Tom Felton: I’m so excited to see Rupert Grint play Ron Weasley again

Felton was the first of the original Harry Potter cast to reprise his role in the theatre show, but he will not be the only one for much longer, as Rupert Grint is set to reprise his role as Ron Weasley on Broadway in February.

The 38-year-old actor says he called his former co-star as soon as he heard the news.

“We are typically – and he will agree with me – pretty bad at our phone game, but when I heard the news I called him immediately and I’m so excited for him” Felton says. “Who doesn’t want to see Rupert Grint play Ron Weasley again? Come on!”

I ask whether Felton offered any advice to his co-star but he laughs and says absolutely not, pointing out that Grint has already appeared on Broadway.

“I don’t think he needs any advice from me. If anything, I would be taking it from him.”

He adds that Grint has a “Ron Weasley laissez-faire approach to these things”.

More than two decades after they first met on the Harry Potter set, Felton says the friendships between the young cast have endured.

He describes Grint, Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson as “best mates” and “family”, even if getting them all in the same place is now difficult.

“We are usually in four different corners of the earth, so it’s hard to get together,” he says, adding that their support since his return to Draco has been “fantastic”.