Alone among the Harry Potter cast who achieved mega-fame while still of school-going age in the early 2000s, there is a sense Felton is trapped in the Potterverse, never to escape. It’s as if the grudge-bearing Draco has taken his ultimate vengeance not on sworn enemy Harry but on the actor who played Malfoy, condemning him to be eternally synonymous with a character he first portrayed at age 12.
Given the eagerness of the rest of the cast to move on, Felton’s willingness to go back to where it all started could be seen as a tragic admission that life post-Potter has been a cursed chalice for the actor. It’s not as if he didn’t try to break free. After the final Harry Potter movie, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue a grown-up acting career. However, apart from Rise of the Planet of the Apes – in which he played a minor villain named Dodge Landon – Hollywood has proved indifferent to his charms. The internet has taken his return to Draco – Cursed Child revisits the baddie in unhappy middle age – as an admission that Potter will forever define him.
Felton was just 13 in the first Harry Potter film (Photo: Warner Bros Pictures/Manuel Harlan/PA Wire)Radcliffe, Watson and Grint remain every bit as connected to Harry Potter as their former colleague. The difference is that Felton appears to be at peace with the fact. He isn’t running away from the defining event of his life: that surely has to be a good thing?
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He would recall attending an open casting session crammed with Harry Potter fans, and it dawning on him that he was probably the only one there who hadn’t read the books. Nor was he a first-timer hoping for his big break. By the time he entered the Wizarding World, he was already an experienced actor, having previously appeared in Anna and the King and The Borrowers. So far as it can be said of a 12-year-old, he was an old hand at this – which is probably why he got cast as Draco, he suspected.
There was a sense that this was just another job for him. Maybe that remains the case now. He also surely appreciates that there are things more important in life than whether Harry Potter diehards on X think you’re a bit sad. In his 2022 memoir, Beyond the Wand, Felton talked about how his drinking had brought him to a dark place and that he had become someone whom his friends didn’t recognise.
Once you’ve navigated challenges like that, your career takes on a different perspective. Harry Potter is the stuff of life itself to many of its fans – but with Felton, you get the impression that it is, first and foremost, a paying gig. Given how fast fame came at him and how profoundly it changed his life, his ability to accept Draco Malfoy as a blessing rather than a curse might just be the greatest conjuring trick of all.
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