Drake Bell and Josh Peck, the celebs of the enduring Nickelodeon present Drake & Josh, reunited to speak on Peck’s podcast just lately, and opened up in regards to the Quiet on Set documentary that aired final yr.
What did Drake and Josh say about Quiet on Set?
The pair just lately reconnected for Peck’s podcast, Good Guys, to debate their relationship, what they’re each to this point, and 2024’s Quiet on Set: The Darkish Aspect of Children TV, a five-part documentary collection that detailed a number of the poisonous behind-the-scenes points with youngsters’s tv programming within the Nineteen Nineties-2000s.
So far as the documentary goes, Bell detailed how tense it was to have Brian Peck (unrelated to Josh), the person who was arrested in 2003 for sexually assaulting Bell in 2001, on set whereas an investigation was nonetheless happening.
“After we shot the pilot, we have been in the midst of the investigation, however no one [knew] something as a result of Brian hadn’t been arrested,” Bell mentioned. “The worst half about it [was] having the monster in [my] protected place,” on the set the place he and Josh would “goof round and placed on our masks and wigs and make-up and make individuals giggle. On daily basis I bought there [and] the monster was there. … He’s strolling round set.”
In 2004, Peck pled no contest to 2 costs, and was sentenced to 16 months in jail, in addition to having to register as a intercourse offender for all times. Throughout their dialog, Josh Peck mentioned that on the time as a 14-year-old, he had no concept something had occurred, however seeing issues within the documentary opened his eyes.
“In watching the documentary at 38, as a father, as a grown-up, a lot was revealed to me of what you needed to undergo,” Josh Peck mentioned. “I can’t even think about that.”
Bell and Peck additionally spoke in regards to the stress that the trial brought on Bell in 2004. In response to Bell, he was continually confused in regards to the trial probably having a damaging impression on the standing of their present, and that he was growing scabs on his head as he confused in regards to the trial going public.
“When this drops, is Josh going to take a look at me and be like, ‘Bro, you took our dream away?’ … Like, are we going to lose our present?” Bell mentioned. “Dude, I used to be dropping my hair. Like, I had these large scabs on my head.”