Dan Janjigian, who played the iconic Chris-R in the notorious “The Room,” tells us the wild story of being a bobsledder who starred in the cult classic and then ran for Congress.
He played Chris-R , a nefarious drug dealer who barges onto a rooftop and threatens another character with a gun. After demanding to know where his “fucking money” is, Chris-R is promptly tackled by two other characters, who perform a citizen’s arrest and escort him offscreen.
“My attitude has always been,” he said, mulling the words, “whatever opportunity I have put in front of me, if I have the chance to do it, and the means to do it, I’m gonna do it.” His dad wanted him to be an engineer, so, in 1991, Janjigian went to California Polytechnic State University to learn how. But the kid who’d grown up smooth-talking his neighbors into buying newspaper subscriptions and stationery was being tugged in another direction. He switched his major to business administration and started working in Silicon Valley soon after graduation.
Janjigian didn’t have to think too hard about it. He jumped on a plane and flew up to Canada, where in Calgary he found a bobsled track and a handful of world-class coaches willing to train any novice able to pony up. Every day for a week, he’d strap on crampons and walk the 1,475-meter ice track, breaking it down in his head, committing every bump and curve to memory. “I still have dreams about those frickin’ turns,” Janjigian told Obsessed.
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