Tom Felton tells People of his trip to Sin City

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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.”

Tom Felton calls Alan Rickman a goose and lives to tell the tale.

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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.

Wrap-up: Tom Felton’s Hot Topic appearance in New Jersey

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I realize I’m late with this, so I will just leave all the exposition concerning the event to the professionals.

From Blast Magazine:

PARAMUS, N.J. — Hot Topic gets to have all the fun when the big movies come out. When Robert Pattinson came to the Saugus store last year, girls went nuts, we went nuts and it was all just very nutty.

We had a chance to ask a few questions to another rising British heartthrob, Mr. Draco Malfoy, himself, Tom Felton. Felton has been around since “The Sorcerer’s Stone” as the young, rich bad guy and the perfect foil character to Harry Potter’s goodness.

The craziness had us wondering if someone would create a Twilight-crossover “Team Malfoy.” Someone did. See the gallery below. It’s nutty.

Of course, Felton is no bad guy in real life, and the fans understood that on Friday evening.

When he first came into Hot Topic with his girlfriend, (oh yeah, he has a girlfriend) Felton said he couldn’t believe all the Potter memorabilia. “I’ve never seen myself on a t-shirt, this is wicked!” he said. “Oh man, look, I have a Draco Malfoy doll! How cool is this? And there’s a Slytherin hoodie, I’ve got to have that!”

When asked what he thought about the 1,000 fans waiting to meet him, he said, “This is totally amazing. I’ve only been to New York once before, this is beyond anything I expected. I’ve not done a fan event before; this is a chance to show some appreciation to the fans. These films don’t happen without them.”

BLAST: This is the biggest film so far for your character — we finally learn that there’s more to Draco than meets the eye. What was it like expanding your character in the sixth movie?

TOM FELTON: I love Draco, his complexity. The books are based on choices, and Draco doesn’t really have any.

BLAST: It’s been a good few years for young British actors — have you been getting love letters from plenty of female admirers? Are you and the other actors friends outside of the movie?

TF: We’re definitely friends; you couldn’t spend nine years working with people and not get close.

I’ve heard that bad guys get all the girls, but so far I haven’t seen any proof of that.

BLAST: What are your hobbies — what do you do when you’re not making movies?

TF: I love music, you can check my band out on YouTube.

BLAST: What’s been the most exciting part of the Harry Potter series so far?

TF: The bathroom fight scene. Dan (Radcliffe) and I have been waiting years to kill each other, so filming that scene was great. We did our own stunts; it was a week of being rigged up in a bathroom filled with explosives, Dan and I were flipping around.

There are also articles from Bnet.com and Earth Times for those of you interested in more Tom related goodness.

The following are all fan shot videos from the event. Just to warn you, there is a LOT of fangirly squee going on, loudly.

Shot from someone standing behind the Feltbeats Army:
Fan Video 1
Fan Video 2
Fan Video 3

Another Fan Video
One. Sustained. Scream.
Sing! Sing!
Closer sustained screaming part 1
Closer sustained screaming part 2
More chanting
Make that 2