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TIL actors who play James Bond “give away their rights to wear a tuxedo in any other film” and that this was circumvented by Pierce Brosnan in The Thomas Crown Affair by wearing an unbuttoned shirt and a white bow-tie which wasn’t tied around his neck.

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