Tom Felton reveals on Capital “cheeky Harry Potter WhatsApp group”

Actor Tom Felton was a guest on this morning’s Capital Breakfast with Roman Kemp.

The Harry Potter star, who played Draco Malfoy in the film series, was on the show to talk about his new book ‘Beyond the Wand’, when he revealed he and his co-stars have a “cheeky WhatsApp group”.

He told Roman that all of them are still very close friends and although it sounds like a cheesy line to say, they are all family.

“We don’t often see each other, all of us together in the same room as much as we’d like to,” he said. “But there is a cheeky WhatsApp group going, and we still make lots of really geeky Potter jokes. Like I will only refer to them as the Gryffindorks.”

He added: “So yeah, the banter is still there. And we’re obviously well, we’re linked forever, but we’re all good friends.”

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Tom also admitted he lied in his Harry Potter audition as he hadn’t read the books and thinks that’s what made the director think he was perfect to play Draco Malfoy.

He admitted it would have been a good idea to read the books, but he just ‘blagged it’.

There were thousands of children lining up who knew all about Hogwarts and Gringotts and I had no idea about any of it,” Tom recalled.  And I definitely lied in my audition to say ‘oh, yeah, I know exactly what Gringotts is, they’re brilliant!’

“And I’m pretty sure Chris Columbus, the director, saw that as probably a perfect Malfoy candidate so in a way not reading the books helped get me the part!”

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