- Hello friends, wizards, witches, and muggles.
Welcome back to my channel.
So today I am joined by the one and only Tom Felton,
who plays the infamous Draco Malfoy
in the "Harry Potter" films.
So firstly, how are you?
- Hi, hi, hello, yes.
- Are you well?
- Very well, very well.
Good to see you again.
- Is this your first time in the Greenhouse?
- Literally the first time I'm sitting or standing here
for 20, 20 odd years,
so it's a bit of a blast from the past for me.
- It's my first time seeing it and it's absolutely amazing.
- It's pretty cool, isn't it?
- I'm blown away, I'm not gonna lie.
So we are here at the Warner Brothers studio tour in London.
Now you may have noticed
that we're not sat in the Slytherin common room,
unfortunately for you, but we are here
in the latest addition here at the tour,
which is the Professor Sprout's Greenhouse,
and I just can't stop looking at it.
There's Mandrakes everywhere.
You've had a little play with the Mandrakes already.
- I have.
- You've pulled some out but you didn't wear any earmuffs.
- No, I was luckily, I've been scarred
from my previous visit 20 years ago, so.
- You didn't come with your ear protection.
So I've got a few questions for you today.
- Okie dokie.
- The first one is, what was it like, if you remember,
walking into the Greenhouse all those years ago
when you got to meet Professor Sprout
and being around all the costumes,
seeing all the magical plants?
- I think it was difficult to contain us that day,
all the kids that were there.
- Yeah, 'cause you were quite young.
- We were quite young.
Also, it was, we were out of the regular sort of,
not as if we were used to the Great Hall by then,
but it was something new, something different.
It was the first time, for me,
working with actual animatronic parts.
I mean, people forget how little in the early films
green screen was used and visual effects.
This is all sort of actual physical stuff.
- Like crying robot Mandrakes.
- Yes, and then let alone getting your finger bitten by one,
so there's a few scarred memories there.
But it was a lot of fun,
and obviously Miriam, played Professor Sprout,
was a lot of fun too.
I think it was more fun than work that day.
- Yeah, oh that's awesome.
So I want to know, and I've thought about this a few times
and I can't quite get to the answer, and it's,
do you think that Draco would be good at herbology?
Do you think he's got a secret vegetable patch
at Malfoy Manor, or growing sunflowers,
or do you think he would be terrible?
- I mean, I do quite like the idea
that he has a secret green thumb and no one knew it,
but something tells me no.
Something tells me he doesn't quite have
the nurturing side of him that maybe is needed for,
I mean, Tom's not much of a...
- I was gonna say, what about yourself?
Do you have much of a green thumb?
- I do, I enjoy mowing the lawn,
but as far as rearing Mandrakes, et cetera,
I'm not sure I'm the right man for the job.
- So no houseplants?
- No, none that are particularly in good shape
at the moment.
- Okay, we'll keep you away from the Mandrakes then today.
So obviously Leavesden was your home for 10 years
doing the "Harry Potter" films.
Now that you're back, what's your favourite thing
here at the studio tour that you've seen?
There's a lot here to choose from.
- It's very, yeah it's very hard to pick one.
It's so cool that they haven't moved it,
as far as all the original stuff that you get to see here,
not only is it the original stuff,
but also it was here when we shot it.
It wasn't a hundred miles away
or across the seas in California or whatever.
It's all the real, I think part of it
is you're actually walking through the steps
that we all walked through.
Makes it very hard not to sort of get quite nostalgic
when I get to come back here.
But picking a favourite bit, good luck,
'cause I've been here a dozen times at least
since the tour's been open and I'm still discovering
new bits and pieces that I fall in love with every time.
- Yeah, I'm not sure I could choose.
I'm guessing you've seen the Slytherin common room,
which is a fairly new addition.
- Yes.
I mean, every addition, the nice thing for me,
one of the big things is that,
from the camera's point of view,
you don't always get to see how the attention to detail
underneath all the stuff that the camera doesn't pick up.
