Actor Matthew Lawrence claimed that he was fired from his agency after he refused to strip for an Oscar-winning director who was reportedly offering him a job in an upcoming Marvel film.
Lawrence, 43, made the revelation Saturday on his podcast “Brotherly Love” which he hosts together with his two other siblings, Andy and Joey Lawrence.
The “Boy Meets World” star opened up the episode by expressing his support for the “#MeToo” movement saying it was a “good thing” while claiming that he had been propositioned by directors — each men and girls — several times for a serious role in various movies.
“There have been again and again in my life where I’ve been propositioned to get an enormous role,” said Lawrence. “I’ve lost my agency because I went to the hotel room, which I can’t consider they might send me to, of a really distinguished Oscar award-winning director who showed up in his robe, asked me to take my clothes off and said he needed to take Polaroids of me.”
“After which if I did X, Y and Z, I can be the following Marvel character. I didn’t try this, and my agency fired me because I left this director’s room,” continued Lawrence.
The Post reached out to Lawrence for comment.
Lawrence, who didn’t give a particular name or location regarding the incident, claimed that he shouldn’t be the one man this happened too.
“A number of other friends have passed through it. Each men and girls,” continued the 43-year-old.
The “Mrs. Doubtfire” star also claimed there’s a double standard in Hollywood and that men who’re sexually harassed don’t receive the identical level of support as women do.
For example, the 43-year-old recalled the 2016 incident where Terry Crews claimed he was groped by WME agent Adam Venit at a celebration and other people didn’t consider him.
“Terry Crews comes out and says it; persons are laughing at him. People don’t support him,” said Lawrence. “They kick him out. Why? Because he’s a person that represents masculinity, and I feel our society is less able to hear that situation happening with men than they’re with women.”
Crews, 54, received an apology from Venit two years later in 2018 and shared it on Twitter.
