Of course she remembers it. It's the only successful project she's ever been part of! What a whiner. Get over yourself, Lea Thompson. Your career has been in the toilet for a LONG time now.
I was the customer service rep handling the Universal Studios account at the air freight company Universal Studios used. Even before BTTF was released, I went to a meeting at Universal as they wanted to make sure this movie was handled correctly (and of course it was, as Universal was a premiere client 😉). So I'm guy that prepared all the logistics and paperwork for all the international shipments of BTTF posters, press kits, etc, and even the film itself. Yeah, I'm kinda proud of that.
Actresses aren’t allowed to age they would get no jobs they spend 1000’s not to age, plastic surgery, personal trainers etc etc Its sad that we now view the ‘fake’ as beautiful :(
Glad to see Lea standing up for Crispin's work. He is a great actor, it is a shame they could not make it work for him. That is the main reason why I didn't see the sequels, the first movie is a pure gem.
Do you mean, didn't see them at the cinema, or didn't see them AT ALL?!?! FacheChanteDeux!! I really hope you just mean at the cinema. It'd be hard not to have seen them, they were replayed on TV so many times, at least where I grew up. But oh man... I'm just imagining someone that's never seen them. Actually it wouldn't be so bad, cause you'd be in for such a treat. I almost wish I was in that position now. But not really, I'd have missed out on all the funtimes as a kid. I think they screwed Crispin over, but the movies themselves are so, so great. Especially considering they're sequels, and sequels usually suck. Terminator 2 was good. But I can't think of many other ones. I saw Top Gun 2 recently... I'm glad it exists, but... eh. There's just no comparison for me. I have to admit, I'm even more a fan of the second BTTF than the first. And then maybe number three last. Although that's not fair, they're all the perfect trilogy. Ok, bye!!
Lea is the genius. She is so natural, articulate, observant, fresh, interesting, appreciative and effusive in this interview. I've enjoyed her work - she's one of a kind.
Moving forward without Crispin Glover was a terrible mistake. He is a genius and he was the funniest and created the most pathos of all the characters. I remember when I was a kid being so mad at Marty (and the people making the movie) for scaring George McFly so deeply with the walkman. He was an innocent. And the universe was being unnecessarily cruel to him. It was the GENIUS of Crispin Glover that brought those feelings forward.
He did ask for more money than maybe what his actor status was entitled to though. I agree he was amazing, but he carried that grudge for years and had less of the acclaim that he would have if he had just sucked it up and accepted what would have still been decent pay for the sequels.
Yeah it's such a genius that he is only known for that part worldwide. He is just na egocentric selfish idiot that think he was right over everyone else and got fired for that. Not really smart for a genius. HE did not even undernstand the meaning of the story. Thinkning it was all about money. Then ask for more money ? Stupider there isn't.
@@nebularain3338 Wrong. He was always questionning writer, director and producer choices. He though the end was to the glory of money. Georges Mc Fly did have some money in the modified future because he was writing good novels. That was a consequence of his choices. He was back then the kind of guy who hated money (remember we are in the Ronald Reagan Era), but hten sask a huge amount ofr the sequel ? HE did not even respect himself. That's why they skipped him for the part 2. Plus his role wasn't that important. They could have written off his character at all. The only mistake the studio made was to do a Crispin look-alike. The actor who played his part helped Crispin glover winning his case when he sued the studio. Crispin never thanked the guy. INcredible. This guy is the black sheep of the BTTF family.
@@tomjoad1363 ouch. Well... you are keeping the traditions of TH-cam comments alive. I do that too but with how much of a fucking phony Lenny Kravitz is.
No attacking the audience. Over the last few years I have seen an actor trying to get an actress to abuse Men. A Black actor say he won't see movies that have have white main characters. Actors abusing different politicians and abusing the people who voted for them. Etc.... They don't treat the people who pay their wages as customers any more, they act t like they are better than the audience.
@@plaidchuck no customers means no money which means no pay..... That's why the actresses didn't get paid for Ghost busters 2, they lost all the customers after what they did with the first movie.
Was Lea nervous at all at the point where she says, "I dunno..." and giggles? Don't get me wrong, I thought it was cute...but it was tricky to tell what she was feeling there 😊
I love Lea Thompson, for an industry that is fake, big ego and backstabbing she showed alot of compassion and respect to Eric Stoltz, and Crispin Glover. She seems that she is a loyal friend.
She shed a lot of light on what happened without bad mouthing anybody. I heard Crispin's side many times and from Lea's story it's obvious that Crispin and Eric both saw it from the characters point of view and wanted to tell an honest story. The guys behind the camera wanted to entertain. So they split them up. Divide and Conquer. And Crispin was without an ally. Then they got rid of Crispin.
@@karenweston2714what a great observation! I cannot help but think that those scenes between Eric and Crispin would have been phenomenal to see! Two genuses giving a heartfelt interpretation to the story! Maybe someday we’ll see the footage… and I’ll bet it was some amazing stuff!
Yes i was 7 and watched it and i had a little crush on her to and carrie fisher in star wars and still do even when carrie is not with us no more she's still in my heart.
I saw an interview with her and she talked about them not wanting to play the role realistically. I think they wanted a sort of "dreamy" quality to her.
