James Franco, Dave Franco, Alison Brie on "The Making of the Best Worst Movie Ever Made" in 'The Disaster Artist' | TIFF 2017 - video Dailymotion

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Franco's film follows the making of 'The Room.'

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00:00So we like to kick things off with what we call the elevator pitch, the 15-second

00:03this is my movie. James, you can do it or make one of your actors do it.

00:07We actually are really good at like all kind of chiming in, so

00:11this is an insane movie

00:16about a friendship.

00:19And achieving your goals and not taking no for an answer.

00:23Going after your dreams. What he said.

00:26It's basically about the making, it's like the making of the best worst movie ever made

00:33which is The Room, not the Brie Larson movie, it's an insane movie with the guy that looks

00:38like a vampire and he dyes his hair with shoe polish and his buddy and how they actually

00:45pull that off.

00:52I feel like The Room is kind of like a gateway drug, like you know like late at night you're

00:55over your friends, I was like, did you see this movie?

00:58And they like pull out this DVD like and it's like, what's not just a movie?

01:01And it's like on the cover, it's like this man who looks like a vampire and I immediately

01:04recognized it because when I first moved to LA, there was this like billboard of Tommy

01:09like just brooding over like La Cienega.

01:12With a phone number.

01:13So there's the two guys, Tommy Wiseau and then Greg Cistero who Davey plays in the thing and

01:18Greg kind of got it.

01:20Tommy, where his notes come from, where anything from Tommy comes from, you know, it's just

01:26sort of its own mystery.

01:27It felt like he was trying to settle scores with his notes.

01:30Why so much this character?

01:32Why not more this person?

01:33He didn't want to watch it until it premiered, like we, it wasn't even the official premiere,

01:39but we showed it in Texas and we were worried like, cause he had said like the book is only

01:4640% true.

01:47And we're like, well that's what we based our movie on.

01:50And then after the screening he said 99.9%, I approved 99.9%.

01:56And Dave, what was like for you?

01:58Was Greg also on set?

02:00Greg was there a pretty good amount.

02:02Um, he was, I mean, Greg was a great asset.

02:05Greg got it.

02:06Yeah.

02:07I mean, I've played a lot of characters that are based on real people.

02:11Sometimes they get it.

02:12Sometimes they're like, no, I did not sort of make that gesture or like, you know, really

02:19fixated on things they shouldn't be.

02:20Greg got it.

02:21Yeah.

02:22Yeah.

02:23And I talked to Greg a lot before we actually started filming.

02:25And one thing I kept like hammering was, I was like, did you at any point think this

02:30thing could be good?

02:31Right.

02:32And he kept maintaining like, not really, but there's a line in our movie that kind of

02:37explains everything where, um, uh, someone says, uh, like the worst day, you know, we're

02:44actors and the worst day on a movie set is better than the best day anywhere else.

02:48And so it's like these, they were all young actors and they thought they had this like,

02:52Which is maybe true and maybe, yeah.

02:54It's very profound in the movie.

02:58Yeah.

02:59This is the movie.

03:01movie.

James Franco, Dave Franco, Alison Brie on "The Making of the Best Worst Movie Ever Made" in 'The Disaster Artist' | TIFF 2017

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