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Here’s What Actually Happened With Dana Carvey, the Turtle Suit, and 9/11

Carvey says the viral story was partly true: the prayer happened after production resumed, while he was still wearing most of the Turtle Man costume.

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In April 2023, Dana Carvey addressed a minor controversy surrounding himself on his Fly on the Wall podcast with David Spade. As it turns out, a rumor had been going around for years that Carvey first got word of the September 11th attacks while filming a scene from his 2002 comedy The Master of Disguise.

The sequence featured Carvey dressed as the “Turtle Man,” complete with a bald cap, prosthetics, and a large shell-like suit. According to the legend, Carvey was then forced to observe a moment of silence in costume.

On the podcast, Spade asked Carvey to........

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