Michael J: I’d act again if I got ‘real’ part

MICHAEL J Fox has said he would consider acting again if he had a role that integrated the realities of his Parkinson’s disease.

The star, who played time-traveller Marty McFly in the Back To The Future film trilogy, quit on-screen work in 2020 because the neurological disease affected his memory and made it difficult to recall his lines.

But he said: “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, 62, right, who also starred in Teen Wolf, Doc Hollywood and TV series Spin City, was diagnosed with young-onset Parkinson’s at 29, a year after Back To The Future Part III was released in 1990.

Before his diagnosis, he had noticed a tremor in his little finger. The progressive condition has now severely affected his mobility and he has suffered broken bones from numerous falls. In 2000 he set up the Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s research, which has raised more than £1.58billion.

He told Entertainment Tonight his biggest goal had been to raise a family with his wife, US actress Tracy Pollan, 63.

The couple wed in 1988 and Michael said: “We have four amazing kids and that’s been the big thing.And then the other is with the foundation.”

Last year, Michael starred in Apple+ documentary Still: A Michael J Fox Movie, exploring how Parkinson’s affected his life. In February, he received a standing ovation after making a surprise appearance in a wheelchair at London’s Bafta film awards to present the Best Film award to director Sir Christopher Nolan for Oppenheimer.