Tom Felton is Slytherin’ into a brand new Harry Potter production this fall—but this time he’s riding his broom straight to Broadway. The actor, who played Draco Malfoy in the original franchise, will return to the infamous role for “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.” He’ll be portraying Harry Potter’s rival at New York’s Lyric Theatre for 19 weeks starting on Nov. 11. The child star, now 37, is the first Harry Potter cast member to join the Broadway show, which takes place 19 years after the movie series ended. In “Cursed Child,” the highest-grossing non-musical in Broadway history, the main characters are all grown up and sending their children off to Hogwarts. ”‘Potter’ was a massive chunk of my childhood, and now I get to sort of go back whilst also going forward,” Felton told TODAY on Thursday. His announcement comes as HBO prepares to launch a brand new Harry Potter television series. “It’s very, very easy to get emotional,” he added. “When they put my blond wig on for the theater production, I just immediately cried. It was just sort of like a blast from the past.” As Dumbledore once said, “Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.”
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