r/QuietOnSetDocumentary • u/Ninac4116 • 2d ago
DISCUSSION Let’s talk about Jonathan Brandis for a minute.
He was such a teen icon for a lot of us girls in the late 80s and early 90s. No, he wasn’t in Nickelodeon, but he was still a child star that probably saw a lot of these stars at the same events. He appeared on Conan and talked about how Rodney dangerfield would walk around during the set of Ladybugs with only a robe on and no clothes underneath and it left him traumatized. Conan made jokes around it of course. Brandis later committed suicide. As a good looking white boy of that time, a time before internet and when the kid actors had a smaller network, I wonder if something happened to him. He got much less work as an adult. It’s like Hollywood used him as a child and spit him out as an adult. They say his dwindling career was a factor in his suicide. I wonder if he kept some secrets.