Christopher Lloyd

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 23 September 2025

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Christopher Lloyd has performed in a number of iconic roles over the years and at the age of 86 he has no plans to stop anytime soon. When Jesse last spoke with the Hollywood veteran, they chatted about his remarkable career in acting and what’s been keeping him in the biz. They also talked about his most memorable roles including his part as Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. This interview originally ran in March of 2021.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of Maximum Fun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:20.4	It's Bullseye. I'm Jesse Thorne.
0:22.8	My first guest this week is Christopher Lloyd.
0:25.6	Christopher Lloyd is for a lot of people an icon.
0:29.0	He's been in some of the most memorable movies of the 20th century.
0:32.3	One flew over to cuckoo's nest, who framed Roger Rabbit, and of course, back to the future.
0:37.1	I remember it vividly. I was standing on the edge of my toilet, hanging a clock, the
0:41.3	parcel was wet, I slipped, hit my head on the edge of the sink, and when I came to, I had
0:45.0	a revelation, a vision, a picture in my head, a picture of this. This is what makes time travel
0:52.1	possible. The flux capacitor.
0:56.4	Christopher Lloyd has been in the game a long time.
1:00.1	Around the age of 19, he took acting classes at the neighborhood playhouse school of
1:04.6	theater in New York with the legendary acting teacher Sanford Meisner, the guy who invented
1:09.5	the Meisner technique.
1:11.8	Christopher acted mainly on stage before getting his first big role in Cuckus Nest.
1:17.0	He's still extremely committed to his craft and performs on stage whenever he has a moment.
1:22.6	And at the age of 86, he has no plans to stop anytime soon.
1:30.2	In his latest film role, he stars alongside Bob Odenkirk in Nobody 2, the second installment in the Wild Action series that answers the question,
1:36.7	what if Bob Odenkirk could beat up a whole bus full of chumps? Lloyd plays David Mansell,
1:42.8	father to Odenkirk's hutch.
1:45.3	Can Christopher Lloyd's character beat up a bus full of chumps?
1:48.3	Probably not at 80-something, but he still sees plenty of action.
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