in a deeply emotional update, Michael J. Fox, a courageous fighter who has lived with Parkinson’s disease for more than three decades, continues to face the illness’s relentless progression. At 62, he confronts the difficult reality of his condition, which now includes the painful effects of facial muscle paralysis and a body marked by numerous surgeries and fractures.
Fox openly faces his own mortality, admitting with striking honesty, “Every day it’s tougher… I’m not going to be 80.” Director Davis Guggenheim, after spending considerable time with Fox, hopes to gain that same profound outlook. Fox soberly describes Parkinson’s as a complicated gift that continually takes from him, while also acknowledging that it has sparked powerful and life-changing transformation in his life. His journey, complicated by depression and further challenged by injuries, including fractures and surgeries, has repeatedly tested his strength and determination.
With unwavering resolve, he states, “I’m a tough son of a b****.”
