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You know that person in your life who makes you feel seen? That person who is somehow a witness to all that unfolds? That person who knows—really knows—what is happening to you and what you’re going through, without anything having to be said? For me, that person is Tom Felton.
The magic is in the making, and that process is a discreet unit of time in the past.
An actor brings something of themselves to a part, working with elements of his or her own life and fashioning them into something different.
I’m not Draco. Draco’s not me. But the dividing line is not black and white. It’s painted in shades of grey.
My dressing room was on a different corridor. A plaque on the door said “Draco Malfoy.” It was the done thing for the plaques to give the character’s name rather than the actor’s. (For the sixth film, Alan Rickman changed the label on his dressing room door to “The Half-Blood Prince.”)
(Timothy Spall once told me he acts for free—he’s only paid to wait.)
“I’ve always known I was a duck,” she said, “but I’ve spent my whole life being told I was a chicken. Every time I try to say ‘quack’ the world tells me that I have to say ‘cluck.’ I even started believing that I was a chicken and not a duck. Then we started hanging out and I found somebody else who quacked. And that’s when I thought: To hell with them, I really am a duck!”
Emma has taught me so many valuable lessons over the years, most importantly: don’t always follow the herd, never underestimate the power of a woman and, whatever you do, keep quacking.
that it’s our choices, not our abilities, that show us what we truly are.
The alcohol, though, wasn’t the problem. It was the symptom.
It wasn’t that I was ready to jump off a bridge; it was that jumping off a bridge and winning the lottery seemed like equivalent outcomes.
To this day I never know which version of myself I’m going to wake up to. It can happen that the smallest chores or decisions—brushing my teeth, hanging up a towel, should I have tea or coffee—overwhelm me.
It’s easy to bask in the sun, not so easy to enjoy the rain. But one can’t exist without the other. The weather always changes. Feelings of sadness and happiness deserve equal mental screen time.
The only true currency we have in life is the effect we have on those around us.
If I’m true and if I’m honest, If I speak my heart complete, I see hope and I see promise, A new world that’s there for me.
