Tom Hollander revealed that he accidentally received Tom Holland’s seven-figure bonus check for an “Avengers” film.
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During his participation on “Late Night With Seth Meyers” on Tuesday (23), Hollander explained that he often gets mistaken for the Marvel actor, in “non-visual contexts,” including in the accounts department of his agency, which also briefly represented Holland.
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“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”, started to explain Hollander. Then he said that he checked his email during the interval and saw a message from the agency saying that they were sending his “first box-office bonus for ‘The Avengers”.
“I don’t think I’m in ‘The Avengers”, he said that he thought to himself, but he then proceeded to open the email. “It was an astonishing amount of money. It was not his salary. It was his first box-office bonus. Not the whole box-office bonus, the first one”, he said.
“And it was more money than I’d ever [seen]. It was a seven-figure sum”, added Hollander. He added that his “feeling of smugness” that he had during the first half of his BBC show “disappeared very quickly”, because Holland was only “20 or something”.
“But that’s showbiz. It’s up, it’s down, it’s hero, it’s zero.” In addition to this confusion, Hollander also joked that he is often introduced to someone who is “very, very excited” to meet him, but is quickly “confused and then disappointed” when they realize that he is not the youngest actor.