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Tom Hollander and Tom Holland
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Although British actor Tom Hollander said that visually he is not confused with Tom Holland, via email, he definitely is.
During a recent appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyershe pride and prejudice The actor joked that “it has been very difficult” to have a name similar to his. Spider-Man: No Way Home star because “I was here first. But he is enormously famous.”
Hollander proceeded to recall when his agency once confused him and the actor via email and sent him Holland’s box office bonus for one of the Avengers consequences for him.
“The people in my agency’s accounts department were confused. We were briefly with the same agency. 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 after I had done a BBC show for $30,000… the interval came and I checked my email and received one from the agency saying: ‘Pay slip for first bonus box office for the Avengers.’”
At that moment, the pirates of the Caribbean The actor thought to himself: “I don’t think I’m in the Avengers” but opened the email anyway.
“It was an amazing amount of money,” Hollander said. “It wasn’t his salary. It was his first box office bonus. Not all the box office bonus, the first one. And it was more money than I had ever (seen). “It was a seven-figure sum.”
Hollander’s latest role is in Ryan Murphy’s anthology drama series. Fight: Capote vs. The Swanswhich will premiere on FX on January 31.
As for Holland, many fans are wondering if and when he might reprise his role as Peter Parker/Spider-Man in a fourth film. He said The Hollywood Reporter last year for a June cover in which he had already appeared in several Spiderman development meetings, but noted that he’s also “a little worried” about making a fourth installment.
“There’s a bit of a stigma about the room in all franchises,” Holland explained. “I feel like we’ve 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 to bring this character to life.”
Then in November he said Collider that he “would be a fool” not to play Spider-Man again, but said he would only do so if the story does “justice to the character.”
