Conant High grad channels Doc Brown for rap parody 'I (Heart) Juliet'
Elk Grove Village actor and voice-over artist Joe Bianco, 29, had never seen all of Robert Zemeckis' “Back to the Future” trilogy.
Then the Conant High School grad won the role of “Crazy Uncle Larry” in the Q Brothers Collective's new rap musical version of William Shakespeare's “Romeo and Juliet,” titled, “I (Heart) Juliet.”
The Q Brothers changed Shakespeare's Friar Lawrence into Crazy Uncle Larry, then modeled him after Christopher Lloyd's outrageous Doc Brown character.
Bianco watched all three movies back-to-back.
“The relationship between Marty and the Doc kind of blew me away!” Bianco reported. “I think their relationship was one of the real reasons the movies did so well.”
Bianco played Crazy Larry in “I (Heart) Juliet” at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival at Illinois State University in Bloomington. It wrapped up Tuesday.
Bianco said the key to Larry was Lloyd's “awesome kinetic energy.”
“He leads with his heels and shoulders when he walks,” Bianco marveled. “Not too many characters do that!”
As Doc Brown would say, Great Scott!
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