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She passed away when I was 10, but what continued on in the back of my mind was the feeling of having been Nana-approved. When I’d win a poetry contest in school or I’d give a speech at a larger event, Nana would say, ‘Yeah. He’s going to be fine.’ People were dubious, but it gave me extra room. She literally said, ‘Don’t worry about Michael. The more weird stuff I did, the more she backed me. If she said it was going to rain - and the sun was shining - you brought an umbrella. She had a reputation in the family for prophecy. “My maternal grandmother, Nana, was Protestant Irish, from Belfast. And when she’d go outside, instantly they’d say, ‘You’re Mike Fox’s mom.’ I was that kind of kid. My mom used to say that when we’d move to a new town, within 10 minutes, I knew all the neighbors.
I was very curious in a way that maybe the other kids weren’t. It’s causing me to obfuscate, and it’s causing me physical discomfort because I’m trying to contort myself into positions my body doesn’t want to be in for the purposes of getting a scene done.’ ” Then I sat down one day and thought, ‘I can’t keep this secret anymore.
A large part of my life was built on keeping that secret. “I was doing the show and loving it, but I was struggling with symptoms and having to hide them. I had met George Stephanopoulos prior to, and when I read the script, I immediately said, ‘This is George.’ Now we’re good friends and I say to him, ‘I’m your doppelganger, so if you need me to fill in on Sunday morning, I’m happy to do it.’ ” I could just float along the stream with these amazing actors and an Aaron Sorkin script. I wasn’t the lead, so I didn’t have to carry it.
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This is going to be the biggest movie of the summer.’ And I came back from London in mid-July and it was just-it was massive.”
I’ll do better next time.’ And he said, ‘No, you don’t understand. He said, ‘I just saw the movie.’ I said, ‘I’m sorry. and called me in London, where I was doing Family Ties Vacation. So many times I was practically unconscious because I was so tired. “I ended up getting about three hours sleep a night for the next three or four months, because they had to get the movie out that summer. Was I prepared to do both the show and a movie at the same time? All of a sudden, I came back from Christmas break and I went to work on Family Ties, and then that night I was standing in the parking lot with flaming tire tracks running between my legs-and my whole world changed. They hired another actor and it didn’t work out, so they came back to me. I said, ‘Am I getting fired?’ He had this script, and he told me that six or eight weeks earlier he had been asked if I was available and he’d said no. “I was doing Family Ties, and just before Christmas break, Gary Goldberg called me over to his office. He kept that on his desk until the day he died.” Love, me.’ Brandon turned out to be a good friend and a great guy. I can’t see that face on a lunchbox.’ So years later, when Back to the Future hit and Family Ties was the number two show on TV, I made Brandon a lunchbox with my picture on it, and I wrote, ‘This is for you to put your crow in. He said, ‘I love the show, you’ve just got to get rid of the kid. But when we had a pickup order for the first season, Brandon Tartikoff wanted to fire me. I wasn’t the featured character in the pilot, but my stuff all seemed to work. “I knew there was something special there.