How old is Tommy? Where was Tommy Born? Here are the known facts about Tommy Wiseau:. Wiseau is secretive about his early life. In various interviews, he has claimed to have lived in France "a long time ago"; asserted that he grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana; and described having "an entire family" in Chalmette, Louisiana. In interviews following the release of The Room in , Wiseau gave an age which would indicate he was born in or , but actor Greg Sestero claims in his memoir, The Disaster Artist, that his brother's girlfriend obtained copies of Wiseau's U.
In his documentary, Room Full of Spoons, Rick Harper claims to have researched Wiseau's background and concluded that he is Polish and originally from the city of Poznan. Wiseau confirmed that he is "originally from Europe" in an interview on Jimmy Kimmel Live! In The Disaster Artist, Sestero asserts that Wiseau revealed to him—through "fantastical, sad, self-contradictory stories"—that as a young adult he moved to Strasbourg, where he adopted the name "Pierre" and worked as a restaurant dishwasher.
According to Sestero, Wiseau described being wrongfully arrested following a drug raid at a youth hostel and being traumatized by his mistreatment by the French police, which led him to immigrate to the U.
Sestero asserts that Wiseau subsequently moved to San Francisco, California, where he worked as a street vendor selling toys to tourists near Fisherman's Wharf.
Wiseau supposedly gained the nickname "The Birdman" for his bird toys, which were only popular in Europe at the time; this led him to legally change his name when he became a U. When he recovered, he decided to start a career in movie making. All the information, given by Greg about Tommy Wiseau, is in his book.
Wiseau tried to get into Hollywood in s. There is information that he also visited movie classes at L. Community College. Still nowadays nobody precisely knows where he got the money for making The Room.
The most popular opinion connected him to the organized crime, which laundered money thanks to The Room. The movie was recognized as the worst ever made. At the same time, it was considered to be a cult movie. Tommy was its director, producer and the main actor. The Room was based on his novel, which was not published. The movie showed a lot of unfinished stories with very scanty dialogues.
However, the movie was shown all over the world. Greg Sestero was also the main star of that movie. In this book was filmed. James Franco played the role of Tommy. The title of that movie was The Disaster Artist. Tommy Wiseau approved the cast and their play publicly and made a cameo appearance in a post-credits scene as Henry.
There a lot of different information about that movie and Tommy could speak about it for hours. In he produced a short documentary Homeless in America. Only in , he took part in some minute parody horror movie. In he reported that he wanted to direct a sequel to Fantastic Four. It was released in two parts in Los Angles in In The Room got new fame. Wiseau and Franco gave interviews together, where they discussed the movies.
James visited the show of Howard Stern and talked to him about how he stayed in character as Wiseau even after they had stopped the cameras. Tommy was engaged in a sort of permanent press tour. He even started to give lessons about movie making. He started to make viral content. First, Tommy contacted the director, asking him to give him the role.
He made very impressive makeup. His playing was really crazy. The fans are waiting for his new parody videos. He is really great in this field. They were sure that Loki seemed like Tommy in his movies and made a lot of memes on this topic. Its teaser was shown at a German screening of The Room. Also like that movie, Big Shark seems to be very hilarious yet hard to stop watching and could end up becoming a cult classic of its own.
The current plan is to shoot the movie this year in time to premiere it at the Prince Charles Cinema in September. This could be the perfect time for Wiseau to make a killer shark movie. With the Sharknado franchise finally coming to a close, Big Shark could fill the void for a fun-to-watch cheesy shark film. For whatever reason, people love to watch killer shark movies, no matter how ridiculous they might be. The phenomenal success of the Sharknado film series is the perfect example of that.
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