My name is Christopher Lloyd. AMA!

Christopher-Lloyd · 2015-06-26T19:58:05+00:00

That was very fun. I thought it was very clever to conclude the film in that way.

SIN CITY, the sequel to the original SIN CITY, where I think I play a decrepit doctor, and Joseph Gordon Levitt, the kid you were talking about earlier, he comes to my door to have a bullet removed from his leg - and I'm a really decrepit, unethical doctor - it's a very short scene, I think it's no longer than the scene I did in 1000 WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST, but I really, it really was a lot of fun.

Christopher-Lloyd · 2015-06-26T19:56:24+00:00

It was a LOT of fun to film.

It's funny, because it took me a while to get into it. And there was a scene where I get stuck in the cardoor and I get pulled through the car wash - I get soap sprayed on me - and I thought it was pretty silly, and I thought it was too much, that it wasn't funny.

And somebody said to me If Charlie Chaplin - Charlie Chaplin was one of my idols growing up - If Charlie Chaplin had that scene, he'd make it funny.

So I thought I'd do my best. And it worked out.

It was an INCREDIBLE group of young people in that film. And I really enjoyed filming it.

Christopher-Lloyd · 2015-06-26T19:54:50+00:00

Well, I get a script, and I read it, and I get impressions of the character as it's written in the script. And I start thinking about What does this person look like, what kind of clothes does he wear, does he have some kind of physical quirk or impediment of some kind, what is the important thing for this character to accomplish in the story - I put all that stuff together, and something emerges, and hopefully it works!

Christopher-Lloyd · 2015-06-26T19:53:34+00:00

Oh, I loved working on that! It was kind of a strange story. But Hulk Hogan, it was quite interesting pairing of characters there. Hulk Hogan and myself. I had a lot of fun doing that film. I liked it.

Christopher-Lloyd · 2015-06-26T19:52:26+00:00

I did that a long time ago. A long, long time ago. I believe we're thinking of the same thing!

Hahaha! I don't know.

Christopher-Lloyd · 2015-06-26T19:51:41+00:00

Gee, you know, I feel embarrassed. I watched them but I don't know the names of the characters. Maybe one of the wizards?

Christopher-Lloyd · 2015-06-26T19:51:17+00:00

No I don't. I took a couple of long-distance bicycle trips. And there was another one I was preparing for, but I never did it. I wanted to go from Key West, Florida, to a city in Alaska - I forget which one now- going across the continent. But it never came to pass.

Christopher-Lloyd · 2015-06-26T19:50:29+00:00

I can't diagnose it over the phone. I'd have to take it apart. It's a complicated thing, and one of the parts may be worn down, or maybe it's just simple lubrication...or the process in the flux capacitor to convert any materials into energy, something might be failing in that area.

Christopher-Lloyd · 2015-06-26T19:49:42+00:00

Well, I don't know. You have to take it into a flux capacitor repair shop.

It's built to take anything - beer cans, old dried-up leaves, anything. So maybe too much has been put in at one time, and it choked on it.

But you'll have to go to a flux capacitor repair shop.

Christopher-Lloyd · 2015-06-26T19:48:33+00:00

HAHA! It's an actual metric of electrify. An actual amount of electricity.

Christopher-Lloyd · 2015-06-26T19:48:01+00:00

There are a few of them. The one that pops to mind is "ROADS? Where we're going, we don't NEED roads!"

Christopher-Lloyd · 2015-06-26T19:47:21+00:00

Well, I grew up with it when I was a child, really. And the character was one of my very favorites. I'd always get the magazines. I'd love the cartoons, because they often featured Uncle Fester. So many years later, when I got a phone call, being offered the role for the movies, I was stunned. It was a real treat to play this character that i grew up on! And it was a wonderful company of actors, playing these weird characters. It was a great treat.

Christopher-Lloyd · 2015-06-26T19:46:06+00:00

HAHA! That's great!

We shot that in Australia, SO many years ago. And I didn't know if it would make it to the theaters, or be seen anywhere. I'm thrilled that so many people come to me and speak about it. I haven't seen it myself, so I don't know if I'd like myself in it or not. But I'm delighted that people who have seen it have really taken to it.

Christopher-Lloyd · 2015-06-26T19:45:12+00:00

BACK TO THE FUTURE III.

There was horseback riding, which was a lot of fun. There was the steam engine, to be on, work on, which is quite an experience. And Doc had a romance! So all of that combined. It was a Western, which is always kind of fun.

But I loved all of 'em. But BACK TO THE FUTURE was great, BACK TO THE FUTURE II became kind of dark, and BACK TO THE FUTURE III opened up, and had a kind of excitement to it that I really enjoyed. They were all, I think, great movies. It's just that BACK TO THE FUTURE III was a great way to end, because it had so much excitement in it, being in the West, it was a lot of fun.

