Tom Felton on the Harry Potter films
The role had consequences for his love life
Tom Felton is currently performing in theaters in London’s West End.
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Tom Felton is best known for playing the villain in Harry Potter. In an interview, he now tells how the role has influenced his private life.
Tom Felton (34) became world famous as a child as the unsympathetic villain Draco Malfoy in the “Harry Potter” films. The actor now explains that the role did not necessarily have a positive effect on his private life in an interview with the British newspaper “The Guardian”.
He accepted the role more or less “indifferently” at the time, he had not previously known the books, explains Felton. In the first few years, his life hardly changed as a result of the film series, he still went to school regularly. “I carried on as normal. Every now and then my buddies would make a joke or comment, but nobody really cared,” said Felton.
“Didn’t do me any favors with the girls”
For some, all of this is hard to believe, the actor continues. It is difficult for many to imagine that he was not this “special, popular” child. “I went around with my hair dyed and played a mean wizard. It wasn’t cool. I didn’t do myself any favors with the girls.”
However, it was positive that the supporting role did not turn him into a child star overnight, like his co-stars Daniel Radcliffe (32), Rupert Grint (33) and Emma Watson (32). This allowed him to slowly get used to the success. “It happened more slowly than you would think,” said Felton. “Daniel, Rupert and Emma were in the posters, getting pulled out of school and going on press trips. I had a much more normal life.” He was almost never recognized and spoken to on the street.
Shortly after the last “Harry Potter” film, Felton was in front of the camera for “Planet of the Apes: Prevolution”. Several independent films followed. After almost ten years in Los Angeles, Tom Felton has been living in Great Britain again for a year and a half. He is currently in rehearsals for the play 2:22: A Ghost Story in London’s West End.