
Fox rang in New Year’s Day 2018 next to Keith Richards, “swashbuckling pirate king, immortal rock god, and Rolling freaking Stone. But Netflix offered a “Hollywood ending,” funding a pick-up day to return to set about six months later, reassembling the cast and crew and belatedly completing Fox’s scene.Įven big-shot actors get starstruck.

The day Fox was set to film a cameo in the 2019 Spike Lee-produced movie “ See You Yesterday,” he had a serious fall - only four months after a critical surgery to remove a tumor from his spine (unrelated to Parkinson’s). Like many Parkinson’s patients, Fox has begun to notice cognitive changes, including memory loss, confusion, delusions and dementia - something he has “rarely contemplated before now, much less spoke of.” He describes looking for his car keys before remembering he can no longer drive mistaking one of his twin daughters for the other and uttering, “What did you think?” to “the person to my left, who isn’t there.” Fox describes the early years with his first son, Sam, as “Miller Time.” Looking back on it, Sam “tells me that his earliest memories include going to the fridge to get me beers.” Fox quit drinking when Sam was 3 and has been sober ever since.
