>>505 Someone I know kicks around reddit. She mentioned that over on the James Bond reddit there is a source saying TH and Mendes shot a Bond screen test. The test wasn't requested by the Bond people but done by Mendes as a favor to TH. If that source is to be believed - and TH does this test thing, he hired his own make-up professional to shoot a test for The Crow a few years ago - then he was at the very least trying to get noticed by the Bond people.