{"id":208305,"date":"2025-10-18T07:08:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T07:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/208305\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T07:08:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T07:08:12","slug":"his-methods-sometimes-created-friction-back-to-the-future-star-michael-j-fox-opens-up-about-on-set-feud-with-crispin-glover-who-played-his-father-george","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/208305\/","title":{"rendered":"‘His Methods Sometimes Created Friction’ \u2014 Back to the Future Star Michael J. Fox Opens Up About On-Set ‘Feud’ With Crispin Glover, Who Played His Father George"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back to the Future<\/a> was such a cultural phenomenon \u2014 but interestingly enough, there\u2019s still mystery surrounding the production. Michael J. Fox, who played Marty McFly, recently published his memoir Future Boy: Back to the Future and My Journey Through the Space-Time Continuum, and in it he detailed something of an on-set feud with Crispin Glover, who played McFly\u2019s father George. <\/p>\n

As reported by ScreenRant<\/a>, Fox claimed that that Glover \u201ccreated friction\u201d with his acting style on set. “Nobody puts Crispin in a box,\u201d he explained. \u201cBut that didn\u2019t prevent the camera crew from literally building a box around him.”<\/p>\n

The actor had “his own ideas as to how and where” his character should move, which created some tensions with the crew.<\/p>\n

“As Crispin approached the camera, he was meant to stay in a lane between the clothesline and me. But Crispin had a different plan,\u201d Fox wrote. \u201cMy guess is that he saw George as a wanderer, a free spirit who traveled in random patterns \u2014 in this case, perpendicular to the camera.”<\/p>\n

\"null\"<\/a>Crispin Glover in 2024. Photo by KC Armstrong\/Deadline via Getty Images.<\/p>\n

That said, Glover\u2019s mini-feud with the crew didn\u2019t change Fox\u2019s outlook on his on-screen dad. “His talent was unquestionable, although his methods sometimes created friction. Still, I respected how he remained true to George (as he understood and embodied him),\u201d he said, before noting: \u201cI knew Crispin Glover prior to Back to the Future. I wouldn\u2019t, however, say I was prepared to act with him \u2014 there\u2019s no way to prepare for Crispin.”<\/p>\n

Believe it or not, this isn\u2019t the only major tidbit about the production of the classic film that Fox has divulged in his new memoir. He also opened up about reaching out to Eric Stoltz<\/a> \u2014 who was originally cast as Marty and worked on the film for six weeks before being replaced by Fox \u2014 40 years after the film was shot. <\/p>\n

\u201cEric has maintained his silence on the subject for 40 years, so I was prepared for the likelihood that he\u2019d prefer to keep it that way,\u201d Fox wrote, noting that the pair had never met to discuss the change in casting. In a letter Fox wrote to the Pulp Fiction<\/a> star in an attempt to meet face to face, he included: \u201cIf your answer is \u2018piss off and leave me alone\u2019\u2026 That works, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, Fox was sent a “beautifully written reply\u201d that \u201cbegan, ‘Piss off and leave me alone!’ Thankfully, this was followed by ‘I jest…’ Eric was thoughtful about my outreach, and although he respectfully declined to participate in the book, he seemed open to the idea of getting together.”<\/p>\n

When the pair finally did meet, they expressed that they each had no ill will toward one another and “immediately fell into an easy dialogue about our careers, families, and yes, our own trips through the space-time continuum.”<\/p>\n

Fox wrote that Stoltz came into his home “with a smile.\u201d He added: \u201cWe quickly acknowledged that neither of us had an issue with the other. What transpired on Back to the Future had not made us enemies or fated rivals; we were just two dedicated actors who had poured equal amounts of energy into the same role. The rest had nothing to do with us. As it turned out, we had much more in common than our spin as Marty.”<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Fox has addressed the “temporal inconsistency” in Back to the Future’s iconic guitar scene<\/a>, which is well worth a read if you’re interested in timetravel shenanigans. Fox\u2019s memoir, Future Boy, is now available wherever books are sold. <\/p>\n

Lex Briscuso is a film and television critic and a freelance entertainment writer for IGN. You can follow her on Twitter at @nikonamerica.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Back to the Future was such a cultural phenomenon \u2014 but interestingly enough, there\u2019s still mystery surrounding the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-208305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}