Consideration Potterheads! Tom Felton is bringing some magic to the Nice White Manner.
“I will probably be becoming a member of the wonderful forged of Harry Potter and the Cursed Little one right here on Broadway, reprising my previous function as Draco Malfoy,” Felton, 37, introduced on the Thursday, June 5, episode of Today.
Felton’s casting marks the primary time a forged member from the unique Harry Potter movie sequence has joined a manufacturing of the play, which opened on Broadway in 2018. “It’s very a lot a pinch me scenario. I maintain considering I’m dreaming,” he instructed At the moment’s Savannah Guthrie and Craig Melvin. “So, I let go of that character 16 years in the past, and now getting an opportunity to step again in his sneakers as a father this time, in a brand new story. I get to satisfy Draco as an grownup, which could be very thrilling.”
Felton famously portrayed Harry Potter’s Hogwarts nemesis in all eight Harry Potter movies from 2001 to 2011. “The blonde hair got here again on and I instantly began crying for some cause,” he mentioned of returning to his iconic function. “It’s such an enormous a part of my childhood. It’s like me going again to highschool or no matter. I’ve been very excited to share this information. I’ve needed to maintain it beneath wraps for fairly some time.”
Harry Potter and the Cursed Little one initially debuted on London’s West Finish in 2016. The story picks up in the course of the epilogue of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows with Harry, Ron and Hermione sending their children off to Hogwarts College of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The scene appeared in 2011’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Half 2, with the primary forged, together with Felton, portraying older variations of their characters 19 years after Voldemort’s defeat.
The Cursed Little one primarily focuses on the friendship between Harry and Ginny’s son Albus and Draco’s son, Scorpius, throughout their years at Hogwarts. The Slytherin buddies set off on a mission to proper one in all Harry’s most life-changing moments — the dying of Cedric Diggory.

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“I feel none of us anticipated the Wizarding World to be as well-liked as it’s now,” Felton mentioned on At the moment. “We thought possibly on the finish of the movies that that might be the tip of it, and clearly, the Wizarding World is alive and robust.”
Guthrie, 53, and Melvin, 46, wrapped up the interview with Felton with a Butterbeer toast “to Draco and his return.”
Although the Harry Potter movie sequence wrapped up over a decade in the past, the franchise has continued to develop by way of the stage present, the Incredible Beasts and The place to Discover Them motion pictures, a brand new themed land at Common Orlando Resort’s Epic Universe theme park and the upcoming HBO TV sequence.
The TV reboot has been met with criticism on account of writer J.Ok. Rowling’s involvement as an govt producer, as she has confronted controversy for her transphobic feedback through the years. The present, set to premiere in 2026 or 2027, will dedicate one season to every of Rowling’s seven Harry Potter books.
Newcomers Dominic McLaughlin, Arabella Stanton and Alastair Stout will tackle the roles of Harry, Hermione and Ron, respectively, whereas John Lithgow will painting Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore. Further forged members embrace Janet McTeer as Minerva McGonagall, Paapa Essiedu as Severus Snape, Nick Frost as Rubeus Hagrid, Luke Thallon as Quirinus Quirrell and Paul Whitehouse as Argus Filch.