[...] Certain fans had difficulties distinguishing between Tom, the actor, and Draco, the character. Understandable in five-year-old, but perhaps a l… - Tom Felton
" "[...] Certain fans had difficulties distinguishing between Tom, the actor, and Draco, the character. Understandable in five-year-old, but perhaps a little harder to process in someone older. [...] In a way, the tendency some people have to conflate the character and the actor is a compliment. I don't want, in any way, to overstate my contribution to the world of Harry Potter and the effect the phenomenon has had on people's lives. If I hadn't turned up to audition that day, somebody else would have had the part and they would have done it well. The whole project would have been largely the same. But there is some gratification in knowing that my performance crystallized people's notion of the character. Even if it meant they occasionally mistook fantasy for reality.
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About Tom Felton
Thomas Andrew Felton (born 22 September 1987) is an English actor best known for playing Draco Malfoy in the film adaptations of the Harry Potter fantasy novels by J. K. Rowling.
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[About auditions:] I would like to say it gets easier. Truthfully, it doesn't. But I developed a strange kind of addiction to the process. Before each audition, I would stand outside the room and my nervous brain would try to enumerate all the reasons why I really didn't have to be there. Why I should just walk away. But afterwards, the relief of having done it was like nothing else. No matter how good or bad the audition was, the ecstatic adrenaline rush gave me a unique buzz. I might be back at square one in the acting world, but I was getting a kick out of it.
An audience can go back and watch a film any number of times they want. It's always there for them. For the cast and crew, the relationship with a film is more complex. The magic is in the making, and that process is a discrete unit of time in the past. You can reflect on that unit of time, you can be proud of it, but you can't revisit it.
[About child visitors to the Harry Potter set:] None of our visitors were that interested in meeting Daniel, Rupert, Emma, or for that matter, me. They wanted to meet the characters. They wanted to put on Harry's glasses, to get a high five from Ron, or a cuddle from Hermione. And since Daniel, Rupert, and Emma were so similar in real life to their idea of the characters, they never disappointed. It was different for us Slytherins. I might have got the role of Draco in part for the similarities between us, but I like to think that I was not so Draco-esque that I'd be unpleasant to a group of nervous excited youngsters. [...] [But] Draco being a nice bloke was as anathema to them as Ron being a dickhead. I didn't quite know how to process it. [...] I'd learn, throughout the years progressed, that some people find it difficult to distinguish between fact and fiction. Between fantasy and reality. Sometimes that can be trying. [...]
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