Tommy Wiseau is the director of The Room. He is the star of The Room. He also produced, wrote, and probably did just about everything that needed to be done to ensure this movie got made (except for the cinematography. That was the work of Todd Barron. F*** you, Todd Barron!). It feels like we’ll never run out of new strange details that people continually discover about Mr. Wiseau. The tidbits of information regarding just the making of the movie are ridiculous on their own: he shot the movie on film and video, he won’t say where he got the $6 million to make it, and a large number of cast and crew members left the project and had to be replaced.
He does not explain why he has an exotic-sounding accent. He says only that he is American. The opening scenes of the movie are about 75% him having sex, and yes, you see a lot of him. The image of his bare torso will sear itself into your brain. The entire movie revolves around everyone remarking on how good a guy his character Johnny is, and how everyone, especially his fiancée Lisa and best friend Mark, is horrible to him. But for people like me, laughing at how insane everything about him is only the start of the fascination. Like characters such as Ricky Gervais’ friend Karl Pilkington, he possesses an oddness that is tremendously captivating, and we just want to know more and more about him, even though the more we know, the less we understand. Urban Outfitters understands the power of the mystery of Tommy Wiseau well.
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