Tom Felton to Reprise His Role as (Now Middle-Aged) Draco Malfoy on Broadway

Tom Felton, the actor who bleached his already blond hair to make it nearly translucent to portray the flaxen-haired antagonist Draco Malfoy in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books, will go once more into the bleach this fall. The actor, 37, will reprise the role for the Broadway production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, a sequel set far enough in the future that the Malfoy character is also approaching middle age. Variety reports Felton will join the cast on Nov. 11 for a run that ends March 22.

“Being a part of the Harry Potter films has been one of the greatest honors of my life,” Felton said. “Joining this production will be a full-circle moment for me, because when I begin performances in Cursed Child this fall, I’ll also be the exact age Draco is in the play. It’s surreal to be stepping back into his shoes — and of course his iconic platinum blond hair — and I am thrilled to be able to see his story through and to share it with the greatest fan community in the world.”

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The events in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child take place 19 years after the conclusion of the final Potter book. In the play, the children of Malfoy, Potter, Hermione Granger, and Ron Weasley are packing their own kids off to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

In 2009, Felton told Entertainment Tonight Canada that he couldn’t wait for the end of the Harry Potter movies so he could stop bleaching his hair. “It’s going to be one of the greatest reliefs of it all when it’s done,” he said, via Looper. “I would love to have counted how many times I’ve had it done, mind, ’cause it’s literally in the hundreds at least now.” Each bleaching, he said, took 30 to 45 minutes. Although he liked the look, he couldn’t be bothered to keep it up. “I don’t know that I’ll be committed enough to every five days or whatever it is getting the old roots touched up,” he said. “That’s not really my style.”