Christy Carlson Romano reveals she turned down an offer to share her story on Quiet on Set, blasting producers as ‘trauma tourists’
Just over a week after the new episode of Quiet on Set debuted, a former Nickelodeon star revealed that she turned down an offer to work on the series.
The 40-year-old actress and activist, who starred in Nickelodeon’s Even Stevens and voiced the title character in Kim Possible, blasted the producers of the ID series as ‘trauma terrorists’.
She revealed in an upcoming interview for Mayim Bialik’s Breakdown podcast (via Weekly entertainment), that she hasn’t even seen the documentaries yet.
“I think it’s extremely triggering. I have made a choice for several reasons to opt out of viewing these images. I know a lot of the details, I know a lot of the people involved,’ Romano admitted.
‘I have chosen not to talk about this with anyone, including ID who originally came to me to see if I would be interested in a doctor like this. I don’t know if it was this doctor (silence on set),’ she said.
Just over a week after the new episode of Quiet on Set debuted, a former Nickelodeon star revealed that she turned down an offer to work on the series
The 40-year-old actress and activist, who starred in Nickelodeon’s Even Stevens and voiced the title character in Kim Possible, blasted the producers of the ID series as ‘trauma terrorists’
“But I was contacted when three years ago I started advocating for my own YouTube channel with my own experiences, which I did in different and separate episodes, so to speak,” she said.
“I started getting approached by a lot of reality show-type producers and they’d say, ‘Hey, how do we do this?’ and I’d fight them by saying, ‘Hey, guys, the only way we’d it on, is if we talk about how do we fix it?”’ she admitted.
She added of the documentaries, “I felt like there was no hope that was put into the narrative.”
Romano added that the producers of the series are ‘people who do not belong to our society. They are outsiders’.
“And maybe they, maybe if they knew where to put money to (fix) a problem, they would do it, but again, a lot of this has been perceived in a way that’s — it’s outside of baseball. It “is not inside baseball, it’s outside baseball. It’s trauma tourists,” she said of Quiet on Set producers.
She added that another former child actor-turned-activist, Alyson Stoner, ‘is an amazing advocate in this space, has really instilled in me the importance of understanding trauma porn.’
“I actually have a degree from Columbia in film, and you know, we know that the art of montage and the collision of images is going to incite a certain kind of emotion,” she said.
“That’s what documentary filmmaking in social movements is supposed to do. And so we are so manipulated by the media and we have so many little cuts of misinformation and things that are thrown around that the echo chambers, to me, are not helpful, Romano continued.
“But I was approached when three years ago I started advocating for my own YouTube channel with my own experiences, which I did in different and separate episodes, so to speak,” she said
“And maybe they, maybe if they knew where to put money to (fix) a problem, they would do it, but again, a lot of this has been perceived in a way that’s — it’s outside of baseball. It “is not inside baseball, it’s outside baseball. It’s trauma tourists,” she said of Quiet on Set producers
Romano made her Broadway debut in 1998 aged just 14 in the musical Parade, and just two years later she starred in Disney’s Even Stevens with Shia LaBeouf
The show ran for three seasons from 2000 to 2003, and she would pull double duty voicing the title character on Disney’s Kim Possible, which ran from 2002 to 2007
Quiet on Set was directed and produced by Mary Robertson and Emma Schwartz, who previously worked together on Frontline and The New York Times Presents.
Romano made her Broadway debut in 1998 at just 14 years old in the musical Parade, and just two years later she starred in Disney’s Even Stevens with Shia LaBeouf.
The show ran for three seasons from 2000 to 2003, and she would pull double duty voicing the title character on Disney’s Kim Possible, which ran from 2002 to 2007.
She currently hosts the podcast Vulnerable, where she interviews former child stars, and last year launched a podcast company, PodCo, which features several rewatch podcasts.