Actor Michael J. Fox revealed how Parkinson’s is directly influencing his career
Michael J. Fox revealed that Parkinson’s disease has directly influenced his career as an actor. In conversation on the podcast Working It Outthe actor explained how memorizing the lines has become increasingly difficult since he was diagnosed.
“When I did the spin-off of The Good Wifewhich was called The Good Fight, I couldn’t remember the lines. I just had this blank, I couldn’t remember the lines,” he stated, comparing it to how he felt when he was given scripts early in his career.
Fox added: “I had 70 pages of dialogue in a movie of Brian De Palmaand there was a very expensive scene filmed on Steadicam that depended on me knowing the lines – it didn’t even make me sweat.”
Actor stated that he no longer accepts projects of this type, with many lines. “I can’t remember five pages of dialogue. I can not. So I’m going to the beach,” he joked. Fox explained that he learned to adapt and recalled when he went through a challenging situation in Designated Survivor (2016).
“It was legal issues and I just couldn’t get it by heart,” he said. “But what was really refreshing was that I didn’t panic. I didn’t panic. I just said, ‘well, that’s it. Moving on.'”
Michael J. Fox became known mainly for the role of Marty McFly in the trilogy Back to the future (1985). In addition, he also worked on faces and grimaces (1982), The Boy of the Future (1985), For Love or Money (1993) and starred in the sitcom The Michael J. Fox Show (2013), where he plays a journalist with Parkinson’s.
Source: Rollingstone
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