It's ironic that George McFly had a hard time standing up for himself, whereas offscreen, Glover was the exact opposite, and wouldn't stop being demanding.

I always thought he'd make a great Joker 🃏

His performance in American Gods was amazing. He makes a fantastic villain.

"River's Edge" was an intense movie, and Glover was just out of his mind. I can almost see why everyone in Hollywood just kept him at arm's length. You have to go a long way to be too weird for Hollywood, but he pulled it off quite admirably.

"Willard" from 2003 is an underrated flick and interesting underrated performance by him. I think its one of his best roles

He is instantly identifiable and always plays his roles with the pedal to the floor. I knew he was a strange peacock but I never new about the Letterman interviews and his “What is it?”duology, and music videos. He seems like Art trapped inside the body of a man.

I understand what Crispin was saying about money being the reward at the end of BTTF, but it wasn't JUST money. It was realized potential, and self confidence, doing something he had passion for as a way to help raise his family, instead of being stuck in a job he hated.

We need to talk about how Letterman didn't even flinch when that platform shoe cut the air at an inch from his nose. Tough mother.

I got to see Glover present "What Is It?" in person. He can be a commanding presence in a room! His movie was as "art house" as you could imagine, and Glover himself was wonderfully unpretentious in the Q&A, revealing frank bits of trivia about both his movie and himself. I'm glad he's in the world and expressing himself.

He is extremelety engaging with his fans. He came to Toronto in 2004 to present Crispin Hellion Glovers Big Slide Show at the Bloor Cinema. Before the show I was lucky enough to be in the audience for an interview he did on a talk show called PopCultured with Elvira Kurt. During a short commercial break he offered to take questions from the audience. My hand was the first to go up so I got to ask him a question and I'll never forget the experience of getting to speak with my favorite actor of all time.

He’s always been one of my favorites. It’s his quirks that make him so great. Doesn’t matter what he’s in, you remember him. Loved him in Charlie’s Angels.

Crispin Glover and Cillian Murphy needs to have a long lost father- son movie.

Crispin Glover is fucking awesome. In Back To The Future, he was absolutely perfect. He completely nailed the role. I cannot help but think how great it would have been if he were in all three Back To The Future movies. Maybe in part 3, Seamus would have been played by Glover, and he’d have killed it then too.

I asked him about the ending to BTTF and in one script the McFly's had black servants. Crispin had a huge problem with this. They weren't just successful but were extremely wealthy. Eventually it was changed to Biff doing the chores. What is it is definitely out there. He was very nice when I met him definitely an interesting individual.

I didn't even realize he was in a bunch of high profile movies. I consider it a treat to see him unexpectedly in anything.

" I m George Mcfly your density..." most funniest pickup line ever...

Saw him at my gym a few years ago. He wore all black, including black gloves and long sleeves, and worked out with his trainer while wearing headphones.

Crispin Glover was born for the " WTF happened to " segment of this channel . He's great in every movie he's been in , especially Rivers Edge.

He speaks to some of us thru Insta. He's restoring his family castle, loves his Peacocks, and was ticked off how the writers and producers of American Gods wrote him out of season 3 because they were cheap asses.

I love Crispin Glover's Corgi personality. He was fantastic in Back to the Future, Friday the 13th, the Charlie's Angels movies, and the Willard remake.

Oh HELL yes! One of my favorite performers of all time! Thank you for this! ❤

Letterman was incredible. Look at Dave throughout the clip. Cool as a cucumber. Doesn't even flinch when a platform shoe is flying towards his head. Nothing fazed him. Except Drew Barrymore.

He was perfect for Richard in Pickman's Model - Cabinet of Curiosities. His performance saved that episode from being in the bottom tier.

Man the guy just doesn't seem to age!!

He’s aged well.

Met Glover at the premiere of "Rubin and Ed" at the Tower Theatre in Salt Lake City. His Letterman appearance was obviously the Rubin character. He was awesome!

From what I've heard from victims of Hollywood, he's unfortunately not wrong about Steven Spielberg.

Huge Crispin Hellion Glover fan. You did his career justice. I've said it once and I'll say it again: you're the best voice-over guy on KZfaq!

I have always loved Crispin and I think he’s really handsome too. I guess i like the weird artsy type

I don’t think there has ever been a more perfect subject for a “WTF…” I mean, that phrase was pretty much tailor made for Glover.

I have always had a strange crush on Crispin Glover. I have no idea why. I think he is a brilliant actor and quite handsome, but it is something more that just gives me schoolgirl giggles over him.

I think CG is a good-looking guy, which is interesting when we see him play off-beat, seemingly unpredictable, dorky, uncomfortable characters. I wonder if he could play it straight, and what that would look like.

Willard is underrated af

Was absolutely great and fun seeing him in the Charlie Angels movie

Crispin Glover has always been my weird crush.

