LOS ANGELES – Michael J. Fox was one of the brightest stars in 1980s Hollywood, with hits such as the time-travel comedy Back To The Future (1985) and sitcom Family Ties (1982 to 1989). But the fairy tale took a dark turn when, at age 29, he received a shocking diagnosis...
But it was important to the 61-year-old Canadian-American star to reveal more of this private struggle in the film, despite having already written about much of it in four memoirs published over the last two decades.
Director Davis Guggenheim says Fox “was totally an open book and nothing was off the table” when it came to what was shown in the documentary.“There are a lot of movies about people who have struggles, and sometimes those movies lean on pity, but that’s not Michael,” adds the film-maker, who produced the Oscar-winning climate documentary An Inconvenient Truth .
“I understand the idea of my face going blank, or the lack of expression, I don’t always know what I look like, and not that it bothers me, but it’s a shock when you see it.”“It could have been confrontational, but it was cathartic, the close-up stuff,” says the star. “We use a lot of footage from Michael’s movies to portray moments like when he meets Tracy Pollan,” Guggenheim says of Fox’s 62-year-old American wife, whom he met when she played his girlfriend on Family Ties, and with whom he has four children aged 21 to 33.
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