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British actor Tom Felton said he relished two violent bust-ups with Harry Potter when he resumed his role as the evil Draco Malfoy in the sixth film of the boy wizard's adventures.
Audiences will see Felton, so often in the shadow of Daniel Radcliffe as Harry in the previous films, occupy a central role in 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince', which opens across the world next week.
Having sparred with each other in the corridors of Hogwarts' wizarding school for years, the clashes between Harry and Malfoy in the new film have a harder edge in keeping with the overall theme of impending adulthood.
"We have a few conflicts in the film so it was great fun to finally get physical," Felton said. Like Radcliffe and the other young Potter stars, Felton, now 21, has dedicated a substantial chunk of his childhood to the films and done his growing-up on the set.
Though still a pupil of Hogwarts, in the new film Felton's white-blonde character is suited and booted in head-to-toe black while our trio of heroes Harry, Hermione and Ron, are still wearing the jumpers of teenagers.
Felton admits that he originally wanted to play Harry, but quickly settled into the skin of the brooding, threatening Malfoy.
"I take great pleasure in being evil in the film, so I'm very grateful to be playing Draco.
"If I can terrify a child then I'm assuming I'm paid for something," he said.
