Stranger Things Star Grace Van Dien Shares The Experience That Made Her Trade Hollywood For Streaming
Stranger Things star Grace Van Dien detailed an alleged experience from a recent movie that speaks to Hollywood power dynamics and a culture of abuse that was exposed due to Harvey Weinstein but persists today. As a result of this experience, Van Dien traded acting for streaming, where her story was publicly shared when the actor spoke on her desire to stream more and act less.
Acting, while rewarding, is a hard career both physically and mentally, with some actors expressing multiple levels of immense pressure, including a cast member who shared their anxiety struggles on the set of Stranger Things. So, working in a toxic environment on top of that can be detrimental to the success of the actors, their mental health, and the quality of work they can produce. It can be hard to perform well at a job when an employee feels they were hired for ulterior motives, which Stranger Things newcomer Van Dien details in one of her latest live streams as evidence to suggest why she has turned down acting roles.
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The Stranger Things actor expresses that “the last few projects” she worked on “didn’t have the best experiences” and recounts “one of the last movies” she did where “one of the producers” had “hired a girl he was sleeping with, and then he had her ask me to have a threesome with them.” The clip posted from Dexerto ends with the actor, now a streamer, coming to terms with the reality of her situation, stating, “so like, that’s my boss.” Joseph Quinn defended Van Dien against toxic fandoms regarding the harassment that both of them have received as Stranger Things newcomers, which speaks to the Netflix series as a phenomenon that opens all
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