Tom Felton here to stay WORDS BY DIO ANTHONY PHOTOGRAPHY ALEXANDER BEER
TOM FELTON CHARMED AND
Seems Felton has a knack for off-
SCARED CHILDREN ALL OVER
kilter characters, and I think I can
THE WORLD WITH HIS PORTRAY-
speak for the nation when I thank
AL OF DRACO MALFOY, AN ANGRY
him for him doing so.
TEEN, AND CUNNING WARLOCK. ‘Full Circle’ comes to us from reALMOST FOUR YEARS AFTER THE
nowned writer Neil LaBute, and
END OF THE HARRY POTTER ERA,
it doesn’t take long to notice the
FELTON CONTINUES TO STAY ON
traces of theater in Labute’s work.
TOP, YOU KNOW THAT PORTION
‘Full Circle’, as Felton describes it,
OF ACTORS THAT WILL ALWAYS
is in many ways a three-act-play.
BE HOLLYWOOD ROYALTY?
Each episode takes place in the same place, a restaurant, and fea-
YEAH, THAT’S THE ONE.
tures a conversation between two characters. “I’ve never done some-
His latest endeavor? The Direct-
thing like that before,” he says.
TV series, ‘Full Circle’ on Audience
“I’m very much used to do doing
Network. In it, the English actor
one page, or two pages at a time,
shines in a way that Hogwarts sim-
and then someone calling cut,
ply wouldn’t let him—playing a love
and that just didn’t happen with
stricken exchange student from
this project.” The scenes, Felton
London, in love with a woman that
told me, took about 10 hours total
could very well be his stepmother.
to complete. “We’d end up doing
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