. >> i talked with phil morris about this, in retrospect, seeing how entrenched this film has become,e feels he probably should have come forward. >> we set out to verify morris' story and found bob heironimus who says he is the man in the bigfoot costume. they have since become friends. >> he said patterson told him to walk like a gorilla. bob was a rodeo cowboy. he had no idea what a gorilla should walk like. so he walked like a normal person walking down the street, kind of waved his arms back and forth and thought that was real show business. >> bob has the size, the gait to be bigfoot, to give it life. and i think this is important. there are people still living who remember seeing a bigfoot suit in the trunk of bob's mother's car. when it comes down to it, it's hard to improve upon phil morris as the source of the costume, bob heironimus as the guy in the bigfoot suit, and roger patterson as producer, director, and whatever else of this film. >> just as patterson stood by his story, so too does morris. >> rick baker, who is an academy award winner eight times, said to me one tim