According to the Harry Potter film series turned little known actors into household names and ignited the careers of Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson, but according to Tom Felton, who plays Potter nemesis Draco, the cast started out without any special skills. He told sources lets be honest, we weren’t picked for Harry Potter’s for our acting ability, it was because we looked like the characters as they had been written. He said in a recent interview. They started out as rank amateurs, and we will be lucky if we have learned something over the past ten years, it’s a question of what we do with that now, where we go fro here. Felton has won fans the world over through playing the devious Malfoy, but he revealed he actually auditioned for the part Radcliffe scored Harry Potter himself.
There was a time when I did think Daniel got the part I wanted, but with hindsight I am very glad he got it, he told sources losing out to his fellow Brit for the role of spectacled wizard. He told other sources he was the luckiest of the group. I had a good part, which became more central later, and yet I had a normal childhood. He said he was at regular school when he got Draco and he never left. He was out for the odd week or two sometimes a month.
Tom Felton was 13 when he began his acting career and it was dramatic, bonding with the rest of the cast was complicated to be honest, he said, we were complete unknowns, and we were thrown together. Its not likely that you will all suddenly click and become one happy family. Daniel and I knew we loved certain things but we never really sat down and talked. Partly because there was an age gap. However, he does believe that some of the character actors will remain friends even after the film is released.
