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Entertainment Weekly

After years of internet speculation, Dana Carvey has confirmed the viral rumor that he "observed a moment of silence" for the September 11th attacks while dressed up as a grotesque humanoid turtle on The Master of Disguise set.

The legendary comedian, who played the film's bumbling secret agent Pistachio Disguisey, explained that he was fully dressed up as the Turtle Man — bald cap, facial prosthetics, green-shelled suit and all — when everyone was called for a group prayer. Unable to remove the prosthetics in a short amount of time, Carvey participated in the solemn moment while wearing his character's outrageous makeup.

"It's kind of a sensitive topic, but after 9/11 I was shooting a movie called Master of Disguise," Carvey said on Wednesday's episode of the Fly on the Wall podcast. "We took an appropriate time off and went back to shooting and I was playing — if you've seen the movie, kids — the Turtle Man, with a bald cap and a weird thing on my lip and a big green shell outfit."