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Tom Felton to return as Draco Malfoy in 'Harry Potter' Broadway show: 'Scared, Potter?'
Tom Felton to return as Draco Malfoy in 'Harry Potter' Broadway show: 'Scared, Potter?'
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Tom Felton is stepping back into the Wizarding World.
The actor, 37, is set to reprise his role of Draco Malfoy in the stage show "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" on Broadway. Felton, who played the character in the "Harry Potter" film series, will join the cast for a limited 19-week engagement beginning Nov. 11.
"Guess who's back," read the caption of an Instagram post announcing the news, which included a video of Felton, in costume, looking at the camera and saying, "Scared, Potter?"
During a June 5 appearance on the "Today" show, Felton said joining "Cursed Child" is "very much a 'pinch me' kind of situation," adding, "I keep thinking I'm dreaming, because I let go of that character 16 years ago."
Felton also shared that he "immediately started crying" when he donned his blonde wig to play Draco again. "It's such a huge part of my childhood," he noted. "It's like me going back to high school."
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Written by Jack Thorne, "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" is an original story that takes place 19 years after the events of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," the final book in the "Harry Potter" series. Harry Potter, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley all return in the story, which features Harry's son, Albus Severus Potter, and Draco's son, Scorpius Malfoy.
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"When Harry Potter's head-strong son Albus befriends the son of his fiercest rival, Draco Malfoy, it sparks an unbelievable new journey for them all — with the power to change the past and future forever," the synopsis reads.
News of Felton's return comes as "Harry Potter" gets ready to begin a new era on television.
Last week, HBO announced that three newcomers — Dominic McLaughlin, Arabella Stanton and Alastair Stout — have been cast as Harry, Hermione and Ron in its upcoming "Harry Potter" TV series, which will be a new adaptation of the original novels by J.K. Rowling. The cast also includes John Lithgow as Dumbledore, Nick Frost as Hagrid and Paapa Essiedu as Snape.
How to see Tom Felton in 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child'
Felton will play Draco Malfoy in "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" on Broadway from Nov. 11 through March 22. A ticket presale is scheduled for June 10 at 11 a.m. ET.
