{"id":62889,"date":"2025-08-13T00:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T00:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/62889\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T00:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T00:57:10","slug":"michael-j-fox-makes-rare-public-appearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/62889\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael J. Fox Makes Rare Public Appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/michael_j_fox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Michael J. Fox<\/a> took his DeLorean to the Southampton Playhouse.<\/p>\n<p>The actor hit the gas to celebrate the 40th anniversary of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1263312\/great-scott-30-secrets-about-back-to-the-future-revealed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Back to the Future<\/a> at the New York movie theater on Aug. 10.<\/p>\n<p>For the rare appearance, Michael\u2014who lives with Parkinson&#8217;s disease\u2014was all smiles in brown pants and a black button-down shirt. Along with rewatching the 1985 movie, the 64-year-old stayed behind for a post-screening conversation about his acting career and work with the Michael J. Fox Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>The Back to the Future celebration comes three months after Apple TV revealed that the actor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1417688\/michael-j-fox-return-to-acting-tv-after-5-years\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer nofollow\">is returning to the screen<\/a> as a guest star in the upcoming third season of Shrinking.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For Harrison Ford, whose character Paul Rhoades was diagnosed with Parkinson&#8217;s in season one, Michael&#8217;s addition has been &#8220;essential.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Michael&#8217;s courage, his fortitude and his grace, more than anything else, is on full display,&#8221; he told <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/tv\/features\/harrison-ford-interview-shrinking-season-3-emmy-marvel-future-1236473787\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Variety<\/a> last month. &#8220;He&#8217;s very smart, very brave, noble, generous, passionate guy, and an example to all of us, whether we&#8217;re facing Parkinson&#8217;s or not. You cannot help but recognize how amazing it is to have such grace.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael J. Fox took his DeLorean to the Southampton Playhouse. The actor hit the gas to celebrate the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-62889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}