Grace Van Dien has been put off by the entertainment industry.
Growing up as Hollywood royalty, the great-granddaughter of movie legend Robert Mitchum, the 26-year-old has traveled a similar, albeit more modern, path to acting, first as a reality star with her famous family at age 9. and more recently in Strange things. But now he’s “turning down acting projects” after being sexually harassed in the workplace.
In a live video on the game streaming service Twitch, Van Dien, who played cheerleader Chrissy Cunningham in season 4 of the hit Netflix show, said: “The fact is that the last few projects I’ve worked on haven’t they made”. I have the best experiences with some of the people I’ve had to work for.”
She said while making a recent movie, “one of the producers,” whom she did not name, “hired a girl he was sleeping with and then asked me to do a threesome with them. So, like, that’s my boss.” .”
Van Dien said she refused, but “I cried” and “was very upset” about the bad experience at the workplace.
She said that she is going to focus on streaming on Twitch right now instead of new acting roles. On the platform, she broadcasts herself playing video games, including Fortnite and others, and has amassed over 200,000 followers.
He later added on Twitter: “As I get older my work priorities are changing.” She said that she is now “waiting for the right project” with “the right people” before jumping into something new. She added: “It’s nice to feel calm.”
Van Dien, the daughter of Casper Van Dien and Carrie Mitchum, who separated when she was a baby, appeared with her father and stepmother, Catherine Oxenberg, on the 2005 reality show. I married a princess. She then appeared with her father and Oxenberg in 2014. Sleeping Beauty, and then had many small roles in TV shows and movies. In 2017, she landed a leading role in the Netflix tween drama. greenhouse Academy, which he played until 2019, the same year he appeared on NBC The village. She also played Sharon Tate in the 2018 film. charlie says. As of 2020, Van Dien has made about seven different, mostly independent films.