How a 30-Year-Old Mastermind Fooled an Entire High School Into Thinking He Was a Teen—And What It Means for Trust in the Digital Age
Well, I felt a bit like my teenage self when I approached some of my classmates to take part and they told me where to go and shove it. [Laughs] That was very much like being cast back in time. But the people who did want to take part, it was just a total joy. I left school and didn’t look back — I maybe kept in touch with a couple of the people that you see in the film, but for the most part, those people I was seeing afresh for the first time in like 25 years.
My favorite part of that whole shoot was I was interviewing my friend Adnan — we’re filming it in an old school that we found, we’d rebuilt our childhood classroom — and Adnan is sitting at a little school desk. We finished his interview and one of the [P.A.s] comes up and goes, “Ah, Jono, Adnan: Mr. Gunn, the physics teacher, is downstairs, and he wants to see you right now.” So these two 40-something-year-old men are giggling and shuffling down the high school corridor to be sent to Mr. Gunn’s office. [Laughs] It was like PEN15.
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