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Baddie Tom Felton in Celebrity Gossip NOW and MTV

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It may be Celebrity Gossip NOW, but when Tom says it, it’s news to us. 😉

Tom Felton gets a kick out of playing an evil role.

The actor, 21, stars as Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter films and admits he loves his challenging character.

‘I get to play this vile, loathsome creature,’ he smiles. ‘And its great fun.

‘I love playing the baddie.’

Away from the film set, Tom’s nothing like his onscreen persona but reckons his co-stars are pretty similar to their movie characters.

‘When you speak to Rupert [Grint], he’s just like Ron – he’s a nice, funny guy. And Dan [Radcliffe] is just like Harry – a friendly geek!’

And speaking of friend Dan, listen to Tom, Dan, and co-star Bonnie Wright discuss the Epilogue in the Deathly Hallows in a short clip from MTV.

What’s this about missing that blond, Tom?

Tom Felton “Off the Cuff with Peter Travers” Now Online

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Feltbeats.com received word from Rolling Stone itself that Tom’s interview with Peter Travers has now been published online. For those of you following Tom’s tweets, you know he met with Peter last Friday during his promotional tour of Harry potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

Rolling Stone introduced the video with the following blurb:

In Peter Travers’ second “Off the Cuff” interview — an informal chat in his office where Hollywood stars are grilled on a variety of topics — Rolling Stone’s movie critic breaks out his own magic wand (which looks like a blunt, he points out) for Tom Felton, who plays loathsome bully Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter films (read Travers’ review of the sixth film). Felton recalled the joys of listening to blaring ’60s punk at 5 a.m. while getting his make-up done on the Potter set care of Potter star Daniel Radcliffe, and revealed how auditioning for the role of Potter and Ron Weasley led to a rainbow of humiliating hairstyles. He also clues Travers in on the trick to playing a really bad guy, and strums a little acoustic guitar.

Click here to watch the video!

Another Interview, Another Metro Tom Felton Day

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Another interview given by Tom has popped up today, this time on Metro.co.uk. In it Tom discusses who the biggest diva was on the set of HBP, who his role model is, Draco and being typecast, his film The Disappeared, and whether or not he’s an adrenalin junkie.

Excerpts:

Who’s your role model?

Tim Robbins in The Shawshank Redemption is my idea of a dream part. I love Jim Broadbent [Horace Slughorn] and Michael Gambon [Professor Dumbledore]. Everyone from Harry Potter, really, as they’re all such classy actors. Stuff they’ve done often goes under the radar in Hollywood but I think it’s some of the finest material out there.

What’s the worst thing you did as a boy?

It was miles away from anything Malfoy’s done. I didn’t chase the girls with worms or anything but I was quite quick to answer back in class. I was a bit of a mouth.

You go to Hogwarts School Of Witchcraft And Wizardry. Can you do any magic tricks?
I hate to say this but no. My magic is limited outside the walls of Hogwarts.

Thanks to AlessaB for the tip!

Tom Felton in the Hero Complex at LA Times

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The LA Times has been doing an article a day for weeks now leading up to the release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and they quite rightly saved the best for last. Today’s article in the Hero Complex features an interview with Tom where he discusses working with David Yates and Michael Gambon, filming the Astronomy Tower sequence with the “cream of British actors,” typecasting, music, and the future.

On working with Michael Gambon:

TF: I was obviously very scared about having a one-on-one scene with him. But early on we met up and we got on really well. He’s a character beyond character, anyone will tell you that. He’s got more stories than an encyclopedia and he’s a wealth of knowledge and comedy. It’s just a joy to be around him. Every time there was a break, I would take it as a good opportunity to have a cup of tea with him, asking questions and stuff like that.

What he will miss most:

TF: The whole cast and crew. It’s a great atmosphere when we’re all there together on set. I suppose we wont’ have that again. I’m sure we’ll keep in touch, but we won’t all be under the same roof. I got on very well with young Daniel. We’re both cricket fans so there’s plenty of cricket chat going on between the pair of us. There’s no one I don’t get along with. We all click rather well.

His future plans:

TF: I have a couple of film projects in the run. “In Between the Waves” is a film I’m hoping to do next spring. It’s about two boys, two keen surfers who travel around Europe on a mad surfing road trip. I used to skateboard, and I’ve been snowboarding, and I’ve been told that if I can do those, I’ll be all right. But I’ve never been on a surfboard.

Source: LA Times Hero Complex