When I was in high school I lived at 1200 Riverside Dr. Where they shot a lot of scenes from "The Wild Life". I remember the first day of filming at that location, I had never seen a movie set before so I had no idea what was going on when I saw all of the big trucks lined up and down the street, then all of the cables, then some guy with a radio telling me that I couldn't go home because they were filming a scene. So they finally finished the scene (I think it was one that they never used in the movie). And I walked over the bridge, right past Eric Stoltz and Lea Thompson. I had no idea who they were. This kind of thing went on for the next few weeks, every day coming home to a movie set and watching them film. There's a scene which starts off on a slice of pizza floating in the pool and there's a couch at the bottom of the pool. I was standing almost directly behind the camera when they shot that and remember the director thinking to throw the pizza into the water just a few seconds before they rolled the camera. Back then that place was called "The Royal Equestrian" because they had roughly 32 horse stables. Now it's just called "1200 Riverside Dr." One interesting fact that most people aren't aware of - they used more than just actors from the movie "The Wild Life" in BTTF, they also used some of it's sound track. In the scene where Marty puts the headphones on George and scares him with loud music - what he's playing is definitely Eddie Van Halen but most people can't identify what song it is or they think it's "Eruption". It's not, Eddie Van Halen wrote the sound track for the movie "The Wild Life" and that guitar that you hear is from the scene where Christopher Penn's character climbs the roof to get to his girlfriends window. Kind of a "peeping tom" in fact I think the song right before this one on the movie sound track is called "Peeping Tom": th-cam.com/video/zmc6f2kCyLU/w-d-xo.html A few years after that I (coincidentally) ended up living at an apartment complex right across the street from the Puente Hills Mall (where they shot the first time travel sequence from BTTF). It was about a year after the movie came out and I think I was watching it on VHS or something when I noticed that the mall across the street from my house was in the movie. I paused the movie and went across the street - sure enough, I found the exact spot where the Delorean had spun it's tires, there was still a deep set of grooves where the tires were spinning and burnt rubber was still there around the edges. I went back home, grabbed a razor & an envelope; went back to the mall; scraped off some of the rubber and stuck it in the envelope then went back home & finished watching the movie. Of course I lost that envelope years ago but I currently work where the clock tower scenes were filmed (Universal Studios). We used to have the original Delorean from the movie at Universal but it's now at the Peterson museum. If you want to visit the location where the first time travel sequence was filmed - this is the exact spot where the "Twin Pines Mall" sign was, at the end of the driveway Marty skates down: 33°59'36.19"N 117°55'49.46"W
I met Lea in a Thriftys store where she had her two daughters with her buying them ice cream. I spoke to her and she was a living doll. She answered my questions and even rubbed my back. Love her!
Damn, what a skillful interviewer! Nobody really hears him, Lea Thompson get excited over the questions and we can really see the scenes before us, when she tells.
She has an incredible memory. Great trilogy of movies that I have seen many times over the years. It is to bad they did not include Crispin Glover. He was a crack up.
Back to the Future was the biggest movie in the world when it came out, with a perfect story. At the time I thought it was the best movie I'd ever seen. Completely re-watchable, completely engrossing. Multiple viewings later, and Lea Thompson was one of the core reasons why. MAJOR celeb crush for this 10 year-old!
I find it amazing how this film evolved. It got stopped so many times and yet became so iconic. It's truthful but also a kind of parody, every character is perfectly cast. It's just a miracle movie, everything slots in perfectly
Lovely woman. Certainly in this interview. She tells every story with a polite tone, never disses anyone. I've seen her a few times in my neighborhood - always with children. She seems very much to be a happily focussed mom. And she looks great.
I watched the movie the other day and the weird thing is that Stoltz was right. You have a guy who has just watched his father figure get assassinated, who then goes back in time by accident and is trapped there, terrified. He knows no one and then finds out he's going to die unless he can stop a sequence of events happening that he inadvertently caused. His salvation depends on catching lightning, and when he returns none of his family are the people he actually knew. It's actually pretty disturbing and without really pushing the comedy angle they would have had a VERY different movie.
You don't actually know whether Marty saw Doc as a father figure. And after that Marty is confronted with more situations than a person can process in a short time: his own near death, his chase against someone with a bazooka, his time travel, and 1000 new things in this strange, new world. He also knows that in the time he's stuck, Doc is alive, he can save him just by telling him (which due to Hollywood tension reasons didn't go very smoothly). And not only did he have satisfaction by actually saving Doc, but improving the lives of his family, too. Just at the cost of his memories not being accurate. He accomplished this despite the odds being against him. As for the memories, people can only speculate how many memories got affected by this, let's call it new timeline. Maybe these aren't even that many, or not significant ones. Maybe only backgrounds change. At the very least his parents don't become entirely different people. He also suddenly realized that he can go on the road trip with his girlfriend. And he was witness to the most incredible scientific accomplishment. All in all I highly doubt anyone would gloom over it. I think it would be possible to make a dark, disturbing movie out of it, but things would need to be changed and I highly doubt anyone on this planet would have the brains to accomplish it without the film being very dull.
"Eric played my boyfriend, he was DEFINITELY not my boyfriend" - big OOOF especially after hearing Tom Wilson talking about how Eric had a crush on Lea
About 2:25 she describes Eric Stoltz's reaction to the first read through of the script, talking about how sad it would be for Mart to now have a very different memory of his life than the rest of the family does. Sadness aside, it would be very difficult for him to interact with them. they are not the same people he knew, he is not the same Marty they have known. I have always imagined something happening, a few days or weeks later, where his parents try to discipline him for something, and are lecturing him on his behavior. He gets angry and goes off on them, "What do you mean Dad? YOU were a peeping Tom! You almost got run over falling out of a tree peeping at her! And YOU! Mom! You were drinking, and smoking and you were a slut!" When his parents express astonishment at all this he gestures to his face. "Recognize this face? remember Calvin Klein? Guess whoooo!"
