Did Kevin Spacey eat a real banana in kpax?

Answer 1

Yes

Among the many unusual aspects to Prot's character is his love for fresh fruit - a love so profound that he eats the entire banana, including peel. "It was always in the script that Prot ate produce that way - he just thought all of it was good and none of it was worth throwing away," Spacey recalls with a laugh. "If you gave him a coconut, he¿d probably eat the whole thing. So when we came to do that day of the shoot, they had crafted fake [banana] peels, and then put a banana inside of it. And it just looked really bad; just to the naked eye, it kind of looked like a gigantic yellow felt marker. And it kind of fell apart, and I said ¿Guys, this isn¿t going to work, why don't you just go to the store and get some nice, ripe bananas and wash them and let¿s just do it.¿ It was an astounding potassium high - you¿re bouncing off the walls. The look on Jeff¿s face [in those scenes] is the real look on Jeff¿s face - he just couldn¿t believe I was doing it."