In this, the latest round of interviews given by Mr. Felton for various news outlets, he speaks about his bromance with Russell Brand, the fabulous Miss Rowling, being too scared to speak around his co-stars, and how he watches the “sh*t-est TV.”
With the Toronto Sun:
“It’s much like this,” Felton says with a smile during a roundtable interview with journalists at the Claridges Hotel. “I was surrounded by the most evil people you can possibly imagine. You guys look actually pretty similar.”
But obviously — if as uncomely — not nearly as intimidating.
“It took me a good two days to muster the courage to speak a word,” he remembers of shooting the sequence. “And I was the only boy amongst men, if you will. It was very daunting. But highly enjoyable. It’s so nice to see my heroes, really, performing at their best. You’ve got Helena (Bonham Carter) to the right of you, Jason (Isaacs) to the left, then Ralph (Fiennes) at the head of the table and Alan (Rickman) as well, which is not to mention the countless others there as well. It was a real treat.”
And a case of better late than never. The film, the first part of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, is the penultimate episode in the franchise.
“It’s scarier now. There’s nothing guaranteed now for the next 20 years,” he says. “I’m not going to miss the blonde hair, but I’m going to miss the atmosphere we had. We really think these last two are the highlight of the saga and the thing we’ve been building up to.”
Since The Philosopher’s Stone in 2001, Draco has been one of the saga’s most feared and loathed characters. In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, however, audiences began to see a more sympathetic side to the Slytherin student. “It’s intentional that for the first five years he’s written as this one-dimensional sod because you want the audience to hate you. So you have a big turnaround in the sixth film where you see he’s the most horrible victim of circumstance. Daniel (Radcliffe) and I talk about Draco and Harry as two sides of the same coin. And Harry having the best luck with the best possible influences around him and Draco just having the worst. His parents are fairly useless; I feel sorry for the kid. He’s got the worst of it.”
As for the future, while there are no more Potter books beyond Deathly Hallows right now, author J.K. Rowling has suggested she might return to the world of Hogwarts in a few years.
“I do not doubt the ways of the magical Miss Rowling,” Felton says. “She does her own things and she does it beautifully. As a fan of the series, I would be desperate to read another.”
With the UK’s Sunday Mirror thanks to Six String Productions:
You had a cameo in Get Him to the Greek. What was Russell Brand like?
TF: I had a bit of a 12-year-old girl moment. I was like (squeaks), ‘Oh, Russell, it’s nice to meet you.’ There’s something about him.
Did you have a bit of a man-crush?
TF: I do now! I don’t know what it is about Russell, he’s so sharp of tongue. He really got in my face, in a nice way.
Which other stars do you have a thing for?
TF: There are plenty. I could reel off a list of them. Russell is pretty much my only bromance, but I love American actress Mila Kunis. She’s a really funny girl, as well as being absolutley drop-dead stunning.
What’s your guilty please?
TF: Car crash TV. The really bad stuff like Jersey Shore. I saw Snooki at the MTV Awards. It was so random, I was like, ‘Whaddup!’ I watch the shi*t-est TV.
So, Snooki or JWoww?
TF: They are both pretty horrific. You’d have to go a long way for me to get with either of them. That’s the worst turn-off, intimidation. I want a girl who’s vulnerable and soft, who I can protect, even though I’m not the biggest of guys, at least I can feel like a man. I don’t want someone who’s going to beat the shi*t out of me. I’ve seen her swing fists, she’s wild.
What advice would you give other young wannabe actors?
TF: Lot of youngsters say, ‘What advice can you give me?’ I say if you are coming into this for fortune and fame, you’re f****d. You need to go in because absolutely love to act, you think it’s the greatest thing in the world. If you are doing it for other reasons, become a reality TV star. Become Snooki!
