Video of Tom Felton meeting his fans at the London premeire of Half-Blood Prince is now online. You can see Tom, Tom’s Mom, and Jade as they descend the staircase and walk the red carpet.
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News from the wire has it that the stars were impressed at the fans for sticking out the premiere through the rain. The Press Association had this to say concerning today’s London premiere of the Half-Blood Prince.
Thousands of Harry Potter fans braved rain and hail to cheer the cast of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince at its London premiere.
Stars Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint and other cast members, along with the boy wizard’s creator, JK Rowling, walked up a soggy red carpet before the screening in Leicester Square.
Half-Blood Prince, the sixth Potter film, sees Harry and his friends at Hogwarts school battling evil Lord Voldemort – and their raging teenage hormones.Fans cheered the film’s stars despite the weather, some holding placards reading “Harry, I’ll be Your Chosen One” and “Britain Loves JK Rowling.”
“I can’t believe the dedication of the fans,” said Tom Felton, who play’s Harry’s rival, Draco Malfoy, in the film.
Grint, who plays Ron Weasley, attended after recovering from a mild bout of swine flu. He said the illness was not severe and “just like any other flu I’ve had before.”
The cast members wore white ribbons in memory of Rob Knox, the young actor on the film who was stabbed to death in London last year.
“He would have loved to be here,” said Jessie Cave, who plays Ron’s sometime love interest, Lavender Brown.The movie opens around the world on July 15.
Two more films are in the works covering Rowling’s final book in the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
The latest interview of Tom’s this week comes from Time Out New York.
For almost half his life, Tom Felton has been playing one of pop culture’s most infamous villains: greasy junior fascist Draco Malfoy. Time Out Kids first spoke with the 21-year-old Brit last fall, when Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was originally slated for release, before the studio bumped it to a coveted summer opening.
While Felton spoke at length about the film, we discovered much more about his personal life via his recently opened Twitter account. Felton’s frequent, playful tweets often mention his girlfriend, Jade, and his dog, Timber. Between auditions and photo shoots, the 5’9″ natural brunet plays guitar and sings numbers he’s composed himself. Guilty pleasures include fast food, bath bombs from Lush (“I shouldn’t really admit that…lol”), and the Mac Store: “I bought my mum an iPod, and she didn’t realize you can recharge the battery. She gave it to the charity shop as a dead iPod, bless her.”
Fame appears to be treating him well, and he takes getting recognized in stride: “Schoolkids were shouting ‘Expelliarmus’ at me and running away laughing. This kid was trying to duel me. No magic outside Hogwarts, so had to decline.” Regardless, his life sounds downright magical.
Do you enjoy playing the bad boy?
TF Very much so. It’s always more fun to play the bad guy. I like to think that I’m a relatively nice guy in real life, so I can bottle up any anger that I do have and release it by means of this spiteful character.Do kids on the street ever give you nasty looks?
TF [Laughs] On the set, the younger kids are quite keen to meet Draco. Then, when they see me, they think, Wait a minute, this guy is not to be trusted! And they cower behind their parents’ legs. I can only take that in a good way.Tell us about how Draco’s character develops in this film.
TF In previous years, Draco’s been two-dimensional—just an annoying, slimy git. Now he plays a more crucial role in young Harry’s life. He wants to be a Harry for the dark guys, but he’s not built of the same material—he doesn’t have Harry’s courage.He’s also not that bad of a guy. He doesn’t want to do what he does. He’s just a vulnerable child who’s been given an impossible task.
Do you think you’ll be typecast as a villain?
TF It’s nothing that I worry about because we’re all so young, we’ve barely even started. The concept of being typecast at 18 or 19 is ridiculous really. I’d love to broaden my horizons, but I would happily take the villain role again.How would you feel about becoming an international heartthrob like Potter alum Robert Pattinson [of Twilight]?
TF I’m not sure how I would cope with having girls scream at me everywhere I go. I’m keen to keep my private life to myself and be able to go wherever I want without causing a commotion. Although…thinking on it, I’m sure I’d cope just fine! I think any guy you’d ask wouldn’t say no to becoming an international heartthrob.
At yesterday’s press conference, Tom and Dan were asked how they felt concerning former co-star Robert Pattinson and his rise to fame in the Twilight saga. They told Digital Spy:
Harry Potter stars Daniel Radcliffe and Tom Felton have revealed that they are happy for former co-star Robert Pattinson following his success in Twilight.
The actors, who play Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy respectively, appeared alongside Pattinson (Cedric Diggory) in 2005’s Harry Potter and the Goblet Of Fire, the fourth instalment in the wizard franchise.
Speaking at a press conference, Radcliffe said: “I won’t pretend we’re best mates or knew each other really well but we really enjoyed working with each other, or at least I enjoyed working with him! He’s doing brilliantly, which is fantastic.
“The thing that is interesting for me, is that Twilight is the only other franchise that comes close to Potter in terms of the mania that surrounds it, the attention that the leads get and just how global it is.”
Felton added: “It’s just great to see someone who has been in Harry Potter have a life after it, and a much bigger one! So I wish him all the success and I will see Twilight soon, I promise!”
If you remember, Feltbeats.com previously reported on the rumors of Tom joining Rob on the set of the vampire series. If anything comes of those, we will let you know.