Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd They had an emotional reunion during New York Comic Con 37 years after the premiere of ‘Back to the Future’. It is true that only two years ago there was a virtual meeting of the cast of the legendary film Robert Zemeckisbut this weekend has been very special.
If you were a teenager in 1985, then Michael J. Fox was your guy. Marty McFly in Back to the Future is the coolest teenager in cinema history.
Watching him hug Christopher Lloyd like this is so beautiful. #BackToTheFuture #MichaelJFox pic.twitter.com/sniP95YE1J— The Sting (@TSting18) October 9, 2022
The room collapsed in applause when both have coincided on stage on the occasion of the panel dedicated to ‘Back to the future’. Recall that Lloyd is now 83 years old and that Fox announced his retirement as an actor almost two years ago due to Parkinson’s that he suffers from, so any opportunity to see them together again will always be well received. And let’s hope there are still many more.
Fox noted that “the best thing about the movie was working with Chriswhile Lloyd joked that he initially hired Eric Stoltz to give life to Marty McFly and confesses that the first thing he thought when he found out that they were going to replace him was that “I barely made it through the first six weeks, and now I have to do it all over again?“Although he later assured that he was surprised by the great chemistry he had with Fox from the first moment, and that initially he was not at all optimistic about it.
Of course, Fox revealed that his mother, who died just a couple of weeks ago, showed concern when he told him that he was going to appear in the film, since he feared that it would end “Too tired“, noting that he lived to be this tired.
Furthermore, the protagonist of ‘The Greedy’ wanted to emphasize that “all the cast members of ‘Back to the Future’ were perfectly chosen” and that they asked him to learn to play the guitar to appear in the film, confessing that he learned to do it to impress the girls.
One of the most emotional moments of the night was when Fox was asked about The Michael J. Fox Foundationthe foundation with which, according to him, “I wanted to help other people who, like me, suffer from this ailment“, also qualifying the disease he suffers as “a gift“that they gave him so that he could help others with the same problem.