Tom Felton to reprise position as Draco Malfoy in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

More than a decade after casting his ultimate spell, Tom Felton, very best identified for enjoying Harry Potter’s bleach-blond nemesis, is returning to the wizarding international.

The actor will reprise his position as Draco Malfoy within the acclaimed degree manufacturing Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, making his Broadway debut.

Felton, 37, starred within the Harry Potter movie franchise from 2001 to 2011, and has remained a fan favorite as one of the most sequence’ maximum infamous characters. His go back makes him the primary movie forged member to reprise the position on degree.

“Being a part of the Harry Potter films has been one of the greatest honours of my life,” he mentioned. “Joining this production will be a full-circle moment for me.”

Felton will sign up for the forged at New York’s Lyric theatre from 11 November for a 19-week run, the manufacturing showed on Thursday. First staged in London in 2016 and written by way of the Adolescence co-creator Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is in line with a tale co-devised with JK Rowling.

Set 19 years after the unique sequence, it follows Harry – now a Ministry of Magic worker – and his spouse, Ginny, as they ship their son Albus Severus to Hogwarts. The play explores Albus’s struggles along with his circle of relatives legacy, navigating strained friendships and the weight of a well-known surname.

The play’s manufacturers, Sonia Friedman and Colin Callender, known as the go back “a cultural moment charged with nostalgia, evolution, and emotion”. They mentioned: “We can’t wait to see him inhabit this role once again with the same depth, gravity, and humanity he has always brought to Draco.”

The manufacturing has been working on Broadway since 2018, in the beginning in two portions lasting 5 hours, however since 2021 as a unmarried three-and-a-half-hour manufacturing. The manufacturing in London stays in two portions.

Felton lately featured within the West End in 2:22 A Ghost Story. Since the Potter motion pictures, he has seemed in Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) and had ordinary roles in sequence corresponding to Murder within the First, The Flash and Origin.

He lent his voice to the Harry Potter video video games and seemed within the 20th anniversary particular Return to Hogwarts along Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson.

The Potterverse continues to enlarge, with filming because of get started this summer season for HBO’s new small-screen adaptation of Rowling’s books.