Nobody doubts that Michael Fox He is one of Hollywood’s biggest celebrities, an actor who began fighting for his place in the industry at a very young age, and established himself when he was little more than a teenager. For this reason, his opinions are taken with great respect, as someone who understands very well the struggle involved in becoming “someone” in a world as competitive as that of film and television in the United States. And in a recent interview, the protagonist of wolf boy He was very severe about the desire for fame, and only fame, that he observes in the younger generations.
In a note with the magazine People, Fox referred to the 80s and commented: “There is an expression I heard when they gave me an honorary Oscar, when someone told me ‘you’re famous from the 80s.’ And when they told me, I thought that was good because it’s true, we were different, we were tougher. We didn’t have social media or any of that crap. We were simply famous, and thanks to our own means. And it was an incredible time.” And very clearly, later he stated: “You had to be talented, that always helped.”
Regarding current trends, then Fox expressed: “We were breaking our backs. We flexed our muscles as actors, watched other performers, asked them about their techniques and talked a lot about it. But now it turns out that you have people walking around asking you what the brand of your sweater is or what some dance step is like, and with that they are already enough to be the most famous people in the world.”
Among many of the names that profess enormous respect for Fox, is none other than Martin Scorsese. On a very special evening held last year, the director of Taxi Driver He gave a warm message to that interpreter.
In an evening that recognized the career of Michael Fox, Martin Scorsese had the opportunity to take the stage and talk about that actor’s legacy and the way it influenced his life. When reviewing his career, the director confessed that he felt “impacted by his energy and the strength of his presence” and remarked that “Michael was made for the cinema.”
“If you look at Michael’s filmography, pay attention to the number of projects he has done since his Parkinson’s diagnosis. And along the way, he not only started his own foundation, which received a lot of money for all kinds of research, but he also became a real beacon for many people with Parkinson’s, including my wife, Helen. “Michael, your support meant the world to her and me,” Scorsese added.
At the moment of receiving those words, Fox gave a message in a relaxed tone. “I’m going to turn into a pumpkin in about five minutes, so I’ll try to keep up. I don’t have a sad or tearful life. Something happened to me that was really a drama, but that also put me in the position to do other things that were effective and that perhaps even served to improve several situations.”
Around the same time that Fox received that emotional message from Scorsese, he also used his social networks to wish his wife a happy birthday with some sweet words and a series of photographs of both of them.
At that time, the star published a moving photo album on Instagram, which included a snapshot of the couple embracing in front of the sea, a postcard with their children and several images of her posing both on the red carpet and in more casual contexts. “She fills the people she loves with love, she shows them what she feels,” she began the text with which she accompanied the photographs of her. “Happy, happy birthday, Tracy Pollan, my summer girl forever, my love, my best friend and the most beautiful, incredible mother to our four wonderful children.”