In today’s edition of London’s The Sunday Times, Tom talks once again about growing up as a normal lad in Surrey while carrying the mantle of Draco Malfoy. An interview done over the phone from New Orleans, Tom talks about his new record label, Six String Productions, why he’s not worried about being typecast, but is worried about how he never finished his education.

On children meeting him in the streets:
“You leave Harry alone!” Whenever young Potter fans visit the movie set, Felton says: “They want to meet Daniel, Rupert and Emma [the actors who play Harry Potter and his best friends, Ron and Hermione] and get hugs and autographs from them. I always want to be as nice as I can to fans, because I think that’s as it should be. I try to crouch down to their height, shake hands, give them high-fives, but they’re terrified. They’re like, ‘I don’t want this guy near me, I don’t trust him.’ It took me a while to learn to deal with that, but it’s okay now.”

Why children crying are a compliment:
“Maybe that’s why I overdid the friendliness with the kids on set. Maybe I tried too hard.”

On Daniel Radcliffe:
“To carry a franchise like that for 10 years with no previous experience is outstanding.”

Why he’s not worried about being typecast:
“I’m not trying to shake the Draco mantle off yet. It’s something I’m very proud of.”

“I’m very lucky that Malfoy’s character is extraordinarily different from myself — almost the polar opposite, not just how he acts but also physically, with his pale skin and white hair.”

His hair:
“What a relief! I’m glad not to have to get out the old tinfoil and bleach any more. If ever I see a lady with blonde hair, I think, ‘I feel bad for you, girl, I know how much work it is.’”

Why he regrets not taking his A-levels:
He gained “some” GCSEs (“straight Cs, basically”) and regrets not taking A-levels: “I intended to after Potter, but now I want to keep filming, so I’ve missed my boat there. Emma [Watson] and Daniel have several A-levels and AS-levels between them, and Emma’s studying in America. They put me to shame acidemically.”

On why he’s worried about money:
“If you’re at your desk, can you call me back?” he asks when he calls me from the set of his new film in New Orleans. “It’s just that I recently racked up a massive phone bill in Japan and my mum whipped me into shape and said I’ve really got to curb it.”

I’d have thought he wouldn’t need to worry about phone bills. “You’d be surprised.”

He won’t say exactly what he’s worth, only that making movies “pays better than my paper round used to. No complaints, ha ha ha”.

On his father making him get a part-time job:
“He wanted me to understand the value of a pound,” he says. So for two years in his early teens Felton worked part time at Bury Hill Fisheries in Surrey, near home, “parking the cars in the morning, making sure everyone’s got a ticket to fish the lakes, clearing up litter, that kind of thing. It paid £20 a day, and I’m grateful for that time. Everyone should know how to work hard for their money.” Didn’t people ever ask why Draco Malfoy was parking their car? “Not a lot of the Surrey fishing community are Harry Potter fans,” he says, level-headedly.

On his mom and friends:
“My mum had to take time off work to take me to auditions, which I’m so grateful for.”And he missed out on some teenage socialising, passing up a school skiing trip because he couldn’t risk breaking a leg and delaying filming. “Looking back, it doesn’t seem so important, but at the time I was a distraught 16-year-old unable to go skiing with my friends.”

On his music and work with Six String Productions:
“We’re trying to be the middle men, to support young British artists. I’ve recorded a few songs myself, just for fun, but I’m not looking for a pop career.” The music he writes is “like a British Jack Johnson. Simple songs: we call it nursery rhymes for adults. Not to be taken too seriously”.

Thanks to Sandra for buying the online version of this article [after seeing SixStringProd’s tweet] just so we could get the quotes. Thanks!

EDIT: We were asked to remove the scan sent in of the magazine itself. However, we legitimately purchased the above online version so we’re leaving it in. 🙂

In anticipation of the Nov. 19th release of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I,” Moviefone’s Unscripted will be speaking with Tom and co-stars Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Jason Isaacs, and director David Yates. Moviefone is known for taking questions on their blog and allowing the interviewee’s to ask one another the questions for an often hilariously fun and relaxed time.

Questions may be submitted on their blog through 10 am EST on November 9th. The interview will be released online on November 16th.

As they state on their website:

Ask which scenes in the penultimate film were the most emotional for the trio, or what Isaacs and Felton liked about playing “bad” throughout the series. Ask Yates which scenes were changed from the book to the film — we’ve heard there were quite a few!

Be sure to include your name and the city where you live. Good luck!

In the German magazines “Twist”, “hey!” and “BRAVO” are articles about “Harry Potter and the Deahtly Hallows”. In two of the magazines are interviews of Tom Felton. In the BRAVO are only 2 small sections of Tom about embarrassing experience in that time.

Draco my friend? Never!

