Michael J. Fox is the eternal teenager of the trilogy Back to the Futurethe film saga with which He became one of the most popular actors of the second half of the 1980s thanks to the character of Marty McFly, reference for an entire generation, even three decades after the release of the last of the time travel films.
When he was at the peak of his fame, Michael J. Fox was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease: he was 30 years old, and his career, although he continued with notable success, as witnessed by several Emmy, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards, was affected to the point that since 2000 many of his jobs have been as a voice actor.
Although the diagnosis three decades ago ended up leading him to alcoholism, the actor managed to recover then thanks to his family, actress Tracy Pollan, and his four children, Sam, Schuyler, Aquinnah and Esmé.
In November 2020, when presenting her fourth memoir, No Time Like The Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality, the actor announced a second retirement that could be the final one, due to his delicate state of health. “There is a time for everything, and my time of working 12 hours a day and memorizing seven pages of the script is in the past,” explained the Canadian.
“At least for now I am entering a second retirement. That could change, because everything changes. But if this is the end of my career as an actor, so be it,” said the actor, who since the 1990s has become one of the greatest activists to demand more research into the disease, even getting involved in electoral campaigns. , but especially since its foundation, The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research.
“My short-term memory is destroyed. I always had a real knack for learning and memorizing scripts. However, in the last two jobs I went through extreme situations. I had great difficulties doing it,” the Canadian actor confessed to the magazine People.
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Michael J. Fox found his refuge in writing. “My way of playing the guitar is not good. My drawing is no longer good, my dancing was never good and acting is becoming more and more difficult. So it all comes down to writing. Luckily, I enjoy it a lot.”
Before No Time Like The Future: An Optimist Considers Mortalitypublic Lucky Man: A Memoir (2002); Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist (2009) y A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future: Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned (2010).
Two years before the publication of his last book, they found a tumor in his spinal cord that almost destroyed his characteristic optimism. “It was definitely my darkest moment,” he confesses in his memoirs, in which he says that, after the intervention, he went through a long recovery in which he had to learn to walk again.
The ovation at the BAFTA 2024
On Sunday, February 18, the 77th BAFTA British Film Awards gala was held.
The movie Oppenheimerby Christopher Nolan, triumphed with a total of seven awards, followed by Poor Things (poor creatures), which took five.
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The film Oppenheimer won the BAFTA award for best film. award that was presented by actor Michael J. Foxwho arrived on stage in a wheelchair due to Parkinson’s from which he has been suffering for years, and received a standing ovation.
“All five of them have something in common: they are the best at what we do,” Fox said before revealing the winner.
“No matter who you are or where you’re from, movies can bring us together… There’s a reason they say movies are magical, because they can change your day, your perspective, and sometimes they can even change your life,” Fox added. , who brought celebrities to their feet during the BAFTA Awards in London.