{"id":2210108,"date":"2025-12-23T18:13:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T18:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2210108"},"modified":"2025-12-23T18:13:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T18:13:44","slug":"the-office-star-melora-hardin-burst-into-tears-when-fired-from-back-to-the-future-amid-michael-j-fox-recasting-drama-a-huge-disappointm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-office-star-melora-hardin-burst-into-tears-when-fired-from-back-to-the-future-amid-michael-j-fox-recasting-drama-a-huge-disappointm\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Office\u2019 Star Melora Hardin \u2018Burst Into Tears\u2019 When Fired From \u2018Back to the Future\u2019 Amid Michael J. Fox Recasting Drama: \u2018A Huge Disappointment\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Melora Hardin<\/a>, the actor best known for playing Jan Levinson<\/a> on NBC<\/a>\u2019s \u201cThe Office<\/a>,\u201d recently told Entertainment Weekly<\/a> that she \u201cburst into tears\u201d when she was fired from Robert Zemeckis\u2019 blockbuster \u201cBack to the Future<\/a>.\u201d While original Marty McFly<\/a> actor Eric Stoltz<\/a> being let go from the production and replaced by Michael J. Fox<\/a> is one of Hollywood\u2019s most infamous re-castings, it turns out that decision led to a second firing. Hardin was originally cast as Marty\u2019s girlfriend Jennifer Parker<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Back to the Future<\/a>\u2019 was a huge disappointment. I was 17, you know. I burst into tears,\u201d Hardin told EW. \u201cIt was very sad. There were quite a few of those that I remember, you know, things that never really got made. But that I remember being very tough.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hardin revealed earlier this year that she also got the boot from \u201cBack to the Future<\/a>\u201d when Stoltz<\/a> was…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Melora Hardin, the actor best known for playing Jan Levinson on NBC\u2019s \u201cThe Office,\u201d recently told Entertainment Weekly that she \u201cburst into tears\u201d when she was fired from Robert Zemeckis\u2019 blockbuster \u201cBack to the Future.\u201d While original Marty McFly actor Eric Stoltz being let go from the production and replaced by Michael J. Fox is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2210109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2210108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/\u2018The-Office-Star-Melora-Hardin-\u2018Burst-Into-Tears-When-Fired.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2210108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2210110,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210108\/revisions\/2210110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2210109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2210108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2210108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2210108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}