How Tom Holland’s Avengers bonus sent to Tom Hollander in error?

It is not every day a million dollars shows up in your account by accident.

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However, The White Lotus star Tom Hollander has revealed

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It happened to him when he received a paycheque intended for Spider-Man actor Tom Holland.

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Speaking to Late Night host Seth Meyers, Hollander said:

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“We were with the same agents briefly and people in the accounts department got confused.

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“It’s been very difficult, because you know I was here first but he’s enormously famous,” he added jokingly.

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Explaining how he discovered the accidental payment, Hollander said,

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He was watching a friend in the theatre who was being paid £300.

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At the interval, he checked his emails and saw “Box office bonus for The Avengers”.

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“It was an astonishing amount of money,” the 56-year-old told Meyers.

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“It was not his salary. It was his first box office bonus. Not the whole box office bonus, the first one.

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And it was more money than I’d ever seen. It was a seven-figure sum.”

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