He is one of the most likeable villains in showbiz. hey! met “Draco Malfoy” actor Tom Felton in London for an interview. And he is not as mean like Harry’s rival…

hey!: What can we expect in “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”?
Tom: Everything is more intense and more violent. It’s no longer about who got whom more injured, now it’s about life and death!

hey!: Also between Harry and Draco?
Tom: Sure! They both have several opportunities to kill each other – or to help. Just as we didn’t know them before.

hey!: You were, initially, for the roles of Harry and Ron in conversation …
Tom: … and I had to dye my hair for three times for the casting. (laughs)

hey!: Would you have preferred to play one of the other character?
Tom: No way! Draco is a completely different type than I am, and that did attracted me. Honestly: He wouldn’t be my Friend for sure – I would likely make a big bow around him.

hey!: But, Daniel in his role as Harry and Rupert as Ron got the opportunities to kiss girls.
Tom: (laughs) Okay, I admit: I was jealous of both. But so far I really are happy with my role.

hey!: What girl on the set you’d like to kiss?
Tom: Oh, we filmed over ten years together, so I see almost all like sisters. But Helena Bonham Carter (plays the mean Bellatrix – and is 44 the red.) is my type. She’ve got something mysterious, which I like.

Twist: The last two movies of the Harry Potter Series are done. Are you gonna miss Draco?
Tom: Of course! He is a very big part of my life and I played his part for the last ten years.

Twist: How would you describe yourself in three words. Is there a little bit of Draco in you?
Tom: No, nonsense. I would describe myself as an ambitious open person and opposite Draco I am a nice guy. (laughs)

Twist: What was the most beautiful day in your life?
Tom: The day, four years ago, when I got my dog Timber, thus for sure. That was so exciting. I love her and I try to be firm with her but my girlfriend Jade spoils her rotten. (laughs)

Twist: If you could change something…what would that be?
Tom: I would like to be a little bit stronger, I am to skinny. A man of my age should eat more.

Twist: What are you doing without Harry Potter?
Tom: Don’t worry, I keep on acting. My newest movie “The Apparation” with “Twilight- girl” Ashley Green is starting at the movies next year. And one day I would like to direct my own movie.

in the horoscope of the magazine Twist

You’ll ever can count on Virgin-boys like me!

BRAVO:

Cheat-casting Tom Felton: He talked about his favorite scene from the Harry Potter books, without having read them. This was of course noticed, primarily because he gave the same answers as the candidate in front of him.

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It’s even hard for the parents of the stars…In part 3 Tom Felton was doubled by a dummy to look small in the arms of giant Hagrid. “It looked like, I was laying dead. My mother panicked and nearly fainted.”

Today nola.com published an article about Tom and his time in New Orleans.

For the next three weeks, “Harry Potter” actor Tom Felton — who has been in New Orleans since early October to shoot the indie golfing drama “From the Rough” — will be living and breathing “Potter” publicity ahead of the Nov. 19 release of the eagerly anticipated seventh film in the popular wizarding series.

In the meantime, though, the actor — who plays dark-side dabbler Draco Malfoy in the “Potter” films — has been determined to squeeze in as much New Orleans as possible, going so far as to rearrange his schedule to catch English rockers Muse at this weekend’s Voodoo Music Fest before he jets off to Los Angeles.

It was to be the capper to a visit that has seen first-time visitor Felton and his “From the Rough” co-stars gleefully soaking up the city’s nightlife and absorbing as much of the local vibe as possible.

“In London, New York and such, they have live music,” said Felton, a self-described music fan, “but not like here, where all of a sudden on the corner of a street someone will start playing — (there are) bands everywhere. Almost everywhere you go, you can hear a brass band within earshot.”

The positive local experience (“It’s probably the happiest I’ve been working on a film set,” Felton said) has been helped by the band-of-brothers-type bond he has formed with his co-stars, including Paul Hodge (“Rendition,” “The Road”), Robert Bailey Jr. (“Memphis Beat,” “The Happening”), Justin Chon (the “Twilight” movies) and Ben Youcef (“Munich,” “Rendition”). Their relationships, which Hodge said started on their first day shooting together (at Tad Gormley Stadium), lends the “From the Rough” set a collegial atmosphere, filled with chops-busting, wisecracking and true bromance.

“Ask him some questions about magic,” Bailey jokingly advised a visiting journalist preparing to interview Felton. “He loooves that.”

“Has he told you the score of the Battle of the Ashes?” Hodge asked, referencing the friendly golfing competition in which he’s engaged Felton at courses around the metro area.

(Hodge leads, 4-1.)

Along the way there have been shared trips to Frenchmen Street, to Bourbon Street, to the Maple Leaf Bar. And there have been enough Saints games to persuade Hodge — a newly minted member of the Who Dat Nation — to sport a black-and-gold “Believe’ wristband on the set Wednesday night.

“If there’s one thing I’m going to take away from this city — aside from 10 extra pounds and a liver transplant — I’m wearing the ‘Believe’ bracelet,” the Australian said.

Although this was the first visit to New Orleans for most of the cast, the prevailing sentiment was that it won’t be their last.

“I came in saying, ‘I’m going to New Orleans,’ ” Felton said. “Then I learned to say, ‘I’m going to New Awwwlins.’ Now I’m just saying ‘N’awlins’: ‘Aw, man, I’m going down to N’awlins.’ I love it down here. I’ll be back. I’ll be back to New Orleans.”

“From the Rough,” based on real events, stars Taraji P. Henson as the newly appointed coach of the men’s golf team at a historically black Tennessee college. With a student body short on competitive golfers, she recruits foreign golfers — white foreign golfers — to field a competitive team.

Directed by Pierre Bagley and co-produced by Jason Sciavicco of the New Orleans-based Horizon Entertainment, the movie is scheduled to wrap on Friday, with an eye toward a 2011 release.