Nope, thatās not Michael J. Fox š Party of Five alum Scott Wolf stopped by On Air With Ryan Seacrest on Monday, November 4, and shared that yes, he gets mistaken for Michael J. Fox all the time.
āHistorically, Iāve gotten a blend of if Michael J. Fox and Tom Cruise had a kid,ā the CW Nancy Drew and Inside Game star said. āI think itās mostly happened with Michael. I was getting a sandwich and the guy is like wrapping my sandwich up and heās giving me these winks and nods like, āI know. Your secretās safe with me. Youāre good.ā And when he hands me my sandwich heās like, āFamily Ties is my all-time favorite.ā And Iām like, āThat guy just met Michael J. Fox,āā Wolf hilariously recalled, adding that no, he doesnāt correct them. āI walked down the street and he lived his best day.ā
Jokes aside, Scott Wolf, 51, still looks like 15-year-old Party of Five character Bailey Salinger.
āI think I was 24 when I got [that role] which was a little controversial behind the scenes because I was playing a 15 year old and the casting director ā at the time I was dating someone who had done a People magazine spread and I was āthe boyfriendā but they said how old I was, they announced I was 24 ā and she came running out of the Fox casting office and she grabbed me ā¦ and was like, āHow old are you? ā¦ Tell me the truth!ā ā¦ You only get one chance to make a first big impression and so I lucked out,ā Wolf recalled of the iconic ā90s series. āWe all did. To wind up having our first here-we-are to be something so incredibly written ā¦ and something Iām proud of today.ā
Party of Five followed the Salinger siblings Charlie (Matthew Fox), Julia (Neve Campbell), Bailey (Wolf), Claudia (Lacey Chabert) and baby Owen, who suffer a devastating loss when their parents are killed in a car accident. The series ran from 1994 to 2000.
āI went down a Party of Five rabbit hole the other day,ā Wolf admitted. āIt went onto Netflix [and] I hadnāt seen a frame of it in over a decade, maybe 15 years, and someone was like āHey, you know your old show is on Netflix?ā ā¦ And I was like I should just watch a scene maybe ā and Iām telling you, dude ā like 7 hours later like tissues and bonbons,ā Wolf admitted. āIt was really emotional, like dipping back into your old photo albums.ā
Watch back the full interview in the video above to hear more, including Wolf's jokes about CWās āHot Dadā camp š
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