Ben Stiller auditioned for the role of Marty in Back to the Future

Robert Zemeckis' cult film could have been his first film role. Video proof.

We know that Back to the future has evolved a lot between its beginnings and its theatrical release in 1985. The director Robert Zemeckisand the screenwriter Bob Gale had, for example, first imagined a nuclear end for their time travel film. We also know thatEric Stoltz had was first cast as Marty McFly. He had filmed a few scenes before being replaced by Michael J. Foxat the request of the filmmaker. Another lesser known casting change, Jeff Goldblum was approached to play Doc Brownbefore Christopher Lloyd is ultimately committed.

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Fox and Lloyd are far from the only actors to have auditioned for Back to the future. In this video ofAll the right movies published at the beginning of December on Ben Stiller audition for the role of Marty. There is also Kyra Sedgwick (Brooklyn Nine Nine) who tries his luck for the role of Jennifer or even Billy Zane, who delivers a few lines from Biff Tannen… and who will ultimately be kept but to play one of the henchmen of the big bad of the trilogy.

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In the mid-1980s, Ben Stiller was not yet 20 years old, but he already dreamed of acting. His parents, Anne Meara and Jerry Stiller, were themselves acclaimed actors and screenwriters in Hollywood, so growing up, he quickly began to imitate them, having accompanied them on a few television shows during his childhood.

At the age of ten, Ben began making super 8 films with his brother and sister. As a teenager, he began taking acting classes, first in Los Angeles, then in New York, and began appearing in films and series at the end of the 1980s. He can notably be seen in Empire of the Sunby Steven Spielberg and in the show Aline and Cathybroadcast in 1988 and 1986 respectively. In 1989, he directed his first professional short, Elvis Storieswhich will be followed a few years later by the long Generation 90, Unhinged, Zoolander, Tropic Thunder…

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