Christopher Lloyd feels “very fortunate” to have been a part of ‘Back to the Future’.
The 85-year-old actor starred opposite Michael J. Fox as Dr. Emmett ‘Doc’ Brown in the beloved sci-fi series, and has now looked back at its “phenomenal” legacy that continues to “fill the gap in a lot of lives of young people”.
He told Variety: “I’ve done my share of work, and nothing compares to the way ‘Back to the Future’ is ingrained in people’s minds.
“It’s phenomenal. Every day practically — and certainly I go to Comic-Cons — people come up and say, ‘You made my childhood.’ And another reference equal to that, where ‘Back to the Future’ fills the gap in a lot of lives of young people, who have gone on to become doctors, scientists and what have you.
“So, [I have] a lot of gratitude and I feel real good about that. I feel very fortunate to be part of that.”
The actor also reflected on his role as Uncle Fester in ‘The Addams Family’ and said he “loved” being able to depict a character he used to see in the New Yorker magazine’s cartoons when he was a child.
He explained: “It was mischief about Uncle Fester and not evil. He just could play around a little bit. And then, that period of my life passed and decades later, I get a call, would I like to be Uncle Fester in a film? What are the odds?
“It was very exciting to be able to play the character that I loved when I was a kid.”
Lloyd is also known by Trekkies for his portrayal as the evil Klingon Commander Kruge in the 1984 flick ‘Star Trek III: The Search for Spock’.
The ‘Nobody’ star recalled the first time he donned the prosthetics and make-up for director Leonard Nimoy.
He said: “I’d come to the Paramount Studio at four in the morning to get that makeup put on — the way it built up my forehead — and then the costume. How can you not feel like you’re the character when you do all that?
“I loved it. I tried to find what is it about this guy that I could relate to an audience whereby they will feel something about themselves in this guy — even if it’s somebody you don’t want at your dinner table, you know?
“It doesn’t change his undesirable traits, but I want the audience to feel they’re not engaged with somebody off a different planet. They’re engaged with somebody they can talk to.”