The amazing team that worked behind it
all collaborated to make sure
that every square inch was real.
- Absolutely, and I've noticed that there's so many props
and different things in the sets that,
unless they're pointed out to you,
you wouldn't necessarily...
- Yeah, I was in the Potions classroom
just saying hello to old friends
and seeing some of the test tube vials
that have Slughorn's name written on it
in the tiniest little text.
- And the memory files in Dumbledore's office
with the little handwritten, they're absolutely beautiful.
- It's a real tribute to the hundreds, if not thousands,
of people who put their blood, sweat and tears
into the films.
- So obviously the Warner Brothers studio tour has changed
and it's expanded over the years.
This is the brand new expansion.
Is there anything here or a set that isn't here yet,
but you'd maybe like to see here in the future
that you maybe remember filming on?
- Oh, honestly it's so overwhelming
what they've already managed to protect
and keep in such good shape.
I mean, it's a nice reminder
of why we weren't allowed to steal our wands
and our broomsticks, because they're kept here
for such, in such amazing condition.
Yeah, again, I'm just amazed that they have kept
every single piece, from ties to costumes to wigs.
I was just speaking to Lisa Tomblin,
who did the hair for the last six movies
and she was just talking about how many Draco wigs
that are still living in boxes somewhere
for stunt doubles, et cetera.
So it's just pretty amazing to know
that the archive is packed full of Potter goodies, I'm sure.
- Oh, I'd love to get in there.
I'd love to see all the secrets that they hold
in the archive.
- Well, this is as close as you can get at the moment,
but yeah, I'm sure in time.
- So let's take a quick moment
to talk about your character, Draco Malfoy.
Do you think that there are any traits
that you perhaps think that you share with him?
- Other than eye colour, I can't think of any,
to be honest with you.
I'm very lucky not to have, not to be an only,
well I have three older brothers, so I'm not an only child.
Runt of the pack, as they call me, my brothers.
And my mum and dad are lovely,
and not bullying and incredibly encouraging.
- Oh, well that's good, that's good.
- That's why it's fun to get to play Draco,
'cause he could not be more...
- Such a contrast.
- Such an opposite of who I am as a person,
which made it a lot more fun, I think,
for me to portray him.
- Draco's obviously one of the best known Slytherins,
one of the most famous ones,
but I want to know what your Hogwarts house is.
I don't know what your Hogwarts house is.
If I was to guess...
- Go on, fire.
- I feel as though you've got a little bit of Gryffindor,
maybe a tiny bit of Hufflepuff.
- Choose your words carefully.
- Shall I leave?
- Yeah, can we terminate this?
No, yeah, you're right.
I have been sorted into Gryffindor.
- Welcome, that's my house as well.
- Well, right, I protested immediately.
I actually did do the test.
Well, you know what?
I got sorted into Gryffindor when I tried to trick the Hat
by giving Slytherin answers, and it knew.
- That's a very Slytherin thing to do, I'm just saying.
- Well, yeah, it was early days, it was early days.
But then, since then, I have taken it more legitimately
with my three older brothers and my family,
and the three of them got Hufflepuff,
which was very disappointing for me.
But I did get Slytherin, so I was over the moon.
- I feel as though you have to go with your first Sorting,
so I'm gonna...
- Well, because I tried to lie to the system,
so let's just settle with Slytherdor,
somewhere in the middle.
- Okay, okay, we'll compromise.
- Thanks, Cherry.
- So let's talk about your fictional father, Lucius Malfoy.
Now obviously, he was quite an intimidating character,
but I guess I'd like to know a little bit
about what it was like working with him and,
yeah, was he intimidating in person or?
- No, much like, hopefully,
Tom and Draco are two separate beasts,
he was exactly the same, terrifyingly so,
'cause he was really nice as Jason
and he's such a kind, loving, funny guy.
And then the moment they rolled cameras and say action,
he turns into the worst father you've ever met in your life.
