A TikToker said she convinced Tom Holland to film with her after meeting him on a flight. Now her videos about him keep going viral.
- Sophia Koocheck said she met Tom Holland on a flight from Rome to London.
- She shared footage of the man she said was the "Spider-Man" actor sitting next to her on the plane.
A TikToker has gone viral with a video saying she met Tom Holland on a plane.
On February 26, Sophia Koocheck, whose TikTok username is @urfavesophia, uploaded a video with an on-screen caption that said, "I met Tom Holland and sat next to him on a plane for three hours."
The TikTok showed a close-up of Koochek's face, followed by a selfie of her and a man who appeared to be the actor, and a short clip of him taking the phone from her hand and revealing his face to the camera.
The video quickly blew up, and has been viewed over 30 million times and received 130,000 comments, many from people who said they are "jealous" Koochek got to meet Holland, who recently starred in "Spider-Man: No Way Home."
In the TikTok footage, the man can be seen wearing a mask that partially obscured his face, but Koochek said in a subsequent video that she "could tell" it was Holland because of his eyebrows. Representatives for Holland did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
Koochek has posted a series of follow-up TikToks giving more details about the purported encounter.
In a video from the same day captioned "STORYTIME!!!" which has 1.5 million views, Koochek said it occurred while she was traveling in business class on a flight from Rome to London. She said she took a long time to pluck up the courage to ask him for a photo and to film a birthday message for her friend.
"I didn't talk to him for a good 45 minutes while I was shaking, and my heart was racing. It was really scary," she said in the video.
Top comments on the video sympathized with how nervous Koochek said she felt before talking to the star. "I would have died," one comment with 12,000 likes said, and another said, "I would acc pass out."
She said she spoke to Holland for around 10 minutes on the plane before watching the film "Wild Child," still aware that Holland was next to her. "I saw him from the corner of my eye, I think he was looking over a bit and watching it with me," she said.
In subsequent days, Koochek has posted eight follow-up videos. Some show her dancing and smiling with on-screen captions saying she met Tom Holland. She also responded to a comment asking "what did he smell like?" in one video from February 26, by saying, "It didn't cross my mind to sniff him, sorry."
Koochek also shared a video that showed the man she said was Holland filming a birthday message for her friend. It now has 3.1 million TikTok views. The man can be heard saying, "Hi Minnie. It's your birthday and your really good friend here has asked me to do a video for you for your birthday. So have a wonderful day. I hope you enjoy yourself and I'll speak to you soon."
Top comments on the video pointed out that Holland appeared to make a slip of the tongue by saying he'll speak to Minnie "soon," even though he has never met her, adding laughing emojis to their remarks.
Koochek declined Insider's request for comment.
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