While the Back to the Future romantic lead changed hands for Parts II and III , one other actress almost portrayed Jennifer Parker.

In his recent memoir Future Boy , Michael J. Fox explained that when he replaced leading man Eric Stoltz as time-traveling teen Marty McFly, co-star Melora Hardin was suddenly too tall to play the character’s girlfriend in the 1985 first installment.

“My goal as a child was self-­preservation. Bullies often ridiculed my height, an easy target. I suffered the indignity of short jokes and prejudice against my smallness,” he wrote, according to Entertainment Weekly , noting that his height “worked in my favor when I was a teenage actor playing a younger kid, but it turned against me as an adult, when I went up for romantic leads opposite tal

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