How 'Disaster Artist's' James Franco found art and heart in 'The Room,' the 'Citizen Kane' of bad movies
Four years ago, during the making of "The Interview," the North Korea-provoking comedy that would go on to flirt notoriously with history in its own unpredictable, stranger-than-fiction ways, James Franco found the strange and vaguely Eastern European patois of cult movie icon Tommy Wiseau spilling out of his mouth.
It was a distinctive, stilted, impossible-to-place pattern of speech already well known to loyal fans of "The Room," arguably the most celebrated cinematic misfire of all time.
Oh hai, doggie.
You're tearing me apart, Lisa!
Franco hadn't yet seen "The Room," the infamous 2003 indie melodrama written, directed and produced by Wiseau, who also starred in and financed the film so rife with bizarre scenes, stilted performances and baffling technical flaws that it became known as the "Citizen Kane" of bad movies - an honor even the most inept of film oddities haven't come close to achieving.
But Wiseau's peculiar cadence, his singular mannerisms, his drive to create and his voice - that voice - came alive as Franco read the 2014 book "The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside 'The Room,' the Greatest Bad
