After more than 20 years, Tom Felton thought the Wizarding World of “Harry Potter” might be out of magic by now. But instead, the actor finds himself set to reprise the role of Draco Malfoy on Broadway in “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.”
“I think we all thought that the fandom flame might be doused over the years, but clearly it’s not,” Felton told Variety’s Gordon Cox at the Tony Awards on Sunday about his upcoming Broadway debut. “The most exciting part is to do it live. It took nine months, more or less, to shoot a film, and this is all compact. This is all reimagined into a very loving, new type of story. And I get to be a dad, which is really fun.”
Indeed, the “Harry Potter” brand is bigger than ever, with the popular stage show and a TV revival in the works at HBO.
“I think we all thought that the fandom flame might be doused over the years, but clearly it’s not,” Felton told Variety’s Gordon Cox at the Tony Awards on Sunday about his upcoming Broadway debut. “The most exciting part is to do it live. It took nine months, more or less, to shoot a film, and this is all compact. This is all reimagined into a very loving, new type of story. And I get to be a dad, which is really fun.”
Indeed, the “Harry Potter” brand is bigger than ever, with the popular stage show and a TV revival in the works at HBO.
- 6/8/2025
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
The past year of Leslye Headland’s work has been a love letter to her teenage self.
The multitalented screenwriter-director-showrunner-playwright is on the eve of closing her acclaimed Broadway debut “Cult of Love,” a project she jumped headfirst into after finishing the edit on her 2024 Disney+ Star Wars series “The Acolyte.”
“Broadway is a big deal. And I would say to 13-year-old Leslye, to do a Star Wars story then Broadway? It’s mind blowing,” Headland recently shared with Variety.
The “Russian Doll” co-creator’s upbringing is top of mind in “Cult of Love,” which was originally staged at the Berkeley Rep. The relentless dramedy about the deterioration of a religious family on Christmas Eve – which bagged Zachary Quinto, Shailene Woodley and Headland’s spouse Rebecca Henderson for its New York run – is inspired by its author’s own childhood and relationship with faith.
The play (which was explored in...
The multitalented screenwriter-director-showrunner-playwright is on the eve of closing her acclaimed Broadway debut “Cult of Love,” a project she jumped headfirst into after finishing the edit on her 2024 Disney+ Star Wars series “The Acolyte.”
“Broadway is a big deal. And I would say to 13-year-old Leslye, to do a Star Wars story then Broadway? It’s mind blowing,” Headland recently shared with Variety.
The “Russian Doll” co-creator’s upbringing is top of mind in “Cult of Love,” which was originally staged at the Berkeley Rep. The relentless dramedy about the deterioration of a religious family on Christmas Eve – which bagged Zachary Quinto, Shailene Woodley and Headland’s spouse Rebecca Henderson for its New York run – is inspired by its author’s own childhood and relationship with faith.
The play (which was explored in...
- 1/30/2025
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
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