By Michaela Gordoni
Michael J. Fox made a rare stop at BACK TO THE FUTURE’s 40th anniversary screening this month.
The event featured a screening of the 1985 movie in IMAX and a DeLorean onsite for fans to take photos. Fox participated in a conversation about the screening afterward.
Fox is releasing a book about his time-traveling adventures this year, called “Future Boy.”
“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.’ I didn’t say that, Einstein did,” he told People. “I wonder if even Albert could make sense of my life in the first months of 1985, when time went rogue and took me with it. What was it like? In a word: busy.”
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“As we approach the 40th anniversary of Back to the Future, my thoughts turn to my adventures as a younger man,” he said ahead of the screening. “This book has basically become a time machine for me, but unlike the DeLorean, there’s plenty of room for anyone who’d like to climb in for the ride.”
Fox’s BACK TO THE FUTURE, about a teen who goes back in time, was a huge hit. It made $380 million at the Box Office and won an Oscar.
Fox hasn’t acted much in recent years, due in part to his battle with Parkinson’s Disease. But he will soon return to the screen as a guest star in SHRINKING.
SHRINKING star Harrison Ford said, “Michael’s courage, his fortitude and his grace, more than anything else, is on full display. He’s very smart, very brave, noble, generous, passionate guy, and an example to all of us, whether we’re facing Parkinson’s or not. You cannot help but recognize how amazing it is to have such grace.”
The National Institute on Aging says Parkinson’s is an incurable brain disorder “that causes unintended or uncontrollable movements, such as shaking, stiffness, and difficulty with balance and coordination.”
Ford plays Paul Rhoades, a character with Parkinson’s on SHRINKING.
“He gives me both a physical representation of the disease to inform myself with,” he continued, “but more than that, he allows me to believe that Paul could believe that he could be adequate to the challenge.”
“I continued to act for almost 30 years after I was diagnosed,” Fox said. “I reached the point where I couldn’t rely on my ability to speak on any given day, which meant I couldn’t act comfortably at all anymore. So, last year I gave it up.”
But the SHRINKING crew was able to work with Fox, so he’s giving it a shot. He will appear in Season 3, which will likely premiere early next year.
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