Michael J. Fox Open to Resuming Acting Career for Role that Explores his Personal Struggles

Michael J. Fox announced he would be willing to come out of acting retirement for the right role that includes the ‘realities’ of his Parkinson’s disease.

‘If someone offers me a part and I do it and I have a good time, great,’ the 62-year-old Back to the Future alum told ET on Tuesday.

‘I would do acting if something came up that I could put my realities into it, my challenges, if I could figure it out.’

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Michael – who scored a BAFTAs standing ovation on February 18 – said it was ‘fun’ and ‘a big thrill’ to write and star in the Apple TV+ documentary Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie last year about his 33-year struggle with the degenerative disorder of the central nervous system.

Fox’s last gig was voicing Michael J. Bird in Michael Mankowski’s 2021 short film Back Home Again about the largest wildfire evacuations in Canadian History.

Michael J. Fox announced he would be willing to come out of acting retirement for the right role that includes the ‘realities’ of his Parkinson’s disease (pictured Tuesday)

In 2020, the eighties icon briefly reprised his breakout role as Marty McFly in Lil Nas X’s western-themed ‘Origins’ trailer for his music video Holiday, warning the rapper: ‘Whatever you do Nas, don’t go to 2020.’

Earlier that year, Michael shot his last significant role reprising his Good Wife attorney character Louis Canning – who curries favor with his tardive dyskinesia – in two episodes of CBS All Access’ spin-off The Good Fight.

‘I thought of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. There’s a scene where Leonardo DiCaprio’s character can’t remember his lines anymore,’ Fox recalled to Empire Magazine last September.

‘He goes back to his dressing room and he’s screaming at himself in the mirror. Just freaking insane. I had this moment [on The Good Fight set] where I was looking in the mirror and thought, “I cannot remember it anymore.”‘

On Tuesday, the honorary Oscar winner and his wife Tracy Pollan attended his foundation’s A Country Thing Happened on the Way to Cure Parkinson’s benefit in Nashville, TN featuring Jason Isbell, Sheryl Crow, and Little Big Town.

Michael launched the Michael J. Fox Foundation in 2000 and it has raised a reported $2B for Parkinson’s research, therapeutic programs, clinical trials, and a dataset/biosample library.

‘I think within the next 10, 15 years, we’ll have a viable solution in some form or another, whether it’s getting it cured or pathologically avoided,’ Fox – who doesn’t expect to reach 80 – told The Guardian in February.

‘The follow-up question is: “Will I be around for that?” I doubt it. But it’s okay. I don’t think in personal terms – you just want to meet the moment. And I think the moment is nigh. For big, big answers.’

The 62-year-old Back to the Future alum told ET: ‘If someone offers me a part and I do it and I have a good time, great…I would do acting if something came up that I could put my realities into it, my challenges, if I could figure it out’

Michael said it was ‘fun’ and ‘a big thrill’ to write and star in the Apple TV+ documentary Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie last year about his 33-year struggle with the degenerative disorder of the central nervous system

Fox’s last gig was voicing Michael J. Bird in Michael Mankowski’s 2021 short film Back Home Again about the largest wildfire evacuations in Canadian History 

In 2020, the eighties icon briefly reprised his breakout role as Marty McFly in Lil Nas X’s western-themed ‘Origins’ trailer for his music video Holiday, warning the rapper: ‘Whatever you do Nas, don’t go to 2020’

Earlier that year, Michael shot his last significant role reprising his Good Wife attorney character Louis Canning – who curries favor with his tardive dyskinesia – in two episodes of CBS All Access’ spin-off The Good Fight

Fox recalled to Empire Magazine last September: ‘I had this moment [on The Good Fight set] where I was looking in the mirror and thought, “I cannot remember it anymore”‘

On Tuesday, the honorary Oscar winner and his wife Tracy Pollan (4-L) attended his foundation’s A Country Thing Happened on the Way to Cure Parkinson’s benefit in Nashville, TN featuring Jason Isbell (L), Sheryl Crow (2-L), and Little Big Town (R)

Michael launched the Michael J. Fox Foundation in 2000 and it has raised a reported $2B for Parkinson’s research, therapeutic programs, clinical trials, and a dataset/biosample library 

The five-time Emmy winner added: ‘The last thing you run out of is a future. It doesn’t matter where you are or what you do, you’ll always have the future. Until you don’t. Then it’s moved, and it really mattered. But I’m in it for the final scene. I’m not leaving early to get to the car before the crowd starts.’

Michael frequently credits the love and support of his 63-year-old wife with keeping him focused on his health and sobriety 33 years after his diagnosis at age 29.

The married couple of 35 years are proud parents of four adult children – son Sam, 34; daughter Esmé, 22; and twin daughters Aquinnah & Schuyler, 29.