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Melora Hardin on her 'Back to the Future' firing: It was a huge disappointment

Posted on: Dec 25, 2025 13:13 IST | Posted by: Hindustantimes
Melora Hardin on her 'Back to the Future' firing: It was a huge disappointment
LOs Angeles, doer Melora Hardin is eventually speech production up most beingness dismissed from the role of Micheal J Fox's romantic lead in the "Back to the Future" for being taller than him."'Back to the Future was a huge disappointment',” Hardin told Entertainment Weekly."I was 17, you know. I burst into tears. It was very sad. There were quite a few of those that I remember, you know, things that never really got made. But that I remember being very tough.”Fox recently talked about how Hardin lost the role after he replaced leading man Eric Stoltz as the time-traveling teen Marty McFly in the 1985 sci-fi classic. Claudia Wells plyed Jennifer Parker opposite Fox in the first movie, directed by Robert Zemeckis.In his recent memoir "Future Boy", Fox explained that when he replaced Stoltz, some felt co-star Hardin was suddenly too tall to play the character's girlfriend in the franchise’s first installment.The actor recalled that his height "worked in my favor when I was a teenage actor playing a younger kid", but being short "turned against me as an adult, when I went up for romantic leads opposite taller actresses"."I regret that this prejudice inadvertently affected another cast member in Back to the Future – Melora Hardin, the talented actress who had played Marty’s girlfriend, Jennifer, opposite the perfectly tall Eric Stoltz."Melora, several inches taller than me, was replaced in the movie after I took over as Marty. Initially, Bob Zemeckis thought perhaps the audience could look past our height difference, but when he quickly surveyed the female members of the crew, they assured him that the tall pretty girl in high school rarely picks the cute short guy.”"No one asked for my opinion, but I would have risen to Melora’s defense,” added Fox.Elisabeth Shue played Parker in "Back to the Future Part II" and "Part III" .This article was generated from an automated news agency feed without modifications to text.

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