That Eric Stoltz shot five weeks of footage as Marty McFly in the original Back to the Future is hardly a revelation. But now that the footage has finally been released, this bit of pop culture trivia has gotten a second life. Yes, it's fascinating; but think for a second of a job you may have at one point in your life that didn't work out -- for whatever reason -- because your bosses found someone that they deemed was better. Could you imagine the terms of your departure being discussed on every nook of the Internet? Welcome to the current life and times of Eric Stoltz. How is he feeling about it? Well, the closest we're going to get to that answer is found in this unearthed interview with Stoltz from 2007.
"I would be curious to see it," admitted Stoltz to Moviehole. Then again, that could have meant he would have liked to seen it privately, not broadcast to the far reaches of the universe.
Stoltz continued, "You know, it was twenty-something years ago and I rarely look back, if at all, but in retrospect, I think just getting through that difficult period helped me realize how freeing it really was. I went back to acting school, I moved to Europe, I did some plays in New York and I actually invested in myself in a way that was much healthier for me.
"I would've been unable to walk down the street! It's a whole different life. I was lucky in that way." Um, yeah. Lucky is one way to put it.