Don't Even Try To Deny It.
I have finished the third season of Prison Break! And then I watched 'Between Takes', little segments of the actors talking about the show and clips of them when out of character.
The main thing I noticed, apart from Chris Vance kissing random dudes and how weird it is to see Jodi Lyn O'Keefe not being evil and how massively weird it is to hear Robert Knepper speaking without a southern accent, was that Wentworth Miller did not have a segment. In fact, I am not sure he appears in the out-of-character clips from any of the other segments.
The only conclusion I can reasonably draw is that Wentworth Miller does not, in fact, exist. There really is a Michael Scofield, and he really does believe that his family is in danger and he has to break people out of prison, but everyone else in his life is an actor. Even his beloved brother. Poor, poor Scofield. I hope he never finds out. (You should probably let him know that all the people who have supposedly died because of him aren't really dead, Prison Break creators, but don't tell him that his entire life has been a lie. It would be cruel.)
I'm not sure how to explain his appearance in Buffy, though. That pretty obviously was not Michael Scofield.
NO, WAIT, I HAVE THE ANSWER: Michael Scofield briefly dabbled in acting, before 'Lincoln' (obviously Prison Break was conceived of long ago and Dominic Purcell has been playing Scofield's brother since Scofield was born) was arrested and everything went to hell. 'Wentworth Miller' was the pseudonym he used. The Prison Break creators decided to use this pseudonym in the credits to give the impression that this was simply the actor Wentworth Miller, rather than a poor unfortunate man who had no idea what was going on.
I don't know why I didn't realise this before.
The main thing I noticed, apart from Chris Vance kissing random dudes and how weird it is to see Jodi Lyn O'Keefe not being evil and how massively weird it is to hear Robert Knepper speaking without a southern accent, was that Wentworth Miller did not have a segment. In fact, I am not sure he appears in the out-of-character clips from any of the other segments.
The only conclusion I can reasonably draw is that Wentworth Miller does not, in fact, exist. There really is a Michael Scofield, and he really does believe that his family is in danger and he has to break people out of prison, but everyone else in his life is an actor. Even his beloved brother. Poor, poor Scofield. I hope he never finds out. (You should probably let him know that all the people who have supposedly died because of him aren't really dead, Prison Break creators, but don't tell him that his entire life has been a lie. It would be cruel.)
I'm not sure how to explain his appearance in Buffy, though. That pretty obviously was not Michael Scofield.
NO, WAIT, I HAVE THE ANSWER: Michael Scofield briefly dabbled in acting, before 'Lincoln' (obviously Prison Break was conceived of long ago and Dominic Purcell has been playing Scofield's brother since Scofield was born) was arrested and everything went to hell. 'Wentworth Miller' was the pseudonym he used. The Prison Break creators decided to use this pseudonym in the credits to give the impression that this was simply the actor Wentworth Miller, rather than a poor unfortunate man who had no idea what was going on.
I don't know why I didn't realise this before.