Some actors become forever associated with a particular era. While he starred in some interesting movies in the 1990s and 2000s, Michael J. Fox was a quintessential 1980s star.
He’s so quintessentially 1980s that he believes acting has gone downhill since then. Michael J. Fox reacted to being called ’80s famous’ Fox owned the 1980s.
Between Back to the Future , Family Ties , The Secret of My Success , and Teen Wolf , he gave kids and teens of that era a lot of nostalgia fuel. If anybody knows what it was like to be a celebrity during that time, it was Michael Jackson. Or Madonna.
Or Prince. But Fox is up there. When the 1980s were up, Fox appeared in cult classics like The Frighteners and Atlantis: The Lost Empire , but he absolutely peaked during the Reagan years.
During a 2024 interview with People , Fox said a comment at the Oscars stuck with him. “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 said. “I thought, ‘Wow, that’s cool.
’80s famous.’ Right, we were different.” The ‘Back to the Future’ star said that 1980s actors cared more about acting What exactly made 1980s actors different? “We were tougher,” the Back to the Future star opined.
“We didn’t have social media, we didn’t have any of that crap. We were just famous. Left to our own resources.
And it w.