The early 2000s were wild, a dev could just say shit like this in interviews and still get treated like a gaming celeb with magazines shooting ego-stroking promo videos where he plays with swords while wearing sunglasses indoors.
You’d never get a director like Tomonobu Itagaki today because of woke mind virus cancel culture!!! 
I’m watching Grim Beard’s new video on the Tekken spinoff Death by Degrees which includes a funny tangent about the one-sided feud between Tomonobu Itagaki and Katsuhiro Harada where he shows this interview
The Room is incredibly misogynistic, that and him being a talentless rich guy who tried to buy his way into Hollywood is why I don’t feel like celebrating Wiseau as some cult hero.
I feel at some point people stopped laughing at the room for the surreal disaster that it is, and started actually thinking wiseau was some auteur with an interesting vision and not the talentless bully he seems to be.
People ascribe an authenticity to the room that they wouldn’t if say, bezos or musk, or some millionaire orthodontist decided to make a shitty masturbatory movie. It’s counter culture without the content, or the awareness that you’re making something bad on purpose, which is how an actual artist would have something to say.
Exactly, I don’t get it because people like…I dunno, Cronenberg or whoever were able to get interesting stories out of student films on a shoestring budget. Wiseau was able to buy high-tier equipment (even if he had no clue on how to use it), and the best he could come up with, and he did seriously think The Room was his masterpiece, was shit-tier sexist nonsense.
Plus, from contemporary accounts he was a creep and an asshole to the people on set.
Are there actual unironic Tommy Wiseau fans out there? My impression was that everything he’s tried to make since The Room has been universally hated