Elijah Wood has had a protracted profession—Sin City, The Faculty, Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings simply to call a couple of—however there’s one entry at first of his resume we’ll always remember.

Wood performed “Video Game Boy” in Back to the Future II in a quick however traditional scene. Upon getting into Cafe ‘80s—in 2015—Michael J. Fox’s Marty McFly notices two younger boys plugging in an arcade sport referred to as Wild Gunman. They aren’t positive tips on how to play it so he provides them an skilled demonstration. “You mean you have to use your hands?” Wood mentioned, off-camera, earlier than the opposite boy (John Thornton) follows up with, “That’s like a baby’s toy.” They each shake their heads in disgust and depart Marty deeply confused.

Speaking with Deadline’s video collection The Film That Lit My Fuse, Wood was requested what movies obtained him concerned with appearing. Growing up in Iowa, the actor informed them there wasn’t actually something particular it hinged on. “The story goes, my mom saw a commercial when I was five. I had a lot of energy and she thought that would be a great outlet for his energy.” But he did title a couple of movies he noticed early in life that he has vivid reminiscences of. “I remember seeing Gremlins when I was young, Back to the Future, the original Back to the Future was something I saw as a kid and I loved…The Goonies. But I never watched those movies thinking that I could ever have anything to do with them or that that would be a vocation of mine.”

Though he did get his begin in commercials, his first movie position turned out to be Back to the Future II. “That was wild because it took what I understood about cinema and put it into this very real realm. And I think that may actually sort of be the first time that I think I was able to reference that based on what I had seen, to what I was physically doing,” he defined. “Which isn’t to say I didn’t understand the work that I had done prior in commercials as it being, you know, an acting role that people would see. But when it’s referencing a movie that I grew up watching and suddenly I’m in that environment, was completely mind-blowing. And so that may have been the first time that it sort of registered to me what this was and that this could be a life, I suppose.”

A life certainly. Do you keep in mind if you first realized it was Wood in that small position after he’d grow to be extra well-known?

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