9 Amazing Performances By Actors Who Stopped Giving A Damn

No, not the live-action Transformers with Shia LeBouf. The original animated version from 1986, which features less robot testicles and, astonishingly, voice work from one of the greatest actor/directors of all time, Orson Welles.

This Transformers flick also includes some wonderful performances from Leonard Nimoy, Robert Stack, and Judd Nelson. Even weighed against this respectable ensemble, though, Welles stands out as Unicron, a man-eating super planet.

The fact that he manages to do this while not appearing to remotely care about -- or even understand -- what the role was makes it all that more impressive. During production, Welles apparently told his biographer the following:

"You know what I did this morning? I played the voice of a toy. I play a planet. Some terrible robot toys from Japan that changed from one thing to another... 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."

Those aren't the words of someone heavily invested in his role, which makes sense because Welles was in poor health at the time. In fact, he died mere days after finishing work on the movie.