Christopher Lloyd feels "very fortunate" to have been a part of ‘Back to the Future’. The 85-year-old actor starred opposite Michael J. Fox as Dr.
Emmett ‘Doc’ Brown in the beloved sci-fi series, and has now looked back at its "phenomenal" legacy that continues to "fill the gap in a lot of lives of young people". He told Variety: "I’ve done my share of work, and nothing compares to the way 'Back to the Future' is ingrained in people’s minds. "It’s phenomenal.
Every day practically — and certainly I go to Comic-Cons — people come up and say, ‘You made my childhood.’ And another reference equal to that, where ‘Back to the Future’ fills the gap in a lot of lives of young people, who have gone on to become doctors, scientists and what have you. "So, [I have] a lot of gratitude and I feel real good about that.
I feel very fortunate to be part of that." The actor also reflected on his role as Uncle Fester in 'The Addams Family' and said he "loved" being able to depict a character he used to see in the New Yorker magazine’s cartoons when he was a child. He explained: "It was mischief about Uncle Fester and not evil.
He just could play around a little bit. And then, that period of my life passed and decades later, I get a call, would I like to be Uncle Fester in a film? What are the odds? "It was very exciting to be able to play the character that I loved when I was a kid.” Lloyd is also known by Trekkies for his portrayal as the evil Klingon Commander K.