James Franco reveals the secret to The Room's appeal 

I wish he would let James Franco talk. His anecdotes are so interesting.

This interviewer keeps cutting off James just as he is about to relate something important, then the conversation comes back around to James again coming naturally to his point. This interviewer needs to have a producer reigning him in - he is obsessed with minutia and the typical modern interview question: "How did it feel?"

The interviewer needs to learn to sit back and listen. Great stories from James.

bro just let him talk

James is so damn brilliant and insightful. His performance was flawless.

you're tearing me apart! with your crappy interview interruptions. it's OK, I still love you.

Stop cutting him off....wow....that was frustrating. A good interviewer isn't one who needs to hear his own voice...he needs to hear the interviewee's voice. You are asking Jame's questions and then jumping in to answer it for him. Let HIM answer it.

This interviewer sucks! The guy had no skill or patience to listen to what James really wanted to say. He just wanted short answers, and that's not what true artists give. The questions were okay, but all he had to do was shut up after James started talking, and he failed badly. I still can't wait for the movie though.

Interviewer interrupts James WAY too much in this, man. Killed some potentially amazing answers by needlessly interrupting over and over.

This was a perfect explanation of the room, the disaster artist, and everything behind it and about Tommy! Very respectful!

‪I hope #TheDisasterArtist wins an Oscar so Franco can bring Tommy on stage which is what he worked so hard for years. tears starting already‬

This interviewer is annoyed when he has to listen to the answer to his questions in depth. Most interviewers should be so lucky to get these type of answers and feedback. He should stop trying to interject; it's very unprofessional and disrespectful to the guest.

God I love this. I love how James talks about it.

James sounded so enthused and knew his stuff, this was a great interview

James Franco such a cool persona

Just the fact that someone who literally played James Dean....played someone who dillusionally believed he looked like James Dean. Brilliant 😅

I can't wait to watch this film, it sounds great. I could sit and listen to James Franco speak for hours, too.

Your tearing this interview apart, interview guy!

whenever james just casually switches into the accent i lose my mind omg i love him

Starnge that Franco himself played James Dean in the 90s and now plays a character that thinks he's like James Dean

Watching it with a friend 10mins in "wtf is this" 20mins in "turn is off this is this trash" 35mins in "why are we still watching this" 45mins in "oh I guess we are halfway might as well watch it till the end" End of Movie "I wanna watch it again"

That radio host need to chill out

I was at the SXSW premiere, and I can genuinely confirm everything James Franco said about that showing of The Disaster Artist. You really see how Tommy Wiseau was a go-getter in an industry full of sharks, and the connection between him and Greg Sestero is even more amazing. I can't wait to hear what everyone else thinks about it.

Thanks for uploading this! Great to hear James Franco's insight on Tommy. Highly anticipating the December release:)

Great interview w/ Mr. Franco! Really want to see the movie and see what it does.

Let him talk ffs...

James Franco switching between his normal voice and his Wiseau accent feels very strange.

There was something really inspirational about this interview. Maybe the moral is this: If Tommy Wiseau can make his dreams come true, then so can you!

8:40, been watching about 30 interviews with James about the Room, this is the first I've seen him talk about how he avoided feeling failure. The end where he talks about how Austin is the first time Tommy got unadulterated applause was very touching, this is the only interview I've seen that mentions it, and it does entirely bring the story full circle

Oh Hi Mark

Stop interrupting

Bruh ffs let the man speak!

Tommy threw the kitchen sink at it, it was like watching him mimic human beings! Bizarre!!! What a guy

let the guest finish their story!

Well, James Franco played James Dean. Thus, fair enough.

I liked the comment "bro just let him talk" and i realize that is because of the pure honesty of playing the character/person fof Tommy from James .. if anyone could point me to more interviews like this I would be grateful

Excellent interview. Very surprised by the criticism in the comments. I was very impressed by the way the interviewer forced James Franco to be personal and reflective rather than (understandably) give the usual spiel that I've watched in other interviews.

At 6:00 you can feel James getting annoyed by the interruption lol

He's so passionate about everything he does. Love that!

Should've asked him about his sex life.

Kinda knew who Tommy Wise was, hadn't watched the movie. The trailer lead me into looking into the movie and tommy. Thanks

It seems to me like you're the expert, Franco!

4:20 Why would you cut him off here? James even hurriedly tried to return to that point again later.

Phenomenal interview

What do you mean the "secret" to the appeal? It's one of the most entertaining films ever created. Not much of a secret my guy

7:06 - Yeah, giving props to American Movie, man! Awesome. More people should know about that film.

the question remains, how did tommy get the original funding?

