Michael J. Fox is receiving widespread commendation for his courageous decision to resume acting, despite his ongoing battle with Parkinson’s disease.
Fox has made his return to the screen by accepting a role in the series Shrinking, where he stars alongside Jason Segel and Harrison Ford. In the show, Segel portrays a therapist who abandons conventional teachings to offer his unfiltered opinions, while Ford plays his mentor who receives a Parkinson’s diagnosis.
Prior to this, Fox’s most recent acting credits were in The Good Fight, and before that, Scrubs, two decades earlier.
“Michael is so excited to be getting this chance to get back in front of the camera and do what he does best,” an insider disclosed to Radar Online.
“He’ll be reuniting with the show’s creator Bill Lawrence, who he worked with on Spin City, so it’s a beautiful full circle moment,” the source added.
“Michael wouldn’t be taking this on if he wasn’t confident that he could handle it, but it still feels like something of a miracle,” they continued.
“It’s a testament to what a fighter he is,” the insider remarked.
Fox experienced a remarkable ascent in Hollywood during the 1980s, starring in blockbusters like Back to the Future and Teen Wolf, as well as the successful sitcom Family Ties. At the pinnacle of his career, at the young age of 29, the actor was diagnosed with Parkinson’s. He continued working for another seven years before stepping back as complications from the disease escalated.
Since then, Michael J. Fox has become a relentless advocate for discovering a cure for Parkinson’s and developing methods to predict an individual’s likelihood of developing the disease later in life. Through his Michael J. Fox Foundation, the actor has successfully raised an impressive $2 billion for research dedicated to combating the illness.
