re: Famous roles nearly played by other actors! I’ll start.

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Watched the documentary and it’s nuts how that went down. They filmed 6 weeks and Zemeckis just said it’s not working and he’s playing Marty too seriously because he was a method actor and was being too dramatic. Hats off to Zemeckis for going to the studio saying he can’t do it anymore and asking to replace the lead actor 6 weeks into filming. Spielberg threw his weight around and the studios reluctantly said ok. Can’t imagine anyone but MJF

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Listening to Thomas Wilson (biff) talk about shooting BTTF with Eric stoltz is funny. He talks about how because the guy was being a tool to him outside of shooting (because Eric’s method style carried over)he was about to lose it. They had shot enough to where people were lining up their next gig and he knew stuff wasn’t coming out well and he got summoned for a meeting. He thought when Robert zemeckis called him in to let him know there were going to be major changes he thought he was getting fired. Instead it was a meeting to say we love what you’re doing but we have to let Eric go and we are going to extend shooting and reshoot stuff. Needless to say huge relief and the movie goes on the BR classic American cinema.