NEW YORK – October 21, 2015 — (UPI) — Today’s date, Oct. 21, 2015 is significant to any fan of theBack to the Future trilogy as it represents the day that Marty McFly traveled to the future in 1989’s Back to the Future II.
To celebrate reaching the future, the cast, including Michael J. Fox who portrayed McFly, Christopher Lloyd who played Doc Brown and Lea Thompson who appeared as McFly’s mother in the past, appeared on The Today Show to discuss their experience on set and to celebrate the new pop culture holiday that is Back to the Future day.
Lloyd made a grand entrance in the iconic time traveling DeLorean. The veteran actor then spoke highly of his co-star Fox.
“We had a chemistry from the instant that we walked on set,” Lloyd told Matt Lauer. “We were so happy to see each other. It never had to be manufactured, nobody had to say, ‘Work for this kind of chemistry.’ It was just there. It was innate. And wonderful.”
All three stars mentioned the success of the franchise and how it’s been able to endure after all these years. “Here we are 30 years later, and it doesn’t seem to have lost any momentum,” Lloyd said, while Fox called his work on the trilogy “a privilege that I can’t be more grateful for.”
USA Today also took part in the festivities by selling a replica version of the newspaper that McFly reads in the film. The wrap-around front page includes headlines such as ‘3 injured when mom re-hydrates pizza slices,” and “Cholesterol may be cancer cure.”
Fox also used the day to urge Americans to envision a future without Parkinson’s disease, an aliment he suffers from. In an email sent by the White House Wednesday, the 54-year-old actor urges readers to participate in a series of online conversations hosted by the White House for Back to the Future day dedicated to medical research, technology and even time travel.
“Call me an optimist, but I believe that by 2045 we’ll find the cures we seek — especially because of all the smart, passionate people working to make it happen,” Fox wrote. “Doctors and researchers around the world are developing new tools to improve the diagnosis and treatment of brain diseases, to tailor treatments — for all illnesses — through precision medicine, and to make life better for millions of people. This truly is the stuff of the future.”
“Together, we’ll make neurological illness a thing of the past,” Fox said in the email. “And if we all eventually get hoverboards, well — that’s a bonus.”
