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Michael J. Fox Would End Acting Retirement If a Role Came Up ‘That I Could Put My Realities’ and ‘Challenges’ Into: ‘If I Could Figure It Out’


Michael J. Fox retired from acting in 2020 after he struggled to remember his lines amid his Parkinson's disease.

Fox revealed to Empire magazine last year that Leonardo DiCaprio and Quentin Tarantino crossed his mind when he landed on the decision to stop acting for good. The scene Fox referenced is one of the more memorable sequences in Tarantino’s “Hollywood.” DiCaprio’s character, the actor Rick Darlton, has an over-the-top meltdown over forgetting his lines and trashes his trailer in a fit of rage. When presented with the idea that he’s a hero for living so openly with his diagnosis, Fox said, “It’s just a nice way of people letting me know they are moved by my acceptance of things and by the way that I’ve tried to make a difference.

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