A new review in the Philadelphia Bulletin gives another great description of Tom Felton’s acting in “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince:

Rupert Grint is not a great actor, but he gives a solid performance now as a young adult. Daniel Radcliffe turns out to be a very good actor. And Emma Watson, as Hermione Granger, has grown into the strongest performer of the lot.

With one exception. Tom Felton, who plays the thankless part of the bully, Draco Malfoy, was cast BEFORE anyone knew how vital and difficult a role his would be by the time the sixth film rolled around. In many ways this is his movie — his choices provide most of the suspense. And he has to play them in virtual solitude.

It is hard to be sure, because he says so little in this film (yet conveys so much!), but he may turn out to be the best actor to come out of the child casting in the Harry Potter films. (And I include in this Robert Pattinson, who graduated from playing Cedric Diggory, who dies tragically in GOBLET, to giving a surprisingly effective performance in the difficult role of Edward Cullen in TWILIGHT.)

Tom is interviewed for more than 5 minutes by Absolute Radio, touching on topics from Draco Malfoy and fishing to what he’d shove in a vanishing cabinet if he could. 😉 He also talks about his costume in Harry Potter: “Black suits, all around!”

Thanks to Selly who sent this to us, and who described it as 5 minutes of pure Tom Felton bliss. =)

Thanks to NikiDArcangelis for pointing out this video to us! Comcast asks Tom Felton: What would be in your Room of Requirement?

Tom is pictured at the beginning and at 55 seconds in.

For those that can’t see, here is a transcript:

Interviewer: If you had a Room of Requirement, what would you put in it? This is strictly for the Harry Potter fans out there.

Tom: If I had a Room of Requirement, oh God, I don’t know why, but things like a jaquzzi come into my head. I don’t know why I’m thinking of luxury, lavish items – that isn’t really what I’m thinking.

Rupert: Yeah, a flying car.

Bonnie: Oh, I dunno, I suppose it’s always what you desire at that moment. I think…

Interviewer: So, right now it would be pizza.

Michael Gambon: I’d put a machine, that, whenever you touch it, it shoves out thousand dollar bills.

Interviewer: That’s be quite good.

Bonnie: It would be quite cool just to have a room of your own, I dunno, something like a refuge place where you can just relax, and read, and somewhere to be really quiet, that’d be cool.

Dan: A TV. God, how unimaginative! I would want an imagination room in the Room of Requirement, that would replace my original thought. There we go. To end on something slightly more metaphysical.

Tom: A cricket pitch. Not that that would mean anything to any American fans. But, yeah, I’d love it.

Interviewer: We’ve heard of cricket.

Tom: You’ve heard of it.

Interviewer: Yeah.

Tom: Fantastic sport. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I’d thouroughly enjoy that.

In an interview with The Gate, a Canadian newspaper, Tom addresses many topics such as Twitter, pop culture, his hair and more.

This was a round-table interview with many press organizations, so we’ve seen snippets of this interview elsewhere before.

There is much more, so click here to read the whole thing!

O.P.: He’s evil, and what’s up with his hair…?
T.F.: I know. I don’t really understand, I mean where Draco finds the time to get his roots touched up every week. It’s a very iconic hairdo, I guess no one else really has it.

There have been times where naturally, getting your hair dyed isn’t that pleasant, but saying that, I’ve grown quite oddly attached to it over the years. People have asked me, at the end of it are you planning on cutting it off, but I can see myself strangely keeping it. I’m not sure about it yet. I’m not sure what my girlfriend has to say about that.

A.P.: What about your music career? Is that a career opportunity?
T.F.: It scares me that you mention it as a career, because that’s certainly not where I was angling. It’s always been a passion of mine and I learned to play on the Harry Potter set, lots of hours to yourself, so that was a great way of killing the time. And yeah, I’ve shared a bit online, about a year ago now and it seems to have done pretty well, so it’s a personal thing for me. It’s certainly not a career that I’m looking to jump into just yet, but as long as people enjoy listening to it, then I’ll keep sharing.

O.P.: What’s on your shirt?
O.P.: It’s Mohammed Ali, right?
T.F.: Yeah, you tell me. Please, I was dressed. This is a t-shirt, I think.

Yeah, it is Ali, isn’t it? Yeah, through the years.

I’m not much of a fashionable man. If you left me to my own devices it would probably be a hoodie and jeans 365 days a year. So I’m glad I have a very talented girlfriend to do that for me. [Laughs]

O.P.: Who likes Mohammed Ali?
T.F.: Yeah, of course. She must be a big boxing fan. [Laugh] That is a joke, just to clarify.

Thanks to Snitchseeker for posting this, and Apollonia1 for pointing it out to us!