10 Insane Movie Facts Nobody Believes
Believe it or not, Peter Dinklage is older than Warwick Davis.
Hollywood is one hell of a strange industry, where talent and general logic only sometimes prevail, and careers are often shaped by the whims of wildly eccentric - if we're being kind - executives.
It is an absolute bubble of a business completely removed from the everyday, enough that cast and crew members end up experiencing some seriously surreal and heightened things both on and off movie sets.
And just when you think you've heard all the crazy stories whispered around Hollywood, here comes another 10 to make your brain hurt just a little bit.
Inspired by this recent Reddit thread on the very subject, these 10 movie facts are so bewilderingly ridiculous and tough to parse that your immediate reaction is likely to reject them as exaggerated half-truths or, better yet, total bulls**t.
But believe it - each of these facts absolutely holds water, most of them verified by hard sources if not the central figures themselves. If nothing else, they're proof perfect that for as magical as filmmaking is, it's also a fundamentally insane way for anyone to make a living, for better or worse...
10. Pierce Brosnan's James Bond Contract Prevented Him From Wearing A Tuxedo In Other Movies
Here's something that sounds like it's pure Internet urban legend, and yet, it's absolutely true.
When Pierce Brosnan signed on to play James Bond in GoldenEye and beyond, the contract included a stipulation which dictated that he couldn't wear a tuxedo in other films while still starring as 007, presumably for fear of diluting the Bond branding.
The situation became tricky for Brosnan when he signed up to appear in the 1999 remake of The Thomas Crown Affair, where a sequence required his titular billionaire to wear a tuxedo to a fancy black tie dinner.
Yet as director John McTiernan explained on the film's DVD commentary, they were able to circumvent the issue by unbuttoning his shirt and leaving his bow tie untied around his neck.
This rule is rumoured to have originated from Roger Moore's decision to appear in The Cannonball Run mid-way through his Bond tenure as a suited-up, hilariously unsubtle parody of 007, much to the chagrin of Bond producer Albert R. Broccoli.