We’re moving toward celebrity cameo country with Flea, who played Needles, future-Marty’s duplicitous co-worker in Back to the Future Part II and the final “chicken” utterer in Back to the Future Part III as young Needles.Īpparently, both of Flea’s scenes were shot in one day in-between Red Hot Chilli Peppers tour stops, but the renowned bass player wasn’t just a rock star who had decided to act on a lark. Sadly, the rise of that breed of unimpressed little sh*ts seems to be the truest prognostication in the whole movie.Īlso, poor Video Game Kid #2. ![]() He’s Frodo to us now, but it all started with a super-small part in Back to the Future Part II as a little sh*thead who doesn’t understand the brilliance of a retro arcade game. A hugely popular child star who seamlessly moved to more challenging material as a teenager and later as an adult. He was also engaged to Kelly Brook for a time, so clearly he is made out of stardust.Įlijah Wood has been acting forever, it seems. He is many men and one man all at the same time. Seriously, do a Google image search of Billy Zane. He’s also the swiss army knife of handsomeness, possessing a unique ability to pull off seemingly any look. Things have been a little less high profile for Zane over the last decade, but he’s worked steadily and he he has a promising pilot called Mad Dogs that will be up for consideration on Amazon next year. The best example of that occurs during Jason Scott Lee’s big moment when he advises Marty McFly on the one thing that he needs to run a hoverboard: power.Ī 19-year-old actor with no screen credits when he first booked the role in Back to the Future, Zane graduated to a starring role in Dead Calm with Sam Neill and Nicole Kidman shortly after the second film, setting him off on a path that would lead to starring roles in The Phantom (a box office failure), Titanic (not a box office failure), and his most crucial role: Billy Zane in Zoolander (a success that cannot be calculated in mere dollars and cents). In Back to the Future Part II, though, Wilson played Biff’s grandson, Griff, like a cartoon character.īecause of this amped up performance, once could easily forget about the members of Griff’s crew that hung out in Wilson’s shadow, but that’s not to say that they didn’t at least try to keep pace. Wilson delivered a nice performance as the kind of unrelenting, over-confident, and hollow bully that lives within all of our nightmares as Biff Tannen. ![]() Personally, I love to see an actor taking their first steps out of the primordial ooze and onto the big screen just as much as I love a good cameo, so in honor of those small but vital performances, here’s a look at six notable actors that you may have forgotten were in Back to the Future Part II. ![]() The other day when I was watching Back to the Future Part II to prepare for our look at what the main cast and the filmmakers have been up to, I was kind of surprised that I had forgotten about all of the cameos and notable debuts on display in the film.
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