Having experienced the darker side of the industry, Fox also offered candid guidance to young women setting foot in the business now. While the star acknowledged there are more vehicles for fame nowadays, her advice is just as applicable to a TikTok star of 2020 as it is to a rising star of the silent film era.
“It’s so tricky because I question what is the industry anymore? Everybody with an Instagram page is a celebrity,” she began. “Back during the Transformers craze, there were only a handful of actors. Hollywood was small. Now, you go to a GQ Man of the Year party and there’s thousands of people there, I don’t even know who they are—they’re all influencers or have some kind of Instagram following, so now they’re famous.”
“My advice, which is not great advice because it goes against what everyone else will tell you,” she continue,” is: you have to be removed to a certain degree. You cannot be on social media all the time, checking your likes and your comments. You have to trust in what you’re doing, and in your purpose, and move forward. You cannot be scrolling and go, Oh, people don’t like this, or, They don’t like this hair color, and then mold yourself to fit what a small group of people who have ever-changing opinions think about you. Don’t let that s–t guide you. That’s not a north star. That’s the devil.”
