'Still' Director on His Michael J. Fox Doc: 'He Didn't Intend to Be a Role Model. Life Sent a Curveball'

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Family Ties. He’d shoot there until 4am, sleep in the back of the car home, and be put to bed by his driver. Then, two hours later, the first car would be back outside to take him tostarted to come together three years ago, when Guggenheim began reading Fox’s autobiographies.

“I think my job is to poke people, you know?” Guggenheim says. “And he [Fox] is very bright. He's very smart. I think sometimes people think that people who are funny are somehow frivolous and shallow. But I think humour, especially his type of humour, reveals a kind of hidden intelligence.”That reflexive feel for a gag is what set Fox apart as an actor when he was a kid, Guggenheim thinks. Check out the archive. “He does not look like a movie star. He's very short.

The fall onto the hard concrete makes you wince, but, Guggenheim says, it’s essential. “That scene says a lot about him. You know, he could easily just get into a wheelchair. But he's determined to walk, to keep walking, to learn how to walk better. And then if he does fall, he's determined to be not seen as a pitiful creature. Like he says: ‘I'm not pathetic. I got shit going on.’”

 

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