And then as soon as they cut,
he goes back to being lovely Jason again.
- Yeah, and I guess when you're working that closely
with people for a long amount of time,
I guess the cast and crew
kind of become your family as well.
- Yeah, when Jason met me, I was 12 years old,
so we've come a long way since then,
but he's certainly been there for me at every corner,
and I still call him Dad.
- [Cherry] Aww, that's adorable.
- We speak quite a lot.
- Nice to know that he's not scary.
- No, not at all.
- So you touched on it a little bit in an answer earlier
about not being able to take wands home with you.
Is there anything that you wish
that you could've kept from set,
or anything that you managed to take from set?
Promise I won't tell anyone.
- One of these little, no, no, I'm actually really glad.
I think at the time, there was a bit of,
it'd be nice to have a Nimbus 2000 in the house, et cetera.
But actually, again, especially revisiting here,
every time I come back, just I'm so grateful that we didn't.
And also, people think that we had 10 brooms
or 10 wands each, and we didn't.
We had one wand.
- [Cherry] Oh really?
- Well we had two.
One real one, and I know it's my real wand in there,
'cause there's a little chip out of the handle
where I dropped it.
And then the other ones were just foam.
So it's nice to know
that there aren't hundreds of these things.
There actually are just the real deal and that was it.
- And I guess it's nice coming back here
and seeing it all again and knowing that it's safe.
- Exactly, better it's kept safe here than in my house.
- Yeah.
How was it being back here for the "Harry Potter" reunion
with your other cast members
that you've maybe not seen for a while?
'Cause I know that I watched that in January,
I will admit, I did cry a little bit watching that.
It was very emotional as a Harry Potter fan.
But I guess I wanted to know about your experience.
- Yeah, you're not the first one to say about the tears.
I think we all shed a tear, to be honest.
- I was just sobbing.
I watched it on my own in my living room
and I was just sobbing.
I was just like, "Oh my God".
- It was lovely.
It was a real surprise.
It was all done very sort of quite last minute,
so we weren't quite sure who was gonna be there
and for how long.
It was one of those ones where we hadn't seen each other.
We certainly hadn't been in the room together for decades,
if not, more like 15 years.
So to have us all back together again was very special,
and then immediately, very normal,
and we were just sort of asking each other mundane,
the sort of questions that we usually ask each other.
It felt like slipping back
into sort of your old school year.
But yeah, I mean, it was pretty emotional, I think, for us,
in a really pleasant way that,
reminding ourselves how much fun we had here
and how easy it was as an experience,
considering how long they all took to make,
how much fun we had, how lucky we were.
And yeah, we had a chance to go for dinner with each other,
Gryffindors and Slytherins alike.
- We get along a bit better now, right?
- We do get along quite well now, yeah.
You'll be pleased to hear,
we've made amends for our years in school.
- Fantastic.
So, as my final question to you, I have to ask it,
please can you do me the honour
of doing your very best Potter impression?
- Only if you can say it back to me.
- You go first.
- Okay, fair.
Fair, fair, fair.
It's all in the Potter.
- Ooh, okay, so it's all in the mouth action.
Okay, my go.
Potter.
- Bloody good.
- [Cherry] Can we rate that out of 10?
- You're up there in the easy early eights.
- Okay, I'll take that.
I'll take that, okay.
- I'll save you a seat in the Slytherin common room.
Yeah, you're in.
- That's great.
You've made my day with that, Tom.
So yeah, I guess, thank you so much
for spending time with me and answering all of my questions,
and a huge thank you
to Warner Brothers studio tour here in London.
This is amazing.
I'm gonna spend some time
looking at all of the new additions here,
and if you want to come and see
this beautiful Greenhouse for yourself,
along with some of the new things,
seriously you're not ready for it,
it's absolutely beautiful, do a little treat yourself,
head into the description down below
and book yourself a ticket, and yeah, have a magical time.
Thanks again, Tom.
- Cheers, mate, thanks.
Enjoy, have fun.