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Lea Thompson on Middle-Aged 'Back to the Future' Makeup: 'No One's That Scared Seeing Me Now'

Lea Thompson adores the fact that Back to the Future is one of the most beloved movies of the 1980s. But there’s another reason the actress, now 56, celebrates the contemporary classic about a time-traveling teen Marty McFly that made her a major star in 1985.

“I’m really happy to be mostly known for a part that was great, and a part that I aged in, so no one’s that scared seeing me this age,” Thompson told Yahoo Movies during a Facebook Live interview (watch in full below) while promoting her new directorial effort, The Year of Spectacular Men. “It’s like, ‘We’ve already seen you that age. And you look a little better, so it’s OK.'”

With a few major credits already to her name (Jaws 3-D, All the Right Moves, Red Dawn), Thompson was 23 when she took on the role of Lorraine Baines/Lorraine McFly, mother to Michael J. Fox‘s adolescent wannabe rock star. The first time we see her, of course, is present day 1985, and 47-year-old Lorraine McFly is depressed, unfit, and boozes too much. (Though she’ll look much better once Marty alters the course of history, avoiding 17-year-old Lorraine Baines’s romantic advances in the process, in 1955.)

“They did the best they can, it’s hard to do that kind of makeup,” said Thompson, who sat through three-to-four hours of prosthetic applications a day while on set (or as she exaggerated during the interview, “A hundred years”).

“That’s why they do it in CGI,” Thompson said of the aging techniques that have become so common in movies lately. “That makeup is just hard.”

Watch Yahoo Movies’ full Facebook Live interview with Lea Thompson: 

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Lea Thompson Talks 'Howard the Duck,' Claims Her Crown As First Queen of Marvel

Lea Thompson couldn’t give a quack about what you think of Howard the Duck, the puntastic 1986 Marvel Comics-based action-comedy that ran afowl of movie critics and has lived in film infamy ever since. The George Lucas-produced movie has a fan base out there, and that’s good enough for her.

“People love that movie!” Thompson said of “HTD,” as she likes to call it, during a Facebook Live interview with Yahoo Movies (watch the full interview below). “They’re releasing it again in Blu-ray or something… They don’t just do that because they’re nice.” (The film was made available on Blu-ray for the first time last May.) “It’s a hilariously bizarre movie,” Thompson continued. “The only thing that I can say that I don’t like about it is that I thought it was a little long.”

The film, which featured the future Back to the Future breakout as a Cleveland singer who helps the anthropomorphic duck acclimate to life on Earth, runs 110 minutes, which is still well short of the average runtime of today’s Marvel movies, including the two Guardians of the Galaxy films that have briefly resuscitated Mr. HTD.

“I love that it’s had a resurgence, and I love all the fans,” said Thompson, who was promoting her new L.A. Film Festival directorial effort, The Year of Spectacular Men. “Because they’re iconoclasts. They don’t like to be told what to like and what to hate.” (Editor’s note: Take that, James Gunn!)

And Thompson is proud of her own place in the Marvel’s movie world, years before it was known as the Marvel Cinematic Universe. “I am the first Marvel queen, ladies and gentlemen!” she proclaimed. “I am the queen with the crimson hair and the guitar, doing my stunts with my short dress with no kneepads. Ladies and gentlemen.”

Watch our full Facebook Live interview with Lea Thompson:

Read more from Yahoo Movies:

2017 L.A. Film Festival Preview: 7 Movies We’re Excited About

Here’s How Much ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ Director James Gunn Hates ‘Howard the Duck’ the Movie

‘Howard the Duck’ Movie Star Lea Thompson Returns for New Comic Version