While promoting his film Gravity at a press conference in Mexico, director Alfonso Cuaron was asked what it was like to shoot the film in space on Oct. 17.

A journalist inquired about the technical difficulties and challenges Cuaron might have had to combat, but it was all in jest.

"I think that all of us who love cinema, film professionals, those of us who perhaps make movies have the same doubt," the journalist asked Cuarón. "What were the technical and physical difficulties of filming in space? Perhaps we all have the same question, isn't that right colleagues? Was it very difficult? Was it complicated to shoot in space? Did the cameramen get dizzy? I don't know."

Cuaron, who is also Mexican, was quite amused by the question and played along.

"Well yeah, we took some cameras in the Soyuz [spacecraft], Russian missions. We were there for three and a half months, right? Three and half months in space." he said, The director added that he got really dizzy while rehearsing.

"The training, yes I was very bad in the training. I did get very dizzy during the training. When I was up there [in space] not so much but el Chivo yes" Cuaron added. "Though in all honesty, I have proof that we were there. There is a moment in the movie where we let a reflection of the camera crew slip, I'm in it and so is Chivo floating in the reflection of the visor. Right there in space. I can't tell you what part it is but with the DVD you can do the freeze frame and you'll see us. We were there."

Many believed that the journalist was serious when asking the question and that he actually believed the film was shot in space.

The journalist, Carlos 'El Capi' Perez, was later revealed to be a field reporter for the comedic talk show Deberían Estar Trabajando (You Should Be Working).

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