I was ‘catfished by my own DAD posing as a hot girl – but it made us closer than ever’

A HOLLYWOOD actor and filmmaker has claimed he was catfished by his own dad, who apparently posed as an attractive girl to connect with his estranged son.

James Morosini was 20 years old when he received a Facebook message from someone who appeared to be a pretty girl named Becca, but allegedly turned out to be his dad.

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James Morosini made a film about his experience when his father catfished him online[/caption]

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Morosini’s father (pictured) reached out from a fake profile after his son decided to cut him from his life[/caption]

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In I Love My Dad, Patton Oswalt plays Morosini’s father[/caption]

After realizing he and “Becca” seemed to share all the same interests, the two embarked on a romantic cyber romance.

Morosini, who has appeared on HBO’s The Sex Lives of College Girls, spoke to the Daily Beast about his unique experience, which he has turned into a film.

“I took the kernel of what actually happened and extrapolated upon that, and used my imagination to push it to the furthest degree of, ‘What if it had gone even further in this direction?’” Morosini said.

“Or, you know, what if I hadn’t found out? Or what if it had taken me longer to find out?”

The now 31-year-old’s film, I Love My Dad, shows Morosini’s character struggling with a disappointing father figure before deciding to cut off contact and block his number and social media accounts.

As the father, played by Patton Oswalt, becomes desperate to reconnect, he decides to use a fake profile to talk to his son.

But Morosini’s, feeling a deep connection, quickly starts talking to the dad in a romantic tone, and the dad goes along with it.

In the film, the relationship then escalates to sexting and cyber sex.

It wasn’t until Morosini realized Becca had the same email address as his father that he put two and two together.

Because by this point he and his father had already reunited and were going to therapy, Morosini confronted him about it there.

Surprisingly, the awkward experience only drew the two together, and they have a great relationship today.

“It was us hitting that rock bottom in our relationship, but it forced us to confront some of the foundational problems of our relationship and actually caused things between him and I to get a lot better over time, because we had to talk about it,” Morosini said.

I Love My Dad premiered at the SXSW Film Festival over the weekend.

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Morosini is pictured with the actor who played his father[/caption]

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I Love My Dad premiered at the SXSW Film Festival over the weekend[/caption]