In a 2019 EW oral history of Some Kind of Wonderful, Thompson remembered thinking her "career was over" after Howard the Duck bombed, but then "my friend Eric Stoltz [rode] up to the top of Laurel Canyon and said, 'Howard Deutch wants you to reconsider the part of Amanda Jones.' Four or five days later I was shooting."

Lea Thompson didn’t initially hit it off with Michael J. Fox when she met him on the Back to the Future set. “I was friends with Eric Stoltz who had just gotten fired,” Thompson, 63, shared in an interview on the “Still Here Hollywood” podcast on Monday,

Lea Thompson has revealed she initially did not get along well with her Back to the Future co-star Michael J. Fox. The 63-year-old actor, who recently opened up about her relationship with Artem Chigvintsev,

I t’s hard to envision a time when Lea Thompson and Michael J. Fox weren’t friendly with one another, as they spent a great deal of time together making the Back to the Future