Fans of “The Boys” may have wondered why Madeline Stilwell, the scheming Vought Corporation vice president who forms a dangerous and close alliance with Homelander in season 1, looks so familiar. . The reason is that it is very likely that they have seen actress Elisabeth Shue in previous films and films. Shue isn’t a household name, but her number of bit roles date back to the ’80s. Starring in Burger King ad with Sarah Michelle Gellar.
One of her biggest roles was playing Marty’s girlfriend Jennifer in the Back to the Future trilogy, although she didn’t play Jennifer in every movie. The first movie starred Claudia Wells. Binge-watching the movie today would be an unpleasant experience, as the second movie begins with a reenactment of the final scene of the first movie, but you end up watching a different version of Jennifer with no explanation. .
So, what happened to the cast change? Well, this is pretty tragic. Since Claudia Wells’ mother died of breast cancer, the actress no longer had time or desire to film a sequel. “I didn’t have the energy to do anything other than deal with the stress and emotions that came with my mother dying,” Wells said. explained in a 2015 interview. “I just wasn’t in a place where I could think about anything other than my career or movies or what I was doing with my life.”
How has the role changed for Elisabeth Shue?
It’s unclear how much the change in actress influenced this creative choice, but Jennifer is a bit more fleshed out as a character in the second film. Jennifer in the original film was flatly ignored for most of the second and third acts, but “Part II” shows her to be a real person, even if she doesn’t do anything else. It feels like. Jennifer isn’t treated very well by Doc and Marty–at one point Doc sedates Jennifer and leaves her unconscious body in an alley, in an act of insanity–and yet she… is given a little more agency than the Wells version of the character we’ve received thus far.
A lot of this seems to be that “Part II” is inspired by the ending of the first movie, where Jennifer gets into the DeLorean with Jennifer as she travels back to the future. That final scene was primarily written as a joke and was never intended to be a sequel. As co-author Bob Gale explained in a 2015 interview“When it came time to write the second book and think about what to do, we said, ‘What do we do with Jennifer?’ They had to make her unconscious for most of Future II. ”
And how did Welles feel about Elisabeth Shue taking over the role? “When I found out she was cast, I was really flattered and honored, because I think she’s a great actress. ” Wells said. “And interestingly, [the lead role in] “Adventures of Babysitting” was between her and me and Phoebe Cates. I have nothing but respect and admiration for her. ”
