Michael J. Fox says he was a "moron" as a teenager star: "You just want to slap me."
The actor says that there is evidence of his ego in his new documentary, Still.
In the space of a few years, Michael J. Fox went from a dropout of the high school to one of the biggest Television stars all time. Thus, when he is known for his perseverance and optimism today - thank you to his battle with Parkinson's disease And his fight to find a remedy for others - when he was a young star, he had a little ego. In fact, Fox even says a "moron" in a new interview by looking back on her career as a teenage actress.
The 61 -year -old actor is the subject of the documentary Always: a movie Michael J. Fox , which will be presented on May 12. In a interview with Variety , Fox points to a film sequence of his time in the 80s sitcom Family ties As proof that it was not fun to be there as a young star. His television mother, Meredith Baxter , also commented on his behavior as a newly famous celebrity.
Read the rest to find out more about the TV career of the 80s of Fox, and if his co-stars thought he was also an idiot.
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He was very confident.
In the Variety Interview, Fox talks about the abandonment of the school and the Canada's passage in Los Angeles to become an actor after having participated in certain Canadian television shows. He remembers having felt a certainty that an acting career was going to work for him because he was just confident in himself.
"I knew I was more talented than many people," he said. "And I knew that if I wanted to be someone, I couldn't just sit on my parents' porch and think:" My boy, if I was born in states, I could do something of my life . '"
In 1980, he appeared in his first film, Midnight madness , and he said he knew when his career was going to take off.
"I was sitting with all these actors, and I remember thinking:" Why is it going to work for me and not for them? "", He recalls. "It is not that I wished them misfortune or bad luck - I wished them all the success of the world. But I knew that I was going to do it. God knows why. I lived on the sidelines. I was 18 years old , with no money, no connections, literally dumping dumps for food. "
His career has taken off - especially.
Two years later Midnight madness , Fox started playing like Alex P. Keaton Family ties , which was broadcast in seven seasons. Meanwhile, he also played in Back to the future And Wolf for teenagers , which were both published in 1985 when Fox was 24 years old.
"I was an idiot," said Fox Variety of this period. He underlined a scene in Always in which he speaks to Family ties Writers on their script and asks to redo a scene as proof.
"You just want to slap me," he added. "You just want to go," shut up, sit down, have a coke diet and relax and sit in the area. ""
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His mother on television didn't think he was so bad.
Baxter, who played the mother of the family, Elyse, on Family ties , said Variety That she did not think that Fox was such a stupid, but she understood why he would behave as he did.
"I don't think he had it renting it to us," she said. "At the same time, when someone attracts all this attention and all this warmth, it is difficult not to go to their heads. You cannot blame where this adulation takes you. But if you stay there, then you become unbearable . "
Fox did not "stay there".
Fox attributes some things to the growth he has had since Family ties . First, he started a relationship with Tracy Pollan , who led him to change his manners at a time when he also drank a lot. They continued to get married in 1988 and are still together today. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
"I mean, it was silly. I was a cartoon of a 25 -year -old man with Hollywood", " Fox said Fresh air in 2020. "I had a Ferrari. I had a house in Laurel Canyon. I had all the external signs. And then I met Tracy, who convinced me that everything would be the end of me, and I should calm down. And so I calmed my behavior, but I still drank. "
Two years after their marriage, Fox was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. "I had no way to face it. So I just doubled on my alcohol consumption," he said. Alcohol consumption, he explained, made more of his marriage than his diagnosis.
"She fell on me one morning lying on the sofa, sleeping with a wooden mouth with a beer spilled on the carpet next to me and my son crawling on me," recalls Fox. "And she was on her way to the theater. She had a play to do, a morning. And she just looked at me and said, is that what you want? Boredom in her voice shocked me and I was afraid of the anger "Ve. I immediately knew that this moment had changed my life."
Fox has now been sober for 30 years.
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He called himself a "famous 80s".
In an interview in March on the documentary with Weekly entertainment ,, Fox has also thought about his days as a young star , including doing risky things like driving a Lamborghini 90 Miles per hour.
"I was in life in a dangerous way. In life in a way that wanted all the good things in life but did not want to pay the respect that life needed to transform its path," -he declares.
Fox described his celebrity as "famous 80s" and explained: "It was just an interesting thing that someone said. We were talking about the 80s, and they said:" Well, yes. You were "famous 80s". ""
He continued: "I started to think about it, and I thought it was a particular crucible that existed then that does not exist now. I have never sat down to try to understand it with a pen and paper Or anything, but it was a different time. You wanted to stay in a big old bar and direct your troops. I wanted to go crazy. "
