Ariana Grande speaks about her time on 'Victorious'
While filming "Victorious," Ariana Grande said she thought some of the inappropriate jokes were "cool differentiation."
"Now looking back on some of the clips I’m like, ‘Damn, really? Oh s---.'" https://t.co/uS3Awqanyr
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Ariana Grande is the guest on the most recent episode of the “Podcrushed” podcast - co-hosted by Penn Badgley - and opens up about her relationship to child stardom.
“I was 14 and I flew out to audition with Liz Gillies for ‘Victorious,’ and we were all very excited and we got cast and it was the best news we could hear,” Grande says on “Podcrushed.” “We were young performers who just wanted to do this with our lives more than anything, and we got to and that was so beautiful. I think we had some very special memories, and we feel so privileged to have been able to create those roles and be a part of something that was so special for a lot of young kids.”
While grateful for the experience of getting to work on “Victorious,” Grande says that she is “reprocessing [my] relationship to it a little bit now, if that makes sense.”
Neither Grande nor the “Podcrushed” hosts bring up Dan Schneider by name nor 'Quiet on Set'. But Grande does say it’s been “devastating” to hear stories from former child actors, and referred to them as “survivors.”
“I think the environment needs to be made safer if kids are going to be acting, and I think there should be therapists,” Grande says. “I think parents should allowed to be wherever they want to be, and I think not only on kids’ sets. If anyone wants to do this, or music, or anything at this level of exposure, there should be in the contract something about therapy is mandatory twice a week or thrice a week, or something like that.”
While neither Grande nor her 'Victorious' co-stars appeared in the 'Quiet on Set' documentary, footage from the show often played as examples of how some of the content on Nickelodeon at the time was inappropriate. Grande does not reference any scenes in particular during her interview, but she does express a level of uncomfortableness in revisiting certain content from 'Victorious.'
“Specifically about our show, I think that was something that we were convinced was the cool thing about us - is that we pushed the envelope with our humor,” Grande says. “And the innuendos were…it was like the cool differentiation. And I don’t know, I think it just all happened so quickly and now looking back on some of the clips I’m like, ‘Damn, really? Oh shit’…and the things that weren’t approved for the network were snuck on to like our website or whatever.”
“I guess I’m upset, yeah,” Grande adds.
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