It really wasn't a comedy. It was a dramatic film with a few comedic elements but it was mostly a drama. It would have been especially hard to play the role straight. At least some credit belongs to Stoltz. It wasn't completely reshot. It was adapted for Micheal J Fox. But I think the majority of it was with Eric Stoltz.
How is she still so damn beautiful, inside and out? I never felt the awkwardness of mom falling for her son, because all I kept thinking was how HOT Lorraine was. In the car scene, Marty was a lucky little devil to me, not on a date with his mom... until the shocked look on his face when she kisses him. Totally forgot that was his mom.
When they kiss, she says kissing him is like kissing her brother. Pretty satisfying, when you stop to think about how the movie wraps up. She’s not permitted herself to be old and bitter, that’s her secret.
Interesting and candid interview. Also interesting on the take between Eric and Crispin. When she talks about Eric and the growing of his nails that sounds like a method actor to some degree and is considered awkward, yet come to Crispin and she has a lot of love for him and his method acting. Although that is a very small observation, the other instances give more explanation as to how she found Eric difficult
She and Eric are good friends, though, so I like it that she was honest, but still not harsh about him. Remember, she mentions how much it upset her about both Eric's and Crispian's situations 😊💕
She's still gorgeous, and she's very talented! She should still be getting starring roles in big blockbuster movies! Unfortunately most people going to the movies nowadays probably do not even know or remember who she is, so she isn't exactly a big box office draw. But I'd go to see any movie that she's in!! And yes, I even LOVED "Howard the Duck"! It was a friggin' awesome movie!!
At 11:00 you see all the memories come flooding back on what really happened to Crispin Glover. A defining moment seen in the eyes of an amazing woman and actor. She sets the story straight with one simple line.... Thank you Lea
I think we all can guess what really happened: Crispian actually wanted a bigger contract, but acted like a big crybaby when he didn't get his way...and left 🙁
WHat happened tyo Crispin GLover ? He though he knew better than anyone and was questionning everything. Therefore he got fired. He is not smart, for a so-called "genius". lol
Pop Goes The Culture TV - I heard an interview Tom Wilson did and Michael did not punch Biff in the restaurant. They never reshot that take! In the shot is seen the side of Eric's face and his fist...
This interview was from 2005. I wonder how different she looks today (in 2019). I can just imagine she’s just as incredible. Her reverence for the process, the crew and the performers is priceless. It’s always satisfying when a screen actor is able to reflect the way Lea does.
Definitely backstories of how movies were made. This was an interesting video/story because they filmed most of the movie with one actor then another. Things like that.......but they don't all have to be "bad" stories. Stories that showed how things went well would be good as well.
Great interview. Great movie. I hope there is a reference to this iconic movie in the upcoming season of Stranger Things (season 3), which I understand will be set in 1985. So excited!!
"Back to the Future" was where I'd fallen in love with Lea Thompson. And, it's amazing how now when she really smiles, all these years later, all those years just completely disappear from her face.
@@PopGoesTheCultureTV I just watched all 3 movies a couple nights ago so this showing up in my recommended was just perfect. I don't know if he subbed or not, but I AM!!!!!!!
Oh she is so lovely! Never really seen her in real life before, she has such a lovely personality, and it's great that she looks younger than in the films! I wish they would make a special edition of Back To The Future where they get Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover, and Thomas Wilson (all now middle aged) to re-shoot all their 1985 scenes.
The interviewer sounds like the teacher in the Charlie Brown cartoons. I never knew what question she was answering. SHe is so down to earth you have to lover her.
It definitely wouldn’t have been haha. You know that saying “You can’t polish a turd?” Well, you can’t polish a diamond either. The movie is perfection with MJF.
Consider this: Heath Ledger had just 33 minutes of screen-time as the Joker. Even without Michael J. Fox the movie would've go down either as the most underrated movie in history or it would have already been re-filmed with for example Tom Holland and Robert Downey Jr
7:58 "Her life has been..., you know, destroyed! Yeah!" She still sounds like her lively self. I could close my eyes and listen to her voice, but mainly to keep from seeing her smile that crushes my chest in every time I see it flash.
It's sad what those in power did to Crispin. Oddly, when the tide turned, these pricks didn't like being shown they were the bad people trying to screw someone over. Yet, one bloke from that group continues to badmouth Crispin to this day ... In respect to the 'on-screen chemistry' they had, I would like to see Lea and Crispin in another movie together. Other than that, Lea still is very, very pretty, and, still desirable :-)
Sounds like Lea and Crispin could have been a real life item. She seems to adore him.. that would have been great. Still a travesty he wasn't in the 2nd film.
Apparently Crispin wanted equal or near equal pay with Michael J. Fox and the studio balked at the idea, so they ended up hiring a "character actor" from the Universal Studios lot. In part 2, George McFly is upside down in the _Ortholev_ which makes it harder to notice that it's not Crispin Glover. He was perfect as George McFly, so it's too bad it didn't work out for him on BTTF 2. (They used some footage from BTTF 1 for the McFly family scene near the end of BTTF 3). Crispin is also a very strange person, as you can see in virtually any interview he's ever done, especially around the time he was making Back to the Future.
