Look people, if Perry was really in on the joke, and the filmmakers were really trying to dupe the audience, don't you think they would have edited out any instance of Perry supposedly "breaking character"? In the scene in question, Perry does kind of half-heartedly smile amidst his frustration, but even someone like Perry has to see the humour inherent in the situation, even though he's pissed off.
There was only one scene where I actually questioned the realism of the project: near the end, when they are trying to get into the theater, the guard won't let them in because the show's already started. Don takes Perry aside and says, "There's only one man who can get us in there," and Perry proudly answers, "STONE FURY." This just seemed a little too stagey. He then proceeds to walk back up and give the guard the "half-eye," (which would obviously be intimidating to a 6'4'' musclebound black guy to see a short, dumpy Italian in a goofy hat, squinting his left eye like he's got Bell's palsy), and he lets them in. It all seemed like a bad "Chappelle Show" sketch to me.
But then again, Don and "Mole" have been messing with Perry for over a decade, so they know exactly what buttons to push, and exactly how Perry is going to react.
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MassiveTool
18 years ago
All I have to say is that if this is fake and Perry is in on the joke but is just "acting" clueless, then Perry Caravello is the best actor in this history of the world. There is no way this is fake.
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