It was apparently a therapeutic effort to keep him from totally losing it. Him writing The Room was much more than any effort to make a successful movie. Also, the sadness of Tommy as a person and the deep dark places he went.
It wasn’t funny or hilarious, at least, only in the sense that people laugh out of exhaustion and desperation. What the book shows so much better than James Franco’s adaptation The Disaster Artist(2017) is what a truly exhausting affair it must have been to shoot The Room. And given Tommy’s at times monstrous behavior I am surprised how much sympathy Greg can bring up for him. Greg turns out to be quite perceptive about all of this as a companion and as a writer. He wants to be like Greg and wants Greg to look up to him. He behavior towards Greg points towards some kind of idolization and possessiveness. I doubt Greg knows the whole story and is in the dark just like all of us, but Tommy’s needs in making The Room point towards deeper wishes to be loved and be popular and successful. Through Tommy’s weird behavior Greg highlights moments that hint at a sad story behind Tommy’s life. This is as much a book about their friendship as about the movie.Īnd the way Greg describes Tommy isn’t just for having a laugh at Tommy’s expense. There were times I couldn’t believe Greg was still hanging out with him. Greg’s description of his friendship with him made me supremely uncomfortable, especially when Greg has way more success in L.A. The way Tommy deals with human relationships is like a six-year-old would. If I had been in his shoes, I would have ran for the hills. He’s used to being pushed around, apparently. But Tommy had money, and reading about Greg describing his dominant mother, that gives a clue as to why Greg enters this weirdly codependent friendship with Tommy anyway. And the way Greg describes Tommy’s off-putting behavior, I was constantly surprised why he even kept hanging out with him. In this environment, Greg and Tommy sort of found each other in some sort of codependent friendship to support each other’s dreams. Endless auditions and hopping from agency to agency and grasping at every little straw to make it happen. What the book shows really well through the voice of Sestero is what it is like to struggle to make it in Hollywood. Their friendship and working relationship basically was the catalyzing engine for the movie itself and for both Tommy and Greg’s subsequent “fame” if it can be called such. First of all, it clarified the big role that Greg Sestero had in the creation of The Room and in enabling Tommy Wiseau in making his movie. The Disaster Artist, the book, is an amazing addition to the film The Room(2003). The book about the creation of the movie The Room and about its writer and director, Tommy Wiseau.
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