He was highly critical of the film
Orson Welles & moi (2008), which was about a fictitious actor (played by
Zac Efron) who is fired from
Orson Welles's stage production of "Julius Caesar" in 1937. The Efron character is playing the small role of "Lucius" in the play, and is fired out of spite by Welles because they are rivals over a girl. In reality, it was Anderson who played Lucius, and, in 2009, he pointed out to interviewers that (a) there had been no romantic rivalries between himself and Welles (Anderson was only fourteen at the time); (b) he was not fired; (c) no one else was fired, either; (d) he had never known any actor to be fired from an
Orson Welles production, and he had worked on several others; and (e) Welles had always treated him with exemplary kindness.
