Perry Still Embarrassed By Shyamalan Mix-Up

7 months ago 18th Apr 04:37

Perry fooled by look alike

Actor Matthew Perry was once left red-faced after spending a whole evening talking to director M. Night Shyamalan - before realising the man was alook-a-like.

The former Friends star first met the filmmaker at a Hollywood awards show during promotion for 1999 movie The Sixth Sense, and he was delightedwhen he encountered the man he was convinced was Shyamalan on another night out years later.

Perry struck up a friendship with the Shyamalan doppelganger that nightand started dreaming about the prospect of working with the director - before he realised his mistake and bailed on his new pal.

He explains, "I was at the People's Choice Awards a while back and thatnight I met all the Sixth Sense people; M. Night Shyamalan, Haley Joel Osment. So I met them, I spoke with them for a few minutes. "Then a few years later I was out at this place in Hollywood and M. Night Shyamalan walked up and said hello.

'Ok, this guy really likes me.' Like in the Hollywood way where I'm going to be the lead in his next movie.Matthew Perry

I was like, 'Oh my God, come sit down, please join us.' We sat there for a few minutes and everybody sort of filtered out and it was just me and M. Night Shyamalan. Pretty great, great guy, very talented.

"We talked for a little while, and then I started to realise, you know,he likes me. Laughing at everything I say, really enjoying me. We're notreally talking about showbusiness, just sort of bonding. At one point, about an hour into it, he says, 'You know, I know this other place, it's opening night', and so we go to the carpool, he gets his car and I get my car and I follow him all the way across town.

On the way there, I started to think, 'Ok, this guy really likes me.' Like in the Hollywood way where I'm going to be the lead in his next movie. I'm like, he's going to make a movie about aliens who come down and there's a trick ending, and it'sgonna be me! "We go to the next place, we're hanging out....

Another hour passes, hegoes to the bathroom, he comes back, and then... I realise it's not M. Night Shyamalan. It's just an Indian guy who looks a lot like M. Night Shyamalan! I hightailed it out of there.