Each Bryan Hearne and Raquel Lee Bolleau revealed that they usually felt discriminated towards engaged on their Nickelodeon initiatives, and that their emotions concerning doubtlessly humiliating content material merely weren’t taken significantly. Elsewhere within the docuseries, Hearne spoke about a few of his worst moments, together with one the place he was lined in peanut butter for the present “Double Dare” and laid susceptible on the bottom as canine licked the peanut butter off of him.
In that fifth episode, although, Hearne stated he wasn’t conscious of Lee Bolleau’s story … and he was horrified. “Oh, my God,” he instructed Lee Bolleau. “That hit me actually arduous. To only be instructed, ‘You do not matter’ in that second you are being spit on. You are saying, ‘This particular person issues greater than you; take it,'” Hearne stated.
Hearne’s mom Tracey Brown additionally chimed in with an necessary distinction in regards to the dynamic between younger actors like Amanda Bynes and younger Black actors like Hearne and Lee Bolleau. “And there is a cultural distinction, too, proper? We’re culturally skilled to ‘take it.’ They don’t seem to be,” Brown mused. “I used to be disenchanted there wasn’t one other Black boy on set. That is necessary. The camaraderie is necessary, not to mention the likeness. It is not even simply Black, it is Indigenous, it is Hispanic; you possibly can’t simply have the one representing the entire world. It would not make sense to me.”