Tom Holland and Historian Tom Holland Meet on Podcast

Actor Tom Holland and historian Tom Holland met for a podcast episode this week, playfully addressing years of online confusion stemming from their shared name. The actor, who stars in Christopher Nolan's upcoming film "The Odyssey," appeared as a guest on the historian's popular podcast, "The Rest Is History," in an episode released on July 13.

The two leaned into the long-running internet meme by recreating the iconic Spider-Man pointing meme before sitting down in chairs each labeled "Tom Holland." The historian introduced his guest by saying, "I am Tom Holland and I have with me the real Tom Holland." The actor interjected, "Not the real Tom Holland. Just another Tom Holland," to which the historian replied, "I know my place. And were I the kind of person who regularly Googled himself, I mean, you would have destroyed my ability to do that." The actor offered a lighthearted apology, which the historian dismissed by noting he does not Google himself.

Their meeting follows a recent surge in online mix-ups, most notably when businessman Elon Musk posted a critical comment directed at the historian's positive review of "The Odyssey." Many social media users mistakenly believed...