An unknown side to the actor who played Draco Malfoy. “Harry Potter” star Tom Felton is opening up like never before in his new memoir, Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard.
While the 35-year-old British actor certainly gives his readers what they want and presumably expect with plenty of “Potter” tidbits and set secrets and lots of details on his more-than-friends relationship with co-star Emma Watson, Felton also makes some shocking revelations toward the end of his book.
He speaks about moving to Los Angeles and getting overwhelmed by a more glamorous, movie-star lifestyle. In searching for a bit of normality reminiscent of his upbringing, Felton writes that in his mid-to-late twenties, he “spent more hours, more nights, than I care to remember” at a Los Angeles dive bar called Barney’s Beanery.
Felton writes that he wasn’t much of a drinker until he started frequenting Barney’s while “craving normality.” “I went from being not particularly interested to regularly having a few pints a day before the sun had even gone down, and a shot of whiskey to go with each of them,” he writes, adding that he was “drinking to escape a situation.” He says he had drinks on set and would show up “unprepared” for work.
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