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Tom Felton To Play Draco Malfoy Again In Broadway’s “Harry Potter And The Cursed Child”

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Tom Felton is journeying back to the Wizarding World once more. The 37-year-old actor is reprising his role as Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter’s blond-haired former school bully, in Broadway’s Harry Potter and the Cursed Child play. The actor will portray the grown-up version of the character that catapulted him to fame, now a reformed father of a troubled teen who goes to Hogwarts. He will be the first original cast member of the films to crossover to the stage play. 

“It’s very much a pinch-me situation,” Felton said during his appearance on the Today Show Thursday. “I keep thinking I’m dreaming. I let go of that character 16 years ago, and now I get to step back into his shoes, as a father this time, in a new story.”

“‘Potter’ was a massive chunk of my childhood, and now I get to sort of go back whilst also going forward,” Felton later told TODAY.com

As for what to expect from the play, Felton says that he is “very much treading into new, unfamiliar territory.”

“The play is such an independent story from the ‘Potter’ films that I grew up with. We start 19 years later … Now we’re no longer children. We actually are the parents,” he said. “So as much as it is reprising an old role for me, it’s very much treading into new, unfamiliar territory. I know him quite well as a kid. I don’t know him that well as an adult. So that’s the exciting challenge ahead for me.”

Fans can catch the OG Draco on stage for a 19-week run. The actor is set to star in the show Nov. 11, 2025, to March 22, 2026, at the Lyric Theatre in New York City.

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