Ha! It’s one thing for an audience member to mix two actors’ names up while watching the opening credits and wondering how the heck baby Tom Holland is in 2001’s Gosford Park. It’s quite another for the accounting department to make that mistake!
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Zack Sharf Digital News Director Tom Hollander is a British actor known for performances in “Pride & Prejudice,” the “Pirates of the Caribbean” films, “The White Lotus” and “The Night Manager,” the latter of which earned him a BAFTA Award. What he isn’t is Tom Holland, the 27-year-old superstar who plays Peter Parker/Spider-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. During a recent appearance on “Late Night With Seth Meyers,” Hollander remembered the one time his agency mixed him up with Holland via an email, sending the Marvel star’s box office bonus was mistakenly sent to the British thespian.
“People in the account’s department of my agency got confused. We were with the same agents briefly. And it was a terrible moment,” Hollander told Meyers with his trademark dry wit.
“I went to see my friend who was doing theater in England. I sat smugly in the audience just having done a BBC show for $30,000 … the interval came and I checked my email and I got one from the agency saying, ‘Payment slip for first box office bonus for ‘The Avengers.'” Hollander thought to himself, “I don’t think I’m in ‘The Avengers,'” but proceeded to open the email that was intended for Holland instead. “It was an astonishing amount of money,” Hollander 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]. It was a seven-figure sum.” Hollander is currently making the press rounds in support of his performance as Truman Capote in Ryan Murphy’s upcoming FX anthology drama “Feud: Capote vs. The Swans.” While he’s familiar with the world of major Hollywood tentpoles having played Lord Cutler Beckett in the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise and starred
.Ha! It’s one thing for an audience member to mix two actors’ names up while watching the opening credits and wondering how the heck baby Tom Holland is in 2001’s Gosford Park. It’s quite another for the accounting department to make that mistake!
Sexy Spider-Man actor Tom Holland is definitely a household name — it’s just too bad that his paycheck for his role as the superhero/Peter Parker in the Marvel Cinematic Universe was sent to the wrong household.On Monday’s episode of “Late Night With Seth Meyers,” British actor Tom Hollander, who is known for his star turns in “Pride & Prejudice,” the “Pirates of the Caribbean” films, “The White Lotus” and “The Night Manager,” revealed the humbling moment his agency mistakenly sent him an “Avengers” bonus meant for the 27-year-old currently dating Zendaya. “I went to see my friend who was doing theater in England for 300 pounds a week, you know, but doing great work, Chekhov, and I sat smugly in the audience having just done a BBC show for 30 grand or something which was, you know, going to get me through the next year or so,” Hollander explained.
Tom Hollander got a big surprise when he was accidentally emailed part of Tom Holland‘s box office bonus pay for a Marvel movie.
Tom Holland‘s pay cheques for The Avengers after the accountant got them confused because of the similarity in their names.He also admitted that the mix-up had enabled him to see just how big a bonus Hollander got for appearing in the Marvel blockbuster.Hollander told the story in a recent appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers.“It’s been very difficult, because you know I was here first but he’s enormously famous,” he said. “I don’t actually get mistaken for him, but in nonvisual contexts I get mistaken for him all the time.”Hollander also said he was occasionally introduced to “excited, then confused, then disappointed children” who might have thought they were meeting Spider-Man.On the time he got a payment that was meant for Holland, Hollander said: “People in the accounts department of my agency got confused.
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