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TheBoy Meets Worldalum, 43, spoke with his brothersJoeyandAndrew Lawrenceon the Friday episode of theirBrotherly Lovepodcast about the #MeToo movement and his personal experience with an Academy Award-winning director.
“I 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, asked me to take my clothes off and said he needed to take polaroids of me,” Lawrence claimed. “And if I did X, Y and Z, I would be the next Marvel character.”
“Not a lot of guys, in my opinion, have come out and talked about this in the industry,” Lawrence said. “Now, granted, it’s probably about a third of what women go through. Men go through this as well.”
The actor — who starred in the late ‘90sBrotherly Lovesitcom with his two brothers on the WB Network — also discussedTerry Crews, who has beenoutspoken about his own #MeToo experience.
“A lot of these stories, a lot of my other male friends have gone through — both men and women in this industry — but there’s a double standard and this is where I bringTerry Crews,” Lawrence said.
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“Terry Crews comes out and says it, people are laughing at him. People don’t support him. They kick him out, why? Because he’s a man that represents masculinity, and I think our society is less ready to hear that situation going on with men than they are with women, actually.”
Joey responded: “The bottom line is, there’s been a lot of those crossroads and those thresholds that, you know, of course, we’ve all been a part of that. And those moments are tough. For me, when those moments arose — and there were plenty, obviously — it was just a principle thing for me.”
“I just wasn’t gonna do it. And I lost out on a lot of parts, too. Big movie parts,” Joey added. “And like you said, I know the guys that went on and did them, and I don’t know what situations they were into. I’m not even gonna speculate. But I know that it was set up in an infrastructure where that was expected.”
source: people.com
