Christopher Lloyd Almost Lost Back To The Future To Iconic ’80s Rocker

Mothersbaugh revealed Zemeckis and Spielberg approached him after a Devo show to talk about something they wanted to work with him on, but when they had their eventual meeting, they revealed they wanted him to place the role of Doctor Emmett Brown in Back to the Future, which he decided to decline. He talked about the meeting in the interview with The Wrap, saying, “I go, ‘I don’t wanna act in a movie.’ And they go, ‘Well, you act on stage.”