I have always had a huge crush on Crispin. How he has never been the Romantic Lead with those great looks is beyond me. I would love to see him opposite Winona Ryder in a quirky Rom Com!

In the 90s, i got my friend a set of signed poetry books for my friend's birthday. I actually had a nice talk with his mother, as she took my order lol. I remember one book was called The art of rat catching...

I think Crispin Glover is definitely the weirdest crush I've ever had. It's also the longest lasting though, starting with BTTF's release. He just seems like a guy i could relate to. Plus, those cheekbones... . I would also like to point out just how freaking *ripped* he is there in the infamous Letterman clip! Seeing him again in American Gods was a real treat. I don't know how he looks completely unchanged. It's as if he doesn't age. ... mysterious. How perfectly Glover He's always defying... A beautiful, magnificent peacock indeed.

He seems like a person who as a child, was allowed to say, think, believe anything he wanted including insanity

He was always my first choice to play the joker

When i was a young boy my step dad told me that Crispin Glover was insane. I was never sure why, and i hope to find answers here.

He was actually fantastic in Hot Tub Time Machine. And it is a criminally underrated movie.

I didn't notice that they'd replaced Glover with another actor for the sequels, including using archive footage of him from the first film, until I was much older.

And we will always remember his mating dance from Friday the 13th

Dude is straight up unhinged and plays really good unhinged characters which is impressive for most actors except for the fact, he's not acting. 😳

River's Edge in which he played opposite Dennis Hopper was a fine and noble film, worthy of numerous and plentiful accolades which it unfortunately received not a whit of.

Give Glover 4 million dollars, let him to produce and star in his own box office movie and have Rob Zombie direct, would be the most insane, weird, wild and crazy movie that could exist. Great video BTW

I watch every WTF Happened to *celebrity* video even if I don't care much about the celebrity simply because Taylor is an excellent narrator and producer. I always get a good laugh from his delivery.

He's a very good actor, and I enjoy watching him in movies. He's child like in that he gives his all to the character he happens to be playing with total abandonment. When we "grow up', we lose that fascination with play.

I love watching these and getting a huge list of movies from the 80s to check out at the library! thank you so much

Last I remember seeing him do something was an interview in 2019 for Collider, and he mentioned he was writing a book

Crispin Glover would be perfect as Sherlock Holmes..!!

Love Crispin! There is nobody quite like him!

Glover should play Norman Bates in a remake of Psycho he would be perfect for the role

My respect for him after hearing about that essay 📈

So I used to work at a very popular health food store in Tucson Arizona.. many actors of high renowned and sports players of high renowned and celebrities used to shop there all the time. There would always be worried that some new celebrity was in town because they were filming something in Tucson Arizona. Then came the word that Crispin Glover was in town because he was hosting some film project across the street at a very indie movie theater across the street. So there I was at the deli just ordering my food for break when I looked over at the salad bar and there was Crispin glover. He was building himself a salad but he wasn't just strolling the salad bar like a normal person he was getting down on his knees looking at the side of the table and stroking the side of the salad bar and then getting up and looking at each dish and just being incredibly dramatic. Keep in mind I had already seen a million celebrities at this store. I had already heard about Crispin Glover's performance art antics.. he did not disappoint...I believe the man just lives performance-art much the same as Graham Chapman did with Monty Python and much the same as Joaquin Phoenix did when for two years he pretended to be a rap star... Know the man was phenomenal to watch.. he was absolutely putting on performance... And I just said to myself this is really cool I got to see Crispin Glover being Crispin Glover at a salad bar at a grocery store... The man is an artist and he is a genius... That's all I have to say I just remember watching him. I've always appreciated when these artists engage in real life performance art and everybody thinks they're crazy but somehow to them they know they're just acting even though they're not enough film.. I got to see it live three feet away from me and it was beautiful If you didn't know it was Crispin Glover and his reputation for performance art you would have thought this man was insane because he literally got down on his hands and knees and started stroking the side of the salad bar... But apparently he was putting on a great film festival across the street.. all of us at the store we're so used to celebrities that it didn't really strike us as strange.. but I remember thinking I just got to see Crispin Glover being Crispin Glover.. and I love performance art.. so I just smiled and was like I'm thankful I got to see this.. it was an act. I cannot stress enough he was not trying to call attention to himself either... He was doing performance art. Something that most the viewing populous just don't understand.... He was entertaining himself by playing a character... And I sat there waiting for my deli sandwich to be made and just watched. It was like he was someone from the Middle ages just discovering an airplane... It was amazing to watch and I was literally three feet from him and I just sat there and I said there's Crispin Glover being Crispin Glover this is freaking awesome.. but it was pretty clear it was performance art

I have always thought that Crispin should of played The Joker in one [or more] of the Batman movies. I guess he still can but. it just doesn't seem like the timing is there anymore!

Last time i read up on him, he does a lot of his own films (or was it plays) that he funds, produces, etc. Always liked him as george mcfly in the greatest trilogy of all time...and the one guy in friday the 13th. Also he helped usher in new guidelines with likeness being used because of the bttf 2 fiasco...so props on that.

