Dana Carvey confirms bizarre viral rumor about 9/11: ‘Sensitive topic’

He was not the master of disguise.

Dana Carvey confirmed he was dressed in a turtle costume while the cast and crew of the 2002 spy movie “The Master of Disguise” held a moment of silence for the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Carvey, 67, recalled the uncomfortable experience on Wednesday’s episode of “Fly on the Wall,” his podcast with fellow comedian David Spade.

Carvey plays a weird humanoid turtle in “Master of Disguise,” and he said he couldn’t get out of his prosthetics in time for the remembrance.

“It’s kind of a sensitive topic, but after 9/11 I was shooting a movie called ‘Master of Disguise,’ ” he explained. “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.”

“I was in [the costume] all that day, and then they said, ‘We’re going to have a group prayer about 9/11,’ ” he continued.

“And I couldn’t get the thing — I would’ve held everyone for a half-hour getting all that prosthetic makeup off — so, as I remember it, everyone else was [wearing] civilian clothes, I’m dressed as the Turtle Man, with a bald head, and I’m holding hands, and I’m lowering my head and praying, and I just thought at the moment: ‘This is very strange.’ “

The story of Carvey being in the turtle suit for the solemn moment emerged on the film’s IMDb page and has since become a viral sensation.

“It’s very ridiculous,” said Spade, adding that it was crazy that someone “would even repeat that dumb story.” Then he asked Carvey if he took the shell off for the prayer.

“They might’ve gotten the shell off, but they didn’t get the turtle head or the turtle lip off,” laughed Carvey. “They couldn’t get it all off.”

The Post reached out to Carvey for comment.

“Master of Disguise” follows bumbling Pistachio Disguisey (played by Carvey) as he attempts to save his father from a collection of criminal masterminds by using various disguises.

Critics have called it “one of the worst films ever made.”

The film’s director, Perry Andelin Blake, recalled resuming work on the film in the wake of the attacks.

“I’m the director, so I’m the leader of this group of people. I felt it was a little weird to be making this funny, silly kids’ movie in the wake of this huge national tragedy,” Blake told Defector in 2021. “So I felt like I needed to say something. I gave a little speech, I guess you would call it.”

He provided the gist of the pep talk to the outlet.

“It seems weird that we’re starting to work on this movie, but I think if there’s some time that we maybe need a bit of humor in our society and in our country — and especially for the kids of our country, this is probably such a hard time for them — there’s something good about us coming together to make a movie that can make kids laugh and bring a little bit of happiness,” Blake said at the time. “So let’s try to do that.”