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Tom Felton interviewed by Scholastic.com

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Scholastic.com posted a new interview today featuring Tom Felton and Bonnie Wright. They share their thoughts on JK Rowling,  parts they wish they could have filmed, and how important their roles have become in the final book.

Q: Are you both happy about the way your parts got more important in the last book?

Bonnie: Yeah I definitely was happy where J.K. Rowling took the character of Ginny. I think if we were all told at the first film where our characters would end up, I don’t think any of us would have imagined. It’s just really enjoyable and sort of unnerving at the beginning when you do read the last book.

Tom: Seriously. When that came out I was like, I’m not going to read it. I’m going to wait for the script. I don’t want to be reading bits in the book and thinking I can’t wait to do that and then find out it’s not going to be featured. And that lasted about an hour, and within it being released in a day I read the whole thing!

Q: Is there any particular scene from any of the books that you wish you could have filmed but wasn’t filmed?

Tom: They cut out actually very little. There was a thing in the second film where Jason [Lucius Malfoy] and I did a scene at Borgin and Burkes and it was the first time that it was father and son together. And that answered a lot to me why Draco is like that. Unfortunately it was never featured in the film. It was on the DVD as a deleted scene, so I got to watch it, which was cool. But no, everything else we’ve shot. Especially on these last two [films]. Everything — when I read the book I thought, “I can’t wait to shoot that.” It’s all there, so we’re very excited.

Q: How would you describe J.K. Rowling?

Bonnie: I always find it so surreal meeting her. This whole world literally is because of one person.
Tom: She’s a very unassuming down-to-earth lady, the most lovely lady. I was always taken away by how genuine she seemed, and how unaffected by the fact that she’s probably the world’s biggest author.

Q: In Harry Potter 6 everyone’s in love except Draco.

Tom: Oh what’s that? Can you believe it! I didn’t even realize all this stuff was going on because I was doing the whole evil walk down the corridor thing and when we saw the film everyone sort of. . .of course I’m jealous! I like to think Draco had offers but he was too busy with his evil task at hand.

Bonnie: Or they weren’t good enough.

Tom: This was it. Very high standards for Draco. I can’t imagine why any female on the planet would want to spend the day with him.

Q: Which of the other actors do you look up to?

Tom: I look up massively to Dan [Harry], Rupert [Ron] and Emma [Hermione]. I think they hold the fort single-handedly so well. They’re all superb actors and they carry the feature through beautifully. And they deal with it like it’s nothing! I know we’re all here quite a bit, but they’re here religiously. Endless days, and yet Daniel takes it all in his stride and absolutely loves it. I always admire watching him on set.

There is tons more, so click here to read the full interview!

Thanks to www.the-leaky-cauldron.org for the tip!

This Town Ain’t Big Enough For The Both Of Us, Voldemort – Tom Felton Reveals Final Scene Hint

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In another MTV interview, Tom Felton talks about the last Fight Scene of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. He describes it as being like a “western style showdown.” He also talks about what the end will be like. You can watch the interview on the MTV website.

Here’s the interview:

Tom Felton on MTV

It’s all been building to this: the battle to the death between Harry Potter and his Dark Arts-enabled adversary Voldemort on the hallowed grounds of the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Devotees of J.K. Rowling’s boy-wizard series already know how the clash ends in the final book, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” but no one yet knows how it will be handled onscreen. Stay tuned until the summer of 2011, when the second part of “Deathly Hallows” arrives in theaters, to find out.

Until then, we’ll have to go on what its castmembers have to say. Stopping by MTV News to promote the DVD of “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” star Tom Felton raved about the climatic combat scene and the way it brings so much of the cast together at once.

“It’s kind of cool, because this is the first time we’ve had so many castmembers on one set at one time, especially everyone from the evil camp and everyone from the good camp in a Western-style showdown — without revealing too much,” said Felton, who plays the nefarious Draco Malfoy. “It’s an amazing last scene, what we’ve shot of it so far. It’s very exciting.”

That’s not the only scene left to complete. The yearlong shoot was originally slated to wrap up at the end of April, but it’s now been extended well into June. Though the end is far off, Felton laughed that he, Daniel Radcliffe and the rest of the cast are looking forward to what should be a killer wrap party, a decade after they began filming the first movie in the series.

In the meantime, Felton is looking forward to returning to the “Potter” set across the Atlantic. “I’ve rarely had an opportunity to work with the evil family,” he said. “I’m working with Helena Bonham Carter, who’s a lovely lady and also a completely scary witch when she wants to be. I’m enjoying working with adult cast tremendously.”

Click here for the full interview!

Vampires and Birthday Suits and Tom Felton Equals an E! Interview

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Mark Malkin interviews Tom Felton in this E! Interview. They talk about Robert Pattinson, life after the Harry Potter movie’s “passing” – It might have something to do with vampires… – Daniel Radcliffe’s Equus/HarryPotter Crossover rumors, and PARTIES!

Here’s the Interview:

Tom Felton, the villianous Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter movies, can’t avoid it.

All anyone wants to know about these days is what was it was like to work with Robert Pattinson when he played Cedric Diggory in two Potter flicks.

“Obviously, we met a few times and had the old chat, but I don’t recall going that deep with him,” Felton admits from New York City, where he’s promoting the DVD release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. “He was tremendously professional on-set and a great laugh.”

But best of all, Felton says, Pattinson’s Twilight success is “proof that there’s life after Harry Potter.”

As we all know, however, we haven’t seen the last of Hogwarts. There are still two more movies to go in the series. Number seven is in the can with about six months of filming to go on the last.
Tom Felton, Harry Potter and the Half-Blooded Prince Courtesy of Warner Bros. Entertainment

Felton is quick to quash rumors that they’d end on a more adult note with scenes featuring—ready for this?—a naked Daniel Radcliffe.

“I read that the other day, and I was like, ‘What the hell is that about?’ ” Felton said. “I haven’t seen Dan walking around naked—not on the set anyway. The changing room is a different thing—I’m joking. No, I hadn’t heard anything of it. Dan hasn’t mentioned it.”

But the final wrap party definitely will be like no other. “In previous years, we’ve had kind of timid parties…We were all kind of 13 years old,” Felton said. “Finally we can have a decent party! I’m pretty sure Dan put it in his contract.”

Harry Potter with a lampshade on his head? Let’s hope someone posts those pics on Twitter.