Strange or not, it's now been debunked that glover wanted equal pay to MJF. The truth is that he was offered less than half than the rest of the principal cast, which was a dick move on their behalf.
Steven Ainsworth Apparently he was also a massive dick towards the writers, the producers etc. He wanted important parts of the film to be re-written and changed. The guy had no idea what a pecking order was...
Crispin seems like a good-hearted guy. According to Bob Gale, he demanded money and other perks that were totally unreasonable at that point in any young actor's career. According to Crispin, the two Bobs didn't like his opinion that the materialistic ending of Back to the Future was bad.
I feel like Lea Thompson kind of disses Michael J. Fox when she talks about how great she and Glover were while Fox was "all surfacey." She really sings her own praises in this interview, including pretending like she looks like the old Lorraine, even while she knows she's had a ton of cosmetic work done and looks nothing like her. That's just fishing for a compliment from the interviewer. Her "work" in the movie was fine, but without Fox, there was no movie.
Great interview. Most actors are usually never this candid. Especially when it comes to remembering stuff from a movie shot 30 years ago.
Of course she remembers it. It's the only successful project she's ever been part of! What a whiner. Get over yourself, Lea Thompson. Your career has been in the toilet for a LONG time now.
Josh Fierro, You sound pretty bitter there, buddy. How many iconic movies have you been a part of?
*actresses
Josh Fierro ~ You sound like a fkn whiner yourself .............and are a nobody.
@@capybaracrip820 The word "actor" does not specify gender. It is an all inclusive word. Kindly shut the fuck up.
I was the customer service rep handling the Universal Studios account at the air freight company Universal Studios used. Even before BTTF was released, I went to a meeting at Universal as they wanted to make sure this movie was handled correctly (and of course it was, as Universal was a premiere client 😉). So I'm guy that prepared all the logistics and paperwork for all the international shipments of BTTF posters, press kits, etc, and even the film itself. Yeah, I'm kinda proud of that.
She aged marvelously
Juggernaut
I'd hit
Hardly at all.
No kidding, she is still a beautiful lady
This video was a long time ago though. It's from 2005. She's still attractive but looks nothing like this.
Actresses aren’t allowed to age they would get no jobs they spend 1000’s not to age, plastic surgery, personal trainers etc etc Its sad that we now view the ‘fake’ as beautiful :(
She's SO right about Crispin Glover. He stole the show. Her honesty is on a par with Crispin's performance...flawless!
Glad to see Lea standing up for Crispin's work. He is a great actor, it is a shame they could not make it work for him. That is the main reason why I didn't see the sequels, the first movie is a pure gem.
Do you mean, didn't see them at the cinema, or didn't see them AT ALL?!?! FacheChanteDeux!! I really hope you just mean at the cinema.
It'd be hard not to have seen them, they were replayed on TV so many times, at least where I grew up. But oh man... I'm just imagining someone that's never seen them. Actually it wouldn't be so bad, cause you'd be in for such a treat. I almost wish I was in that position now.
But not really, I'd have missed out on all the funtimes as a kid.
I think they screwed Crispin over, but the movies themselves are so, so great. Especially considering they're sequels, and sequels usually suck. Terminator 2 was good. But I can't think of many other ones.
I saw Top Gun 2 recently... I'm glad it exists, but... eh. There's just no comparison for me.
I have to admit, I'm even more a fan of the second BTTF than the first. And then maybe number three last. Although that's not fair, they're all the perfect trilogy.
Ok, bye!!
I think he is a great actor, but I think others said he was a bit difficult to work with.
Crispin was absolutely genius in bttf 1. His scenes with Marty were beyond phenomenal.
Part of the genius is that he sells the character without you even knowing you're buying it. She's right, he's just so good.
@@Warlock_UK I agree
Many of which included Eric Stoltz.
Lea is the genius. She is so natural, articulate, observant, fresh, interesting, appreciative and effusive in this interview. I've enjoyed her work - she's one of a kind.
Moving forward without Crispin Glover was a terrible mistake. He is a genius and he was the funniest and created the most pathos of all the characters. I remember when I was a kid being so mad at Marty (and the people making the movie) for scaring George McFly so deeply with the walkman. He was an innocent. And the universe was being unnecessarily cruel to him. It was the GENIUS of Crispin Glover that brought those feelings forward.
He did ask for more money than maybe what his actor status was entitled to though. I agree he was amazing, but he carried that grudge for years and had less of the acclaim that he would have if he had just sucked it up and accepted what would have still been decent pay for the sequels.
Yeah it's such a genius that he is only known for that part worldwide.
He is just na egocentric selfish idiot that think he was right over everyone else and got fired for that. Not really smart for a genius. HE did not even undernstand the meaning of the story. Thinkning it was all about money. Then ask for more money ? Stupider there isn't.
@@nebularain3338 Wrong. He was always questionning writer, director and producer choices. He though the end was to the glory of money. Georges Mc Fly did have some money in the modified future because he was writing good novels. That was a consequence of his choices.
He was back then the kind of guy who hated money (remember we are in the Ronald Reagan Era), but hten sask a huge amount ofr the sequel ? HE did not even respect himself.
That's why they skipped him for the part 2. Plus his role wasn't that important. They could have written off his character at all.
