‘Best F(r)iends, Vol. 1’: Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero Follow ‘The Room,’ Inspired by ‘The Disaster Artist’ and Edibles

Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero’s 20-year-old friendship survived making “the ‘Citizen Kane’ of bad movies” (“The Room”) and the Academy Award-nominated film based on its painful production (“The Disaster Artist”).

However, the duo doesn’t quite agree on how to pronounce the title of their latest collaboration, “Best F(r)iends,” a two-volume drama directed by Justin MacGregor.“It’s not ‘Best Fiends,’ it’s ‘Friends,’” Wiseau repeatedly insisted at Hollywood’s Egyptian Theatre last night during a Q&A.

Sestero — the project’s screenwriter, co-producer, and lead actor, opposite Wiseau — demurred, conceding that Werner Herzog’s 1999 documentary “My Best Fiend” was “a big inspiration.”Sestero explained the origins for the title’s ambiguous punctuation: “I had an edible and I was trying to figure out what the title should be.

And Tommy said, ‘You know what? I like this style,’ and I thought, All right.”The film stars Wiseau as Harvey,

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