Michael J. Fox hated driving a DeLorean Back to the future.
The 64-year-old starred in the beloved 1985 sci-fi classic as Marty McFly, and although the time-traveling vehicle has become one of the most iconic vehicles in Hollywood history, Fox admitted he didn’t think much of the DeLorean when creating it. Back to the future.
He writes in his last diary Future boy“I should drive the DeLorean. I know what you’re thinking… Great! I thought so too at first, but soon I came to hate driving the DeLorean. I hated driving the DeLorean,” he said.
“First of all, let’s face it – it’s like – a car. Slow to accelerate, with cheap dates, and that’s before our special effects crew adds their two cents (or several million dollars, all of that).”
the Family ties The actor added that a large number of additional items were added to the interior of the DeLorean, although he soon discovered that most of them were not completely safe.
“Those gear-equipped tools — the flux capacitor, the various time clocks, the boom — tend to have rough, metallic, sharp edges,” Fox explained.
“After that first night in the driver’s seat, for the rest of the movie, my hands are all laced up with lacerations, my knuckles are bruised, and my elbows are bruised from hitting the alien-edged console.”
“As they say in show business, pain is temporary, film is forever.”
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in Back to the futureThe film follows teenager Marty McFly (Fox) who is accidentally sent from 1985 to 1955 in a time-traveling DeLorean built by eccentric scientist Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd), where he must make sure his parents fall in love before returning to the future.
The film – directed by Robert Zemeckis – also starred Crispin Glover as George McFly, Lea Thompson as Lauren Baines McFly, and Thomas F. Wilson as Bev Tannen, and Claudia Wells as Jennifer Parker.
Elsewhere in the book, Fox recounted how Glover, who played his on-screen father George McFly, “caused friction” on Back to the future He was appointed by taking his character into his own hands.
Fox recalls: “Nobody puts Crispin in a box. But that didn’t stop the camera crew from literally building a box around him. Like George McFly, Crispin had his own ideas about how and where his character should move.”
Fox explained that Glover (61 years old) would not remain silent while filming the dialogue scene.
He continued: “When Crispin approached the camera, he was supposed to stay in the aisle between the clothesline and me. But Crispin had a different plan. I think he saw George as a wanderer, a free spirit traveling in random patterns – in this case, perpendicular to the camera.”
Fox added that the crew “created a miniature enclosure made of sandbags and C-stands, trapping Crispin to adhere to the parameters of the shot.”
However, Fox emphasized that he “loved working” with him Willard Actor on Back to the future.
He said of Glover: “His talent was unquestionable, although his methods created friction at times. However, I respected how he remained true to George (as he understood and embodied him).”

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