I found an interview that was published in late December, in
anticipation of Lloyd's appearance in the "Master of Horror" anthology
series on Showtime. Here's the text of the interview, from the Colpey
News Service:

HEADLINE: Christopher Lloyd

BYLINE: Eirik Knutzen

BODY:


Neither friend nor foe of the horror genre, Christopher Lloyd had to
think twice before he accepted the role of burned-out, mentally
unhinged writer Everett Neely in the "Valerie on the Stairs" episode
(based on a Clive Barker story) of the "Masters of Horror" anthology
series.

"Like all comic actors, I would like to have a juicy, colorful, rich
dramatic part once in a while, just as dramatic actors want to take on
a comic role occasionally - at least that's how 'Valerie on the
Stairs' attracted me," Lloyd explained. "Usually, I'm offered an
eccentric comic role, something like Emmett 'Doc' Brown in 'Back to
the Future,' Rev. Jim Ignatowski in 'Taxi' or Uncle Fester in 'The
Addams Family.'"

As a failed writer living with several other failed writers in a home
for failed writers, Neely takes a new, young failed writer in the
group, Rob Hainsey (Tyron Leitso), under his wing. Soon it becomes
apparent that the weird scribe and some of his cohorts at the boarding
house have brought a frequently nude professional victim, Valerie
(Clare Grant), and her ugly captor/demon (Tony Todd), to life via
their demented imaginations.

Besides playing a gnarly character in the process of breaking down
psychologically, Lloyd chose to get involved with the project because
the creator, executive producer and director is Mick Garris, a
gentleman he worked with on the two-part TV horror movies "Quicksilver
Highway." The 68-year-old actor also loves working in Vancouver,
Canada, due to its proximity to great ski resorts.

Always employed somehow, Lloyd shoots an independent film titled "Last
Call at Murphy's" in January, was recently seen in the Christmas
telefilm "A Perfect Day" and has a slew of projects in the can,
including the animated feature "Fly Me to the Moon." His last TV
series as a regular was Pamela Anderson's "Stacked," a venture
mercifully euthanized after 20 episodes.

The son of a lawyer and a housewife was born and raised in Stamford,
Conn., along with his older brother Samuel Lloyd (also an actor, as is
his son, Samuel Lloyd Jr.). He prepped at the Fessenden School in West
Newton, Mass., but graduated from a public high school before
attending New York City's famed Neighborhood Playhouse.

"My father wanted me to follow in his footsteps and go to law school,
but it really didn't appeal to me," Lloyd recalled. "I was around the
theater a lot as a kid - at home in Connecticut and in New York City -
and discovered that acting was something I could do and enjoy doing it.

"It seemed like something that I had a knack for," he continued
casually, "and I started out in summer stock pretty early. But I
didn't really get going until I did an off-Broadway play called
'Casper' around 1970."

By the time Lloyd moved to Hollywood on a permanent basis, he had more
than 200 stage productions to his credit.

His portrayal of the highly unstable Taber in "One Flew Over the
Cuckoo's Nest" brought Lloyd to the attention of the film industry,
and he then went on to rack up kudos with "Goin' South," "The Onion
Field," "Mr. Mom," "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock," "Back to the
Future," "Back to the Future, Part II" and "Back to the Future, Part III."

Whenever the motion-picture business slacked off, he plugged the holes
as a regular or recurring character on such episodics as "Best of the
West," "Taxi," "Tremors" and "Stacked." Recent and future feature
films include "Enfants Terribles," "Flakes," "Food Fight" and the
animated "The Tale of Despereaux."

"Taxi" was Lloyd's first major break - a stroke of luck almost beyond
his expectations.

"Working with a superb group of people - cast, writers, producers,
crew - opened an enormous amount of doors for me," he said with
deliberate understatement. "Then the extraordinary 'Back to the
Future' trilogy capped everything for me. These things simply don't
come along every day."

Lloyd hasn't had much luck in terms of a series with longevity since
"Taxi" more than 20 years ago, but refuses to give up.

"If a project has a great team of writers - without writers you have
nothing - a wonderful cast and a fine director, I promise to be very
open to it. Of course, I can't get tired of it in three to four years
either."

The craggy-faced actor - thrice divorced and childless - also has
found happiness at last in Santa Barbara, Calif., with his girlfriend,
Lisa Loiacono, and her 9-year-old son, Jacob.

"I have a wonderful, lovely woman and her fantastic son," he said
matter-of-factly. "They have changed my life."