [fixing] A problem, they would, but again, a lot of this has been perceived in a way that is outside of baseball. It’s not inside baseball, it’s outside baseball. “These are traumatized tourists,” he said of the Quiet on Set producers.
Romano made his Broadway debut in 1998 at just 14 years old in the musical Parade, and just two years later he starred in Disney’s Even Stevens with Shia LaBeouf.
The show ran for three seasons, from 2000 to 2003, and she would do double duty by voicing the title character on Disney’s Kim Possible, which aired from 2002 to 2007.
Quiet on Set was directed and produced by Mary Robertson and Emma Schwartz, who previously worked together on Frontline and The New York Times Presents.
Romano made his Broadway debut in 1998, at just 14 years old, in the musical Parade, and just two years later he starred in Disney’s Even Stevens with Shia LaBeouf.
The show ran for three seasons, from 2000 to 2003, and she would do double duty by voicing the title character on Disney’s Kim Possible, which aired from 2002 to 2007.
He currently hosts the podcast Vulnerable, where he interviews former child stars, and last year launched a podcast company, PodCo, which features numerous rewatchable podcasts.