I’m seriously wondering about the phone charges Tom and MTV News racked up with this next installment of their Epic Phone Call. In part 4, Tom discussed the fluidity of the Deathly Hallows split as written into the script. The last book in the Harry Potter series is being split into two films, and the division is still a heavily guarded, possibly not decided yet, secret.

At some point in the cinematic adaptation of J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” the filmmakers are going to take an eight-month break: the time between the November 2010 opening of the first part and the July 2011 release of the second. The big question, of course, is where exactly the break will be.

Last summer, we got word that part one of “Deathly Hallows” would end directly after Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), Ron (Rupert Grint) and Hermione (Emma Watson) are captured by the Snatchers. Part two would then open as Harry, his friends and their captors arrive at Malfoy Manor. But it seems like nothing, at this point, is definite when it comes the much-hyped “Deathly Hallows” split.

“The scripts were set for it,” co-star Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy) told MTV News. “There was one and two. There had to be a middle point. But they’ve said throughout it could change.”

The decision to keep the split point fluid was made both as a practical and creative matter: With the story is shot as one long film, the filmmakers are free to change their minds about where the split makes sense in post-production. “It’s tricky to shoot as two separate films, so we’ve been trying to think of it as one and just shoot as much as possible and once they’ve edited it down, it will feel like there’s a natural cut somewhere in the middle,” Felton explained.

Regardless of what might happen in the edit room, was the split, as planned in the scripts, supposed to be Harry and his friends’ kidnapping? “I wouldn’t want to speculate, because I’ll probably get it wrong anyway,” Felton said.

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In part 3 of Tom’s epic MTV phone call the other day (because really, MTV is such a tease releasing these tantalizing tidbits spread out like this), they asked him what he thought about our push for #FootlooseFelton on Twitter.

When Chace Crawford backed out of Craig Brewer‘s “Footloose” remake last month, we offered up a few suggestions as to who we thought would be a good substitute to replace him as leading man. Turns out fans of Tom Felton thought the actor, better known as Draco Malfoy, was the best man for the job, and started a campaign last month to petition for him to get the role.

Thanks to the power of the Internet, such petitions actually have a chance to be heard, and apparently Tom’s fans bugged Craig enough on Twitter that he responded on April 28 with, “Attention all @TomFelton fans that have tweeted me in the campaign to cast Tom Felton as Ren in Footloose! I hear you. Y’all are true fans.”

So when we got Tom on the phone recently to talk to him about his MTV Movie Awards nomination as Best Villain for his role in “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” we couldn’t resist asking him if he had heard about the campaign too.

“Someone told me about that the other day actually. I was on Twitter and someone told me. There was the hash tag thing, #FootlooseFelton, and I had no idea what it meant at first,” Tom admitted. “But, I mean I put it to the film and stuff. I have heard of it, yeah.”

Even though he wasn’t especially familiar with the 80s American classic, Tom said he has always been a big fan of music and would love to take on a song-and-dance challenge.

“It’s maybe not even something I would have done in my previous past but it’s certainly something that I’d love to take on head first. I would love to be in a remake. That would be so cool,” he said.

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It seems when Tom was on the phone yesterday massively squeeing about his MTV Best Villain award nomination, he got a bit chatty about preparations for filming the epilogue portion of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallow Part II. Tom revealed to MTV News the magic behind the lens will include not only prosthetics, but CGI technology.

But what’s this about 36 being slump-in-your-walk old, Tom? You’re only as old as you feel. 😛

We’ve been openly speculating about it for far too long: How will the minds behind “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” shoot the story’s epilogue, which picks up almost two decades in the future? Would director David Yates and his team hire older actors to stand in for Daniel Radcliffe and the rest of the cast or would he employ special effects to age the familiar “Potter” faces?

Now we know for sure. Speaking with MTV News, co-star Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy) revealed that he and the rest of the cast will play older versions of their characters. What’s more — achieving those looks will require a mix of prosthetics and CGI technology.

“For nearly two months, we’ve all been doing prosthetic tests and all sorts of preparation for the epilogue,” Felton said. “I’ve been having some aging training. You’ve got to walk differently. There’s a slump in your walk.”

Those tests must have been successful because a schedule to shoot the scene has already been set. “It’s going to be the last big thing that we do. It’s going to be on location,” he explained, going on to say that it should take three days of filming to complete.

Until then, he’s been busy practicing how to play a character on the verge of turning 40. So how exactly does one train to be old?

“It’s bizarre,” Felton laughed. “We have a lovely guy who comes in. It was a little weird the first time — imagine you’ve got weights on your arms! There have been a number of times where I nearly laughed and I had to hold it in.”

Felton should finally wrap up his decade-long commitment to the franchise in June, about six months before the November release date of the first part of “Deathly Hallows.” And while a bit of sadness has crept into the proceedings at the thought of leaving the series behind, he’s eagerly anticipating the chance to film the epilogue at long last and thankful that he — and not an older actor — will be in front of the camera when it all goes down.

“We’re probably at the most exciting bit,” he said. “Certainly the part I’ve been most looking forward to. It’s going to be very exciting.”

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