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taez555
knudude
Idontneedrealfacts
Thomas Wilson does not get enough credit for this role. He was playing different ages and characters through all 3 movies. At least as integral as Michael J Fox and more screen time than Christopher Lloyd
WhiskyBravo
agreed. I have also seen him do standup and he is good.
fastjeff
Jump up and down, get a picture when you're just hitting the floor. Gravity is what makes you look that way and your skin is looser so... that's what you're going to look like. That or get a picture of yourself taking some Gs in an airplane or something.
MadeThisAccountToAnswerQuestions
They probably asked for a picture of his dad as reference material.
HeresYourSauce
Aging follows a lot of similar trends. If I were them I'd also take a look as his father if possible.
eventide215
Yeah it's not hard to predict the aging process.. that's why there are apps, sites, etc that can take a picture and age you up. It follows a pattern usually and the more of your family you can provide as reference the more accurate it'll get.
OnePostCloserToAHappierLIfe
Also his grandfather, if possible.
Multitentaclediy
Also there´s a good chance he could be cosplaying his own movie appearance
BigIdeas
I put my face into an app that ages photos and was kind of horrified to see it looked exactly like my father.
ZachariasWolfe
Yeah at my dad's wake, his childhood best friend and that guy's wife were telling me how I looked just like him, and I got to look at pictures of him from back when he was a few years younger than I am now and it was just freaky. Then I used the aging filter on Snapchat on myself and started crying because it made me look like him, but older than he ever got to be.
andthenthat
Meanwhile, his father:
DeserTimmy
Biff after the makeup artist made him look too mich like his father.
cosonfused
They are more often than not wrong, though. to be spot on is rare.
Imalwaysready
Probably looked at pictures of the actor's father and grandfather, as well as pictures of numerous other people old enough to have pictures of themselves at 18ish and 50ish, and extrapolated trends from there on what facial features tend to change and how.
I really do hope this thought isn't baffling him to the point of keeping him awake at night...
MechKelly
Same way that police sketch artists do I would think.
HisRoyalMajestyKingV
I mean, they did have a DeLorean with a Flux Capacitor, so, I'm gonna say it was probably direct observation.
tzahtman
I just saw an episode of Psych with him in it
ePluribus
"Life Imitates Art"
BeardedWonder82
2Soon4Baboon
You are correct... and yet the front page still blesses this post.
GabbyJayYay
Shoot his nuts off Billy!
Beardedgeek72
OmnesMundiLardum
RyanHaynes
I'd rather a . than a title that spoils or ruins the punchline.
bladderinfection
It’s almost as if it’s a known process.
mercyPandaRunner
I think we underestimate how quickly the actor aged. By time he starred in the Wing Commander games as Maniac (1993/4 and 1995/6) he already looked much older than in the first back to the future.
That and the makeup artists had a very good eye.
SteerpikeSteerpike
Great actor. Im always impressed when actors play multiple rolls in a production so well.
Finishing The Great, and I LOVE watching Nicholas Hoult go from Peter to Pugachev.
KidCharlemagne524
Yeah, but to be fair, they completely missed on the aged versions of Michael J. Fox and Lea Thompson. Both maintained their looks much better than the makeup artists anticipated.
NePb
yeah that interpretation of Mike was pretty shaky...
DesignINcase
To be fair Marty was washed up. Like Lorraine in the first 1985. She looked better after the timeline change.
Lorraine, looks much younger at the end of BTTF then at the start. She's basically her 1955 self but older. Even has the same hair style.
kgkid
Come on, it's like people don't even know what documentaries are these days, sheesh
PenguinNamedWobbles
They probably just asked the Simpsons writers what he would look like.
ArcanisTheOmnipotent
I mean the actor may have some influence to what he looks like as he ages as well.
thedarkcanuck
Well when this movie was made, Hollywood movies were still being made by people with creativity and imagination
maincarrot
Maybe because they used biff as biff?
ZeroHonour
Travel forwards in time 30 years, take a photo, travel back, do the makeup - problem solved.
Easilyflustered
Right!? I mean they'd already built the car and stolen plutonium for the movie so just take it out for some authenticity references.
MRdotDUCK
No no when they went forward in time they called him to do his part
AFelineMassofEyes
Pff, just hire an artist who can see through time.
illtrytocomeupwithsomethingwittylater
Don't forget to bring back an almanac!
CaptainKipup
Guys, time travel isn’t possible, don’t be silly. They used fast ageing clones. Went through about 30 of them because they only live for a month or so, that’s only about 4 days of shooting time per elderly clone.
mrpink83
Sometimes I imagine cloning myself, but I'd probably get into a lot of fights.
Mydogatemycomments
Some people will try 69 first, but maybe fight each other later..
mrpink83
69 is a given.
mrpink83
Well yeah, obviously..... but fight about "who's turn is it" or "I did it yesterday so today is your turn".
bureaulampje
I mean, this makes the most rational scent.
MithridateEupator
I mean, they already built the delorean for the movie, might as well use it.
Shaddak
They knew what his face already looked like, and they had a good idea how people tend to age.
TalkingSnake
What if the actor has been actively tying to not look worse than his film makeup version this whole time?
The whole scenario is flawed.
SweetJudyTenuta
Plot twist: the actor spent all his earnings from the movie on plastic surgery when he got to the same age as his character so he’d look exactly like him.
Imalwaysready
Nice.
Lichelf
Damn how'd they know he'd look 30 years older in 30 years?
Imalwaysready
The weird thing is that he often looks 45 years older in 30 years, but I think he had a hard go of things.
atat23
I shouldn't give away the secret, but they simply used the same face but made it look older
bitemark
CanyoufeeltheKenergy
JohnWickdidnothingwrong
JustinWasHere
Or maybe they used that time machine car
wiltsjunk
Big if true
cccampbell79
But....how do you know?
atat23
Time travel
Darkwell
The trick they used in Lord of the Rings to make Théoden look old was to pull the skin of the face taut and then blow fine powder onto the skin. Then, when the face was released, the powder would exaggerate all the age lines. (If I recall correctly.)
mikeatike
Misread that as "pull the skin off his face"
yaddiex3
Was that before or after he kicked the helmet and broke his toe?
StevieTheAussie
That was Aragon.
yaddiex3
It's a joke - I say, I say - it's a joke son
TI99Kitty
Lies! Eragon was never in Lord of the Flies!
Hyndisfox
Future Biff, with the corruption and casino, was based on a hypothetical president Donald Trump, both in appearance and behavior.
aleister94
a lot of the bad guys from the 80s and 90s were based on trump
3Davideo
Oh, like Home Alone 2?
aleister94
And super Mario bros
Saxytimes
We should have been calling Trump Biff this whole time
Nalianna
I have. (also, there's an Australian politician i call Biff too. because of his assaults)
allthis4nothing
There is still time.
amoeba15
And it was spot on
TI99Kitty
Not quite. Biff's casino was successful.
snowy129
TheBlueMuppet
Oh shiiiiiiiiii
Columbus43219
Biff sings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwY5o2fsG7Y
GeneralWho
He's changed it over the years and it just keeps getting better. "Does that hoverboard really fly?"
GeneralWho
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcLs0LSWM5I