Actor Michael J. Fox recently shared some interesting details about his character in "The Good Wife," which earned him a total of five Emmy nominations for best guest actor in a drama series.

When his role in the series was announced in 2010, it was supposed to be for just a single episode. Six years since then, however, the actor has logged a total of 26 appearances on the legal drama. His role as the scheming, cut-throat lawyer Louis Canning has allowed Fox to showcase his versatility as an actor, far from the roles he has played in his previous projects.

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Fox shared how his character was shaped by him and the script writers of the series, taking into account the disability he suffers from. It can be recalled that at the peak of his acting career in 1992, the actor was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.

In the series, Canning has dyskinesia, a condition that causes sudden movements and can occur as a side effect of medication to treat Parkinson's.

Speaking about his Emmy-nominated portrayal, the actor said he wanted to prove that disabled people like him can be assholes too.

"I thought it might be interesting to have a kind of version of Parkinson's, maybe not Parkinson's explicitly, but dyskinesia, which is a side effect of it. We toyed with that idea, and they came up with that scene in the courtroom where I stand in front of the jury and say, 'You may see me move this way or that way'-- I think it kind of blew people away on the set that I would be so open with it, but I just knew this was a perfect opportunity to funnel a lot of my life experience into a character and be coy with it and kind of let it out in dribs and drabs and see if I can make it an effective tool for him to do his job, as opposed to something that prevented him from doing his job," he said.

"The Good Wife" ended in May after seven seasons.