What Beans From Even Stevens Looks Like Today

Steven Anthony Lawrence has gone viral twice in more recent years — and none of it has to do with his acting. In 2014, he became a viral meme when a Twitter account called BeansMemes randomly appeared and started photoshopping his Even Stevens character into random photos. The second time happened a year later, when Lawrence was publicly outed as a mall Santa. Okay, technically, he never donned a Santa suit, but he was one of Santa's helpers. That's a big job in a suburban mall.

According to SFGate, who parsed through dozens of geo-tagged Instagram and Twitter posts, the actor picked up a temporary job at the seasonal Santa photo booth at Sunvalley Shopping Center in Concord, Calif. The newspaper speculated that Lawrence was method acting for his alleged role in Holly, Jingles, and Clyde. Per ET, the holiday film was listed in his IMDb credits at the time, but Lawrence is missing from the film's credits at the time of this writing. Who knows what happened? Maybe he got put on the naughty list.

Either way, Lawrence flaunted his side gig loud and proud. In a December 2016 Instagram post, he wrote, "What can I say ... I love my fans Kiddo. Come see ye ol pops as Santa's slave (helper*) at sunvalleymall in (meplease) concord CA, till Christmas." As former The Cosby Show actor (and sometimes Trader Joe's employee) Geoffrey Owens showed us, there's no shame in a day job.

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