- Jamie Lee Curtis played a wife who didn't know her husband was a spy in 1994's True Lies , and Arnold Schwarzenegger played her husband, also named Harry.
- In the first scene, starring Geoffrey Rush , there is a picture of Sean Connery playing golf, and Harry, played by Rush, goes on to say that he's tailoring a costume that resembles what Sean Connery often wears the set. The episode alludes to Connery's love of golf for playing 007.
- Laura Boorman, who plays Sarah in the film, is the daughter of director John Boorman .
- To make himself Panamanian, Brendan Gleeson dyed his natural red hair black and wore brown contact lenses.
- The film is John Lee Gary's first adaptation of his own novel into a screenplay.
- Cross-dressing shot: Abraxas still breathes and blinks after his death .
The Tailor of Panama behind the scenes gags
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Extended Reading
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Harry Pendel: Welcome to Panama, Casablanca without heroes.
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Michelangelo 'Mickie' Abraxas: Never on our knees.
Harry Pendel: Right.
Michelangelo 'Mickie' Abraxas: Or on our asses.