Josh Peck responds to Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV

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Josh Peck (The Amanda Show, Drake & Josh) posted a response to the Quite on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV docuseries to Instagram:

I finished the Quiet on Set documentary and took a few days to process it. I reached out to Drake privately, but want to give my support for the

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[crystalfairie]

Slightly o/t, but this is why Chris Columbus (director of Home Alone, Mrs Doubtfire and the first 2 HP films) has my respect. He fought WB over their attempts to exploit Emma, Dan and Rupert and told them if their parents weren’t allowed on set, no movies. He made sure all the parents, esp Dan’s, knew that the kids had a choice and if the kids were done, so was he. Apparently they tried to pressure him and he said he’d walk, bring the cast and crew, and make sure everyone knew what WB was playing at. WB backed down.

[genbu_no_miko24]

I remember someone here saying his experience with Macaulay Culkin’s dad on Home Alone informed him on parents.

He liked Macaulay and had no problems with him but he didn’t like how his dad Kit treated him on set so going into HP, he set some ground rules and really vetted the parents. I think they mentioned he wouldn’t pick kids that had obvious stage parents and wouldn’t put their best interests first.

[crystalfairie]

That may have been me re: Kit.

It’s mentioned at the HP set tour how quick Chris caught on to parents etc, and how protective he was of all the kids, especially the trio. He apparently had frequent chats with them to prepare them and their parents for what potentially (and did) come over the next decade, set up financial guidance, had counsellors available etc.

[loonyluna26]

Omg I love Chris.What was WB trying to do?

[crystalfairie]

They were telling Chris to make the kids work longer hours than needed, to ignore the entertainment laws set up to protect kids etc.

They tried to remove parents from sets and more. Apparently Chris, and to a degree, Warwick Davis (who technically was a child star as well, as he started in Star Wars at 11), battled them and told them to be quiet or they’d go.

I was at the HP set tour not long ago (it puts no money into a certain person’s pocket), and several of the staff there worked on the films. They have nothing but amazing things to say about Chris, but the compliments decline as the directors change.