Tom Hollander and Tom Holland
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Though British actor Tom Hollander said he doesn’t get mistaken for Tom Holland visually, over email, he definitely has.
During a recent appearance on Late Night With Seth Meyers, the Pride & Prejudice actor quipped that “it’s been very difficult” having a similar name to the Spider-Man: No Way Home star because “I was here first. But he’s enormously famous.”
Hollander proceeded to recall when his agency once mixed up him and the actor via email and sent Holland’s box office bonus for one of the Avengers sequels to him.
“People in the accounts department of my agency got confused. We were with the same agency briefly. And it was a terrible moment,” Hollander explained with a laugh. “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.’”
At that moment, the Pirates of the Caribbean actor thought to himself, “I don’t think I’m in The Avengers,” but opened the email anyway.
“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’s latest role is in Ryan Murphy’s anthology drama series Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, which is set to premiere on FX on Jan. 31.
As for Holland, many fans are wondering if and when he might reprise his role as Peter Parker/Spider-Man in a fourth movie as the lead. He told The Hollywood Reporter last year for a June cover story that he had already sat in several Spider-Man development meetings but noted that he’s also “a little apprehensive about” doing a fourth installment.
“There’s a bit of a stigma about the fourth one in all franchises,” Holland explained. “I feel like we hit a home run with our first franchise, and there’s a part of me that wants to walk away with my head held high and pass the baton to the next lucky kid that gets to bring this character to life.”
Then in November, he told Collider that he “would be a fool” not to play Spider-Man again but said he would only do it if the storyline does “justice to the character.”
