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Meta.com to learn more. Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to the 2008th episode of Awards Chatter,

the Hollywood Reporters Awards

podcast. I'm the host Scott Feinberg and my guest today for our first

post-90th Oscars installment is one of the most colorful characters in the history of Hollywood.

He's a mysterious figure in the vein of Greta Garbo.

He wrote, directed, produced, and starred in what has been called the Citizen Kane of Bad Movies,

2003's The Room, and he was at the center of two hilarious accounts

of the making of that film. Greg Cessaro's 2013 memoir, The Disaster Artist, My Life Inside the Room, The Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made, which was co-written by Tom Bissle. And James Franco's 2017 Dramedy Film The Disaster Artist, in which Franco played him en route to winning a Golden Globe Award.

I'm talking about the Disaster Artist Himself, Mr. Tommy Weizot.

With the DVD and Blu-ray of the disaster artist hitting shelves on March 13th now seemed like as great a time as any to sit down with Wizhou and try to get a better grasp on who he is, where he comes from, what led to and actually happened during the making of the room

how he feels about the book and film the disaster artist and why he and Cessaro have reunited on another film

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