Michael J. Fox has revealed that he would consider coming out of retirement to act again if a suitable role was on the table.Fox stepped back from on-screen work in 2020 amid his decades-long battle with Parkinson’s disease, but it now seems like he is open to returning. The actor shared his current stance on acting in a recent interview with Entertainment Tonight, telling the outlet that he would make a comeback for the right opportunity.”If someone offers me a part, and I do it, and I have a good time, great,” Fox declared. “I would do acting if something came up that I could put my realities into it, my challenges, if I could figure it out.”Fox was diagnosed with Parkinson’s back in 1991 and went public with his diagnosis in 1998. He later set up the Michael J. Fox Foundation – an organization dedicated to finding a cure for the degenerative disease. The 62-year-old star admitted that his work with the foundation (and his family) had taken priority over acting.”My biggest goal, I think, was to raise a family. We have four amazing kids, and that’s been the big thing,” Fox said, referencing his children, whom he shares with his wife Tracy Pollan. “And then the other is with the [Michael J. Fox] foundation.”Fox added that the 2023 documentary Still: A Michael J. Fox Story, which was released on Apple TV+ last year, chronicling his personal and professional triumphs and travails, “just happened,” but it ended up being “a big thrill” and “fun” project to be a part of despite the fact he “never would have set that as a goal.”The documentary recounts Fox’s extraordinary story and rise to stardom in 1980s Hollywood. He had many memorable roles during this time, including playing Alex P. Keaton on the NBC sitcom Family Ties and starring as Marty McFly in the hit Back to the Future movies alongside Christopher Lloyd as Doc Brown.The Top 15 Time Travel Movies of All…TimeFox shared an emotional reunion with Brown at New York Comic Con in 2022, as both actors appeared onstage to rapturous applause from attendees. “The best part of the movie was working with Chris,” Fox said of Lloyd during the panel, in which he referred to his co-star as the “King of Exposition,” per the New York Post.In the same year, Fox received an honorary Oscar, more specifically, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, which is an award given to an “individual in the motion picture industry whose humanitarian efforts have brought credit to the industry,” according to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ website.Image credit: Photo by Gerardo Mora/Getty ImagesAdele Ankers-Range is a freelance entertainment writer for IGN. You can follow her on X/Twitter @AdeleAnkers.