The only mistake the studio made was to do a Crispin look-alike. The actor who played his part helped Crispin glover winning his case when he sued the studio. Crispin never thanked the guy. INcredible. This guy is the black sheep of the BTTF family.
@@tomjoad1363 ouch. Well... you are keeping the traditions of TH-cam comments alive. I do that too but with how much of a fucking phony Lenny Kravitz is.
They did carry on with Crispin and he sued them for it.
Today’s young actors take a note: This is how to handle an interview. You answer questions candidly and with sincerity and class.
Lea kept it real and showed her authentic self. She is very likeable and wants to speak well of others she worked with.
No attacking the audience.
Over the last few years I have seen an actor trying to get an actress to abuse Men.
A Black actor say he won't see movies that have have white main characters.
Actors abusing different politicians and abusing the people who voted for them.
Etc....
They don't treat the people who pay their wages as customers any more, they act t like they are better than the audience.
Your wasting your breath. No one listens nowadays.
@@zakofrx customers don't pay their wages fam
@@plaidchuck no customers means no money which means no pay.....
That's why the actresses didn't get paid for Ghost busters 2, they lost all the customers after what they did with the first movie.
She played with Eric Stolz and Mary Stuart Masterson in Some Kind Of Wonderful. Love that movie.
One of my favs
This is a really wonderful interview. She's so beautiful still and seems really delightful to talk to. She doesn't seem phony whatsoever! So candid.
I fell in love with her all over again!
She seems very kind and genuine. And also so down to Earth. In the movie, the aged Lorraine looks WAY older than she actually looks.
I have a notion to second that emotion ! :-)
Was Lea nervous at all at the point where she says, "I dunno..." and giggles? Don't get me wrong, I thought it was cute...but it was tricky to tell what she was feeling there 😊
I got to say she aged better the second time around.
...when she was 17 - 19, definitely set the bar higher than most young actresses could achieve in the looks dept!
A true GMILF!. LOL
Yup
Amazing! Deserves more likes
Thomas McBurney-im trying to understand what u mean by that
I love Lea Thompson, for an industry that is fake, big ego and backstabbing she showed alot of compassion and respect to Eric Stoltz, and Crispin Glover. She seems that she is a loyal friend.
She shed a lot of light on what happened without bad mouthing anybody. I heard Crispin's side many times and from Lea's story it's obvious that Crispin and Eric both saw it from the characters point of view and wanted to tell an honest story. The guys behind the camera wanted to entertain. So they split them up. Divide and Conquer. And Crispin was without an ally. Then they got rid of Crispin.
@@karenweston2714what a great observation! I cannot help but think that those scenes between Eric and Crispin would have been phenomenal to see!
Two genuses giving a heartfelt interpretation to the story! Maybe someday we’ll see the footage… and I’ll bet it was some amazing stuff!
My God, she's adorable.
*gently* I know...very sweet lady
An absolute dream
Jesus Christ, he's Jason Bourne
She's an absolute dream!
eternally
She's the cutest and sweetest actress ever, my all time crush. Love ya Lea
She looks way better than the first movie predicted!
I watched bttf when i was 8. And i had the biggest crush on her. And ya know what, i still do 😂
I was 9 when I saw it in 1985, I hear ya brother!
Yes i was 7 and watched it and i had a little crush on her to and carrie fisher in star wars and still do even when carrie is not with us no more she's still in my heart.
What the fuck is BTTF? No true fan calls it that.
I saw an interview with her and she talked about them not wanting to play the role realistically. I think they wanted a sort of "dreamy" quality to her.
Ditto
When I was in high school I lived at 1200 Riverside Dr. Where they shot a lot of scenes from "The Wild Life". I remember the first day of filming at that location, I had never seen a movie set before so I had no idea what was going on when I saw all of the big trucks lined up and down the street, then all of the cables, then some guy with a radio telling me that I couldn't go home because they were filming a scene. So they finally finished the scene (I think it was one that they never used in the movie). And I walked over the bridge, right past Eric Stoltz and Lea Thompson. I had no idea who they were. This kind of thing went on for the next few weeks, every day coming home to a movie set and watching them film. There's a scene which starts off on a slice of pizza floating in the pool and there's a couch at the bottom of the pool. I was standing almost directly behind the camera when they shot that and remember the director thinking to throw the pizza into the water just a few seconds before they rolled the camera. Back then that place was called "The Royal Equestrian" because they had roughly 32 horse stables. Now it's just called "1200 Riverside Dr."
One interesting fact that most people aren't aware of - they used more than just actors from the movie "The Wild Life" in BTTF, they also used some of it's sound track. In the scene where Marty puts the headphones on George and scares him with loud music - what he's playing is definitely Eddie Van Halen but most people can't identify what song it is or they think it's "Eruption". It's not, Eddie Van Halen wrote the sound track for the movie "The Wild Life" and that guitar that you hear is from the scene where Christopher Penn's character climbs the roof to get to his girlfriends window. Kind of a "peeping tom" in fact I think the song right before this one on the movie sound track is called "Peeping Tom": th-cam.com/video/zmc6f2kCyLU/w-d-xo.html
A few years after that I (coincidentally) ended up living at an apartment complex right across the street from the Puente Hills Mall (where they shot the first time travel sequence from BTTF). It was about a year after the movie came out and I think I was watching it on VHS or something when I noticed that the mall across the street from my house was in the movie. I paused the movie and went across the street - sure enough, I found the exact spot where the Delorean had spun it's tires, there was still a deep set of grooves where the tires were spinning and burnt rubber was still there around the edges. I went back home, grabbed a razor & an envelope; went back to the mall; scraped off some of the rubber and stuck it in the envelope then went back home & finished watching the movie. Of course I lost that envelope years ago but I currently work where the clock tower scenes were filmed (Universal Studios). We used to have the original Delorean from the movie at Universal but it's now at the Peterson museum. If you want to visit the location where the first time travel sequence was filmed - this is the exact spot where the "Twin Pines Mall" sign was, at the end of the driveway Marty skates down: 33°59'36.19"N 117°55'49.46"W
I met Lea in a Thriftys store where she had her two daughters with her buying them ice cream. I spoke to her and she was a living doll. She answered my questions and even rubbed my back. Love her!
