Stranger Things star Grace Van Dien reveals she won't be acting in movies for a while, here's why

Made popular for her roles in the Netflix series Stranger Things and Greenhouse Academy, Grace Van Dien is one of her generation's favourite actors. During a stream on the popular streaming platform Twitch, the 26-year-old confides in her subscribers about a recent bad experience on a film set.

Grace Van Dien, star of Stranger Things and Greenhouse Academy

It was her role playing Chrissy Cunningham in the hit series Stranger Thingsthat introduced Van Dien to the general public. The actor is also part of the cast of another series distributed by Netflix, Greenhouse Academy. She plays one of the main characters, Brooke Osmond.

Van Dien is a fan of the platform Twitch where users can broadcast live streams, which she does regularly to stay close to her followers. The latest was this Tuesday 7 March, reports Vanity Fair. During the stream, the young actor recounted a bad experience she recently lived through during a shooting with a film producer.

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Producer asked her to have a threesome

Grace Van Dien confides that she has refused four movie roles in recent weeks. The young woman says she wants to focus on Twitch lives and explains why. She begins by saying that:

I have seen that some people are upset with me for turning down acting projects and deciding to stream more, but the fact of the matter is the last few projects I’ve worked on I didn’t have the best experiences with some of the people I had to work for.

Van Dien then claims that a producer made 'unwanted sexual advances toward her on set'. She reveals:

One of the last movies I did, one of the producers asked me to… like, he hired a girl that he was sleeping with and then he had her ask me to have a threesome with them. So… that’s my boss. And then I didn’t and I cried and I was so upset.

For now, the young woman prefers to stay away from this environment and take refuge in streaming, which she believes is 'better for your mental health'. She emphasised:

I get to stay inside my house and play video games and I don’t have my boss asking me to have sex with them.

This article has been translated from Ohmymag FR.

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Vanity Fair: ''Stranger Things' Star Grace Van Dien Is ‘Turning Down Acting Projects’ After Alleged Sexual Advances From Movie Producer'