Greg Sestero

Greg Sestero se narodil 15. července 1978 ve Walnut Creek v Kalifornii jako herec, scenárista, producent a spisovatel. Greg Sestero (born July 15, 1978) is an American actor, filmmaker, model and author. Sestero was born in Walnut Creek, California on July 15, 1978 to Marie-José (née Citro) and Richard Sestero. His mother is of French and Italian (Sicilian) descent. He was raised in Danville, California, where he attended Monte Vista High School. Raná kariéra a modelování During his junior year of high school, Sestero began modeling, working in Milan and Paris for designers such as Giorgio Armani and Gianfranco Ferré. He returned to the United States to focus on acting, enrolling in the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. He landed his first role at age 18, on the CBS hit show Nash Bridges (1996). This followed with a role in the Golden Globe nominated film, Patch Adams (1998) starring fellow San Francisco native, Robin Williams. Sestero's early acting work included minor roles in the television show Nash Bridges and the films Gattaca (1997) and Patch Adams (1998). Průlom s filmem Retro Puppet Master In 1999, Sestero was cast as the lead in the horror movie Retro Puppet Master. It is the seventh film in the Puppet Master franchise, a prequel to 1991's Toulon's Revenge, and stars Greg Sestero as a young André Toulon, Jack Donner as an Egyptian sorcerer responsible for teaching Toulon how to animate his puppets V tomto hororu hrál mladého André Toulona, což byla jeho první hlavní filmová role. Sestero's 2013 book The Disaster Artist, while primarily focusing on his most famous film The Room, includes two chapters on his casting in and filming of Retro Puppet Master. The Room a kultovní sláva Sestero's best known role to date is as Mark, the best friend to Tommy Wiseau's character Johnny, in the 2003 cult film The Room. Sestero met Wiseau at an acting class in 1998 held by Jean Shelton. Sestero starred in the notorious The Room (2003), which gained an international cult following as the best worst movie ever made. Film se stal kultovním fenoménem díky své neúmyslné komičnosti a technickým nedostatkům. Sestero has said that he made the film assuming no one would see it and that it would go direct to video. The Disaster Artist a literární úspěch in 2013, Sestero wrote a book entitled The Disaster Artist, chronicling his experience making the film and working with its enigmatic director Tommy Wiseau. The book went on to become a critically acclaimed bestseller. The book, titled The Disaster Artist, was released in October 2013. On November 23, 2014, The Disaster Artist won Best Non-Fiction at the National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards ceremony in Los Angeles. In 2014, Seth Rogen's production company, Point Grey Pictures, acquired the rights to a film adaptation of Sestero's book. In the film, also titled The Disaster Artist, Dave Franco played Sestero, and James Franco starred as Wiseau and directed, for which he won a Golden Globe. Filmová adaptace z roku 2017 přinesla Sestero další pozornost a uznání. Pokračování spolupráce s Tommy Wiseau Po patnácti letech se Greg Sestero znovu spojil s Tommy Wiseau v projektu Best F(r)iends. Best F(r)iends is a 2017 American dark comedy thriller film starring Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero. Written and produced by Sestero in two parts (Volume One and Volume Two), it marks the reunion of Wiseau and Sestero 15 years after making the cult classic film The Room. After watching an early cut of The Disaster Artist (the film based on The Disaster Artist, a book about the making of The Room) Greg Sestero felt sympathy for Tommy Wiseau, leading him to create a film for the two of them in order to make Wiseau happy. Over the course of a few weeks, Sestero wrote the script for Best F(r)iends. V tomto projektu Sestero nejen hrál hlavní roli, ale také napsal scénář a produkoval oba díly filmu.