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Why Leonardo DiCaprio Pops Up In Documentary About Drake Bell’s Sexual Assault by a Nickelodeon Dialogue Coach
In ID's docuseries 'Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV,' an archival clip is shown of DiCaprio and Brian Peck on the set of ABC's 'Growing Pains'
Among the many bombshells revealed in an upcoming docuseries about the toxic and dangerous culture on the sets of iconic children’s shows of the late 1990s and early 2000s comes a surprise mention of a major star — Leonardo DiCaprio.
Investigation Discovery’s four-part docuseries Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV, premiering across two nights on ID starting March 17 at 9 p.m. ET/PT, features multiple interviews with former child actors, most notably Drake Bell, who for the first time reveals that dialogue coach Brian Peck repeatedly molested him when he was 15.
In the series, Bell, now 37, and his father, Joe Bell, discuss their experiences working with Peck on Nickelodeon’s The Amanda Show as well as the events that led up to the sexual abuse and criminal charges against Peck.
Joe was managing his son's career in 1999 when he booked an acting job for Drake on The Amanda Show. The following year, on the first day of the show's second season, Drake and his father met Peck, a dialogue coach who befriended Drake and invited the actor to his house for acting lessons.
Joe says he was told that Peck was a skilled coach who could help Drake to book more acting gigs. People had told him that Peck had even worked with Leonardo DiCaprio, Joe says.
“He got along with everyone, everyone got along with him,” Drake says of Peck in the docuseries. “He'd been working in the industry for a very, very long time. He knew tons about the history of Hollywood and that's what I loved.”
While Joe says he was “always within eye distance” of Peck and Drake as they worked together, he started to become uncomfortable with the relationship that was developing between them.
"Unfortunately, I started seeing Brian start to just hang around Drake too much and it didn't sit well with me," Joe says. He claims that while his son was in his dressing room, Peck would touch Drake in front of others in ways that made him question Peck’s intentions.
Joe also says he frequently saw Peck wrap his arms around Drake's waist while feeding him lines, or place his hand on Drake's shoulder and "kind of run it down his arm." He compared the behavior to a video he once saw—which is also shown on Quiet on Set—of Peck with a young Leonardo DiCaprio behind the scenes on the 1980s ABC sitcom Growing Pains.
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Leonardo DiCaprio on 'Growing Pains' in 1991.
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"Leo as you know is the latest, hottest, hunkiest teen idol there is,” Peck is heard saying in the archival clip. DiCaprio then playfully showed off his muscles for the camera.
DiCaprio was not described in the docuseries as having been connected to sexual abuse or sex crimes committed by Peck.
After some time, Joe expressed his concerns about Peck with production and said he was uncomfortable with the dialogue coach, who also appeared on screen on The Amanda Show as "Pickle Boy," being around his son. But when he mentioned the troubling relationship between Peck and his son again, he claims he was "ostracized" on set and decided to "back off.”
The father and son then cut ties, and Peck stepped in. Peck would later accompany Drake to acting auditions in Los Angeles, which were at least an hour away from where Drake lived with his mother. Due to the distance, Drake would frequently spend the night at Peck's house, but one night when he was 15 everything changed.
“I was sleeping on the couch where I usually sleep and I woke up to him... I opened my eyes and I woke up and he was…he was sexually assaulting me,” Drake says. “And I froze, and was in complete shock and had no idea what to do or how to react.”
In 2004, in connection with Drake's case, Peck pleaded no contest to a charge of oral copulation with a minor under 16 as well as a charge of performing a lewd act with a 14- or 15-year-old. Bell's identity as the victim was not made public at the time. Peck spent 16 months in prison and was mandated to register as a sex offender.
Brian Peck.
But at his sentencing, multiple well-known actors sent letters on his behalf to the judge and some even attended his sentencing hearing, the docuseries reveals. It’s not clear how much about the charges those who spoke out in support of Peck knew at the time.
Some of those stars included Growing Pains alums Alan Thicke — who died in 2016 — and Joanna Kerns.
In a statement featured in Quiet on Set, Kerns expressed regret over having written her letter.
“I have now learned that my letter of support was based on complete misinformation,” Kerns said. “Knowing what I know now, I would never have written the letter.”
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Tom Keir Blyth (born February 2, 1995) is an English actor. He took an interest in drama from a young age, studying acting at the Television Workshop in Nottingham and at the Juilliard School in New York City.
He had his first lead role in the film Scott and Sid (2018), and has since starred as Glen Byam Shaw in Benediction (2021) and Coriolanus Snow in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023). On television, he plays the title role in the MGM+ series Billy the Kid (2022–).
Early life and education
Blyth was born in Birmingham in 1995 to Charlotte and Gavin Blyth. His father and paternal grandfather both worked in the media industry. Blyth has two younger siblings, a sister and a half-brother from his father's second marriage. Blyth spent his early childhood in Derbyshire. When his father was hired as a writer for the soap opera Emmerdale, the family moved to Tockwith, North Yorkshire.
After his parents divorced when he was 11, Blyth moved with his mother and sister to Woodthorpe, a suburb of Nottingham, to be closer to her parents. Blyth was upset by the move; his mother tried to enroll him in an acting class, though he was initially reluctant. When he was 12, he started work on a paper route as he wanted to provide for himself. He would visit his father's house and writing studio in Leeds two hours away. It was there that Blyth began to take an interest in storytelling, however his father made it clear that he detested nepotism and would not pull any strings on Blyth's behalf.
