about this in retrospect seeing how entrenched this film has become, and he feels he probably should have come forward. we set out to verify morris story and found bob heronimis who says he was in the costume. they have since become friends. he said patterson told him to walk like a gorilla. bob had no idea how it would walk. he walked like a normal person walking down the street and kind of waved his arms back and forth and thought that was real show business. bob has the size, the gait to be bigfoot and give it life. and i think this is important, there are people still living who remember seeing a bigfoot suit in the trunk of bob s mother s car. when it comes down to it, it s hard to improve upon phil morris
in 2002, morris goes public with the story. i started announcing that s the gorilla suit. another 10 or 20 magicians across the country have the same suit. it s not a real bigfoot. but it comes too late for many of the film s believers. people are so taken by the things they fall for. they re hugely invested in it. now they re fools if they were wrong. and as soon as you come in and rain on their parade, you find utter hostility. the first reaction was no, you re lying. that is a real bigfoot. i said how is it possible that this thing could fool people. the suit was all right. it wasn t the best gorilla suit ever made. but it was okay. but in broad daylight did not look like a real animal. i talked with phil morris
i received a call from this man who says he s roger patterson. do you have a gorilla show? a magician. no? he says we re playing a joke on people. how much is the suit? according to him he had specific requirements for the suit. did it look like a gorilla what about the eyes where you see the eyes? i said you get the makeup. it will blend into the mask itself. they also wanted to know how to make it large and massive. and he wanted some extra material that s going to have to change the head. he s going to have to put these and this is brilliant on roger s part these female breasts which everybody thought wow, that s the kind of detail nobody could make that up. it s so credible and believable. well, the check arrived and i sent the suit out to him.
he walked like a normal person walking down the street and kind of waved his arms back and forth and thought that was real show business. bob has the size, the gait to be bigfoot and give it life. and i think this is important, there are people still living who remember seeing a bigfoot suit in the trunk of bob s mother s car. when it comes down to it, it s hard to improve upon phil morris as the source of the costume. bob heironimus as the guy in the bigfoot suit. and roger patterson as producer, director, and whatever else of this film. just as patterson stood by his story, so, too, does morris. rick baker who is academy award winner eight times said to me one time, he said, phil, that was the worst gorilla suit i ve ever seen in my life.
i said you get the makeup. it will blend into the mask itself. they also wanted to know how to make it large and massive. and he wanted some extra material that s going to have to change the head. he s going to have to put these and this is brilliant on roger s part these female breasts which everybody thought wow, that s the kind of detail nobody could make that up. it s so credible and believable. well, the check arrived and i sent the suit out to him. he called me back and said, listen, you can see the zipper in the back of the suit. i said well, that s easy to overcome. get a hair brush. brush it back and forth across the zipper. that was the last i heard from him. until he sees his suit on tv. i told my wife come here. you want to see this. she walks in and said oh, look. there s our gorilla suit. morris keeps quiet about his involvement hoping that