I love it when the actors like to talk about their experiences. I could watch another hour of this.
I always get goosebumps when Crispen finally lays out Biff. Also in the ice cream shop where he tells her thats he he's her "density".
Theres a funny blooper where the guy at the diner slides a chocolate milk to crispen he misses and it hits him and shatters all over the floor.
She looks so beautiful. Everything about her is so good i mean her voice, her face and the way she carries herself. Mmmm what a woman.
Damn, what a skillful interviewer! Nobody really hears him, Lea Thompson get excited over the questions and we can really see the scenes before us, when she tells.
She has an incredible memory. Great trilogy of movies that I have seen many times over the years. It is to bad they did not include Crispin Glover. He was a crack up.
She is right. Crispin Glover is a Genius
I really liked how defensive she was of him - and genuinely affectionate.
This was a very deep interview. I love her honesty. Crispin Glover rules!!!!
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She's a pleasure to interview, even though I wasn't the interviewer. Cool personality, full of life!!
Back to the Future was the biggest movie in the world when it came out, with a perfect story. At the time I thought it was the best movie I'd ever seen. Completely re-watchable, completely engrossing. Multiple viewings later, and Lea Thompson was one of the core reasons why. MAJOR celeb crush for this 10 year-old!
What a dreamboat! 🥰
I find it amazing how this film evolved. It got stopped so many times and yet became so iconic. It's truthful but also a kind of parody, every character is perfectly cast. It's just a miracle movie, everything slots in perfectly
Lovely woman. Certainly in this interview. She tells every story with a polite tone, never disses anyone. I've seen her a few times in my neighborhood - always with children. She seems very much to be a happily focussed mom. And she looks great.
I watched the movie the other day and the weird thing is that Stoltz was right.
You have a guy who has just watched his father figure get assassinated, who then goes back in time by accident and is trapped there, terrified. He knows no one and then finds out he's going to die unless he can stop a sequence of events happening that he inadvertently caused.
His salvation depends on catching lightning, and when he returns none of his family are the people he actually knew.
It's actually pretty disturbing and without really pushing the comedy angle they would have had a VERY different movie.
You don't actually know whether Marty saw Doc as a father figure. And after that Marty is confronted with more situations than a person can process in a short time: his own near death, his chase against someone with a bazooka, his time travel, and 1000 new things in this strange, new world.
He also knows that in the time he's stuck, Doc is alive, he can save him just by telling him (which due to Hollywood tension reasons didn't go very smoothly). And not only did he have satisfaction by actually saving Doc, but improving the lives of his family, too. Just at the cost of his memories not being accurate. He accomplished this despite the odds being against him.
As for the memories, people can only speculate how many memories got affected by this, let's call it new timeline. Maybe these aren't even that many, or not significant ones. Maybe only backgrounds change. At the very least his parents don't become entirely different people.
He also suddenly realized that he can go on the road trip with his girlfriend. And he was witness to the most incredible scientific accomplishment. All in all I highly doubt anyone would gloom over it.
I think it would be possible to make a dark, disturbing movie out of it, but things would need to be changed and I highly doubt anyone on this planet would have the brains to accomplish it without the film being very dull.
Thank God they fired him
She still looks awesome :)
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Well this interview was 13 years ago and she has changed and does look older now.
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Lea is so charming and still very attractive. Terrific interview.
I seen Back to the Future in the theater in 85 or 86 and it was and still is the best movie I've ever seen in the theater.
She is fantastic!! Entertaining, charming, and witty. Adore her.
Lord, was she a hot young thing back in the day. Still looks great, obviously, and great to hear such down-to-earth recollections.
@FooBar Maximus 😅
Fugettaboutit : Two years before she did this movie,she was Tom Cruises' girlfriend in "All The Right Moves".
"Eric played my boyfriend, he was DEFINITELY not my boyfriend" - big OOOF especially after hearing Tom Wilson talking about how Eric had a crush on Lea
Eric must be so sad to if he knew this back then
Who didn't have a crush on Lea?
I had a crush on Lea. Also when she was the lead singer of Cherry Bomb in Howard The Duck. Most of you have probably seen it already.
I STILL have a crush on Lea.
thank God she looks better than her "aged mother" look
About 2:25 she describes Eric Stoltz's reaction to the first read through of the script, talking about how sad it would be for Mart to now have a very different memory of his life than the rest of the family does. Sadness aside, it would be very difficult for him to interact with them. they are not the same people he knew, he is not the same Marty they have known. I have always imagined something happening, a few days or weeks later, where his parents try to discipline him for something, and are lecturing him on his behavior. He gets angry and goes off on them, "What do you mean Dad? YOU were a peeping Tom! You almost got run over falling out of a tree peeping at her! And YOU! Mom! You were drinking, and smoking and you were a slut!" When his parents express astonishment at all this he gestures to his face. "Recognize this face? remember Calvin Klein? Guess whoooo!"
