Former Child Star Matthew Lawrence Says He Got Fired After Refusing To Get Naked For An Oscar-Winning Director

It seems Hollywood has a sick initiation process.

Matthew Lawrence is a former child actor best known for his role as Jack Hunter in the television series Boy Meets World. He has also appeared in the movies Mrs. Doubtfire and The Hot Chick. In an episode of the Brotherly Love Podcast, Lawrence revealed he had a #MeToo experience when he was offered a huge Marvel role.

"Many times in my life where I've been propositioned to get a huge role, I've lost my agency because I went to the hotel room – which I can't believe they would send me to – of a very prominent Oscar award-winning director who showed up in his robe," Lawrence said. He added that the unnamed director "asked me to take my clothes off and said he needed to take Polaroids of me, and that if I did X, Y, and Z, I would be the next Marvel character."

Lawrence refused, and he got fired because of it. "I didn't do that, and my agency fired me because I left this director's room," he said.

Yet when men come out with the same sexual allegations as women in the industry, they receive little support. "A lot of these stories, a lot of my other male friends have gone through with both men and women in this industry, but there's a double standard, and this is where I bring Terry Crews. Terry Crews comes out and says it; people are laughing at him," Lawrence said.

In 2016, Crews said a male executive groped his genitals in front of his wife and "grinned like a jerk" at their reactions. He wanted to retaliate but was worried that he would get reported and get sent to jail. "'240 lbs. Black Man Stomps Out Hollywood Honcho' would be the headline the next day," Crews wrote. No one took his assault seriously because he was seen as a "big black man," when the reality is that Crews was a victim who deserved justice.

Indeed, numerous men have said that they were sexually assaulted behind the scenes, including Brendan Fraser, Corey Haim, Corey Feldman, and Drake Bell. While the #MeToo movement has exposed the dark underbelly of the industry, there's still much that Hollywood has yet to accomplish. Given what we've learned about the industry's close-knit circle of executives, as highlighted by cases like Epstein's and P. Diddy’s, I'm skeptical that anything will change.

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