Michael J. Fox teases coming out of retirement for a role with ‘his realities’
Eva Hartman April 5, 2024
Michael J. Fox might not be done
with actinggracing the silver screen despite announcing his retirement from the craft four years ago
.
The “Back to the Future” actor, who released a
n Emmy-winning
documentary chronicling his battle with Parkinson’s disease last year,
says he isis
open to returning to Hollywood
in the future
.
“I would do acting if something came up that I could put my realities into it, my challenges, if I could figure it out,” Fox told “Entertainment Tonight” on Thursday.
“If someone offers me a part and I do it and I have a good time, great.”
Fox retired from the film industry in 2020 after discovering he had trouble memorizing dialogue on the sets of
the TV series
“The Good Fight” and “Designated Survivor.”
He said thatAccording to him,
seeing Leonardo DiCaprio’s character in “Once Upon a Time
…
in Hollywood” break down over the same issue was his wake-up call
, and pushed him to take a step back
.
“I had this moment where I was looking in the mirror and thought, I cannot remember it anymore. Well, lets move on. It was peaceful,” he told Empire magazine last year.
Fox discovered that he had the
Fox, who has Parkinson’s Disease, a
degenerative condition
thatwhich
causes involuntary movement and memory loss
, discovered he was affected
at just 29
years old
,
when it seemed he was
at the height of his film career.
“I was bigger than bubblegum,” he narrated in the trailer for “Still
,
“
,the autobiographical documentary on his life which was releasedlast year
on Apple TV
that went on to win and won
four Primetime Emmy Awards.
He said he
first realized that something was amiss with his health “when I woke up and I noticed my pinkie … auto
–
animated.”
The “Bright Lights, Big City” actor kept his diagnosis a secret for years before revealing it publicly in 1998.
Despite what some might consider a hindrance, H
e continued acting and
went on to
found
ed
the Michael J. Fox Foundation, which has become the largest nonprofit Parkinson’s research fundraiser in the world, having raised
more thanover
$2 billion in just over 20 years.
He doesn’t appear to be stopping his advocacy or his acting anytime soon.
