Advice from a former enemy.
Daniel Radcliffe has revealed the tip he gave to Tom Felton, who played his school bully Draco Malfoy in the “Harry Potter” film series from 2001 to 2011. Felton is currently reprising the role in his Broadway debut in “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.”
Radcliffe, 36, told Us Weekly that he warned Felton about “entrance applause,” because “it’s a thing we don’t have in the the U.K, so I’m not sure if he’s experienced it.”
“People are going to go insane when you go out on that stage for the first time,” Radcliffe, who has done numerous Broadway plays and won a Tony, said.
The “Swiss Army Man” actor explained, “So I just like – because we’ve been trying to meet up for a little while. And we haven’t been able to do it. So I was like, I’m just gonna send him a voice note, to be like ‘dude, in case no one has mentioned this,’ because I could also see it being the kind of thing that people hadn’t thought to tell him.”
Radcliffe said that in his voice memo to Felton, “I was like, ‘just so you know, don’t let it throw you when the audience erupts when you go out there for the first time.”
Radcliffe and Felton, 38, reunited Monday at a special screening of “Merrily, We Roll Along” in New York City.”
The duo shared a song and posed for photos together.
On Nov. 11, Felton made history as the first “Harry Potter” movie actor to reprise his role in the popular Broadway production, “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.” He got a long standing ovation at his first show at the Lyric Theatre.
“Cursed Child,” which opened on Broadway in 2018, is set 19 years after the events of “Deathly Hallows,” the final installment in the fantasy series. The story focuses on Harry and Draco’s kids, but Harry and Draco appear in it as side characters.
Felton told People in June, “My old school chum, Potter, Radcliffe, has done quite a bit of Broadway, so he’s holding my hand and certainly helping me through all the things that are hard to learn.”
He added, “But from what I gather, it’s an amazing community of people. The fans are really, really gracious and excited. So I’m just thrilled to be part of it.”
The Harry Potter franchise is also currently being revived into a TV series for HBO, with new actors starring, such as Nick Frost as Hagrid and newcomer Dominic McLaughlin as Harry.
The 11-year-old actor recently revealed that he got a letter of support from Radcliffe.
“It was insane,” McLaughlin said during an interview on BBC’s “Saturday Mash-Up! Live,” adding, “My Dad tapped me on the train and just gave me this letter. I read it and then I got to the bottom, and it said, ‘Dan R.’ I was going mad, but I had to [keep cool]. I was on the train.”
James and Oliver Phelps, 38, who played the jokester twins Fred and George Weasley in all eight movies, recently told the Post that they haven’t “thought about” the show “at all.”
“We only know what everybody else knows,” James added. “It’s something not connected with us at all.”
The actor described his friendships with his former Potter co-stars as “like old friends from college or high school.” The group tends to “dip in and out” of each other’s lives, but they “pick up where you left off.”
Oliver noted that his one wish for the show is, “the lads who are playing Fred and George in the new series – I would like that they just enjoy it, as much as we did.”