It really wasn't a comedy. It was a dramatic film with a few comedic elements but it was mostly a drama. It would have been especially hard to play the role straight. At least some credit belongs to Stoltz. It wasn't completely reshot. It was adapted for Micheal J Fox. But I think the majority of it was with Eric Stoltz.
Great energy, humor and just seems grounded. Charming!
She is still beautiful.
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This video was a long time ago though. It's from 2005. She's still very attractive for her age but looks nothing like this now.
How is she still so damn beautiful, inside and out? I never felt the awkwardness of mom falling for her son, because all I kept thinking was how HOT Lorraine was. In the car scene, Marty was a lucky little devil to me, not on a date with his mom... until the shocked look on his face when she kisses him. Totally forgot that was his mom.
When they kiss, she says kissing him is like kissing her brother. Pretty satisfying, when you stop to think about how the movie wraps up.
She’s not permitted herself to be old and bitter, that’s her secret.
Interesting and candid interview. Also interesting on the take between Eric and Crispin. When she talks about Eric and the growing of his nails that sounds like a method actor to some degree and is considered awkward, yet come to Crispin and she has a lot of love for him and his method acting. Although that is a very small observation, the other instances give more explanation as to how she found Eric difficult
She and Eric are good friends, though, so I like it that she was honest, but still not harsh about him. Remember, she mentions how much it upset her about both Eric's and Crispian's situations 😊💕
I wouldn't be surprised if she had a crush on Crispin.
Hey it’s Caroline in the City! Always loved her. Her daughter has her smile and talks like her.
The "get used to these bars" line was funny even if you didn't hear the setup 40 minutes before, because you'd know what you missed.
One of the best interviews I've seen regarding the behind the scenes.
Man, how good does she still look... Damn.
That interview was so satisfying. Lea is so intuitive in her answers. Thanks Lea!
She's still gorgeous, and she's very talented! She should still be getting starring roles in big blockbuster movies! Unfortunately most people going to the movies nowadays probably do not even know or remember who she is, so she isn't exactly a big box office draw. But I'd go to see any movie that she's in!! And yes, I even LOVED "Howard the Duck"! It was a friggin' awesome movie!!
Yes I really liked Howard the Duck,different but good!!!!!!!!
Nice recall of an “old” movie. I graduated in “83 and the first one came out in “85. Good memories.
I had such a crush on this girl back then. 30 years later and she still looks great. :)
I could listen to Lea, all day...her honesty is so genuine!
1985 : I remember having a thing for her back then. Sweet, adorable!
What a fantastic interview! Thanks!
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At 11:00 you see all the memories come flooding back on what really happened to Crispin Glover. A defining moment seen in the eyes of an amazing woman and actor. She sets the story straight with one simple line.... Thank you Lea
I think we all can guess what really happened: Crispian actually wanted a bigger contract, but acted like a big crybaby when he didn't get his way...and left 🙁
WHat happened tyo Crispin GLover ? He though he knew better than anyone and was questionning everything. Therefore he got fired. He is not smart, for a so-called "genius". lol
Thank you for this awesome interview. She's always been one of my favorites and still makes me laugh.
I remember seeing this movie again after a long break, and I had forgotten how much the Biff punch out scene had added to the movie.
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Pop Goes The Culture TV - I heard an interview Tom Wilson did and Michael did not punch Biff in the restaurant. They never reshot that take! In the shot is seen the side of Eric's face and his fist...
I def had a crush on her when i watched the movie. And shes still gorgeous!
This interview was from 2005. I wonder how different she looks today (in 2019). I can just imagine she’s just as incredible.
Her reverence for the process, the crew and the performers is priceless. It’s always satisfying when a screen actor is able to reflect the way Lea does.
I've seen recent photos of her & though of course she's changed since this '05 interview, she still one beautiful woman ! Very classy lady !
Not much different
I can listen to this lady all my life ❤
Totally forgot that Eric Stolz and Lea were in Some Kind of Wonderful together. Interesting.
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Definitely backstories of how movies were made. This was an interesting video/story because they filmed most of the movie with one actor then another. Things like that.......but they don't all have to be "bad" stories. Stories that showed how things went well would be good as well.
They would have made screen magic in a musical remake of "The Ghost & Mr Chicken" !
@@jubalcalif9100 ...or remake of the incredible Mr Limpet.
@@anotherhunkydory I like that way you think ! And what a memory you have...Don Knott's first leading role ! Kudo ! :-)
Lea is like a fine wine! She looks Fantastic in this interview.
Great interview. Great movie. I hope there is a reference to this iconic movie in the upcoming season of Stranger Things (season 3), which I understand will be set in 1985. So excited!!
"Back to the Future" was where I'd fallen in love with Lea Thompson. And, it's amazing how now when she really smiles, all these years later, all those years just completely disappear from her face.
Great interview. I agree that they should have used Crispin, he’s great.
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She ist still hot
these are really great stories from lea so interesting
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I could listen to her all day and all night long ! Love her perky personality !
I love Lea to death! 😊❤️💖
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Oh she is so lovely! Never really seen her in real life before, she has such a lovely personality, and it's great that she looks younger than in the films! I wish they would make a special edition of Back To The Future where they get Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover, and Thomas Wilson (all now middle aged) to re-shoot all their 1985 scenes.
