“I was 23 years old, and I called her, she was in Canada, and I said, ’they want me to do this Steven Spielberg movie, but I have to do it at night and I have to do Family Ties in the daytime.’ And she said, ‘You’ll be too tired,’” but Fox noted that his response to his mother was, “I live for this kind of tired. It’ll be okay.” “To this day — well, till two weeks ago — my mother thought it was a really bad idea for me to do Back to the Future. She loved the movie, [but she was right], I got tired,” he said. The actor—who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease when he was 29—was joined on stage at the convention by his Back to the Future co-star Christopher Lloyd. According to Variety, Fox spoke about his Parkinson’s diagnosis during the convention, noting, “Parkinson’s is the gift that keeps on taking — but it’s a gift, and I wouldn’t change it for anything." “People like Chris have been there a lot for me, and so many of you have. It’s not about what I have, it’s about what I’ve been given — the voice to get this done, and help people out," he said. More News:
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