26-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Edmonton Journal
Forty years later, Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd revisit Back to the Future at Calgary Expo: 'It's the best thing that ever happened to me'
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At first, he said no.
'Things were going kind of good for me in the theatre,' Lloyd told the audience at Calgary Expo Friday evening. 'I'm getting to think that not much is happening here in L.A. So I figured I should go back to New York and continue doing what I was doing. About that moment, I got a script from this new agent. I go through it and I read it and (I said) I don't want to do this. I'm going back to New York, I had the opportunity to do a play. So I took the script to Back to the Future and I put it in the waste-paper basket. That's a seriously ill-thought career choice. I retrieved it and looked at it a second time a little more seriously and I went back to L.A. and met (director) Bob Zemeckis and that was it.'
