Post your questions for Tom Felton

It can’t be easy being best known for always playing the bad guy. After starting out more mildly, as Jim Broadbent and Celia Imrie’s son in The Borrowers and Jodie Foster’s offspring in Anna and the King, Tom Felton was cast as Harry Potter’s nemesis Draco Malfoy when he was 12. In spite of propelling him to worldwide fame, Felton says that it led to a tough time at his real muggle school: “I was walking around with dyed hair and played an evil wizard. It wasn’t cool.” Post Potter, Felton has mainly continued down the antagonist route, be it abusing the captive apes with his dad Brian Cox in 2011’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes; cheating on the golf course in 2011’s sports drama From the Rough; behaving inappropriately towards Gugu Mbatha-Raw in 2013 period drama Belle; stabbing Hamlet to death in 2018’s Ophelia; or scaring everyone as the bogeyman in 2020’s A Babysitter’s Guide to Monster Hunting. Some may say he had his just deserts when he was sucked into the nothingness in 2012 supernatural The Apparition. Felton is currently back to playing Draco Malfoy – this time in the Broadway stage sequel, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child; interestingly, Felton has long swerved the war of words over gender rights between JK Rowling and the three leads. And he’s also in the upcoming spoof period drama Fackham Hall, where he plays the future son-in-law to Damian Lewis who sports possibly the best ginger moustache and side-part haircut combo ever committed to film, and is the film writing debut of comic Jimmy Carr. So! Let’s try to put Slytherin, Quidditch, and what it’s like being turned into a giant slug or – worse still, transformed into a ferret and dropped down Gregory Goyle’s pants – aside, and find some fun questions to ask Felton. For starters, there’s his love of carp fishing, that time he did a 200ft bungee jump on Jack Osbourne: Celebrity Adrenaline Junkie, his ambitions to become a rockstar and his childhood pet chinchilla, Stanley. Please get your questions in by 6pm this Thursday 27 November and we’ll print his answers in Film&Music and online on 5 December. • Fackham Hall is in cinemas 5 December