Longtime buddies Michael J. Fox and Denis Leary treated an audience to an intimate conversation as part of the Tribeca Film Festival on Tuesday night.
Fox, 57, even managed to kid around when talking about an injury following his 2018 spinal surgery.
"I had a rough year," Fox told the crowd at the BMCC Performing Arts Center. "After my spinal surgery, I had to learn walk again and I remember walking and I was really cocky and [then] I fell and I shattered my humorous, and a broken humorous is no f–king joke," he said.
"Think about it," he added.
Fox, who quite literally wrote the book on optimism in 2009, "Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist," told the audience that even when he had to make "lemonade out of lemons, but I was out of the f–king lemonade business," in recovering from his surgery, he managed to keep going.
"I would say, 'I have to take every step one at a time now,'" he recalled. "And then I thought, 'Well, that's slowing life down, you have more time that way, every step is a new adventure, every step I could fall down, I might not fall down, I might get where I'm going, I could go backwards, who knows?' That doesn't stop me."
But even as someone who suffers from a life-altering disease, he manages to have a perspective for all kinds of struggle.
"I don't want to be selling people the optimism thing because people have tough times, man," he acknowledged. "People with depression, have real depression, and things happen to them that I can't even comprehend, making my stuff seem like Band-Aids and skinned knees, so I don't want to be deceptive saying 'cheer up.'"
Parkinson's is "an amorphous blob that could take over my life or [it could be] something that I could understand and accept and look at and be willing to deal with … you just decide what it is," he added.
"It's not bulls–t, your optimism," Leary, 61, said.
"It works for me," Fox quipped.
The dad of four also spoke a lot about how his Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research— that was started in 2000 — is "really zoning now in finding out why it happens."
And in terms of ever finding a cure, he said simply, "After I'm gone, if I had something to do with it, that will be great."
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