<P> According to Greg Ellery, Juliette Danielle was just "off the bus from Texas" when shooting began, and that on the first day of shooting, "the cast watched in horror" as Wiseau jumped on Danielle and immediately began filming their "love scene". Sestero has disputed this chronology, stating that the sex scenes were among the last to be filmed . Wiseau has said that Danielle was originally one of three or four understudies for the Lisa character, and was selected after the original actress left the production . According to Danielle, the original actress cast to play Lisa was closer in age to Wiseau and had an accent Danielle described as "random"; per Sestero, the actress was "Latina" and came from an unidentified South American country . Danielle stated that she had originally been cast as Michelle, but was given the role of Lisa when the original actress was dismissed from the production because her "personality...didn't seem to fit" the character . Danielle further corroborates that multiple actors were dismissed from the production prior to filming, including another actress hired to play Michelle . </P> <P> Kyle Vogt, who played Peter, told the production team at the outset of filming that he only had a limited amount of time to dedicate to the project . Not all of his scenes were filmed by the time his schedule ran out, and he left the production despite the fact that Peter was to play a pivotal role in the then - unrecorded climax . His lines in the last half of the film were given to Ellery, whose character is never introduced, explained, or addressed by name . </P> <P> The original script was significantly longer than the one used during filming, and featured a series of lengthy monologues; it was edited on - set by the cast and script supervisor, who found much of the dialogue incomprehensible . Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, one anonymous cast member commented that the script contained "stuff that was just unsayable . I know it's hard to imagine there was stuff that was worse . But there was". Sestero mentions that Wiseau was adamant characters say their lines the way they were written, but that several cast members managed to slip in ad libs that ended up in the final cut of the film . </P> <P> Sestero recalls in his book The Disaster Artist that Wiseau intended for the film to contain a subplot in which Johnny was revealed to be a vampire, due to Wiseau's own fascination with the creatures . Sestero recounts how, at the outset of production, Wiseau tasked members of the crew with figuring out a way to execute a sequence in which Johnny's Mercedes - Benz would lift off from the roof of the townhouse and fly across the San Francisco skyline, revealing Johnny's vampiric nature . However, this scene did not end up being created for the film . </P>

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