Tom Felton Dishes on the Lasting Legacy of 'Harry Potter,' What He's Doing Now and Taylor Swift (Exclusive)

It's been nearly 13 years since the final installment of the Harry Potter films came out and recently, Parade caught up with Tom Felton.

In all eight movies, the English actor portrayed Draco Malfoy, the bratty bleach-blond Slytherin wizard who served as the titular character's (Daniel Radcliffe) arch nemesis. While promoting his partnership with Kinder Joy's Harry Potter Funko Collection Eggs, Felton, 36, spoke with Parade via Zoom.

"It’s one of the coolest things and surprises about the whole Wizarding World, really, the fact that it’s being passed down generation to generation," he said of the franchise's enduring popularity. "A lot of the fans come up to me now and shout ‘Draco!’ or whatever, weren’t born when the first films or books were being released."

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Since his days of making Harry's life a living hell, Felton has kept busy with acting and singing—the latter of which Potter fans might not realize. His most recent EP, ReD, was released in early 2024, adding to YoOHoO (2021), Hawaii (2011), In Good Hands (2009), All I Need and Time Well Spent (both in 2008).

"I always bring a ukulele wherever I go. Usually on set to some people's pleasure, some others' not maybe," Felton said of his musical inclination. "But yeah, still making music and I have plans to release more this year."

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In 2022, Felton made a cameo in Russ and Ed Sheeran's music video for "Are You Entertained." This means there's one degree of separation between the Harry Potter actor and pop superstar Taylor Swift (Swift and Sheeran collaborated for her 2012 track, "Everything Has Changed," among other projects).

And yes, Felton "absolutely" considers himself a Swiftie.

"Obviously, she's an amazing singer-songwriter," he told Parade. "I've never seen her live, but everyone that I have spoken to that has seen her live has just said that she can put on a show."

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Additionally, Felton has "a couple of films in the bank"—one of them being Canyon of the Dead, and the other one a "cool sci-fi film" he couldn't yet divulge much about.

Other recent acting projects include the films, Some Other Woman (2024) alongside fellow book-turned-film series star Ashley Greene (The Twilight Saga), Burial (2022), The Forgotten Battle (2020), and TV series, The Flash (2016–2017) and Origin (2018).

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"I'm about to go back to London to do theater in Bristol for the next few months," Felton added. "And I've got two very hungry Labradors. So they keep me busy most of the time."

There's also his 2022 memoir, Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard.

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The big question for Wizarding World fans: Would Felton ever consider reprising his beloved Harry Potter character—perhaps as a middle-aged Draco Malfoy in a film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child?

"I won't lie. Because I enjoyed playing him so much all those years ago, part of me does miss him," Felton confessed. "I wouldn't want to say yes or no, but I'd certainly think about it."

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