A Hollywood icon and philanthropist! Michael J. Fox gained worldwide recognition beginning in 1982 on the NBC sitcom Family Ties and continued his skyrocket to fame for the next four decades.
08.05.2023 - 21:03 / nme.com
Michael J Fox has opened up about the use of humour in his upcoming new documentary film.The actor was speaking at a press conference about the upcoming documentary of his life, Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie, which has been directed by An Inconvenient Truth filmmaker Davis Guggenheim.The film explores Fox’s career including his breakthrough role in Back To The Future, and includes rare interviews and clips looking back at his huge rise to fame in the 1980s.
At the conference, Guggenheim said the film is very humorous, something that “has everything to do with Michael.”He continued: “Michael is funny! It’s fun to laugh…I always think laughter reveals something deeper. We think laughter is frivolous but, sometimes, laughter reveals something deeper,” (via Metro).Fox then added: “My thing on anything is, what’s funny about it? In any situation, what’s the funny part?“You can always find the part that’s tragic in something or sad in something, and it can bring you down, but it’s a little more of a challenge but much more rewarding to find what’s universally human, which is usually universally funny.“I talk in the film about making people laugh and the joy of making people laugh, and I realised while we were making the movie, I knew when I was younger and started to do comedy and people would laugh, I made them make a noise they didn’t want to make, and that was powerful.
Anything that powerful is important.”Earlier this year at another screening of the film, Fox went on to say that it “pisses” him “off” that there still isn’t a cure for Parkinson’s Disease.“That number, as impressive as it is, kind of in a way pisses me off, because I thought that we’d be done with it by now,” Fox said in response (via Fox News). “But
.A Hollywood icon and philanthropist! Michael J. Fox gained worldwide recognition beginning in 1982 on the NBC sitcom Family Ties and continued his skyrocket to fame for the next four decades.
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Brent Lang Executive Editor If Hollywood ever opts to reboot “Back to the Future” without the original cast, Michael J. Fox says he’s at peace with the decision. “I’m not fanatical,” Fox told Variety for a recent cover story on his life and career. “Do what you want. It’s your movie. I got paid already.” But that doesn’t mean he thinks it’s a good idea. Fox also believes that Robert Zemeckis, the trilogy’s director and writer, and his co-writer, Bob Gale, wouldn’t be down with it either. “I don’t think it needs to be,” Fox added. “I think Bob and Bob have been really smart about that. I don’t think it needs rebooting because are you going to clarify something? You’re going to find a better way to tell the story? I doubt it.”
“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” encouraged him to retire from acting.The “Back to the Future” alum was shooting the series “The Good Fight” in 2021 and he struggled to recall some of his lines due to his Parkinson’s disease.Fox looked back on the moment with Empire Magazine recently, noting that the part in the comedy-drama where DiCaprio’s character Rick Dalton can’t recollect his script inspired him.“I thought of ‘Once Upon A Time in Hollywood,’” Fox said. “There’s a scene where Leonardo DiCaprio’s character can’t remember his lines anymore.”“He goes back to his dressing room and he’s screaming at himself in the mirror.
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Michael J Fox has said that watching Leonardo DiCaprio in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood inspired him to retire from acting for good.Fox was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 1991 at the age of 29. He revealed the diagnosis in 1998 and in 2020, the Back To The Future actor said that he was beginning a “second retirement” after initially returning to work with the disease.In a new interview with Empire, Fox said his decision to step away was inspired by Tarantino’s 2019 film after once scene in the film reminded him of the issues he faced on a daily basis.Fox said when filming The Good Fight, a spin-off to The Good Wife, he struggled to remember his lines due to the disease.“I thought of Once Upon A Time in Hollywood,” Fox recalled in the interview. “There’s a scene where Leonardo DiCaprio’s character can’t remember his lines any more.“He goes back to his dressing room and he’s screaming at himself in the mirror.
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