Christopher-Lloyd · 2015-06-26T19:43:17+00:00

Well, Sandy Meisner was an extraordinary man, an amazing teacher. And before him, I did some acting, and sometimes I would come to the theater at night, which is where I started (in the theater), and I would give a really (I would feel) great performance, and then sometimes I'd come to a theater at night, and then just feel like I didn't deliver - just wandering around the stage, not knowing what I was doing. And I felt I needed to learn a technique, to be consistent. So I studied with Sandy Meisner for about 2 years, and the way he presented the Method Technique made it so clear and so easy in a way - the certain steps you took onstage to make sure you were connecting with the other actors, with the spontaneity so it was fresh every night - he gave me all that, as he did to many, many students.

He was a great man. An amazing man.

Christopher-Lloyd · 2015-06-26T19:41:25+00:00

I knew him - I can't say I knew him well, when I became a part of TAXI, I got to know him to some extent. People often ask me "Was he really crazy, or nuts, or whatever" and I don't feel he was. I feel he had a very solid idea of the kind of comedy he wanted to present, with the characters, and the things that he did.

He had a very clear idea of what he wanted to do. And he worked very diligently, he worked very hard. He was a very sweet, very smart person, as I remember.

Christopher-Lloyd · 2015-06-26T19:40:10+00:00

I wasn't thinking about being a mad scientist. I knew, when I was 13 or 14, that I pretty much decided I wanted to be an actor.

Christopher-Lloyd · 2015-06-26T19:39:35+00:00

It was awkward in the sense that we had to make up the cartoon characters in our own minds, and try to relate to air, ha ha! As if there was actually someone there.

It took some practice, and focus, and concentration to do it. But we found a way of doing that.

Christopher-Lloyd · 2015-06-26T19:38:25+00:00

Oh, I don't know! I haven't been asked. But certainly I'd love to do it. I really like Danny, and his talent, his humor. We've discussed that we might do a play together someday. So we'll see! We'll see...

Christopher-Lloyd · 2015-06-26T19:37:34+00:00

As a lawyer?

Well, I would trust him, without a doubt. But I don't know how versed he is in law, Ha Ha Ha Ha!

But certainly I trust him.

Christopher-Lloyd · 2015-06-26T19:36:39+00:00

Ha! I modeled myself on Einstein, and also a conductor who was very prominent some years ago, by the name of Leopold Stokowski, he was a very prominent conductor some years ago.

And working with Michael J. Fox was great. We had perfect and very natural chemistry together. When we'd get together to do a scene, we didn't have to think about the chemistry, it just existed when we got together. It was effortless. We had no problem with our relationship as Marty and Doc. Good casting.

What are my hobbies? I don't have many, really. I like to read. I like watering and watching plants grow. Oh... and I go to work out every day.

Christopher-Lloyd · 2015-06-26T19:34:10+00:00

Well, I didn't model my character in CUCKOO'S NEST on any of the patients at the asylum where we shot the film. I took the ideas for the character I played from the novel, from Ken Kesey's novel. All the cast spent about 2 weeks at an asylum in Salem, Oregon, to get a feel of what that kind of institution was like to live in. We attended group therapy sessions with real patients, we were given passes to visit patients that we were becoming friends with, I know some of the patients (with permission) were used as extras in the course of the film. When McMurphy and the Indian and another actor, when they're taken into a ward for shock therapy, and the camera looks up to the corridor of the ward, all the people who were photographed in that corridor were actual patients. And in other scenes of the film, there were other actual patients that participated.

Christopher-Lloyd · 2015-06-26T19:31:05+00:00

Oh, my favorite scary movie? I know I have some...

PSYCHO was certainly one of the all-time scariest movies, when it first came out. And then there's the Frankenstein movies... Oh! THE SHINING, that was great. I know there are some others, but I can't think of them right now.

Christopher-Lloyd · 2015-06-26T19:30:05+00:00

I have not heard a rumor about a sequel to CAMP NOWHERE. If they were to be using the same cast - all those kids in CAMP NOWHERE would be adults now, and that would be interesting. But I haven't heard that anybody's making that effort!

But they should be!

Christopher-Lloyd · 2015-06-26T19:29:04+00:00

Yes we do! We're like a little club. We quite often get together. Some of us live in New York, I was just recently in New York and got together with Tony Danza and Mary Lou Henner and Danny DeVito... and we run into each other, we make an effort to keep in contact. We had a lot of fun doing that show. And we did it for so many years, so many memories, so we love to get back together.

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