{"id":231235,"date":"2025-10-17T09:56:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T09:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/231235\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T09:56:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T09:56:14","slug":"michael-j-fox-has-befriended-eric-stoltz-after-back-to-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/231235\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael J. Fox Has Befriended Eric Stoltz After ‘Back to the Future’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAlthough Michael J. Fox<\/a> can\u2019t actually go back in time, the actor found a way to move forward after replacing Eric Stoltz<\/a> for his breakout movie role.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn his new memoir Future Boy, now available, the 4x Golden Globe winner revealed he has \u201cmaintained a friendly correspondence\u201d with Stoltz, who was originally cast as Marty McFly in Back to the Future<\/a> (1985) before the role was recast with Fox, six weeks into filming.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cEric has maintained his silence on the subject for forty years, so I was prepared for the likelihood that he\u2019d prefer to keep it that way,\u201d wrote Fox, according to Entertainment Weekly<\/a>, noting that he penned in a letter to Stoltz: \u201cIf your answer is \u2018piss off and leave me alone\u2019\u2026that works, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFox said that the Some Kind of Wonderful actor\u2019s \u201cbeautifully written reply began, \u2018Piss off and leave me alone!\u2019 Thankfully, this was followed by \u2018I jest\u2026\u2019 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Teen Wolf star said he and Stoltz \u201cimmediately fell into an easy dialogue about our careers, families, and yes, our own trips through the space-time continuum.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tChristopher Lloyd and Michael J. Fox in \u2018Back to the Future\u2019 (1985) (Universal Pictures\/Courtesy Everett Collection)<\/p>\n

\n\tStoltz greeted Fox for the first time \u201cwith a smile, and we 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFox added that \u201cin the months since meeting, Eric and I have maintained a friendly correspondence \u2013 volleys back and forth between like-minded actors and dads, offering up recent movies we\u2019ve loved, the latest adventures with our kids, and an occasional detour into politics. His emails are reliably witty and always fun to read.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter playing Marty McFly in Robert Zemeckis\u2019 1985 time-travel comedy, Fox reprised the role in Back to the Future Part II (1989) and Part III (1990).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although Michael J. Fox can\u2019t actually go back in time, the actor found a way to move forward…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[121436,88,121437,22373,206],"class_list":{"0":"post-231235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-back-to-the-future","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-eric-stoltz","11":"tag-michael-j-fox","12":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231235","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=231235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}