‘I couldn't remember the lines' Michael J Fox on effect Parkinson's has on his memory
msn.comFox has been open about his declining health over the years due to PD, which has seen him struggle with the loss of speech, tremors, and more.
Most recently, the 61-year-old has opened up about issues remembering acting lines. Roughly 70 percent of Parkinson's sufferers are said to develop dementia.
Over the last few decades, the star has at times managed to get back into acting. He played an OCD-suffering doctor on Scrubs back in 2004 and has recently featured in films such as Back Home Again and The Good Fight in 2020 - a spin-off from The Good Wife.
But the task has become harder alongside the progression of the disease. He reportedly retired in 2020. Fox told Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast in May: "When I did the spinoff from The Good Wife, which is The Good Fight, I couldn't remember the lines. "I just had this blank, I couldn't remember the lines. "READ MORE: Monkeypox symptoms: Expert warns early signs might be 'easy to miss' - what to look forPreviously, such as in Brian De Palma's 1989 film Casualties of War, the star has had no problem at all - and used to memorise lines without a "trickle of sweat", he said. "I [would] have 70 pages of dialogue on a [Brian] De Palma movie, and knowing that a hugely expensive Steadicam shot depends on me knowing the lines-not a trickle of sweat on my brow. "For some, the fact Fox is even able to act at all might seem surprising.
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