(CelebNMusic247-News) Michael J. Fox Returns TV in The Michael J. Fox Show
Not only is Michael J. Fox returning to TV in The Michael J. Fox Show, he has also landed to magazine covers simultaneously, Rolling Stone and Good Housekeeping.
For the first time in 26 years, Michael J. Fox is on the cover of Rolling Stone, but that’s not the only cover, you can also see Fox on Good Housekeeping this month as well. Yes two covers after 10 years!
Fox explains in Rolling Stone how people look at him:
“People look at me.”
“and have fear and sadness in their eyes, which they think they’re seeing reflected back at them. They wouldn’t see what I’m really feeling, which is, ‘I’m OK!’ But people are afraid. I did an interview with Larry King and it was a little more disjointed and fractured than usual, and I realized that it was the first time I’d talked to him since my diagnosis and that he was afraid. So I had to understand that before people deal with me, they’re going to deal what they think I’m going through. Then time will pass and then they’ll realize that this is just my life, the stuff I was given to deal with.”
Michael J. Fox, who has Parkinson’s, is returning to work in TV starring on a show about a man with Parkinson’s who’s returning to work in TV. the show is called The Michael J. Fox Show. Got that? But don’t call this a comeback.
Fox told Willie Geist on TODAY Wednesday (sept 25):
“It’s pretty flattering that people give (his casting) the attention and — and that on some level, people are excited about it.”
“It’s funny, it is kind of weird to have been low-key for a few years … but I never really went anywhere.”
Here is what Fox had to say about taking his real life and turning it into a new sitcom to show people that you can overcome adversity and disease.
Fox plays family man and TV anchor Mike Henry, who returns to the air five years after Parkinson’s put his career on hold. Fox himself was diagnosed with early-onset Parkinson’s in 1991, when he was 30 years old and flying high after starring on the hit sitcom “Family Ties” and in three “Back to the Future” movies. It’s been 10 years since we seen Fox on Spin City and in the past couple years he realized after numerous guest appearances that he can take on a lead role again.
Michael J Fox is a legend all his own, battling Parkinson’s disease and inspiring a nation of others struggling with the disorder of the brain that leads to shaking (tremors) and difficulty with walking, movement, and coordination.
Here are some highlights from Micheal J Fox talks with NBC News Today:
Fox told Geist, whose own father has Parkinson’s and who sits on the board of The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research:
“(The diagnosis) came … with a prognosis that … I’d have … maybe 10 years left to work.”
“I was just married and my son was just born and my father had just passed away. And it was — all kinds of stuff going on and — and it flattened me.”
On the end of Spin City:
“I thought it was the last of me in series television.”
“It’s more (work) than I thought it would be, but I’ve handled it better than I thought I would.”
“It’s what I do, it’s what I have done for years, and it’s what I enjoy doing.”
On adjusting to the restrictions of his disease:
“It’s changed me.”
“It’s changed the way I work. I can’t rely on a quick eyebrow lift or … express myself in a certain way facially. I just feel stuff more and so what comes out, I have less control over, but it tends to be more honest.”
Listen to part two of his conversation with
We would like to say congratulations Michael for all that you are doing and we wish you the best success with the new sitcom….
Make sure to see The Michael J. Fox Show on Thursday with back-to-back episodes September 26th at 9/8c
