41 - The Disaster Artist & The Ballad Of Lefty Brown
Dallas and Lee return to discuss two more A24 films, The Disaster Artist and The Ballad of Lefty Brown.
Based on the non-fiction book, The Disaster Artist, Greg Sestero, an aspiring film actor, meets the weird and mysterious Tommy Wiseau in an acting class, they form a unique friendship and travel to Hollywood to make their dreams come true.ommy decides to write, direct, produce and star in their own movie. That movie is The Room, which has attained cult status as the "Citizen Kane" of bad movies.
In The Ballad of Lefty Brown ageing sidekick Lefty Brown has ridden with Eddie Johnson his entire life. But when a rustler kills Eddie, Lefty is forced from his partner’s shadow and must confront the ugly realities of frontier justice.
We also have extracts from previous interviews with Greg Sestero (writer of The Disaster Artist) and Jared Moshe (writer/director of The Ballad of Lefty Brown)
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