Michael J. Fox is still showcasing his humor and hobbies Continues to battle Parkinson’s disease.
On Saturday, Michael J. The actor spoke at Fox Foundation’s annual event ‘A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Cure Parkinson’s’ people magazine “It can be hard for me” to maintain his keen sense of humor, “I have to keep it up.”
Fox continued that dark humor can circumvent taboos about difficult subjects, saying, “Let’s embrace it and make change.”
This year’s fundraiser was hosted by Denis Leary and featured a performance by Stevie Nicks.
“I can’t believe — a lot of these people I’ve known for years — they’ve been so kind to me,” Fox told the outlet. “I think because they see an opportunity to win, to make big progress, and that’s what we’re working toward.”
During the event, which raised $116 million for Parkinson’s research, Fox also showed off his guitar skills with an on-stage performance.
Fox also showcased his guitar playing earlier this year when he created a Surprise appearance with Coldplay In performance at the Glastonbury Festival in the UK.
He Thanked his team and band on social media At the time, saying, “Oh yes, in case you were wondering… it was mind boggling. There’s a time for every band and there’s a band for every time. It’s time for @coldplay Is.”
According to Variety, Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin introduced Fox on stage before playing his song “Humankind”, saying, “With his Chuck Berry riff and the way he punches Biff: Ladies and gentlemen, please. “Welcome Michael J. Fox.”
Video shared by BBC Music on YouTube shows Fox later staying and playing guitar from his wheelchair during the band’s performance of “Fix You”, while Martin knelt next to the actor for parts of the performance. Was sitting.
After the song, Martin thanked the crowd and said, “Especially thanks to the main reason we’re in a band, which is to see ‘Back to the Future’, so thank you to our hero forever and One of the most amazing people on earth, Mr. Michael J. Fox. Thank you so much… Hero.”
Fox previously performed with Coldplay in 2016, playing the Chuck Berry song “Johnny B. Goode”, featured in “Back to the Future”.
Guitars have been a long-time passion of Fox’s since his role in “Back to the Future.”
He told the empire In 2020 he learned guitar for the scene and told director Rob Zemeckis, “‘When I do this scene, I play guitar, so you can finger sync me. Feel free to chop off my hands whenever you want.’ ‘ Having said that, it put pressure on me to do it right. So I had a guy named Paul Hanson who was my guitar teacher.
Fox also learned choreography to look like a guitar player and better perform the scene.
“It was moments like these where you don’t think, ‘I’m tired’ or ‘I feel pressured to do this.’ You just do it and enjoy,” he told the outlet.
Parkinson’s symptoms have made it even more difficult for Fox to play guitar. The Guardian report He was no longer able to play by 2020, the same year he said he was no longer acting.
But Fox has played down his determination to “go nowhere” publicly twice this year.
In 2023, he spoke to The Times, saying that Parkinson’s is absolutely a struggle, but “depression is [not] So deep that I’m going to hurt myself… It always comes back to that place where I go, ‘Okay, there’s a lot more to celebrate in my life than to mourn.’ The pain speaks for itself. You either tolerate it or you don’t. And I’m not going anywhere.”
