AVC Interview with Tommy Wiseau [Laughs]
It all makes sense now…
AVC: Going back, the entire scene with Chris-R. feels… No offense, but that scene didn’t have to be there.
TW: [Laughs.] No, you can say whatever. To me it’s compliment, actually. But the same time again, you have to understand that the concept with The Room is not just to present one particular issue, like the drugs, like the way you describe right now, no. We want to present the other thing. That’s why I say it’s no use for me to… If you read the book, you will see it, that Chris-R… [We] go to police station, and Johnny can go with them, actually they go together, Johnny and Mark, and then they put the pistols and the evidence et cetera, they inspect to each of them what happened, et cetera. So you have much more detail work. Here, we just don’t have time. Plus, idea behind is, we are there already oriented, so why even drill all that in the first place? But see, this is good point, I’m surprised you didn’t ask me why I put dash next to Chris-R as a character. Because see again, if I call him only Chris, I say “Wait a minute, it has to be distinguished.” I get a lot of e-mails from regular fans, and they say “Why you put dash next to R?” Because again, he is a gangster, and his initial is R, that’s why we call him Chris-R.
Full interview with the writer/director/producer/star of The Room (which you should see “in the theaters at least three times”) is here.
