Jason Isaacs on Tom Felton's Debut as Draco Malfoy on Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Nov 18, 2025
Jason Isaacs on Tom Felton's Debut as Draco Malfoy on Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
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So I was wondering how like your
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reaction when Tom Felton decided to do a
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Broadway and this role.
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Okay. So Tom Felton for those of you who
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don't know uh been living under a rock
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for the last 20 years is the lovely man
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who uh was a boy and played Draco Malfoy
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in the films.
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He's not here. Don't get me.
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He does plenty of cheers where he is.
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He's he's a lovely man. I'm very very
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fond of him. uh and he decided to go
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into Harry Potter the Cursed Child on
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Broadway starting November. I think the
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box office has gone crazy. People flying
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all over the world want to watch him
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play Adult Draco in that. Uh and I would
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urge any of you obviously to go and see
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him. Uh uh he's going to be fabulous and
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it's going to be a hell of a thing when
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he walks out on that stage the first
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time. The audience is going to go
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bonkers. He's quite nervous about doing
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it. But my reaction was I'm thrilled
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that he's thrilled. you know, I I care
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about him being happy and uh so I
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audiences will be very gentle be I know
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I was going to say if you haven't read
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Harry Potter the cursed child don't and
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don't read it because it's a play script
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it's not a novel it's not a book if you
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see the play there are two or three
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amazing moments in it in which the whole
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audience goes magical moments you won't
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see coming that'll be surpris I do magic
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I do magic got cards I mean I've got
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cards back there I do tricks all the
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time and the great thing about a trick
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is at the end where people go oh my god
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on it and see that coming. There are
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loads of moments like that in the play.
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If you read the book, you'll ruin them
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for yourself. So, if you get a chance,
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go see Tom. If not, go and see emotion
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somewhere else sometime. Uh he's going
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to be brilliant. I can't I am
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unfortunately filming, but if I have a
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gap, as soon as I have a gap, I'm going
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to go to Broadway and see him and cheer
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him on. Thanks.
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[Applause]
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