{"id":34084,"date":"2022-06-02T20:50:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T20:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/michael-j-fox-says-he-cant-play-roles-with-heavy-dialogue-due-to-memory-lapses\/"},"modified":"2022-06-02T20:50:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T20:50:21","slug":"michael-j-fox-says-he-cant-play-roles-with-heavy-dialogue-due-to-memory-lapses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/michael-j-fox-says-he-cant-play-roles-with-heavy-dialogue-due-to-memory-lapses\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael J. Fox says he can’t play roles with heavy dialogue due to memory lapses"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Michael J. Fox, 60, has been a Hollywood favorite for decades.<\/p>\n

Even after he went public about his diagnosis with Parkinson’s disease in 1998, the actor continued winning the hearts of television viewers on shows like Boston Legal, The Good Wife<\/em> and The Michael J. Fox Show<\/em>most of which involved playing a character who was also living with the disease.<\/p>\n

In an interview on Mike Birbiglia’s podcast Working It Out<\/em>the actor opened up about his recent decision to not take on roles with a lot of lines due to his inability to memorize long strips of dialogue.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don’t take on something with a lot of lines, because I can’t do it,\u201d he said. “And for whatever reason, it just is what it is. I can’t remember five pages of dialogue. I can’t do it. It can’t be done. So I go to the beach. “<\/p>\n

That wasn’t always the case, however. The actor acknowledged he was \u201ccruising along\u201d while shooting The Good Wife<\/em> and Curb Your Enthusiasm<\/em> throughout the 2000s and 2010s – until a couple years ago, when he began finding it harder to memorize long pages of dialogue.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I did the spinoff from Good Wife<\/em>which is Good Fight<\/em>, I couldn’t remember the lines, \u201dhe said. \u201cI just had this blank, I couldn’t remember the lines. And it was strange because on Family Ties<\/em>, [producers] used to give me the script and I’d go, ‘I’m in. Mallory, get off the phone. ‘ And I knew it, like in an instant. And it continued to be that way for me. “<\/p>\n

\u201cI get to this point, I’m on a soundstage in Culver City, and I can’t get this line together,\u201d he continued. \u201cIt was this legal stuff and I just couldn’t get it. But what’s really refreshing was I didn’t panic. I didn’t freak out. I just went, ‘Well that’s that. Moving on. A key element of this process is memorizing lines, and I can’t do it. ‘ And I had done Kiefer’s show in Canada, [Designated Surivor<\/em>]. I had the same problem. “<\/p>\n

Though Fox reportedly retired from acting altogether in 2020, he seemed to dial the finality back when speaking with Birbiglia about how watching a scene from Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time\u2026 In Hollywood <\/em>made him realize he had to limit his dialogue when working on set, for the sake of his own mental health.<\/p>\n