That is an awesome idea! :)
The interviewer sounds like the teacher in the Charlie Brown cartoons. I never knew what question she was answering. SHe is so down to earth you have to lover her.
She's like fine wine.
Says the black dot.
Great interview and fantastic interviewer! Great questions and you really know BTTF. Thank you!
Good golly, I like Lea Thompson. So cute, and so smart.
They didn't make her this pretty when they aged her in the films. What a smile, what a doll.
Happy 55th Birthday Lea
Great interview. She looks wonderful. Imagine if she now reshot the scenes of her older self from the movies!
She's nice about Eric, but basically he was difficult.
Better actor than Fox though. Could've been a better movie.
It definitely wouldn’t have been haha. You know that saying “You can’t polish a turd?” Well, you can’t polish a diamond either. The movie is perfection with MJF.
@@hd-xc2lz i dunno Stoltz and Fox are both damn good actors i think their style's just different and so far apart from each other as well
Well I guarantee he was VERY nice to her on set. He had a thing for her and was constantly flirting.
Consider this: Heath Ledger had just 33 minutes of screen-time as the Joker. Even without Michael J. Fox the movie would've go down either as the most underrated movie in history or it would have already been re-filmed with for example Tom Holland and Robert Downey Jr
She grasped her character so well and to think I understood it as well as she described it...love her in BTTF
Crispin Glover should have won an Oscar for Back to the Future. He was that fucking good.
I'm a huge Back to the Future fan so I really enjoyed this! - That 20 minutes was over so fast; I could have sat through 20 more.
They did overestimate 2015.
But they underestimated how beautiful Lea Thompson would be in 30 years.
That's crazy. I never thought about how bad it would suck to remember a completely different past than everyone else!
it was weird, the 'imposter dude' was called 'Crispin' on set by most during the pt 2 shoot
Best interview, one in a million.
You are too kind! Thank you so much!
she wonderful actress in 1980 movie called Back to the future all three movies
She gave a really good summary of the BTTF Story Arc, & depth of experience on the movie series.
She is great, nice to get to see this interview.
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She is one hot lady that would never give me the right time of day if I asked her out for a date
A true Earth Angel ❤
still looks beautiful
You can tell she’s a really good mom because she always mentions her kids in interviews.
She is a fine lady.
Yes, she seems like one class act !
7:58 "Her life has been..., you know, destroyed! Yeah!" She still sounds like her lively self.
I could close my eyes and listen to her voice, but mainly to keep from seeing her smile that crushes my chest in every time I see it flash.
It's sad what those in power did to Crispin. Oddly, when the tide turned, these pricks didn't like being shown they were the bad people trying to screw someone over. Yet, one bloke from that group continues to badmouth Crispin to this day ... In respect to the 'on-screen chemistry' they had, I would like to see Lea and Crispin in another movie together. Other than that, Lea still is very, very pretty, and, still desirable :-)
Fantastic interview. Love her honesty.
Wow, she's amazing. The interview was great but the interviewer needed his own mic - so quiet and hard to hear. Fantastic how normal she is. :)
Great interview! Lea has such a great upbeat personality ; )
I too love your chipper personality ! She comes across as a fun person !
Eric Stolz, as brilliant as he is as an actor had it wrong about guitar players. Most rock guitar players dont grow nails long. I keep mine trimmed.
Dario Wirtha and they didn’t have to be dirty either, yuck
I liked short nails has a bassplayer.
I think classical guitar players grow their nails. So yea he had it wrong there.
She reminded me of a great movie and I am going to watch it tonight, "Enemy Mine".
Sounds like Lea and Crispin could have been a real life item. She seems to adore him.. that would have been great. Still a travesty he wasn't in the 2nd film.
Apparently Crispin wanted equal or near equal pay with Michael J. Fox and the studio balked at the idea, so they ended up hiring a "character actor" from the Universal Studios lot. In part 2, George McFly is upside down in the _Ortholev_ which makes it harder to notice that it's not Crispin Glover. He was perfect as George McFly, so it's too bad it didn't work out for him on BTTF 2. (They used some footage from BTTF 1 for the McFly family scene near the end of BTTF 3).
Crispin is also a very strange person, as you can see in virtually any interview he's ever done, especially around the time he was making Back to the Future.
That, and he went nuts on Letterman.
Strange or not, it's now been debunked that glover wanted equal pay to MJF. The truth is that he was offered less than half than the rest of the principal cast, which was a dick move on their behalf.
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Apparently he was also a massive dick towards the writers, the producers etc. He wanted important parts of the film to be re-written and changed. The guy had no idea what a pecking order was...
One of the.most beautiful actresses ever. So down to earth too.
Crispin seems like a good-hearted guy. According to Bob Gale, he demanded money and other perks that were totally unreasonable at that point in any young actor's career. According to Crispin, the two Bobs didn't like his opinion that the materialistic ending of Back to the Future was bad.
I feel like Lea Thompson kind of disses Michael J. Fox when she talks about how great she and Glover were while Fox was "all surfacey." She really sings her own praises in this interview, including pretending like she looks like the old Lorraine, even while she knows she's had a ton of cosmetic work done and looks nothing like her. That's just fishing for a compliment from the interviewer. Her "work" in the movie was fine, but without Fox, there was no movie.