Post by thisguy4000 on May 2, 2021 23:23:02 GMT
I don’t think Orson Welles ever said that the role was “beneath him.” Besides, Welles didn’t exactly have the most prestigious career. He famously did all kinds of commercial roles for a quick paycheck. People knew who he was, but his movies rarely did well financially. Anyway, I did some digging and a friend of Orson Welles had this to say in a Reddit AMA.
Edit: I did some further digging and found this article.
Edit: I did some further digging and found this article.
In an interview following the performance, Welles said, “You know what I did this morning? I played the voice of a toy. Some terrible robot toys from Japan that changed from one thing to another. The Japanese have funded a full-length animated cartoon about the doings of these toys, which is all bad outer-space stuff. I play a planet. I menace somebody called Something-or-other. Then I’m destroyed. My plan to destroy Whoever-it-is is thwarted and I tear myself apart on the screen.”