Emotional reunion of Marty McFly and Doc Brown: The “Back to the Future” stars Michael J. Fox (61) and Christopher Lloyd (83) reviewed their first meeting on the set of the 1985 cult film at New York Comic Con.
“I didn’t know Michael, I had only heard of him,” revealed Christopher Lloyd, according to the online magazine “The A.V. Club”. After six weeks of shooting, Michael J. Fox replaced Eric Stoltz (61), who had been fired, as the leading actor. Lloyd was annoyed before meeting the newcomer for the first time, he now admitted. “I felt like I had barely gotten through the six weeks, and now should I do it again?” But when he met his young colleague, “the chemistry was right”.
Michael J. Fox also fondly remembers the first meeting – to which Lloyd drove, by the way, in the famous DeLorean from the film. Fox called his co-star the “King of Explanations.” He explained to him what was going on without it becoming boring. “The crazy thing is you keep it all because he’s just so good at it and brilliantly entertaining.” Fox thought at the time, “I’ve got to watch my ass because this guy is going to blow me off the screen.”
Lloyd and Fox also spoke kindly about the Back to the Future musical, which premiered in 2020. “They could have fallen into the trap of impersonating us,” Fox observed, “but they fleshed out the characters in their own way.”
Fox also spoke about his Parkinson’s disease and his “Michael J. Fox Foundation”: “I wouldn’t trade it for anything,” he said. “People like Chris have been very supportive and so have so many of you. It’s not about what I have, it’s about what I’ve been given – the voice to make it happen and help people.”
