Webdesk: Michael J. Fox quit acting because he could connect to a scene in Leonardo DiCaprio’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
In an interview with Empire, the Back to the Future actor talked about how he forgot his lines while filming The Good Fight because he has Parkinson’s disease.
“I thought of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” I said. “There’s a scene where Leonardo DiCaprio’s character can’t remember his lines anymore.”
“He goes back to his changing room and yells at himself in the mirror. “Just crazy as hell,” he said.
Fox said, “I remember looking in the mirror and thinking, ‘I can’t remember it anymore. So, let’s go on.’ It was quiet.”
Fox had already talked about a big step forward in the search for a fix for Parkinson’s disease.
“I feel like a cure is closer than it’s ever been,” he told Lorraine Kelly on Friday’s Lorraine.
The veteran actor went on, “I think we’ve found this biomarker, which is huge because it lets us find the disease and start treating it sooner.”
“It was a huge step forward, and we didn’t think it would happen so soon. We worked on it for a long time and talked about it ten years ago.”
