 When Paul Hogan (I) (qv) gave an interview for  _Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (2001)_ (qv), he put to rest the  myth that there was a real Crocodile Dundee. He assured the  interviewer that there was not, and that the idea for the character  came from his own head. Hogan admitted that on a trip to New York he  felt like a complete fish