diff --git a/project/PekkoBuild.scala b/project/PekkoBuild.scala
index 2eab25cf4ce..e9847132b45 100644
--- a/project/PekkoBuild.scala
+++ b/project/PekkoBuild.scala
@@ -97,7 +97,8 @@ object PekkoBuild {
         "-feature",
         "-unchecked",
         // 'blessed' since 2.13.1
-        "-language:higherKinds")
+        "-language:higherKinds",
+        "-Yfuture-lazy-vals")
     } else {
       Seq(
         "-encoding",
diff --git a/remote/src/main/mima-filters/2.0.x.backwards.excludes/future-lazy-vals.excludes b/remote/src/main/mima-filters/2.0.x.backwards.excludes/future-lazy-vals.excludes
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..113e1cfc66d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/remote/src/main/mima-filters/2.0.x.backwards.excludes/future-lazy-vals.excludes
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+
+# -Yfuture-lazy-vals changes the generated bytecode for companion objects
+# containing lazy vals: the static <clinit> initializer that was produced
+# by the old sun.misc.Unsafe-based implementation is no longer emitted.
+ProblemFilters.exclude[DirectMissingMethodProblem]("org.apache.pekko.remote.RemoteWatcher#Stats.<clinit>")