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Called "scared straight!

Another story," which was a CBS film.

What? That's funny?

Seeing James wreck up his hand?

Hey, he's demented.

And the casting director

was so impressed with my work

That they were casting

"back to the future,"

So they set up a meeting

for me to meet Bob Zemeckis.

I was

making a film in Mexico city,

And my agent, Bob durst, sent me the

script for "back to the future."

I had, at the same time,

received an offer to go back and do a play.

Which I was enthusiastic about.

Things weren't going that great,

And I thought

I should get back to my roots.

I always thought

I might wanna go to Hollywood.

But I said I'm never going to

Hollywood till they send for me.

And then, in 1984, when I was doing

"Glengarry glen Ross," David Mamet's play,

I got a script

from Robert Zemeckis,

And it was "back to the future."

And I say, "okay, well,

maybe this is my chance

"To go out to Hollywood

and see what's going on."

You've got a real attitude problem, McFly.

You're a slacker.

You're a slacker, McFly.

I always told myself I'd always

leave no stone unturned,

So I took another look

at the script,

Went back, met Bob Zemeckis,

and that was that.

It was very

hard for me to get commercials.

'Cause they always

used to tell me

That I would distract

from the product.

I had a callback

later that day for a commercial,

And I was more excited about the callback for

the commercial 'cause it was so unusual.

For some reason,

I just really got the characters.

You just never know. Sometimes,

characters just come to you really clearly.

It's terrible.

Girls these days,

Smoking pot, drinking booze.

Look more straight above the lens here,

so you're not looking down.

- Oh, I see.

- 'Cause the hair might shadow your face.

I went and met with bob,

You know, I never auditioned

or read anything.

He was just asking me questions,

And next thing you know,

I'm Goldie Wilson.

And one day,

I'm gonna be somebody.

That's right.

He's gonna be mayor.

Yeah, I'm gonna...

mayor!

Oh.

If I had a penny

For every time

I was asked to say,

"Mayor!"

Hey, you know what?

It made me almost famous.

You can write a great script,

and cast just a couple people wrong,

Or one person wrong,

and the whole thing will fall apart.

And, you know,

that kind of was the case.

I was lucky enough to be in movie called

"the wild life,"

And they were thinking about Eric Stoltz,

who was my boyfriend.

You're the one

who needed your freedom.

For you to start going out

with the entire male race.

I made a decision

that was based on, um,

You know, just the desire

to get the movie made.

And I was given an ultimatum

by the head of the studio

That if I didn't start the movie on a

specific day, they weren't gonna make it.

My first choice

for the part was unavailable

Because he was in a TV show.

So Eric is a really good actor,

And I made the decision

to put him in the movie,

But it turned out that

his instincts

And the type of comedy that we

were doing wasn't really gelling.

It became clear

as the picture progressed

That the humor just wasn't

working the way it should.

It is something

to recast at that point.

This was a terrific picture,

should be,

And it wasn't coming alive.

When we broke

for dinner at, like, 1:00 a.m.,

All the suits were there

and everything.

Bob Zemeckis made

an announcement.

God, if I was an actor for six

weeks on something, and I got...

you don't recover from that.

I, um...

didn't wanna believe

that it wasn't working,

So that's why

I kept shooting and shooting.

I was kind of

in denial about it.

And I had to ultimately

accept the truth.

It was very painful

for everybody.

They started to shoot

the movie without me,

And I didn't know

anything went on.

And then Gary called me into

his office one day and said

That they had

approached me originally,

And then they'd shot,

and they weren't happy with what they had,

And would I consider

doing it now?

He thought I could do it.

As long as I did the show in the daytime,

and the movie at night.

The minute Michael J. Fox

was in it,

It was clear a very good

decision had been made,

listen, I'll tell you everybody

would love to see the Eric Stoltz footage

That we did not destroy.

Someday,

that footage will be released.

So we can look forward to that.

They were really welcoming to me.

They were really great.

I mean, there was

some concern...

there were

practical realities...

there were scenes

where my coverage was shot,

Where the other actors

are reacting to Eric.

They'd shot the stuff already,

And so they went and inserted

my coverage into it.

So it's really strange.

I mean, it's...

we would do days of shooting just one piece

of coverage from previously-Filmed sequences.

So, that was kind of strange.

But then very quickly, it became

just the way it was supposed to be.

And I don't mean that in any

derogatory sense towards Eric.

Just in the sense that we hit a rhythm

that they were comfortable with,

I would wake up at 10:00 in the morning,

and go to "family ties,"

Then they'd pick me up after work

and take me out to universal,

And I'd work there until like

2:
00, 3:00 in the morning,

And then I'd go back

and crawl into bed.

Where a teamster was coming,

turning on the shower, waking me up,

And hustling me

toward the shower,

And getting me in the car,

And I'd catch a nap

on the way into work.

It was pretty incredible,

but it was, um...

you really felt like you were doing

something cool. It was really energizing.

Okay, thank you.

Thank you. Thank you very much.

Hold it, fellas.

I'm afraid you're just

too darn loud.

I remember we were contacted by

Steven Spielberg, I think, first.

And we took a meeting,

my manager Bob brown and I,

With the two bobs and Steven.

And they said

they'd just written this film,

And this character, Marty McFly, his favorite

band would be Huey Lewis and the news.

So, "how would you like

to write a song for the film?"

I told them I was flattered, but I didn't

know how to write for film necessarily,

And I wasn't too chuffed with the idea of

writing a song called "back to the future."

"You don't have to call it 'back to the

future.' Call it whatever you want."

I said, "I'll tell you what. We'll just

go off and try and write something,

"And we'll send you the first thing

we write, send it down to you?"

I know it's been a few years.

I know it's been a few years.

But Hollywood finally called.

That's it. Your favorite group

is in the movie business.

What's going on in there?

- Music.

- What kind of music?

- Dancing.

- Rock and roll.

Huey.

This is the place!

And almost the first thing we wrote was

"power of..."

I remember it as being

the first thing we wrote.

Bob, I think,

remembers it differently.

But either the first

or second thing we wrote,

Sent it down

was "power of love."

I really didn't think it

was gonna work in the film so much.

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