put it around the person s eyes wearing the suit and it will blend in to the mask itself. they wanted to know how to make it large and massive. he wanted extra material. he s going to have to change the head, put these this is brilliant on roger s part, these female breasts which everybody thought, nobody could make that up. it is so credible. so believer. the check arrived and i sent the suit out 0 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 and brush it across the zipper and it will disappeared. that s the last i heard from him. until he sees his gorilla suit on tv. my wife is in the kich and i said amy, come here, you want to see this. she walks in the room and says oh, look there s our gorilla suit. morris keeps quiet of his involvement believing that
the film is genuine. in 2002, three decades after the saw the film. morris goes public with his story. i started announcing, well, that s our gorilla suit. that s the gorilla suit that ten, 20 magicians across the country use the suit. it s our suit, not a big foot. it comes too late for many believers. people are so taken by the things they fall for. they are hugely invested. now they are fools if they were wrong. as soon as you come in and rain on their parade, you will find utter hostility. the first reaction was, no, you re lying. that s a real big foot. i m thinking how is it possible that this could fool people? the suit was with 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 to phil morris about
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. and i said yes, it s true. but think about this. that there were over 10, 20, 30 million people who saw that film of bigfoot walking through the forest and they thought it was a real suit. that s absolutely amazing. at the end of the day when you ve watched this figure stride and you looked at it, i m inclined to agree with the late john napear from the smithsonian who remarked famously i can t see the zipper. and i think that s the most concise way to view what happened.
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 patterson would talk about making the film. i didn t say anything to anybody because i thought our market was for magicians. it would be unethical to sell him a costume and then tell the audience it s a gorilla suit.
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 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 heironimus