Tom Holland’s Box Office Bonus for Marvel Was Sent to British Actor Tom Hollander by Mistake: ‘An Astonishing Amount of Money… a Seven-Figure Sum’

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Zack Sharf Digital News Director Tom Hollander is a British actor known for performances in “Pride & Prejudice,” the “Pirates of the Caribbean” films, “The White Lotus” and “The Night Manager,” the latter of which earned him a BAFTA Award.

What he isn’t is Tom Holland, the 27-year-old superstar who plays Peter Parker/Spider-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. During a recent appearance on “Late Night With Seth Meyers,” Hollander remembered the one time his agency mixed him up with Holland via an email, sending the Marvel star’s box office bonus was mistakenly sent to the British thespian. “People in the account’s department of my agency got confused.

We were with the same agents briefly. And it was a terrible moment,” Hollander told Meyers with his trademark dry wit. “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.'” Hollander thought to himself, “I don’t think I’m in ‘The Avengers,'” but proceeded to open the email that was intended for Holland instead. “It was an astonishing amount of money,” Hollander said. “It was not his salary.