Tom Felton shares about the movie that made his name and his special relationship with Emma Watson.
A Big Love for “Harry Potter”
No one loves “Harry Potter” more than Tom Felton. The 35-year-old actor may have lost the iconic platinum blonde hair he sported as Draco Malfoy in all eight films, but he has never lost his love for the wizarding world.
“I’m a huge Potter fan,” Tom told ELLE Australia. “Or rather, Pottaahh,” he added, emphasizing the second syllable of “Potter” in a very Draco Malfoy way. “It got me back into reading. There was a time when, as I got older, I found reading less interesting, and then Potter helped me feel that you are not interesting if you don’t read books.”
The role in “Harry Potter” played a very important role in Tom Felton’s career. Although he had appeared in a few works before “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”, it was when he was cast as the arrogant Slytherin student Draco Malfoy that he became a superstar.
While his fellow actors Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter), Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley) and Emma Watson (Hermione Granger) are still trying to escape the shadow of “Harry Potter,” Tom Felton is going in a different direction.
Tom Felton’s book, “Beyond The Wand” (2022), is a behind-the-scenes look at the making of one of the biggest film franchises of all time, chronicling his time on “Harry Potter” as well as the aftermath of experiencing early fame, including two stints in rehab.
“I find writing to be a release,” he shared, revealing that he writes almost every day. “It’s a kind of meditation for me, whether it’s a poem or a daily thought, a joke, a lyric, a chapter of a book. So writing this book wasn’t a process of actually sitting down and writing it, but I was collecting my thoughts, 10,000 pages of notes that I scribbled down over time.”
Tom’s Instagram account regularly features reunions with the “Harry Potter” cast, featuring the rivalry between Gryffindor and Slytherin in the wizarding world.
“For me, the greatest thing about the Harry Potter universe is that it has brought together more people than anything I’ve ever seen, including sports and fans of all different genres,” Tom shared.
