The Back to the Future actors led a long list of TV and film stars at this year’s London Film and Comic-Con (Picture: Neil Hall/Reuters)

Stars of stage and screen all made their way to London for The London Film & Comic Con this weekend, with a Back to the Future reunion and talks from the likes of Agent Carter actress Hayley Atwell and Aliens actors Sigourney Weaver and Bill Paxton.

So after three days packed with cosplayers, celebrities and memorabilia, here are 14 things we learned at London Film & Comic Con.

1. Donald Trump may be more of a Back to the Future fan than we thought

When asked if the Biff character in the films was inspired by Trump, Michael J Fox explained that Trump wasn’t such a well known character back then, adding ‘maybe Donald Trump was inspired by Biff..?’




2. Hayley Atwell takes her dubsmash war very seriously

Her followers on Twitter will be well versed in the superb dubsmash videos that she’s been posting lately. What they might not know is that Atwell and her co-star, James D’Arcy, flew to Atlanta just to film the epic dubsmash video with Chris Evans that won the battle.

According to Atwell, they were there for about five hours and then flew back.

Here’s the dubsmash in question:

Mic dropped, @clarkgregg @ChloeBennet4 ? Consider it picked up and thrown out of the f***ing window… pic.twitter.com/HJFGi3yOUC — Hayley Atwell (@HayleyAtwell) July 15, 2015

3. Clark Gregg is just as committed to the dubsmash fun

Atwell is not the only one dedicated to the cause. According to the actress, he has threatened to show up on the set of Agent Carter dressed as Peggy after the below video was made.

4. Jon Snow is really, really dead

Or so insists the cast.

When asked if he was really dead, Carice Van Houten (who plays Melisandre) said he ‘cannot be deader’, whilst Daniel Portman (who plays Podrick) described Snow’s death as ‘pretty decisive’ and ‘pretty final’ when asked which of the many deaths on the show has been his favourite.

Of course, they were both smiling as they said it so make of that what you will.

5. Sigourney Weaver is excited about the Ghostbusters reboot

‘The women are going to do an awesome job,’ she said. ‘Whatever happens, we’re in for a treat and I can’t wait to see the ladies do their thing.’

Sigourney Weaver talking all things alien and ghostly (Picture: Ben A. Pruchnie/Getty Images)

6. The Agent Carter crew (and cast!) are all about pranks

Atwell said that there are numerous videos of different cast and crew members which were taken after someone jumped out to scare them.

The blooper reel for this show is surely going to be an absolute treat!

7. The Back the Future projection of 2015 got one thing very right

Though we sadly aren’t all driving flying cars, Michael J Fox says that the receding hairline they gave his character has proven to be pretty accurate.

8. Feminism was a key issue for many of the panelists

Actresses Hayley Atwell and Sigourney Weaver discussed feminism in their talks, with Atwell commenting that embodying a character like Peggy, who has become such a feminist icon, ‘gives my work a lot more meaning’.

She went on to say that ‘it’s a mark of maturity for Marvel that they will have a woman lead their show.’



She added: ‘I feel almost genderless when it comes to working with Marvel. I dont feel like I’m a woman in a man’s world. I feel seen by them as a human being and heard for who I really am as a person, first, rather than just my sex.’

Weaver spoke fondly of the writing team behind her infamous character, Ripley, saying: ‘She’s just written, as a character. She’s not written as a woman with a breakdown scene here and this and that… They just wrote her. [The writers] respect women and they just wrote her the way you would a man… She’s certainly a woman but she isn’t written that way… Women [at that time] were being written in a kind of “womanly” way and they didn’t do any of that.’

9. Michael J Fox is returning to The Good Wife

He told the audience that he just recently shot another episode as the manipulative Louis Canning (or ‘Loose Cannon’ as he likes to call him) and there’s another one in the works.

10. Bill Paxton wants to burn the negative to Predator 2



Paxton seemed generally proud of his body of work – that is until someone mentioned Predator 2. ‘If I could buy the negative to that film and destroy it, I would,’ he told the audience. ‘I just thought it was a character that didn’t completely come off.’

11. Shadowhunters looks like True Blood

At least that’s what author Cassandra Clare thinks after seeing the sizzle reel recently. The author added that this adaptation of her books looks to be ‘a little edgier’.


12. Arnold Schwarzenegger is very comfortable being naked

Bill Paxton gave the audience a reenactment of the moment, whilst filming the first Terminator, when their characters meet and Arnie just dropped his dressing gown and started walking towards him. ‘He was so comfortable being naked,’ Paxton said, ‘it was like he had a 3-piece suit on.’

13. Fans want a Stargate anniversary reunion

Richard Dean Anderson said that no such idea has been put to him or the other actors from the show but the crowd certainly seemed to like the idea. There are still two years to arrange it so let’s make it happen Stargate fans!

14. Sigourney Weaver changed her name to suit her height

She decided to elongate it from Sue to Sigourney because she says a short name just didn’t seem to suit her. Though people now call her Sig so it sort of happened anyway!

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