“I didn’t see how it would work.”
“I didn’t see how it would work,” Fox toldVarietyin a cover interview published Thursday.
“It shows I can be an idiot too.”
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“It’s such a shitty disease,” Fox said.
“I didn’t want to think about it.
I didn’t want to deal with it.
It didn’t fit my story.
I just shut down.”
Fox Moviefrom director Davis Guggenheim.
“They’re overly schmaltzy,” Fox said.
Guggenheim added, “We’re not going to put him in a box as someone with a handicap.
We’re not going to say, ‘Oh, poor Michael.’
And you see that from the beginning of the movie.
We just immediately subvert that expectation.”
The doc instead offers messages of hope and perseverance.
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?'"
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