Terry Crews says he's not going to be in "Expendables 4" because of retaliation

Last October, Terry Crews went on Twitter to share his own experience of sexual misconduct in the industry. The NFL-athlete-actor revealed in a 16-part thread that he was fumbled by a Hollywood executive during a feature in Los Angeles in 2016. Crews said all the emerging allegations against Harvey Weinstein "gave [him] PTSD. "" My wife [and] I was at a Hollywood function last year [and] a senior Hollywood executive has come [to] me and feel my soldiers, "wrote Crews at the time. "By jumping, I said," What are you doing? "My wife has seen everything [and] we watched him as he was crazy. He just smiled like a jerk. "

A month later, the alleged attacker of Crews was revealed to be the agent of William Morris Endeavor Avi Lerner, who was then put on leave from the high-powered agency while he was in charge. they were investigating the claim. Later that week, Crews filed its own police report regarding the incident, and when the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office refused to prosecute because the incident fell outside the deadline of prescription, Crews chose to sue the agent and WME. WME after a suspension of 30 days. Since Crews presented his story, he claims to be a victim of potential hacking and increasing pressure to abandon Venit.

This morning, the actor testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee about his experiences, which allowed him to better see the lingering repercussions he felt when he presented his allegations. On the one hand, it will not appear in "The Expendables 4", a result that the actor said is due to retaliation of producer Avi Lerner on the ongoing Venit case.

In February, Crews resumed on Twitter to say that "the management received a call last week from the producer of EXPENDABLES 4 from Avi Lerner saying that I could avoid" problems "on the sequel if I'm He abandoned @WME and developed this statement.

Crews reiterated, via Deadline, that producer Avi Lerner called his manager and "asked the actor to drop his case against Adam Venit to appear in the fourth part of the action movie".

When Crews was asked to appear in the film, he replied, "No. Just because that same producer is under his own … investigation. The attackers protect the attackers – and that 's one thing I had to decide, if I were going to draw the line. Am I going to be part of that or I will take a stand, and there are projects that I had to turn down. "In May of last year, Lerner and his Millennium Entertainment were hit by a trial of a former employee, alleging sexual harassment, hostile work environment and gender-based discrimination.

Crews testified at a hearing about the Sexual Assault Survivors' Bill of Rights, which Deadline notes, "provides new rights for victims of sexual violence in the federal criminal code." implementation of this law, which was promulgated two years ago. "

"What happened to me happened to a lot of other men in Hollywood," Crews said of his experience. "And since I learned my story, thousands and thousands of men came to me and said," Me too, that 's my story. But I did not have confidence, or I did not feel safe, to go out. Because what happens is that you are blacklisted, your career is in danger – after that, nobody wants to work with you. "

You can watch the testimony of Crews below.

WATCH – @terrycrews Opening statement: "I am honored to use my platform and my story to help create additional civil protections for survivors across the country as part of the sexual assault #SurvivorsBillofDroits"

Full video here: https://t.co/RGjyB1WSAm pic.twitter.com/ezi14zs3mY

– CSPAN (@cspan) June 26, 2018

IndieWire reached out to Lerner for comment.

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