The day Tom Hollander received a huge Avengers bonus intended for Tom Holland

“It was more money than I had ever received. A seven-figure sum,” assures the Pirates of the Caribbean actor.

Tom Holland And Tom Hollander are two British actors, both of whom worked for Disney at one point. The first is obviously Marvel’s Spider-Man since Captain America: Civil Warreleased in theaters in 2016, and the second starred Cutler Beckett in Pirates of the Caribbean 2 And 3.

Despite their similar names, they are not the same age (27 years old for Tom Holland, 56 for Tom Hollander), nor the same career, but they are regularly confused, recognizes the actor in the series The White Lotus. Invited to Late Show by Seth Meyers, he tells a crazy anecdote: one day, members of his agency made a mistake in wanting to send bonuses on revenue fromAvengers 3 Or 4 at first. With a billion-dollar blockbuster at the box office, it was the jackpot: Tom Hollander saw a very large sum pass before his eyes, much more than the fees he himself receives as an actor.

“Indeed, we are often confused, recognizes Tom Hollander on set. Obviously, only in non-visual contexts, because we don’t look alike physically. But if I have a company on the phone and they ask me my name, it often ends in: ‘Tom Holland?’ ‘No, Tom Hollander’. Or I’m introduced to someone who goes from overexcitement to disappointment, I’m told: ‘Oh, my children are going to be so happy to meet you!’ and I think internally: ‘Oh yes ? Really ?’ (laughs) The meeting time arrives and the children are looking everywhere for Tom Holland. ‘Where is he ? Where is he ?’and when they see me: ‘No no ! It is not him !’“

Faced with the significant popularity of his quasi-homonym, Tom Hollander then revealed that “Even within my agency, the accounting team made a mistake. We briefly had the same representatives, and it’s a terrible memory for me. I was in London, I went to see a friend who was performing in the theater for 300 pounds a week. He was doing a good job, he was playing Chekhov. I was watching him in the audience, and at that time I had just done a series for the BBC for about 30,000 pounds . A salary that would allow me to last until the following year. I remember saying to myself: ‘It’s great, I’ve got some money saved, my friend Peter is doing this great play, I can’t wait to go see him in his dressing room and tell him how good he is. The intermission arrives, and then I see that I received an email from the agency saying: ‘Payments Service: Your First Avengers Box Office Bonus.’ I said to myself : ‘Um… I don’t think I played in a Avengers ?’ (laughs)”

“The amount was incredibly high, he adds, admitting to having opened the email even though he suspected that it was not intended for him. It wasn’t about his salary, it was ‘just’ its first revenue bonus. Not on the entire box office, moreover, only on the first rung. And it was more money than I had ever received. A 7-figure sum. So what did he have? 20 years ? I felt bad, this feeling of being rich for a very short moment, before it disappeared very quickly. It was terrible. But hey, that’s showbiz: we are at the highest and the next moment at the lowest. We’re a hero and bam! We’re at zero.”