Melora Hardin Explains Why She Was Fired From Back to Future

The office Melora Hardin he explained in detail the effect of the expulsion Back to the Future after posing for weeks as Marty McFly’s love interest.

“Back to the Future it was a big disappointment. I was 17, you know. I cried,” Hardin, 58, said Entertainment Weekly in an interview published on Monday, December 22. “It was very sad. There are a few of those that I remember, you know, things that never really happened. But what I remember is very difficult.”

Hardin originally played Jennifer Parker opposite Eric Stoltz Marty from the 1985 sci-fi film. But when Stoltz was let go he was replaced Michael J. FoxHardin found herself getting the boot again, for being a few inches taller than the Family Ties star.

“Obviously it was two female directors at the time who thought it was embarrassing for their male lead to be in scenes with a woman who was taller than him,” Hardin said. EW earlier this year. However, he mentioned that things have finally improved. “If I had done it, I am sure that if everything had gone differently, I would not have done it. The office,” he told the newspaper at the time.

While talking to EW On Monday, Hardin doubled down on his positive outlook, explaining that it was important to “fail more than you’ve succeeded” to get to where he is in the industry. “I think people don’t realize that when they look at it from the outside – you have to be a very relaxed person, and you’re on the phone all the time,” she said. “That failure means nothing to you. You have to fail better, and keep failing better … to be able to stand up to this career choice.”

Regarding Jennifer’s role, Claudia Wells he was eventually cast in the role at the front Elizabeth Shue he took part in the following sequels. Fox, on the other hand, starred in all three blockbusters.

In his 2025 memoir, Future Boy: Back to the Future and My Journey Through the Time ContinuumFox revealed that he was the choice for Marty but NBC blocked him from taking the role, wanting him to focus on his sitcom. But when Back to the Future director Robert Zemeckis and the author Bob Gale not convinced that Stoltz was right for the part because of his dramatic acting style, they turned back to Fox.

“Unfortunately, the dailies were disappointing,” Fox wrote of Stoltz’s first version Back to the Future. “Eric was an incredibly talented actor, but the creative team felt he wasn’t right for Marty McFly.”

Stoltz, for his part, has been very quiet about acting over the years, but he subtly addressed the situation during a 2007 interview. Moviehole.

“I don’t often look back, if at all, but looking back, I think going through that difficult time helped me realize how liberating it really was,” he said. “I went back to acting school, moved to Europe, did theater in New York and actually invested in myself in a way that was very healthy for me. I couldn’t walk the streets! It’s a very different life. I was lucky that way.”

Fox revealed in his memoir that he had contacted Stoltz about his book and the two met at his home, where they “engaged in a simple conversation about our jobs, families and yes, our travels through time. Since then they have “maintained friendly correspondence,” pledging to be actors and fathers, talking about politics and the movies they’ve seen.

“What happened in Back to the Future didn’t make us enemies or rivals; we were just two dedicated actors pouring equal energy into the same role,” Fox shared in his biography. “The rest had nothing to do with us.”