Michael J. Fox's mother didn't want him to make 'Back to the Future'. The 61-year-old actor took on the leading role of Marty McFly in the 1985 cult classic but his late mother Phyllis - who passed away in September at the age of 92 - thought he would be "too tired" to film the role because he was already working on sitcom 'Family Ties' during the day.
He said: "My mom passed away two weeks ago. But I was 23 years old, and I called her, she was in Canada, and I said, 'They want me to do this Steven Spielberg movie, but I have to do it at night and I have to do Family Ties in the daytime. ' And she said, 'You'll be too tired. ' I live for this kind of tired.
It'll be okay,' To this day — well, till two weeks ago — my mother thought it was a really bad idea for me to do Back to the Future.
She loved the movie, [but she was right], I got tired. " The 'Stuart Little' actor - who has suffered from Parkinson's disease since he was 29 - was reunited with 'Back to the Future co-star Christopher Lloyd and detailed how he has had a "really rough year" but still remains "grateful. " Speaking at the New York Comic Con, he said: "Well, in the last year I've broken my cheek, my eye socket, my hand, my elbow … my shoulder.
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