The actor, who recounts his life with Parkinson’s in a documentary soon to be broadcast on Apple TV +, evokes with pessimism his mortality.
Michael J. Foxthe star of Back to the futurewho has been fighting Parkinson’s for thirty years, says it is now “more and more difficult” for him to fight the disease.
“I’m not going to lie, it’s getting harder and harder,” he explained on the show. CBS Sunday Morning. “Every day it’s harder. That’s how it is.”
The actor, whose neurodegenerative disease causes him to gradually lose his motor skills, is currently thinking a lot about how he will die.
“Falling, sucking food and getting pneumonia are some of the ways (Parkinson can kill you). You won’t die from Parkinson’s, you will die with Parkinson’s,” he insists.
“So I’ve been thinking a lot recently about mortality. I’m never going to reach 80. I’ll never be 80,” he continues.
An honorary Oscar
In the documentary Stillavailable on the Apple TV+ platform on May 12, and for which a trailer has just been unveiled, the actor of Teen Wolf recounts her childhood in Canada before becoming a movie star in the 1980s.
Michael J. Fox explains how he discovered at only 29 years old that he suffered from Parkinson’s disease. Now 61, the actor reveals that the disease has made him “a real badass”.
While Michael J. Fox has reduced his film appearances since the 1990s, he has since landed several notable television roles, including in the series The Good Wife et Curb Your Enthusiasmwhere he talks with self-mockery about his illness.
Michael J. Fox was awarded an honorary Oscar last year for his work in the fight against Parkinson’s disease. “You make me tremble, stop it,” the actor joked when he received his award.
