Quiet on Set: How the Filmmakers Finally Exposed the Dark Side of Nickelodeon
glamour.com, in the 2000s.The clips featured then-teenagers like Ariana Grande and Jamie Lynn Spears engaging in acts that appeared to be of an “arguably sexual” manner, Robertson, the founder of the production studio Maxine Productions, tells me.
In one, Grande pours water on herself while laying upside down in a bed. In another, Spears is squirted in the face by, let’s just say, a viscous liquid.
The clips had aired without a fuss at the time, but now that people were seeing them online, they were beginning to reexamine them.“[They] were saying, did I grow up watching all this sexual innuendo but didn't know it because I was a kid?” Robertson says. “And if that's the case, how much of this was actually on these shows that I was consuming so regularly?
What adults shaped this? What adults said no to it? What adults said yes to it? If these videos were made, what does that suggest about other improper, uncomfortable, and potentially illegal behavior behind the scenes?”So, Robertson and her colleague, journalist and documentary filmmaker Emma Schwartz, began digging.
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