Actor Tom Hollander once ‘received’ Tom Holland’s Avengers bonus
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British actor Tom Hollander (left) often gets mistaken for Spiderman star Tom Holland.
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LOS ANGELES – British actor and The White Lotus (2021 to present) villain Tom Hollander often gets mistaken for Spider-Man star Tom Holland, but occasionally, it works in his favour – like when he “received” the other man’s seven-figure film bonus.
Hollander, who also had turns in Pirates Of The Caribbean (2006 and 2007) and Pride & Prejudice (2005), at one time shared an agent with the younger Marvel star.
This week, the 56-year-old told late-night host Seth Meyers that his agency once sent him an e-mail containing a payslip with an “astonishing” sum and labelled as the first tranche of a box-office bonus for his work on one of the Avengers (2012 to 2019) movies.
Holland, who played Spider-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, starred in Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and Avengers: Endgame (2019).
“I don’t think I’m in The Avengers,” Hollander thought to himself as he opened the missive, he told Meyers.
“It was an astonishing amount of money,” he said.
“It was not his salary. It was his first box-office bonus. Not the whole box-office bonus, the first one.
“And it was more money than I’d ever (seen),” he said. “It was a seven-figure sum.”
Other times Hollander has been confused for the younger star have been less fun, the Tony nominee said.
“I’m (sometimes) introduced to somebody’s very, very excited, then confused, then disappointed children,” Hollander recalled.
“It’s been very difficult. Because, you know, I was here first,” he joked.
Hollander was on NBC’s Late Night With Seth Meyers to promote his forthcoming series Feud: Capote Vs The Swans, in which he plays American writer Truman Capote. AFP