If George McFly had gotten so rich, why did they live in the same house at the end of the movie? Wouldn't he have moved the family into a nicer house? Sure, it was decorated nicer, but it looked more like George and Lorraine just cared enough to keep it nice. In the beginning, mom and dad just didn't care. I'm sure there was extra money coming in as an author, but it doesn't look like a huge jump in his net worth. Beyond that, as others have said, it wasn't the celebration of wealth. It was the celebration of George sanding up for himself, and in the end, doing what he loved (writing). The house at the end doesn't look like a rich person's house. It looks like a house lived in by someone who simply cared to clean it up and make it look nice.

Great video. Thanks for doing this. I just watched the BTTF Trilogy just yesterday.

He’s on a different level of consciousness. Whether it’s a lower or a higher one, no one can tell.

Brilliant Nepo baby and Character actor. Similar to Amanda Plummer, he embraced his idiosyncrasies and made a career out of it. I think life imitates art and he was able to infuse himself into all of his roles. Underestimated & Underappreciated. Living Legend. #foreverWillard

Outspoken, crazy, goofy , funny. Great entertainer 😅

Glover deserves serious accolade for adding true artistry to a "clay puppet doppelganger" industry... He broke mainstream expectation and is still standing. I am perplexed by the complexity he adds... Who else could add so much flavour and texture to characters without words even... C'mon... That is immeasurable and clearly under-appreciated

I think Crispin didn't get the message. It's more "If you make good decisions, you have a good life" than "if you're good, you get lots of money". George was happy with his life and was rich and sucessful because he had the right mindset. Mind was blown when I found out Mr. Wint was played by Crispin's dad. Both have an eccentric energy that can't be matched.

I have a cast signed poster from American Gods from New York Comic Con and I have to say one of the coolest aspects of it was that Crispin Glover was in attendance and signed.

I enjoyed his performance in, 'We Have Always Lived In The Castle '.

Even before the mention of the Spielberg Essay I thought that his eccentric behavior, art, and writings may have been a coping mechanism, or even some bizarre exposé, to deal with the "seedy Hollywood underbelly"; and before you even stated the topic of it, I KNEW what it was about w/o any knowledge of its existence...What happened to Heather O'Rourke, Steven??!!... It made me think of Isaac Kappy...RIP.

Crispin as Andy Warhol was pure brilliance!!!

You forget his supporting role in "Twister" as one of the storm chasers with Bill Paxton.

He was hilarious in Dave Lynch's "Wild at Heart!" (I'M MAKING MY LUNCH!) LOL!

6:26 look at Letterman's face. Is that the face of a guy who's actually getting kicked in the face by surprise? No. You can tell he knew it was coming, he looks WAY too calm. This was obviously a planned bit.

That is a true artist through and through.

Aw shucks chaos really describes his career

Always has been what I would say a fascinating actor to me

The outfit and affect from Letterman was the character he played in ‘Reuben and Ed’.

Great content, as always!

Thank you for reminding me of this fascinating actor! I have so many movies to look up now!

Well, when he refused to say his dialogue maybe que was researching for his role as Bartleby. "Can you just say your lines!" "I would prefer not to".

seen your videos before. but for some reason he seems strangely genious. good stuff

I think the message at the end of BTTF was about taking chances and going for your dreams and finding that success is possible. I think it also shown that the Mcfly family was feeling more positive…and they had more money.

Well, this piece explains a lot about a very good actor who didn't need Hollywood to make him crazy because he was already there, dig?

I'm a Glover lover - if you like his films and haven't seen RUBEN & ED you are missing out - "My cat can eat a whole watermelon!" Also starring Howard "Johnny Fever" Hesseman - RIP

His interview about his books was awesome. Being published by illiteratti was pure genius.

Yea! Been waiting for this one and thank God it’s the right narrator instead the other dude!

*Great as always!*

These kinds of people can never stop acting and learn how to live in reality.

I'm disappointed glover was actually born on his birthday....he seemed way too eccentric for that

I really liked him in everything I have seen him in. It would seem that that are a few I am missing though. I'll have to check those out.

The wig and shoes are from Rubin & Ed, he was on the show promoting the film.

I thought he said "I neither conform or deny" which could also be true.

Interesting as always. 😊

When an artist out-arts himself.

Crispin Glover has that Andy Kaufman energy. Not really sure if he's sane playing crazy or crazy trying to he sane. He's the car accident you can't take your eyes off.

The man who was BORN to play The Joker, and never actually got to play The Joker.

I love Crispin ❤️

I love this man with the burning of a thousand fangirls. Listen to his album, its a lifechanger

If he'd been introduced as Ed from Rubin and Ed, we'd have maybe understood the joke better.

Great video JoBlo!

If LSD was to trip on itself it's trip would be a lifetime of Crispin Glover.