Ariana Grande speaks about her time on 'Victorious'

[pink_disco]

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
- Variety (@Variety) June 12, 2024

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[anyasicon]

Good for her for saying something. And good for her for saying enough at a time she felt ready for.

[progression]

“We were young performers who just wanted to do this with our lives more than anything

[moirasrose]

Theatre degree here. This 100%.

I was so put down by one particular professor that I haven’t done theatre since and wouldn’t even go to shows.

I couldn’t even get through Quiet on set because the first episode triggered memories of him.

[afeelingunacted]

Big hugs.

I went to a performing arts high school and it burned me for a decade +. After years being out of it I started volunteering on the administrative side and going to plays again. It's healing.

Hope you too are able to heal.

[moirasrose]

Big hugs to you too.

I recently saw Hadestown and it felt like it set something on fire in me that was long gone. Unfortunately, I still live in the town I went to college in, and you probably know how small theatre communities can be so I don’t know when I’ll be able to step back into that world but I hope I am one day.

I’m glad you’ve been able to start healing <3

[mplsmuse]

This makes sense. There are a lot of things that I experienced as a young woman (legal and not) said or done by older men that I didn't think much of in the moment but as a grown-ass, middle-aged woman...I am so disgusted by. We are conditioned to accept so much inappropriate behavior. It makes sense that her frame of reference is changing as she gets older.

[originaru]

i hope she wanted to talk about it and this was discussed beforehand. i know some people think as the biggest star out of the bunch she has some sort of duty to open the doors, but the burden of proof should never be placed on a victim's shoulders.

there were plenty of actual adults working on the sets who could have and should have taken on the risks to speak up, not the actors who were children at the time.

[daredevilwolf]

I watched a youtuber do a retrospective on bojack horseman with his friend and they mentioned that all of the child aged characters were all voiced by high pitched adults or adult women who could do young boy voices and i'm like i didn't even realize it but it makes sense that a show on the evils of hollywood would not subject other kids to this