Fox: But I just always - everything - everything I confront and confronts me, I always say, what's funny about this? Like, what's something funny about it?Īs horrible as it is, time plus tragedy equals comedy. What is that like for you to have that kind of power? Fox: And I can turn cheese into gold.Īmna Nawaz: That's your other superpower. Fox: You ever hear of Mighty Mouse, Jen?Īmna Nawaz: You have always had this superpower of being able to make people laugh. It's not - it's acerbic and funny and grateful for hard-earned wisdom.Īmna Nawaz: Fox first won over audiences with his charisma and comedic timing, stealing the spotlight as Alex P. Fox: What I like about it is, it's not morose. Doesn't happen.Īmna Nawaz: I spoke to Fox about his full-throttle career, his family and 34-year marriage to Tracy Pollan, and his three decades living with Parkinson's, a story he tells in his own words in the new documentary "Still." Literally, in three years, I go from being the kid stuffed in lockers to having a conversation with Steven Spielberg about doing his next movie. Fox: I was still pretty fresh off being an 11th grade dropout. By 24, he was Hollywood's golden boy, a world away from his humble roots in Canada. Fox skyrocketed to stardom with a breakthrough big-screen role as Marty McFly in the year's number one film, "Back to the Future."įox's face was on every teen magazine cover. Fox, Actor: Are you telling me you built a time machine out of a DeLorean?Īmna Nawaz: In 1985, Michael J. I sat down with FOX to discuss the documentary and his life's work for our arts and culture series, Canvas. That is the focus of a film about actor Michael J. Amna Nawaz: And incurable optimist confronts an incurable disease.
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