Netflix actress Grace van Dien is now dedicating herself to Twitch and becoming a streamer.
More and more stars and celebrities have strayed onto the Twitch streaming platform in recent years. Among others, Formula 1 driver Lando Norris, actor Jay Mewes (of Jay & Silent Bob) and rapper Snoop Dogg stream here regularly.
Netflix star Grace van Dien has now left acting entirely to focus on her Twitch career. But the reasons behind this decision are disturbing.
Actress describes dark side of film industry
Who is that anyway? Grace van Dien is a young actress, best known for her Netflix productions. She starred on the teen drama Greenhouse Academy and last season’s Stranger Things garnered a following as the popular but troubled cheerleader Chrissy Cunningham.
Now Grace also wants to conquer Twitch: The young actress was already active as a streamer for a short time when Stranger Things – Season 4 was released in summer 2022 and was able to gain almost 300,000 followers in record time.
However, after that brief foray into streaming, Twitch has now become a real career option and Grace is back online regularly. She talks, paints, builds furniture and plays Valorant – which is what typical Twitch streamers do. You can find them under the nickname BlueFille.
In case her last name sounds familiar to you: By the way, her father is an actor Casper van Dien, whom most of you probably know as Johnny Rico from Starship Troopers. Of course, the likeable dad can also occasionally be seen in the stream – can be seen in the following VOD from 3:11:15:
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The reason why van Dien recently turned down all acting roles and is now focusing on Twitch is anything but pleasant.
In her last stream, Grace revealed that despite the #MeToo movement, working conditions in the entertainment industry don’t seem to have improved. So the producer of one of her last projects wanted to get her to have sex with him and a second woman.
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Some people are mad at me for turning down acting projects and choosing to stream more, but the fact of the matter is that on the last couple of projects I’ve worked on, I haven’t had the best experiences with some of the people that I had to work
With streaming, I get to choose who I hang out with, who I talk to, etc. On one of the last films I did, one of the producers hired a girl he slept with and then he asked her to asking me to have a threesome with them. So this is my boss.
Grace says she didn’t take up the offer. Instead she was so sauer
and cried – which is understandable. Because when a young actress with famous parents has to endure such sexual harassment, it’s hard to imagine how blank slates must be doing.
Grace van Dien will now have it much better on Twitch. Just a few days ago, together with well-known streamers like Valkyrae and Sykkuno, the friendliest streamers in the world
, shot some rounds in Overwatch. Let’s just hope the infamous Twitch chat is kind to her too.
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