As a nineteen-year-old apprentice, Sestero was taken with Wiseau’s fearless displays of bad acting, as well as his striking appearance and unidentifiable accent, which sounded like something between French and Austrian.
In 1998 Greg Sestero met Wiseau, the film’s director, writer, star, producer, distributor, and executive producer, in an acting class in San Francisco. As a disaster, though, it’s hard to look away from, which is to say that it’s a bad enough movie to be good. Its dialogue is marked by non sequitur, its camera angles are awkward, and its plot, bizarre - all of which combine to lend the audience little sense of character motivation or visual and narrative consistency.
Watching The Room is a surreal experience in antifilm, all but ignoring the conventions and evolution of the medium. The movie, dubbed “the Citizen Kane of bad movies” in Entertainment Weekly, eventually acquired a cult following akin to the one surrounding The Rocky Horror Picture Show. © Michael Dar/Hendrik Deyįrom 2003 to 2008, the vampiric face of filmmaker Tommy Wiseau hung over L.A.’s Highland Avenue on a billboard advertising his box-office failure, The Room.
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