There’s no lingering Gryffindor-Slytherin rivalry betweenTom FeltonandDaniel Radcliffe.
Felton, 35, opened up about his “fantastic” relationship with formerHarry Pottercostar Radcliffe, 33, on Wednesday in an interview onCBS Mornings, revealing that despite once playing enemies onscreen,Radcliffe is like “a brother"to him in real life.
“I love the man dearly,” said Felton, who was promoting his newly released memoirBeyond the Wand. “I don’t see him as much as I’d like to — that’s the same for all of us, really. But I consider him a brother, definitely. Huge amounts of respect for him.”
The actor went on to say that Radcliffe “brings a certain energy to any room that he’s in.”
“But it was important to me, looking back, how important his enthusiasm and his eventual professionalism runs down the ranks, if you will,” Felton added.
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Daniel Radcliffe and Tom Felton.Daniel Radcliffe/Instagram
“He could’ve very much easily, I think, coasted a lot of those years. And it seemed to me, on set with him, that he was always up for bringing as much as he can to the table, always being collaborative,” Felton continued.
“And I think he learned that the same way that I did: from the other chaps around us,” said the star, who played Draco Malfoy, the longtime rival of Radcliffe’s Harry Potter.
“You have one boy who has no parents, no money, no status, but he has everything that is good with the world: He has love and compassion and friends and truth and honesty,” Felton said of Radcliffe’s character.
“Andthe other side is the slightly darker one, [with] very powerful parents, lots of money, big house, all the toys, but also a bully and someone that can’t find a way of expressing his light, because he hasn’t been shown any his entire life,” he went on to describe Draco. “These are broad sweeps of the brush, but I think it’s fairly true.”
Tom Felton and Daniel Radcliffe inHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets(2002).Warner Bros. Entertainment
In his new memoir, Felton also writes about the pair’s formerHarry PottercostarRobbie Coltrane, who recentlydied at age 72.
For Felton,the “kind,” “caring” Coltranepassed on a bevy of crucial lessons to the young cast, which also includedEmma WatsonandRupert Grint.
“Robbie was always keen to remind us that we weren’t there to curecancer,” he says in the book. “We weren’t saving the world. We were simply making a film. We should remember that, not get too big for our boots and try to have a laugh along the way.”
“He had agood dose of Hagrid in him: the big friendly giant who never lost sight of what was important in life,” Felton adds.
Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizardisavailable nowwherever books are sold.
source: people.com
