{"id":228177,"date":"2025-10-16T04:22:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T04:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/228177\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T04:22:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T04:22:06","slug":"michael-j-fox-on-crispin-glover-friction-during-back-to-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/228177\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael J. Fox On Crispin Glover “Friction” During ‘Back to the Future’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMarking the 40th anniversary of Back to the Future<\/a> (1985), Michael J. Fox<\/a> recently went back to the \u201980s to reminisce about making the time-travel classic.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn his new memoir Future Boy, now available, the 4x Golden Globe winner recalled how his co-star Crispin Glover<\/a> \u201ccreated friction\u201d behind the scenes with his scrambled approach to portraying Marty\u2019s (Fox) hapless dad George McFly.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cNobody puts Crispin in a box. But that didn\u2019t prevent the camera crew from literally building a box around him,\u201d wrote Fox, according to the New York Post<\/a>. \u201cAs George McFly, Crispin had his own ideas as to how and where his character should move.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFox recalled filming a scene of dialogue with Glover in which he wouldn\u2019t stay on his mark.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAs Crispin approached the camera, he was meant to stay in a lane between the clothesline and me. But Crispin had a different plan,\u201d he 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe actor explained that the crew \u201cfabricated a miniature corral made of sandbags and C-stands, trapping Crispin into adhering to the parameters of the shot.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFox noted that he \u201cloved working\u201d with Glover, whose role as George McFly was recast for the sequels Back to the Future Part II (1989) and Part III (1990).<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHis talent was unquestionable, although his methods sometimes created friction,\u201d he noted. \u201cStill, I respected how he remained true to George (as he understood and embodied him).<\/p>\n

\n\t\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. With Chris Lloyd, I had an inkling of what he was up to. Neither he nor Crispin ever did the same thing the same way twice,\u201d added Fox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marking the 40th anniversary of Back to the Future (1985), Michael J. Fox recently went back to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[121436,111455,88,22373],"class_list":["post-228177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-back-to-the-future","tag-crispin-glover","tag-entertainment","tag-michael-j-fox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}