“I woke up and I noticed my pinky auto-animated.
Parkinson’s disease,” the 61-year-old recalls in the clip above.
“I told [my wife] Tracy the news.
Michael J. Fox in the Apple TV+ documentary ‘Still’.Apple TV +
‘In sickness and in health,’ I remember her whispering.
No one outside of my family knew.”
“But, all those years hiding was shaking me awake,” he continues.
Guggenheim can be heard telling him that the “sad-sack story is: Michael J.
“I’m a tough son of a bitch,” Fox asserts.
He says, ‘Life threw me this curve ball, and it’s bringing me down.’
I watch how Michael’s dealt with that, and that’s given me a path forward.
But that’s the appeal to me; it’s a universal story.
The pitch was: What happens when an incurable optimist confronts an incurable disease?”
Fox also spoke about the narrative of the film and what it captures about his story.
Those are f—ing ridiculous odds.
I mean, crazy odds," he said.
You make it up as you go along."
Still: A Michael J.
Fox Moviepremieres May 12 onApple TV+.
Watch the trailer above.
