1999 Stanley Kubrick Confession that He Filmed Fake Moon Landings for NASA

Reuters Fact Check says this video is staged and not real:

Filmmaker Stanley Kubrick did not admit to helping the U.S. government and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) stage the Apollo moon landings between 1969 and 1972. A quote from an actor playing the director in a recording of a purposely fabricated interview has been falsely attributed to Kubrick himself. Separate clips of the actor being reminded of his lines show it is not the famed filmmaker.

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TRANSCRIPT

Stanley Kubrick: I perpetrated a huge fraud which I am now about to detail.

Interviewer: OK.

Stanley Kubrick: Involving the United States government and NASA,

Interviewer: Alright.

Stanley Kubrick: And I’m sure you’ve heard the rumors.

Interviewer: The Moon Landings?

Stanley Kubrick: That’s right. That the moon landing was fake. The Moon Landings all were fake. And I was the person who filmed it.

Interviewer: You’re serious. OK.

Stanley Kubrick: I’m serious. I’m dead serious.

Interviewer: Because I only had this certain amount of time with you and I’ll talk about whatever you want. You know, this isn’t some type of joke or film within a film thing.

Stanley Kubrick: Nope. Conspiracy theorists were right, on this occasion.

Interviewer: Why?

Stanley Kubrick: I don’t know about Paul McCartney’s death, but they were right about it.

Interviewer: OK. Why in God’s name? I don’t know what to ask you first. Why the Hell? If you’re telling the truth, why would you do it? Why are you telling me? I mean, what the?

Stanley Kubrick: Don’t you think it’s important for people to know the truth?

Interviewer: Yeah, I guess.

Stanley Kubrick: A massive fraud, unparalleled fraud perpetrated against them. They should know.

Interviewer: OK.

Stanley Kubrick: I mean, they’re already suspicious of the government. They may as well have their suspicions confirmed.

Interviewer: OK.

Stanley Kubrick: Justified.

Interviewer: And this, why now? I mean, we’re almost at the 30-year anniversary. What took so long? Why, if this is true?

Stanley Kubrick: I won’t go into that. It has to do with personal evolution and influences. I won’t go into that.

Interviewer: Is that why you look a little haggard right now? Because you look a little worn. No offense.

Stanley Kubrick: Well, also, yeah, because I haven’t been taking care of myself too well. I’ve been drinking a lot.

Interviewer: Is that because of the stress of this?

Stanley Kubrick: Of course. Stress, guilt, just conflict of all kinds.

Interviewer: Wow. I mean, so you feel bad about this, clearly. I mean, this is not –

Stanley Kubrick: I do feel bad about it. I also feel proud of it. It’s a terrible conflict.

Interviewer: Because you’ve pulled off one of the greatest hoaxes, ever because of your –

Stanley Kubrick: And because I made a film – if you want to call it a film – which I consider to be my masterpiece.

Interviewer: And you can’t take credit or even talk about it as a –

Stanley Kubrick: No, I’m hereby

Interviewer: Well, you are now.

Stanley Kubrick: I’m hereby taking credit for it.

Interviewer: Right. But you can’t actually go out. You’re doing– When people see this, you’ll be dead.

Stanley Kubrick: We can’t show this for 15 years.

Interviewer: Right. For 15, yeah. So you can’t talk to Roger Ebert about it. Does that frustrate you?

Stanley Kubrick: I have to pay the consequences for the decision that I made, many years ago to go along with this.

Interviewer: Like a deal with the devil?

Stanley Kubrick: It’s Faustian, to be sure.

Interviewer: Because – And is that why you got such power in Hollywood? I mean, I would explain that.

Stanley Kubrick: Why I have the freedom I have, that was part of it, yes.

Interviewer: So they said, “Do this Moon thing and we’ll give you –

Stanley Kubrick: When I made Spartacus, I didn’t have this kind of freedom. Right. But I have it now.

Interviewer: So what came first, the genius or the fraud?

Stanley Kubrick: What is NASA doing?

Interviewer: What came first, the genius or the fraud? I mean, did the fraud enable the genius or the genius released the fraud?

Stanley Kubrick: Well, I think the genius came first. Right. But some frauds are hard to bypass, especially if you have an ego and you’re an artist and you’re presented with a challenge, the likes of which you’ve never seen and will probably never see again.

You don’t even think of the morality of it. You’re just completely swept away by the flattery of it and the juices inside you, which make you want to do it as the artist you are, innately. You don’t think of anything else.