On this week’s episode of Someone Else’s Movie, I welcome actor, author and producer Greg Sestero, who I first met when the movie of his book The Disaster Artist came to TIFF. (He was an essential element of the oral history we published in NOW.)

Greg, who famously played Mark in his friend Tommy Wiseau’s little movie The Room, is touring with a new project, Best F(r)iends, which sorta-kinda explores his and Wiseau’s relationship after a decade and a half in the shadow of The Room. So when he brought that to town last month, I was delighted to grab him for the podcast.

Greg picked Ed Wood, Tim Burton’s 1994 biopic starring Johnny Depp as the infamous Poverty Row filmmaker and Martin Landau as his decaying muse Bela Lugosi. It is, perhaps coincidentally and perhaps not so much so, a movie about a man who wants nothing more than to make movies, and whose enthusiasm for doing so does not quite mask his total incompetence.

I cannot imagine why Greg chose this film, but I’m glad he did; it made for a lively conversation about cinema and passion, and now I get to put that conversation in the world. That’s nice, right?

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