Nov 01, 2025
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It is a cold day in Jakarta in Los Angeles.A large outdoor parking lot is watered so that the asphalt is illuminated with street lights.On board, a 23-year-old TV actor is in low-budget stores.He plays a boy named Sooty Hackfly who doesn't know that he is going to get the traditional part of a smurf named Mina.When the camera turns on the red light, a cloud of dry snow rises behind the truck and after covering an unusual car, it is a modified car.
"At 20, I was looking for food in the trash. At 23, I was lucky. What I didn't know would happen right away from young to old."
"And the guy jumps up and says, 'Marty!'says Michael J. Fox."And I say, 'Holy!'— that guy was Christopher Lloyd as Dr. Brown, the white-haired mad scientist who turned a mid-size sports car into a time machine.They filmed at night because Fox, who was going through a rough patch of bad luck, was working full-time on another series, Family Entanglements.
The parking lot was shot without any prior practice.In fact, Foxx met Lloyd at that time.By the time the clapboard fell for the first actor to return to the future, the film had already been shot for six weeks with another actor, Eric Stoltz, in the lead role, but the filmmakers were not happy with his performance.So they decided to replace Foxx with director Robert Roberts.Zemeckis recalled breaking the news of the replacement to the crew, calling his wife and running to a pay phone to say, "I'm going to finish this movie, and then we're going to Alaska. This is the end.""My work is done."
If you watch the film with this knowledge, you will see the look of utter confusion on the fox's face when Lloyd enters the scene.
Today, 40 years later, Fox was sitting in an office in Manhattan.After 64, it looks the same, only more than half of people have brain disease, but more than half have brain disease.Fox has the same voice, but sometimes he has to fight to be understood.Too many times, too many times, we allow the courage to reach the end of the sentence.Lately he has broken a lot of bones and he no longer walks for fear of falling.
The fox became a beacon for those affected by the disease."It's great," he says of the fact that many patients have him as a reference.His foundation has raised more than two billion dollars for early detection and new treatments.
During the conversation, the actor holds a small towel on his knees, which he lifts from time to time to dry his face.The silver clock on the wrist succeeds a time somewills without the metal poor of the throne."From 2025 until 1985 is a great gap," says Fox."There are bullies everywhere," Say Bob Gal, the co-writer of the film with Biff Tannen.
"There's a bit of a dystopian thing going on," the fox admits. He's concerned, he says, about funding for science and respect for culture in the US.But this is only about politics."Parkinson's is also offensive, there are all kinds of people, and you have to protect yourself," she says.
"The disease sucks... but people don't regret it. He doesn't think it's pathetic. He sees me as a positive force."
Fox has written four books about living with hope despite Parkinson's.Now he's co-written a fifth, called Future Boy, about his experience on the set of Back to the Future.
"I was a kid," he explains of those months when his career took off.A 23-year-old boy who was lucky enough to have a series (family ties) after two years of poverty.Later, this film took him to another level.
Today, he lives in a beautiful building in New York. His office is on the ground floor.Between the walls covered with pictures of musicians (Alice Cooper, Beat Sinatra) and shelves full of his awards, which are full of his production company, and after the Michael J. Fox Foundation's Parkinson's.
This book takes a look back at the Shining Years in suburban Vancouver.The fifth of six siblings, his mother was an office worker and his father was a police officer.As a child, he played hockey, lacrosse, lacrosse, lacrosse, lacrosse, and occasionally fought."I lost a few. He admitted. He was always short. "So I'll never win.My favorite strategy - If they beat me, I'd go to the swing,' he said.His childhood dream was to become a rock star."Where ... I did it because of what we gave. After getting some documents, she left, and her father took her to Los Angeles to find an agent. She walked to a 2-by-2 supermarket. "When I brought out the expired cookies, I found them," she explained.
The funny things were saved.In it, he plays the Keatons, hippies who discover to their horror that their children are dying.Fox, in the role of the cool son Alex, quickly won the audience.However, when Explecter guitar called him in the office one day, he was afraid that he would be fired.
"I started breaking things: my arm, my arm, my shoulder... I can't walk anymore. It's dangerous"
Goldberg actually wanted to tell him that his friend Spielberg was making a movie about time travel.He had asked months ago if Fox could take the lead role, but Goldberg told Fox he was unavailable.So the team chose Eric Stoltz, known today for his role as a drug dealer in fiction.
Stolts gave out to the role of a young man from one that we have seen in Black: He asked him to be a good defender of the defense."He has a greater vision of everything, which is still practical," Phas said.In fact, it would be nice to see the movie.
But the film's team — Zemex, his co-writer Bob Gale, and Spielberg, the producer — "had something in mind that was almost a slap in the face," a comedy about downfall and heartbreak.So after six weeks of intense filming and interpreting, they went to Universal's head to tell him they wanted to fire Stoltz and replace him with Fox.
Even though Fox knew nothing of what had happened, from the beginning he behaved as if he were in a comedy.What Spielberg and the team wanted to taste.“And this,” said Fox, “is my land.”
Officially, Stoltz refused to be interviewed for the fox's book, but he called the divine fox "cave".They kept the fox on the night of the visit. "I'm not nervous," he revealed.If you focus your life on worst-case scenarios, you will not lose courage.But his assistant was worried until he heard laughter on the other side of the door. Both Martin mcflies - one tragic and one funny - for years ...
Fox remembers working from that shoot until two in the morning.Then a driver would take him home and almost put him to bed.Three hours later, another assistant woke him up with the script for the next episode of Family Affairs.He was tired, but he was also the happiest child in the world.
Back to the future was triage and he became a well-known young man in that area.He met his wife, Tracy Pollan, when she played his daughter in Tangle and they married in 1988, the same year he won his Emmy (Won Global Global Clobal).And then, six years later, his luck.In 1991 he was diagnosed with Parinton.He was thirty-eight years old.
"It's not that I wasted my youth," he once wrote."I didn't know it would go straight from childhood to old age."But he faced his illness with the same hope and determination that made him a star.The doctors told him that his physical strength could help him overcome this.Fox was an actor who improvised acrobatic slides on the hood of a DeLorean.The man who took off his pants in the air and somersaulted over his lover in the Spin City series.
"It was useful up to a point," he says.But I started breaking things.It's amazing how many things I broke.In three years the elbow and hand;"Then I got a big infection in my hand and almost lost a finger."Since then, he hasn't been able to play the guitar.He showed me his left hand and they put it inside."I have a record here," he continues."It's not pretty."
She and Kolan have four children.S, her husband is a television producer and producer, 36;The 30-year-old twins Schuyler and Okinnah can also work in production.Esmé, 23, a student at Adkeivivers in North Carolina, wants to be an actress. "That's great," she said.
How will his family feel when they see their father before Parkinson's in Back to the Future?"They don't," he replies.
I ask you in your own future."There is no order, there is no order that goes, it is not like you are making fun.
A few years ago, FOX attended a full convention back to the future geeks;a man with a face crushed under his feet.I thought, "Yeah, I'll find a fan."But when I talk to him from the stage, I don't know for him, it's for me."They see me like that... Well, I don't know exactly who sees me, but I know it's positive energy."
When I get up to leave, he gets up too and shakes my hand.He seems very busy, between Parkinson's, his foundation, talking with other patients, and recording the audiobook.He is set to appear in the new season of the Apple TV+ series Shrinking, in which Harrison Ford plays a therapist with Parkinson's.Fox keeps going from one thing to another, like that guy who had two jobs in 1985. "Die? -ask-. "I don't have time."
