Tom Hollander accidentally received Tom Holland’s payslip for ‘astonishing amount of money’-Danni Scott-Entertainment – Metro

A Marvel paycheck is unsurprisingly eyewatering, even shocking actor Tom Hollander who accidentally landed one when he was mistaken for Tom Holland.

A name mixup between the two actors meant the 56-year-old White Lotus star was handed Spider-Man’s whopping Avengers payslip.

Hollander admitted the surprise mishap occurred due to the almost identical spellings of their surnames but humbly joked that they only get confused for each other in a ‘nonvisual context’.

Appearing on Late Night with Seth Meyers, the dad-of-one recalled the confusing moment his agency’s accounts department sent him one of Holland’s paycheques by mistake.

He said: ‘I thought… I don’t think I’m in the Avengers. It was an astonishing amount of money – it was not his salary, it was just first box office bonus.

‘Not the whole box office, the first one. It was more money than I’ve ever – it was a seven-figure sum!’

Tom Hollander gets confused for Marvel’s Tom Holland surprisingly often (Picture:NBC)

Tom Holland’s box office bonus shocked the White Lotus star (Picture: Valerie Macon/AFP)

The Feud: Capote vs. The Swan star explained the mixup was made by the accounting department when they were ‘briefly’ at the same agency.

Hollander joked he had been feeling ‘smug’ before he saw the email as he quipped: ‘It was a terrible moment. I went to see my friend who was doing theatre in England, for £300 a week, doing great work…

‘I sat smugly in the audience having just done a BBC show for 30 grand or something.’

This didn’t last long as he added: ‘My feeling of smugness disappeared very quickly. But that’s showbiz! It’s up, it’s down, it’s hero, it’s zero.’

He said the paycheck was an ‘astonishing’ sum of money (Picture: Lloyd Bishop/NBC via Getty Images)

Hollander joked the pair don’t get mixed up in visual contexts (Picture: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

The true amount earned by Marvel stars is not known but Forbes estimated that Oscar nominee Robert Downey Jr could have taken home $75,000,000 for Endgame when including his box office cut.

Another original Avenger, Scarlett Johansson, was very publicly paid $20 million for her solo film Black Widow – this isn’t including the opening weekend bonus.

Chris Hemsworth is thought to have also taken a $20 million paycheck for Thor 4 while Chris Evans was paid $15 million for Endgame and the final Chris – Pratt – got $5 million for Infinity War.

Holland himself is estimated to receive between $2 million to $5 million per film, with a net worth of $45 million or £35 million since he is British.

Holland stars alongside Robert Downey Jr. who landed an estimated $75million for Endgame (Picture: Todd Williamson/Getty Images)

As a Marvel leading man, Holland might be taking home $5million per film (Picture: Emma McIntyre/Getty Images)

Hollander cheekily teased that it had been ‘very difficult’ being mistaken for Holland, who is 29 years younger and famously dating the gorgeous Zendaya.

He added: ‘I was here first! But he’s enormously famous. Obviously, I don’t actually get mistaken for him, but in nonvisual contexts, I get mistaken for him all the time.

‘So, talking to utility companies, “And what’s your name?” They go, “Tom Holland?” Because they heard Tom Holland – “no, it’s Hollander”.

‘Or I’m introduced to somebody’s very, very excited, then confused, then disappointed children. They go, “My children are so excited to meet you?” I go, “Are they though? I don’t think they are but bring them out!”‘

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