Brenda Song has described the moment she collapsed while filming a scene in a hot tub that had been heated to 250 degrees Fahrenheit on The Suite Life of Zack and Cody.
The 38-year-old actress, who played hotel heiress London Tipton in the Disney Channel sitcom, said she felt “underpaid and overworked” on the show.
Appearing on former castmate Dylan Sprouse’s Wildmen podcast, she said: “I remember just breathing really heavy, and my chest felt really hot.
“I just went, ‘Am I having a panic attack?’ And then all of a sudden I remember stars and, gone.
The Suite Life ran from 2005 to 2008, following twins Zack and Cody — played by Dylan and his brother Cole — and their single mother’s lives at the Tipton Hotel.
The series sparked a spinoff, The Suite Life on Deck, from 2008 to 2011.
Looking back on the collapse, Song said: “I think the only thing that was hard about that time was I feel like we were underpaid and overworked.
“But Disney did give us a platform to be sitting here right now. So it’s very hard to complain about certain things.”
She admitted some parts of working on the show are “black holes” for her now, and she doesn’t “remember years of [her] life”.
Reflecting on the issue of residuals, she added: “I look at that time and I was like, we paid them.
“I always say this about my time at Disney, is like, I know everybody has their own journey [because]… I always say, like, I have a boring tale… I had a lovely time.”
Dylan has also spoken about pay from the series, recently describing the show as “extremely underfunded” despite its popularity, while he felt like “the ugly duckling” for network bosses.
He claimed the “only residual cheque” he ever got for Suite Life was “a crossover episode with Hannah Montana for five cents”.
Dylan said on his podcast: “Imagine that. In a time where residuals would have been great. Not a single paycheque for being arguably one of the most popular shows.
“Back then there weren’t any streaming services, right? The only things you could watch were a certain amount of channels.
“And Disney Channel itself prided itself on being a channel where you could turn it on safely for kids, where there’s no advertisements, there’s no anything to cross over, and all you’re going to watch are shows at that age demographic.”
Their former castmate Phill Lewis, who played hotel manager Mr. Mosby, noted the programme was broadcast in 90 different countries and episodes were constantly being watched.
He said: “We were on four or five times a night because kids would just rewatch this. They put two episodes on on a Tuesday and they would run them just throughout the whole day.”
Dylan previously claimed his early success was “child labour”.
He said on his podcast: “It’s child labour. When you work a career at that age, some kids used to work in coal mines and guard the minecart door when they were 15; we just sang and danced. It’s still child labour.”
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