By Molly Goddard
9:33am PST, Jan 13, 2025
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Fox played teenager Marty McFly, who meets eccentric scientist Emmett "Doc" Brown, portrayed by Lloyd. Together, the two mistakenly get sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean.
"I thought the script was amazing,"
Thompson, who played Marty's mom, Lorraine, said during a 2024 panel at Rhode Island Comic Con. "When I read the script, I was blown away. So from that moment, I thought there was something special."
"I didn't know what the h— I was getting into," Fox said during the same appearance.
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During the group's most recent meet-up, they used their platform to spread awareness for people affected by the
wildfires in Los Angeles, Calif.
"Hey you guys, this is the cast of
Back to the Future," Thompson said in the video as she sat with her former costars. "We want to wish you all the very best in California, our hearts and our love. Hang on. Remember, it's going to get better in the future."
"We know you, we love you and we're going to have a bright future. The future's bright," Wilson added.
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Wilson, who played the mean-spirited Biff Tannen, emphasized how impactful the film has been over the years.
"I've been contacted by
bullies, by people who have been forced in their lives as an adult to go and apologize to people and to realize the things that made them who they are and the things that they have to do to get out of that," he explained during their gathering last year.
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The project was very successful, becoming the highest-grossing film of 1985, earning an Academy Award and inspiring two sequels, as well as an animated TV series and a Broadway musical.
Though the movie was a hit,
Fox believed his performance might hurt his career. "I thought this would all be over soon," he said during a 2023 interview with
Empire. "I thought [after] they'd see what I'd done, I'd go back to the back of the pack and start again."
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To this day, the
cast gushes over how lucky they are to be a part of the film's legacy.
"It was a great part. I loved it. Lorraine was an insane character and I'm really happy to be known for a great film and an insane part," Thompson told
The Sunday Post in 2022. "It's a total blessing. I could be known for a horrible slasher movie, so to be known for this, which is inexplicably going from generation to generation to generation, and people still love it so much, I don't have any problem with it."
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"I've done my share of work, and nothing compares to the way
Back to the Future is ingrained in people's minds," Lloyd explained to
Variety in August 2024. "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, a lot of gratitude and I feel real good about that. I feel very fortunate to be part of that."
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Lewis, who wrote the movie's signature songs, "Back in Time" and "The Power of Love," recalled how he came up with the tunes that made the film iconic.
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Robert Zemeckis [the director] remembers it slightly differently; that we sent him another song that he didn't like as much and then sent him 'Power of Love,'" Lewis recalled in a 2017 interview with
Desert News. "I didn't think the song was going to work for them because there was no love interest in the film, and the song was all about the power of love. But they used it in the chase scene, and it worked great."
