
We wanted it to be a really inspiring story that’s filled with humor, craziness and sadness and all the elements that make this journey relatable,” he explains. “We didn’t want this to be a book about a bad movie. It alternates between the story of The Room‘s production and Sestero’s personal struggles, including his complicated relationship with writer-director-producer-star Wiseau. Sestero book, The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made, was co-written with Tom Bissell, a veteran journalist who penned an article about The Room for Harper’s three years ago. The outdoor space served as the rooftop, alley, bedroom and apartment sets for what one critic has called “ the Citizen Kane of bad movies.” in Hollywood, California, where self-taught auteur Tommy Wiseau and his crew filmed the $6 million indie. We’re in the parking lot of Levels Audio, a post-production facility on Highland Ave. This is so weird.” That terrible movie is The Room, in which he played the character Mark and about which Sestero has written his first book. “Right now, we’re standing at the place where we shot this terrible movie ten years ago,” says actor Greg Sestero, 35.
