Biff actor Tom Wilson is over doing his Back to the Future schtick, and will no longer call fans “butthead.”
Back to the Future is one of the most successful movies of all time, and part of the film’s longevity is due to its perfect cast.
Michael J. Fox became synonymous with Marty McFly, Christopher Lloyd delivers one of the great comic performances as Doc Brown, and Tom Wilson is gloriously over-the-top as bully Biff Tannen.
Biff made George McFly’s life a misery, frequently hammering him on the head, and calling him a “butthead” at every available opportunity. But the actor is now over using that term in real-life.
Tom Wilson says “I’m not gonna call anyone ‘butthead’ anymore
Speaking on Michael Rosenbaum’s ‘Inside of You’ podcast, Wilson said that for 25 years, “I really tried to make everybody happy. Everybody who came up to me. After 25 years I said, ‘You know, I think I’ve been generous with this, but after 25 years, I’m not gonna knock anyone on the head, and I’m not gonna call anyone ‘Butthead’ anymore.'”
He’s also done with knocking people on the head in pics: “I’m gonna have a season of my life where I just, if you wanna take a picture of me, I’m not beating you up. We just both look nice and we smile. And those kinds of things. But yes, everyone wants me to call them a butthead, everyone wants me to knock them on the head, everyone wants me to push their nephew around.”
He added of playing such an iconic character: “You become not a person. You become the end of a treasure hunt. ‘If only I have you sign this, say this, record this, videotape this, whatever, then I’ll have another little diamond in my treasure chest.’ And I would rather just meet people as a person.”
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