Back to the Future star Casey Likes is in his ‘80s era.
“I've gone from seventies to eighties. Now I got to do something in the nineties,” the actor jokes with Teen Vogue in his dressing room in New York City’s Winter Garden Theater.
Likes, who stars as the original Marty McFly in the first-ever Broadway production of Back to the Future (based on the ‘80s movie), is 22 years old, but he already has TV shows, a few movies (Spinning Gold, Dark Harvest) and two original Broadway roles to his name: Marty McFly as well as William Miller in Almost Famous, another time capsule film-to-stage show that opened on Broadway in the fall of 2022. He even workshopped The Outsiders musical, which won a Tony Award in June (and is based in the 1960s).
But Likes is a 00s baby. He tells Teen Vogue he doesn’t identify with his sun sign (a Capricorn, born on Christmas Day in 2000), but it’s clear he embodies many qualities of the goat: hard-working and dedicated to his craft. Can’t give the zodiac all the credit, though...READ MORE