Gah Damn this interviewer interrupts more than Fallon

I’ve got a lot going of respect for Franco. He even appeared at one of the room screenings. He obviously doesn’t think of himself as too good unlike other Hollywood stars

To be fair, an interviewer's job is to keep the interview moving and get answers to questions quickly, especially in a 20 min. format. James has a tendency to talk and talk and talk and talk some more. When he finally stops he's light years from the original question that still remains unanswered. Yes, James had many interesting, funny, and insightful anecdotes. But, most are straight from Greg's book and I think the interviewer is simply trying to corral James into a more concise conversation due to time restrictions. Read Greg's book, or listen to Greg's audiobook for 11 hours of nonstop continuous pure Tommy/The Room madness first hand from the man who was there. It's amazing.

The story surrounding the creation of the disaster artist should also be made a movie lol

"Oh, hi M-- " Wait. Let me interrupt you there. 😦

I've never seen Franco so serious before ! Can't wait for the movie !!!

man he nails that accent so good

Franco.... you make me smile. You're intelligent enough to know. Thank you.

4:22 is good question and James Franco gives great answer 4:45

Franco's dialect for Tommy is spot on. It isn't a funny impression but he takes the PERSONA of Tommy

Found myself groaning every time the interviewer interrupted the stream of conversation. Come on, dude... this is basic shit.

What is the movie James is talking about from about 11:00? thanks :-)

let james talk man

Tommy Wiseau has a lot of Charisma and The Room is an honest effort that just turned out bad by luckily so bad it's good.

I feel like James really appreciates Tommy. I just watched the room, I gotta watch the disaster artist

yeah. interviewer keeps cutting james off.

i like how tommy shakes the interviewer's hand with the hand he violently coughed on...interviewer might have got wiseauitis...can he become the next tommy wiseau

2:23 James Franco is stuck in character.

This interviewer is a Mental Defective. LET THE GUY TALK!

I wanted to hear the rest of James’ point at 5:52 darn

Have you ever tried watching The Room in reverse... PURE GENIUS!

Correction - there is no millions of bad movies - there is only 2 500 000 movies in history overall (accoring imdb)

I think I'm equally excited for this as I am with Blade Runner 2049. Can't wait.

At 7:09, James Franco mentions a documentary called American Movie, about another person trying to make a movie, named Mark Borchardt. I laughed out loud when he said that, because I had already thought that Tommy Wiseau's story reminded me very much of Mark Borchardt's story, in that he also was a person who desperately wanted to make a movie. They couldn't be more different as people, but their drive was the same. In Borchardt's case, even though he starred in his own ultra-ultra-ultra low budget horror movie ("The Coven", pronounced CO-VEN, as in woven, not coven, as in oven, for reasons only Borchardt understood but insisted on), his drive was more as a director and writer, rather than an actor. It took him three years of working at hard (sometimes demeaning) minimum wage jobs to gather the film and resources of this short film he willed into existence. He drafted everyone (and I mean everyone, including his own mom and grandfather) into being part of it. The documentary was made by his film teacher, Chris Smith, and is very bit as fascinating, hilarious and heart rending as The Room is. I think it's great that James Franco saw the parallels between the two, and that he saw the heart in both men....

This dude is good !!

interviewer is seriously obnoxious

tommy is a go getter! good for him! plus he's very original

I hope James sweeps all the awards

I worked on 5 Sharknado movies. I'm practically a four star general in the art of camp lol

People appreciate the effort.

James Franco @2:03 Hold that burp back! Hold it back! Hold it, hold it, now swallow it. Nice!

The interviewer needs to keep his comments in his pocket.

James Franco is up there with Leo di caprio ... GENIUS

It kind of reminds me of that stuff that the "joker" movie was exploring yet this movie was a whopper success.

That jacket that Francos wearing is FIRE

I just realised how much he sounds like Dave

Tom Power, I wanted to hear James Franco - not you interrupting James Franco, or you saying “yeah... yeah... yeah... yeah...” I’m not the only one who can see how uncomfortable James is when you cut him off. “Right right right right right.” This had the potential of being an awesome interview, but I’m disappointed.

I enjoyed this. I thought the interviewer did fine! As interesting as James Franco is, he didn't exactly use 5 words when 30 would do.

amen

Gahhhh the interviewer needs to just let James Franco answer the question

love James Franco.

w0w hes good looking and hes smart

2:29 come forrr wereverrrrrr

everybody knows, you don't interrupt James..

I don't think the interviewer was trying to cut him off but James Franco admittedly has difficulty answering the question and will go off on tangents.

08:09 wtf dude!!!! James was telling a super interesting thing about the movie

James; you’re a freakin genius!

The special thing about this Best Worst Movie is it has Tommy Wiseu

James Franco needs to shut up and let the interviewer talk

"Ya! I wanna do a scene with you"

Oh,hi doggie

The other actors did a pretty good job. The actress who played Lisa's mom did good in the scene on the roof. "Somebody better do SOMETHING!" when that kid nearly gets killed for doing drugs.

THIS INTERVIEWER IS TEARING ME APART!!!