In Nottingham, Blyth attended Arnold Hill Academy and, later, Bilborough College. Blyth's mother and a family friend managed to get him an audition at Nottingham's Television Workshop. At age 15, Blyth was pulled out of school and told his father had been taken to the hospital. Blyth's father died of non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
After the loss of his father, Blyth returned to the Television Workshop and joined the National Youth Theatre, appearing in the productions Twelfth Night, Hay Fever, and A Clockwork Orange. Although he applied and was accepted to several drama schools, he turned them down.
In 2016, after spending a summer volunteering for an on-the-move charity fundraiser, Blyth decided to pursue acting as a career. At 21, he auditioned for the Juilliard School in New York City, where he would study on a scholarship and reside in Brooklyn. Whilst at Juilliard, Blyth appeared in productions such as Twelfth Night and Antony and Cleopatra. He was mentored by veteran actor Daniel Day-Lewis.
Career
In 2010, Blyth began his on-screen career with small supporting roles in the films Robin Hood and Pelican Blood. In the years after graduating from college, he appeared in the short films Fibs (2014), Fluffy (2015), and Wash Club (2016), all while working odd-jobs in Nottingham.
In 2018, Blyth had his first lead role as Sid Sadowskyj opposite Richard Mason in the autobiographical coming-of-age film Scott and Sid. That same year he appeared in Hazey Eyes' music video, Scars ft. Yoke Lore, as well as in the TV short Rise. Upon graduating from Juilliard in 2020, Blyth was cast as Glen Byam Shaw in the Terence Davies' biographical drama film Benediction, which premiered the following year. In 2022, Blyth began starring as the titular William Bonney in the MGM+ series Billy the Kid. For the role, Blyth learned how to ride, shoot, and talk like a "proper cowboy" with an Irish-American accent. That same year, Blyth made a guest appearance in an episode of the HBO series The Gilded Age.
On 16 May 2022, it was announced that Blyth had been cast as a young Coriolanus Snow opposite Rachel Zegler in the The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, an adaptation of The Hunger Games prequel of the same name. The film was released in November 2023. Blyth has upcoming roles in the film Discussion Materials, adapted from Bill Keenan's memoir of the same name, and an adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's novel A Farewell to Arms.
In March 2024, it was announced that Blyth, along with Russell Tovey, will star in Plainclothes, an independent film from writer-director Carmen Emmi. The film, which is based on true events, centers around an undercover cop in the 1990s who works to entrap and apprehend gay men until he finds himself drawn to one of his targets.
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Callum Robilliard Turner (born 15 February 1990) is a British actor. After beginning a career as a fashion model, he began working in film and television. He had lead roles in the drama film Queen and Country (2014) and the mystery miniseries Glue (2014), and played Theseus, the brother of Newt Scamander, in the fantasy films Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) and Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022).
Turner's performance in the mystery series The Capture (2019) earned him a nomination for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor. He has since starred as Joe Rantz in the biographical film The Boys in the Boat (2023) and as John "Bucky" Egan in the miniseries Masters of the Air (2024).
Early life
Turner was born on 15 February 1990 in Hammersmith and grew up in Chelsea, London. His middle name is after his mother's friend, poet David Robilliard, who died two years before Turner was born.
In an interview at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, Turner said his mother instilled in him a love of film and inspired him to become an actor.
Career
Turner started his career in 2010, modelling for companies such as Next and Reebok, and in his first acting role for the short student film Think of England for the University of Hertfordshire Film and Television programme.
He starred as Tony in Zero, a 2011 film directed by David Barrouk and produced by Michael Riley. In 2012, he starred alongside Waterloo Road star Ben-Ryan Davies in the short film Human Beings, directed by Jonathan Entwistle. He appeared in the French group The Shoes' 2012 music video "Time to Dance", with Jake Gyllenhaal. In 2012, Turner was in the ITV series Leaving, alongside Helen McCrory. Turner's performance was met with mostly positive reviews.[11] In December 2012, Turner starred with Andrew Scott and Martin Clunes in another ITV Drama, The Town, portraying Ashley, a troubled teen. In early 2013, Turner made a guest appearance in Showtime's historical-fiction drama television series, The Borgias as Calvino. He also starred in short film Alleycats as Eze, directed by Ian Bonhôte, and had a small role as Phillip in the second series of BBC One's Ripper Street.
In June 2012, Turner was cast in the lead role of John Boorman's film Queen and Country. Turner stated that Boorman revealed secret and personal events from his life, to help Turner to portray his character as best as he could. In E4's whodunit series Glue in 2014, he portrayed Eli, a traveller, whose brother is murdered. In 2014, he received a Breakthrough Brits award from the British Academy Film Awards.
Turner portrayed Alistair in Paul McGuigan's 2015 horror film Victor Frankenstein. He starred as Danny in the 2016 film Tramps, which premiered at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival. He portrayed Theseus Scamander in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald in 2018 and in Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore in 2022. He had a lead role as Shaun Emery in the 2019 BBC One mini-series The Capture.
In 2020, he portrayed Frank Churchill in the comedy-drama film Emma. In 2021, he portrayed Anthony O'Hare in the romantic drama The Last Letter from Your Lover alongside Shailene Woodley and Felicity Jones. In 2023, Turner portrayed Joe Rantz in The Boys in the Boat, directed by George Clooney.
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Personal life
From 2016 to 2019, he was in a relationship with the British actress Vanessa Kirby. Since 2024, he has been in a relationship with singer Dua Lipa.
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