Grace Van Dien, on the Stranger issues season 4 premiering in Might 2022, says she’ll be extra selective concerning the appearing jobs she takes after being sexually harassed by a producer on a latest film undertaking. (Photograph: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Grace Van Dien has been delay by the leisure business.

Raised as Hollywood royalty, the great-granddaughter of movie legend Robert Mitchum, the 26-year-old has taken an identical, albeit extra trendy path to appearing – first as a actuality TV star along with her well-known household at age 9 and extra lately in Stranger issues. However now she is “turning down appearing initiatives” after experiencing sexual harassment within the office.

In a reside video on the gaming streaming service Twitch, Van Dien, who performed cheerleader Chrissy Cunningham on Season 4 of the hit Netflix present, stated, “The very fact is, I have not carried out the previous couple of initiatives I have been engaged on.” I haven’t got the very best experiences with a few of the folks I needed to work for.”

She stated whereas making a latest film, “one of many producers,” who she did not title, “employed a woman he slept with after which he made her ask me to have a threesome with them. So That is my boss.”

Van Dien stated she refused, however “I cried” and “was so upset” by the poor work expertise.

She stated she’s going to now give attention to Twitch streaming as a substitute of recent appearing roles. On the platform, she streams herself enjoying video video games together with Fortnite and others and has constructed up over 200,000 followers.

She later added on Twitter, “As I grow old my work priorities change.” She stated she is now “ready for the fitting undertaking” with “the fitting folks” earlier than embarking on one thing new. She added, “It is good to really feel calm.”

Van Dien, the daughter of Casper Van Dien and Carrie Mitchum, who break up when she was a child, appeared along with her father and then-stepmother, Catherine Oxenberg, within the 2005 actuality present I married a princess. She subsequent appeared along with her father and Oxenberg in 2014 Sleeping Magnificence, after which had many small roles in TV reveals and films. In 2017, she landed a lead function in Netflix’s tween drama greenhouse Academy, which she performed till 2019 – the identical 12 months she appeared on NBC’s The village. She additionally performed Sharon Tate within the 2018 film Charlie says. Since 2020, Van Dien has made seven completely different movies, most of them independently.


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