Tom Bissell and Greg Sestero Talk About "The Room"

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2013

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Guest host Jordan Morris sits down with actor Greg Sestero and journalist Tom Bissell. In 2003, Greg co-starred in a movie called "The Room". Its stilted dialogue, weird plot points and bizarre aesthetics turned the movie into a cult hit. There were a lot of questions about how and why it was made, so Greg worked with Tom Bissell to write a book about the film and its eccentric director Tommy Wiseau. Then later we revisit Jesse's conversation with fashion blogging star Tavi Gevinson. She'll talk about how weird it is to be a teenager in the world of fashion and why her website Rookie is alternative, but not in the way you'd expect. Plus, Jordan asks the LA Times' Carolyn Kellogg about what two books you should be reading right now and we play exclusive material from Kyle Kinane's stand-up comedy set at this year's MaxFunCon.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Claire from Pittsburgh.
0:02.2	I'm Jess from Kennellock, Washington.
0:04.4	I'm Nick from Celix City.
0:06.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is produced independently and supported by listeners like you and me.
0:11.0	You should support the show like I did.
0:12.8	Just as a maximumfund.org slash donate.
0:16.4	I'm Jordan Morris in for Jesse Thorn this week.
0:19.2	A lot of you have probably sat around with friends and watched a bad movie for fun,
0:23.0	but have you watched The Room?
0:25.3	Is it Scott Gardner?
0:26.5	It says something.
0:27.0	Yeah.
0:27.7	Really true.
0:28.5	He's like, most bad films are just like technically bad.
0:31.3	Technically bad, but The Room is philosophically bad.
0:34.8	It's Bullseye.
0:44.0	Coming up, my conversation with actor Greg Sistero in journalist Tom Bissell.
0:48.4	Greg co-starred in a 2003 movie called The Room.
0:51.6	He'll be the first to tell you that it's a bad movie.
0:53.9	There's stilted dialogue, plot points go nowhere,
0:57.0	and certain scenes are just bizarre, non-sequitors.
1:00.5	It was all put together by a first-time director named Tommy Wiseau.
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