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Michael J. Foxis recalling how he struggled to stay afloat when he first started out in Hollywood.
While speaking withVarietyfor a cover story published Thursday about his career and newdocumentaryStill: A Michael J. Fox Movie, Fox, 61, recalled his first few years in the industry after he dropped out of high school to move from Canada to Los Angeles.
“I was sitting around with all these actors and I remember thinking, ‘Why is this going to work for me and not for them?’ " Fox said. “It’s not that I wished them unhappiness or bad luck — I wished them all the success in the world.
“But I knew I was going to make it. God knows why,” he toldVariety. “I was living on the margins. I was 18 years old, with no money, no connections, literally dumpster-diving for food.”
Michael J. Fox in 1986.Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty
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Fox’s remarkable career andthree-decades-long experience living with Parkinson’s diseaseare covered in his new documentary, which has received a significant amount of support from friends likeMeg Ryan,Bill MurrayandKatie Couricahead of its streaming debut Friday.
On May 4, Ryan, Murray, Couric and others, includingJoan Jett,Sharon Osbourneand Fox’s formerRescue MecostarDenis Leary, attended aspecial screening of the movieat Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall in New York City.
He continued that “just the fact that they would want to” come, rather than out of a sense of obligation, was moving.
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“It’s really an unusual film. It really brings people together in a way that I feel good about given how hard we’re pushing against each other and how furiously we’re pulling apart as a society,” he told PEOPLE.
source: people.com
