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'The Avengers' Bonus Once Misdirected to Tom Hollander

By    |   Thursday, 25 January 2024 01:14 PM EST

British actor and "White Lotus" star Tom Hollander said he once received actor Tom Holland's seven-figure film bonus. 

Hollander, 56, who often gets confused for the "Spiderman" actor, shared the story with "Late Night" host Seth Meyers.

"I don't actually get mistaken for him, but in non-visual contexts I get mistaken for him all the time," Hollander said, according to CNN

The two movie stars once shared an agent, which prompted the mixup. 

Hollander recalled receiving the mistaken bonus while watching a play featuring a friend who was acting for $382 a week. Meanwhile, Hollander was sitting "smugly" in the audience thinking he had just received $38,000 after doing a BBC show which was "gonna get me through the next year or so, and I was thinking, 'Well this is marvelous, I'm very prosperous,'" he said according to the Guardian.

"And I'm going to go afterwards and see him [my friend] and slightly patronize him and say how wonderful it was. And then the interval came and I thought I'd check my emails.

"I got an email from my agency saying, 'Payment advice slip: your first box-office bonus for 'The Avengers,'" Hollander said. "And I thought, 'I don't think I'm in The Avengers.' And it was an astonishing amount of money. And it was not his salary, it was his first box-office bonus, not the whole box office, the first one. And, it was more money than I've ever — it was a seven-figure sum."

During his conversation with Meyers, Hollander also said that he sometimes would be introduced by parents to "excited, then confused, then disappointed children" who probably thought they were meeting Spider-Man.

"They go, 'My children are so excited to meet you.' And I go, 'Are they, though?'" he said before illustrating how things unfold when he asks the parent to bring their children out. 

"They come out and they go, 'Where is he? Where is he?' And they go, 'No. N-no,'" he said.

Zoe Papadakis

Zoe Papadakis is a Newsmax writer based in South Africa with two decades of experience specializing in media and entertainment. She has been in the news industry as a reporter, writer and editor for newspapers, magazine and websites.

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