![]() ![]() "I was very insecure because I hadn't had a chance to really do Uncle Fester yet and I really didn't feel like I was very convincing. After I got made up, they wanted to test it to see how it'd look on camera so Raúl Juliá and I did a scene, just so they could see how the makeup worked out," Lloyd recalled. "The makeup people came up with prosthetics to put on my face to give me that round look and I had no trouble shaving my head to be bald. In fact, Lloyd thought he was going to be fired from the movie.Ĭoncerned about how he would manage to embody Fester, Lloyd met with Sonnenfeld to come up with a solution. So I was very concerned about that and trying to capture the attitude of the guy as I had perceived it, looking at the cartoon."Ĥ. "I was concerned about his voice and things like that because you don't hear that in the comic strip. I didn't quite see how I would be able to duplicate his appearance," Lloyd said.Īnd it wasn't just Fester's looks that worried the actor, who had then recently stepped away from Doc Brown with the final installment of the Back to the Future trilogy. "I was very excited and everything, but I just didn't see how I was going to do it because just physically what he is, this kind of roly poly with a round head. So, I was astonished when, literally decades later, I get a call to play the part."īut shock soon turned to fear for Lloyd, who was worried about bringing the character he loved on paper to the big screen. He just always appealed to me, his whole persona. "Every time the magazine came in with Charles Addams' cartoons, I'd open it up, hoping there'd be one with Uncle Fester. "I grew up on Charles Addams' cartoons, particularly The Addams Family and Uncle Fester was always one of my favorites," the now-75-year-old actor told BuzzFeed. Christopher Lloyd was a huge Fester fan before he was offered the role. We were The Addams Family!"īelow, the cast and crew of Addams Family Values look back on making macabre movie magic, their auditions, the lines they can't escape, first kisses, some unexpected Michael Jackson drama, and how they remained close through it all.ģ. "And it was such a wonderful feeling amongst us of being a family almost. "We were all such odd characters, even though we were a really functional family, in a way, as eccentric and crazy as we were," Christopher Lloyd noted with a laugh. "I think the way that particular cast just embodied those characters was just perfection," screenwriter Paul Rudnick told BuzzFeed. Two decades later though, those involved with Addams Family Values still have incredibly fond memories. "That was probably my awkward stage so every year, around Halloween and Thanksgiving, I have to relive my awkward stage. "Is there not another movie they can play during this time?" lamented Mercedes McNab, who played Wednesday's sleepaway camp nemesis Amanda Buckman. Though the sequel failed to bring in the box office numbers of its predecessor (in total nearly $49 million), it's become a modern classic, a film that airs on television every Halloween (thanks to the natural ghoulishness that the family casts off) and Thanksgiving (due to a particularly hilarious pilgrims-meet-Pocahontas play at Wednesday and Pugsley's camp, one of the movie's highlights). "It's the rare sequel that is better than its original, and yet Addams Family Values qualifies," Roger Ebert wrote in his review at the time. 19, 1993, Addams Family Values hit theaters, reuniting the original cast (except for Carol Kane as Grandmama, who replaced Judith Malina) and earning coveted praise for any follow-up installment in a film franchise. So, of course, the studio wanted a sequel.Īlmost exactly two years later, on Nov. 22, 1991 and grossed nearly $113.5 million domestically. Producer Scott Rudin managed to sign Anjelica Huston, Raúl Juliá, and Christopher Lloyd on for the main three roles respectively and The Addams Family was a hit. Nearly 60 years after Charles Addams' first Addams Family comics appeared in The New Yorker and a quarter century after the hit TV sitcom had been laid to rest, Paramount Pictures revived Gomez, Morticia, Wednesday, Pugsley, Fester, and Co.
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