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TVG: Do you need to produce or direct or act to feel fulfilled at this point?
MJF: Not from the point of view of there being an outside reaction to it. I’m a creative person, and so I’ll always do that. I’d like to write a book. I have a title: How to Lose Your Brain Without Losing Your Mind.
TVG: Are you still playing hockey?
MJF: I played hockey this winter, which was great. I got out on the ice and I was flying. I went skiing this winter. But there are losses.
TVG: Like what?
MJF: I’m slower than I was. I’m not as dexterous. I’m as strong as I was, but not as agile. People ask, "What does it feel like?" — and it’s a great question, as opposed to "How are you doing?" Because it feels interesting. It feels like all kinds of things. There’s weird things. There’s this freezing element to it, which is strange. One day [Spin City co-star] Michael [Boatman]...was coming out of the makeup room and Michael — I just love him to death — he’s coming out of the makeup door and I’m walking in. We met in the doorway. He stopped and I stopped. And I said to him, "You have to move." He said, "Why?" And I’m thinking, "Oh, my God, this is terrible. He’s thinking that I’m saying, ‘I’m the big shot here and you have to move.’ " I’m not — literally, he had to move or my body would not recognize that it was now OK for me to move. Is that a loss? Is that weird? I don’t know.
