The former child actor, now 45, starred alongside Union in Disney Channel’s 1999 sports comedy about a hot shot hockey player, Dave (Lawrence), who sells his soul to the devil’s apprentice (Will Friedle) so that his team will win the Stanley Cup.
“[Union] wanted to rehearse and I was like, ‘No, I'm good,’” the Mrs. Doubtfire actor recounted, explaining that “at that point in my mind, I really loved memorizing the lines, knowing all the beats, but hated running it, because it felt like it took all the freshness out of it.
Lawrence emphasized that the point of his story was not to rehash old disagreements but instead to highlight Union’s ability to stand up for herself from the very beginning — well before she became a big star with Bring It On.
Meanwhile, Lawrence, who starred in the seminal seven-season sitcom Boy Meets World, has featured in 2002’s The Hot Chick and Marry Christmas (2024), as well as a handful of Melissa & Joey episodes.
Speaking on a recent episode of his Magical Rewind podcast, which he co-hosts with Friedle and Cheetah Girls star Sabrina Bryan, Lawrence recounted the on-set incident.
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