Michael J. Fox opens up about Parkinson’s in new documentary: “I’m a tough son of a bitch”
nme.comMichael J. Fox has opened up about suffering from Parkinson’s disease in a new trailer for an upcoming documentary about his life.The film is directed by An Inconvenient Truth filmmaker Davis Guggenheim and is called Still: A Michael J.
Fox Movie.The film explores Fox’s career including his breakthrough role in Back To The Future, and includes rare interviews and clips looking back at his huge rise to fame in the 1980s.The trailer also sees Fox recall the moment he first discovered his Parkinson’s symptoms, when his finger started to move without control.“I woke up and I noticed my pinky auto-animated.
Parkinson’s disease,” Fox recalls in the trailer. “I told [my wife] Tracy the news. ‘In sickness and in health,’ I remember her whispering.
No one outside of my family knew.” The documentary also explores how Fox initially turned to alcohol to cope with news of the diagnosis.The film also goes on to show how Fox has persevered in the face of his illness, raising over $2billion (£1.7billion) towards research for the condition.
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