British newspaper the ‘Metro’ recently included Tom Felton in their ’60 Second Interview’ segment. This is the same interview that Feltbeats.com reported on last week when it was only available online.
During the interview, Tom Felton talks about his recent independent film The Disappeared, his musical background and his biggest role model. He also gives us an insight into who the biggest ‘diva’ on the set of Harry Potter is.
Recently Splash news has posted a small snippet of Tom Felton stating that Draco Malfoy is a pain in the neck…a bit more.
Obviously what happens in Vegas doesn’t always stay there, as Tom tells People Magazine of a past trip there in a recent interview. Tom also talks about playing cricket with his brother, long distance phone calls, and of course, that ubiquitous bonnet of his.
Though he often finds himself living in the shadow of Daniel Radcliffe’s heroic title character, British actor Tom Felton graduates to leading man status in the latest installment of the series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, as his character Draco Malfoy evolves from simple troublemaker into serious villain
As a result, the blond brusier, 21, tells PEOPLE, “I get a lot of boos from kids around the world. When kids visit on set they’re all happy to meet Dan and Rupert [Grint]. When I come out they have a blank face and don’t want to shake my hand … but I take that as a compliment.”
Even tougher than the snub is staying platinum blond. Since he was 13, the brunette roots of Felton’s hair are dyed every 10 days to maintain Malfoy’s signature shade, a task the actor admits is “not a pleasant experience. Now I understand what girls go through. I completely sympathize.”
Still, Felton’s “become oddly attached” to the result, he admits. “It’s fun to be blond, and it’s almost difficult to remember how I used to look with my proper hair color.”
Living outside of London near a small town called Dorking – where the roads are wide enough for only one car and filled with tractors, cows, horses – Felton finds himself far from the spotlights of Hollywood. “I’m a real big country boy,” he says. “I live right in the middle of nowhere and I thoroughly enjoy it. It’s nice for me at the end of the day to come home and enjoy the peacefulness of the country side.”
Among his favorites pastimes – besides singing, songwriting and playing acoustic guitar (his songs are featured on iTunes and at feltbeats.com, “and most of them are about my girlfriend,” he says) – is playing cricket in his back garden with his older brother. And though he disdains those who toss around their fame, Felton did enjoy a recent perk when he cruised past the lines at the airport. “That was pretty cool,” he admits.
As for being part of one of the most successful film franchises in history – this sixth installment made $396.7 million this weekend, shattering Spider-Man’s records – Felton is responsible with his finances but did indulge in a trip to Sin City.
“I took my friend to Vegas on my 21st birthday and we had a little splurge there,” he says. “But we won a little bit and it was enough to cover my long-distance phone calls back to my girlfriend.”
In a lively, funny, and quite enchanting interview with City News.com, Tom shares quite a few anecdotes from his life and days on set for the just released Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
On following the lead goose, Alan Rickman:
Rickman had some fun at the young star’s expense:
“At the very end of a scene, after Snape has done his bit, we’re sort of walking out of the Great Hall in this goose, v-wing formation in which he’s at the front; he’s the sort of leading goose if you will.
“And he’s got this almost wedding dress cape on that seems to go three metres on the ground and the director was very keen for us to stay close behind to him, and of course, ‘don’t look at where your feet are going.’
“Naturally, before we started filming, Alan turned around in his very sinister way and said, ‘don’t step on my cloak.’ And we all sort of didn’t know whether he was joking or not.
“On the second take I dug my heel well and truly on it, which ripped his neck back in a hilarious fashion in my eyes but at the time it didn’t go down well. There was a rather awkward silence afterwards.
“Saying that, Alan is an incredibly nice guy and one of the funniest people on the set. There’s a lot of confusion there, people think that he’s a very sinister guy, but he’s hilarious really.”
On the great advice of Michael Gambon:
“There was actually a bit in there when I messed up a line of some nature and I was so nervous and embarrassed to do it in front of Michael [Gambon] and I was so apologetic for like 20 minutes afterwards and he was like, ‘do you know how much I’m on a week? We can do this all day.’ He was like, ‘keep messing them up if you can!’
On knowing his fans so well:
That’s really him on Twitter, and while he was in Toronto, he posted a special picture for his fans.
“There’s a car that’s taking us ’round which has actually got all the Harry Potter logos and stuff on it so I took some pictures of that and put it on Twitter. Straight away, as soon as I saw it, I thought oh this is hilarious, they’ll love this.”
This is a short clip from the interview he gave them at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto. It was posted with the article and was quite handily embeddable. They discuss the one thing the article doesn’t – his hair.
You can read the rest of the article here, and/or if you are so inclined, CityNews also did an article compiling quotes from the New York HBP press conference of Tom and his cast-mates Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Michael Gambon. The quotes chosen are just brilliant and good for a great laugh. You can read it here.