Painful movie roles that have changed actors forever - Page 5 of 9

Michael J. Fox – «Back to the Future 3»

Michael J. Fox played Marty McFly twice in the «Back to the Future» but the third time was not entirely successful. Fox had to stand on a box with a noose around his neck in a scene but director Robert Zemeckis decided to remove the box so that everything looked more realistic. Unfortunately, Fox was hanged for real during the third double. The actor recalled in his autobiography: «I rocked unconscious at the end of the rope for a few seconds before Zemeckis, though I was a fan of his, realized that I couldn’t play the dead so well.»