{"id":1002,"date":"2026-03-03T13:47:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T13:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/?p=1002"},"modified":"2026-03-03T13:47:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T13:47:23","slug":"there-are-acceptance-speeches-and-then-there-are-moments-that-stop-time-at-the-2026-actor-awards-when-michael-j-fox-stepped-to-the-microphone-the-applause-didnt-just-echo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/?p=1002","title":{"rendered":"There are acceptance speeches\u2026 and then there are moments that stop time. At the 2026 Actor Awards, when Michael J. Fox stepped to the microphone, the applause didn\u2019t just echo \u2014 it rose"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The \u201cBack to the Future\u201d actor honored his family at the top of the ceremony, after his peers gave him a huge round of applause in the room.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_1-0\"><strong>Michael J. Fox\u2018s peers warmly welcomed him to the\u00a02026 Actor Awards, where the Hollywood icon and father of four gave an emotional speech about parenthood amid his battle with Parkinson\u2019s disease<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_3-0\"><strong>During the SAG-AFTRA union ceremony\u2019s traditional introduction on Sunday \u2014 which usually sees a round of actors speak about their lives and careers at the start of the show \u2014 the\u00a0<em>Back to the Future<\/em>\u00a0star received a sustained ovation from attendees in the room when the camera cut from\u00a0Kate Hudson\u00a0to him.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_5-0\"><strong>\u201cBefore I left school, I moved from Canada to L.A. to make it as an actor. A teacher of mine told me, \u2018Fox, you\u2019re not going to be cute forever.\u2019 I didn\u2019t know what to say to that, so I said, \u2018Maybe just long enough, sir!\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_5-0\"><strong>Fox continued, \u201cAfter a few years of dumpster diving in L.A., I ended up on\u00a0<em>Family Ties<\/em>, where I received the biggest gift of my career: I met my wife, the actress Tracy Pollan, who played Ellen, my girlfriend, and she gave me four gifts, our four kids.\u201d (Fox and Pollan married in 1988 \u2014 three years before he was diagnosed with Parkinson\u2019s.)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/LIKCGIf--576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11\" style=\"width:110px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/LIKCGIf--576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/LIKCGIf--169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/LIKCGIf-.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cBack to the Future\u201d actor honored his family at the top of the ceremony, after his peers gave him a huge round of applause in the room. Michael J. Fox\u2018s peers warmly welcomed&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1003,"href":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions\/1003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}