Tom Feltonhad a bit of Draco Malfoy’s bad boy streak in him at the age of 14.
“I wish I hadn’t volunteered,” he says.
“I knew it was stupid.”
Tom Felton and Maggie Smith in ‘Harry Potter and the Sorceror’s Stone’.
“Then, disaster,” Felton says.
Felton has no idea if his polaroid still remains on the walls of the HMV.
“I never told a single soul,” Felton says.
‘Beyond the Wand’ by Tom Felton.Grand Central Publishing
“But what would happen if someone recognized my mugshot?
Would they fire me?
Would the next film see Harry, Ron, and Hermione terrorized by a different Draco?”
“I crossed a line that Saturday afternoon, no doubt.
And while the young Tom Felton was no Draco Malfoy, he was no saint, either.
Maybe that’s what got me the part in the first place?
I’ll let you be the judge of that.”
“‘It wouldn’t really seem right just to talk about all the fluffy stuff.’
After encouragement, I was given a bit more confidence in myself to go, ‘You know what?
This happened, and this is part of my life.'”
Listen to Felton recount his brush with HMV security in the EW exclusive first listen of the audiobook above.
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