I.... am Unicron.
Dialog: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0DPW44-I3n4&t=30s
(Also, RIP days when Transformers had Gundam levels of animation budget)
The GI Joe movie was changed to un-kill Duke because of it.
> ZWICK: You know, I have a story that I actually recalled after I wrote the book, but it's one of the most important stories in my life, and I'll tell it to you and see if you're interested. But it's - after the show, I was put on news programs, and I was asked to go on a local news program with Orson Welles. And you have to understand that Orson Welles was, of course, the spiritual father to this with his "War Of The Worlds." And I was in the green room with Welles, and he was in his wheelchair and not very communicative and actually rather cold. And I thought, oh, here's this opportunity to be with my idol. And he was not really forthcoming, and I just accepted it.
> And we went on with the show. And on the air, this news person begins to attack me and saying, well, how dare you do something like this and confuse people with actors acting as if they're news people? And Welles rises from his chair and says, you're an actor. You're just reading the news. How dare you attack this young man. And it was just one of those, you know, wonderful moments when things come full circle.
https://www.npr.org/2024/03/07/1236539789/a-hollywood-filmma...
No, the sleeping pill just took too long to hit him. He probably took it on a full stomach or some other random gastro think slowed it down.
A few hours later, (about 6 after drinking all of the Mountain Dew,) I pooped. As everything moved in my insides, the caffeine finally hit me all at once.
So it's completely possible for a sleeping pill to sit in Well's stomach for a few hours before he finally absorbed it. I wouldn't attribute any malintent on his part here.
I think he did pretty well. Other drunk/high actors get angry to grab people they should not. This appears to be tipsy-drowsy drunk, not shouty-punchy drunk. He still came to set. He was dressed. They got the shot in the end. All those extras (paid by the hour) were probably perfectly happy that it took longer than expected.
>> I told him that I had to put him on camera for insurance reasons, so that we could show that he was all over the place and that we couldn’t do the job — that way we’d have insurance coverage for the day because of the actor malfunctioning. He understood, so I helped him out of the vehicle; he held onto my arm and we walked in.
Being drunk is certainly unprofessional, but few modern celebs would push though, embarrassing themselves on camera, to satisfy the needs of the shoot. A drunk yes, but still a pro imho.
(those are not the only professions, but they are central examples of the professions)
this strikingly contrasts with the relationship in capitalism between employers and employees; like professionals, employees assume an ethical duty to act in the interests of those who pay them; but, unlike professionals, employees must defer to their employer's judgment on what that means. as a consequence, it is often considered questionably ethical for them to not be entirely dependent on a single employer
freelance artists, such as freelance actors and freelance photographers, do not fit either of these categories very well. it's not clear that they have a duty to act in the interests of their clients at all, but their clients often may not be able to tell how well they've done their work. moreover, both professionals and employees usually have a duty to suppress their own feelings in service of their work, whereas artists' work is their feelings to a significant extent. certainly there is no professional college of actors needed to protect clients from incompetent or unethical actors; such a thing would be absurd. the sag, as its name indicates, exists to protect actors from their clients, not vice versa. it is a cartel (look the word up before arguing with me about this), not a professional college
so to me it seems like a category error to describe welles's behavior as 'unprofessional', like trying to assess the electrical conductivity of a social movement, or the color of television
Sounds like he combined alcohol with a sleeping pill—never a great idea—and needed to take a nap. Unprofessional, but hardly the worst thing a star has ever done on set.
My favorite Orson Welles thing is this anecdote from Kenneth Tynan:
> Arriving, some years ago, to deliver a lecture in a small mid-western town, he [Welles] was faced with a tiny audience of listeners and no one to introduce him. He decided to introduce himself.
> “Ladies and gentlemen,” he began, “I will tell you of the highlights of my life. I am a director of plays. I am a producer of plays. I am an actor on the legitimate stage. I am a writer of motion pictures. I am a motion-picture actor. I write, direct, and act on the radio. I am a magician. I also paint and sketch, and I am a book-publisher. I am a violinist and a pianist.” Here he paused, and rested his chin on his hands, surveying the sparse congregation. “Isn’t it strange,” he said, quizzically but with clinching emphasis, “that there are so many of me—and so few of you?”