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What gets me is that anybody would even believe something like that was real.

I can't find any source for this random comment's claim that they were actors, which seems like it would be pretty easy to prove. I think you've been bamboozled.

Why wouldn't it be real? Hypnosis does work.

Hypnosis only works if the hypnotee wants to be hypnotized or feel social pressure to play along, not what lay people usually think hypnotism means.

Do you have any evidence or source for this or are we expected to believe a comment from a random person on the internet ?

No they weren't?