Michael J. Fox: Hollywood ‘Tougher’ in the 1980s, ‘You Had to Be Talented’

Terry Wyatt/Getty Images for The Michael J. Fox Foundation Actor Michael J. Fox said actors “had to be talented” to succeed in 1980s Hollywood, believing the decade had a “tougher” barrier for entry.

Fox, who rose to stardom in the 1980s as the Reagan-era Republican Alex P. Keaton in Family Ties and the time-traveling teenager in Back to the Future , told People magazine that Hollywood has changed over the decades.

“There’s an expression I referred to when they gave me an honorary Academy Award — somebody said to me the day before, they were talking about getting this award and being famous and they said, ‘You’re ‘80s famous,’” Fox recalled. “I thought, wow, that’s cool. ‘80s famous.’ Right, we were different.” Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd in Back to the Future (1985). (Universal Pictures, Amblin Entertainment) “We were tougher. We didn’t have social media; we didn’t have any of […]

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