Michael J. Fox looks as animated and charming as ever in the trailer for the upcoming documentary Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie.
In the trailer, which was released Thursday, the 61-year-old actor looks back on his successful run with director Davis Guggenheim and shares how he first noticed the signs of what would be diagnosed as Parkinson’s disease.
He also details the difficult moment he revealed the diagnosis to his longtime wife Tracy Pollan, and how she vowed to support him all the way.
He’s seen in behind-the-scenes footage at the beginning clapping the board and saying, “My story.” Take two.
Then there’s newly shot footage that’s supposed to look like behind-the-scenes clips of him getting ready to shoot a pivotal scene with Christopher Lloyd in Back To The Future, which seamlessly transitions into a clip from the classic movie.
I still understand! Michael J. Fox, 61, looked as energetic as ever in the trailer for the documentary Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie, which is being directed by Davis Guggenheim.
BIG BREAK: Then there’s recently filmed footage that’s supposed to look like behind-the-scenes clips of him getting ready to shoot a pivotal scene with Christopher Lloyd in Back To The Future, which seamlessly transitions into a clip from the classic movie.
In the beginning, Fox answers a question from Guggenheim to explain the title of the film.
“What does it mean to remain still?” asks the director, who has directed numerous TV episodes and documentaries, An Inconvenient Truth and Waiting for Superman.
‘I don’t know,’ replied Fox, ‘I’ve never been still.
To illustrate, he’s included footage from multiple films of the actor working for his life, as well as a skateboarding scene from Back To The Future.
One of the clips used to illustrate his meteoric rise shows him begging for a job and saying, “I can be older, I can be taller.”
“I can be anything,” he adds over clips from his early TV appearances and a Polaroid from the Teen Wolf set that shows him in monster makeup.
The trailer then broke into a montage of the actor’s many talk shows, award ceremonies, and red carpets to show that he’s become ingrained in Hollywood in just a few years.
I do not believe this! This is great,” he said, in shock after winning an Emmy for his sitcom Family Ties.
Always on the move: “What does it mean to be still?” asks the manager. ‘I don’t know,’ replied Fox, ‘I’ve never been still
A Different Look: One of the clips used to illustrate his meteoric rise shows him begging for a job and saying, “I can be older, I can be taller.” I could be anything’, on clips from his early TV appearances and a Polaroid photo from the set of Teen Wolf showing him in monster makeup
“I feel four feet tall!” The crowd joked, noting his lower stature.
‘I get it.’ you’re great. “You were bigger than a bubblegum,” Fox says to the camera in the present day.
But then he recounts waking up one morning to find his pinky finger twitching uncontrollably, a first sign of Parkinson’s disease.
He described the finger as an “auto-animate”.
But a conversation with his wife, Tracy, who revealed his diagnosis helped support him after she told him she was staying with him.
I told Tracy the news. “In sickness and in health,” he recounted, “I remember her whispering about it.”
The actor then recalls the pills he took to hide his condition, though he does not clarify if they were recreational or prescription drugs he was self-administering, or if she was prescribed medication to ease his tremors from Parkinson’s disease.
A new challenge emerges: “I get it. I was big. I was bigger than a bubblegum,” Fox says to the camera in the present day. But then he recounts waking up one morning to find his pinky finger twitching uncontrollably, a first sign of an illness. Parkinson’s.
Next to him: But a conversation with his wife Tracy (right) who revealed his diagnosis helped support him after she told him she was staying with him. I told Tracy the news. He related, “In sickness and in health, I remember her whispering”; Seen April 2 in New York City
