Michael J Fox met his wife, Tracy Pollan, when she was cast as his girlfriend on Family Ties and they became a couple while shooting Bright Lights, Big City. "In the face of all evidence to the contrary, I was an acid bath of fear and professional insecurity," he says, noting that his first sign of Parkinson's-related trembling was "a message from the future". "I should have seen it coming – the cosmic price I had to pay for all my success," Fox remarks of his Parkinson's diagnosis in 1991, when he was just 29. Speaking directly to camera in his New York home, the 61-year-old actor reflects with unflinching, often hilarious honesty on a career that took him from starving Canadian bit player to what he calls "the boy prince of Hollywood" – as synonymous with the 80s as the Rubik's cube and MTV – to tireless advocate for research into Parkinson's disease, the degenerative condition he's lived with for more than half his life. To say that the beloved Back to the Future and Family Ties star talks candidly about his life and career is an understatement. "You think it's made out of brick and rock but it's not, it's made out of paper and feathers. "I was bigger than bubblegum," says Michael J Fox, reflecting on the heady heights of his 80s success, midway through the new documentary STILL: A Michael J Fox Movie.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |