Full Circle Was a Challenge

The actor  discusses the  role on the Neil Lebute series and his career after playing Draco Malfoy.

"Harry Potter" actor Tom Felton stars on the premiere episode of playright Neil Lebute's Direct TV's
series "Full Circle.

For the role the 26 year old and co star Minka Kelly had to shoot their half hour  episode together in a 14 hour day which proved challenging for the movie star.

 "Contrasting to the days of Harry Potter - we'd get 30 seconds done in a day - it was new to me and a challenge "  Felton told   The Wrap and other reporters at the press event for the  DirectTV drama.

"I was pretty nervous when we started to see if we hit the ground running or whether it would take a long time to go " he continued  "Without a question.  it was the most intense day of my life. Emotions were coming out when I didn't want them to or need them  but ultimately it helped in the performance. No one really had the chance to stop and get their phones out or go make a cup of coffee . It was back to back and off we go "

On the series. each episode a different couple and their lives weave into the other episode. The 26 year old  plays Tim ,  a British College Student having an affair with a married woman played by Minka Kelly . With plans to return home, Tim begs the woman  to leave her husband and family for him.

Minka's an incredibly talented person " he said  of his co star. "It was nice, because you never saw two takes that were the same, she was always changing it up."

With so little time to build chemistry, the pair read line together over Skype.

"The  chemistry was something that came the day  before we shot, " he said  "which was nice."

While most of the actors had back-to-back episodes Felton  felt  it lucky to appear in the premiere episode and then again on the tenth and last episode after a three week hiatus between them.

"I quite like it in the respect we get to see the longest journey for Tim " he said  "Who he is in Episode 1  is world's away from where he is in the tenth episode . So, I feel lucky that we get to show without revealing to much, that he's slightly more ambitious  ever more slightly juvenile, in the first episode. But come the tenth, he's given more time to grow and mature.

And while child stars can find the same role that made them famous can hamper their career , Felton  is still grateful for what the $7.7 billion ' Harry Potter '  franchise  has done for him.

'It's definately not a burden, " he said  "Its taught  everything I know pretty much for acting and general set thing. I think it's a good thing . the character I played on "Harry Potter" was a very strong,  evil wizzard, which is quite a bespoke role. I haven't seen anything quite close to that since then. I generally feel most times I walk into a room to meet someone they're shocked at my appearance and that I'm not evil. That kinda plays to my advantage.

Felton's television project is a pilot for TNT called "Murder in the First"  on which he plays a charismatic  Silicon Valley CEO with a vicious side.

"The goal of the last couple of years, I think is to just do as many contrasting roles to Draco as possible, as much as I like to play an asshole."  he said  "Luckily. the last few ones have been very contrasting and Im looking forward to seeing peoples reactions  to that" 

Full Circle premieres  wednesday 9/8c on DirectTVs Audience network.


You can find the Interview HERE

GOOD LUCK TOM !

  

Tom Talks about the filming of FULL CIRCLE

Tom was recently interviewed about the filming of Full Circle. To rehearse he linked up on skype to get the 25 page dialogue and actions perfect with fellow actresses.

Thank you Rick Bentley  The Fresno Bee

New Trailer of BELLE

The FIRST trailer of Belle has been released on UTube

To accompany this we have some screencaps to share

One does make a wife of the RARE and EXOTIC !

Don't you care what people will SAY !!

What will they say ?

I find her Repulsive

In reply to a recent tweet Amma informed me that Belle is due for release in February 2014 . I'm sure this film is going to be a huge success for Amma and the cast  of Belle . Lets hope Belle gets nominated  for next years BRITISH INDEPENDANT FILM AWARDS 2014.

Good Luck  !

First interview with Tom about ' Full Circle '

TOM  CHATS ABOUT  FULL CIRCLE 

In a recent interview  with   Collider.Com Tom speaks about his two latest  TV projects  FULL CIRCLE  and MURDER IN THE FIRST aslso the legacy of HARRY POTTER . 

Full Circle  is a  Direct TV  10 part production marking the debut of award winning  scriptwriter and playwright  Neil LaBute  and Tom has already made his debut as Tim Abbott along side Minka Kelly - Bridgette  in the first episode  broadcasted on 9th October. Tom  will be seen once again in the final episode opposite Ally Sheedy for what we believe will be an explosive end revealed in a recent interview.

Full Circle examines the lives of 11 people and how their lives are entwined  and is set in a restaurant  were they all dine. Each episode  features  a conversation between two characters and  the storyline carries on into the next episode.

The first episode opens with Tim & Bridgette who is  an unhappy married woman and Tim is the young english exchange student  and has a love interest in Bridgette and pleads with her to leave her husband and run away with him.

During the interview Tom not only talks about Full Circle but also Murder in the First and the legacy left by Harry Potter.

Here is a scan of the interview.

Collider:  How did this come about for you?  Did you hear that Neil LaBute was doing a TV, and then you said, “Sign me up!”?

TOM FELTON:  Pretty much!  I was working in Mexico, not far from Tijuana, doing a film down there, and they called up to say, “There’s a 10-episode thing with Neil LaBute.  It’s two episodes for each character.  And they want you to be in the first and the last one.”  I was already pretty signed up, before I’d even read a page.  Obviously, when I read Neil’s writing and saw the cast that was being attached to it, it was a no-brainer for me.  Even though I was pretty nervous about it and slightly anxious about this kind of project, because it’s worlds away from anything I had done previously, I was excited to give it a go. 

Was it intimidating to take on the words of Neil LaBute and have so much dialogue?

FELTON:  Unquestionably!  In 10 years of Harry Potter, I didn’t say half of what I said in this one day.  That’s how different it really was.  At best, I’d maybe learned three or four pages for a day, but never 25.  That was my first concern.  I didn’t know how I was going to be able to not only remember the lines, but deliver them how they should be delivered.  In my head, if we’d had a week to film it, it would have been a lot easier.  Actually, in truth, it was really a great way of doing it, in one day.  It was very intense.  There were a lot of emotions flying around without even really trying to bring them to the table.  There were multiple cameras, so we didn’t have to keep turning the camera out to go back and forth.  There was one camera on me and one camera on [the other person].  So, it was terrifying, but at the same time, it was rewarding.  Very quickly, we knew that it was going okay.  We did all right.  We didn’t embarrass ourselves.  And I know that Minka [Kelly] won’t mind me saying that she was pretty anxious about it before, as well.  We hadn’t met each other, and we were supposed to be lovers. 

This is an unusual project, in that you have half an hour to establish an entire relationship history.

FELTON:  Yeah, and I had met her two days before that.  There was no ground to really work on.  We had done Skype sessions to try to familiarize ourselves with each other, but you know what it’s like on Skype.  It’s not easy to get to know someone.  I just think we lucked out.  We had a great director and a great crew, but Minka is the loveliest girl.  She’s so down-to-earth and so easy to talk to, and has no ego, at all.  For a project like this to work, with the limited time, you need to be able to take direction from whoever and to feel open enough to ask the other person how the scene felt.  I think Minka and I got along really well.  I know she certainly helped bring my performance to life, and I hope I did the same for her.

Did the fact that you really had to look each other directly in the eye through pretty much the entire scene really help to stay connected, in the moment?

FELTON:  Massively, yeah.  It was awkward.  When you meet someone, you try to be polite.  You don’t try to hold their hand and stare at them lovingly in the eye.  I was like, “I don’t know if this is cool or not.”  But, Minka was so very friendly.  And Nick [Hamm], the director we had, was so very sure about what he wanted and what he didn’t want that it made it quite clear, early on, where we were going to go with it.  It was nice.  If there were any intimate moments with Minka and I, you felt the ones that were good.  It’s hard to cheat those things.  If it feels bad, it usually is.  But, it can be the other way around on dialogue.  For me, some of the things I think sounded great, they were like, “No, that was terrible.  The one that you messed up is the one we’re gonna use.”  It’s hard to get a gauge on it.  But, when it’s one-on-one with a girl, you can quite quickly see if it’s gonna work or not. 

And it’s so important to establish that connection in the first episode.

FELTON:  Yeah, the whole point was to get the ball rolling.  If we didn’t even get it rolling, then the rest of the series doesn’t have the same gravitas.  A lot of TV shows, pilot wise, try to cram as many goodies into the pilot as they can, so that people don’t just turn it off.  That has a bit more sophistication to it, where the first episode really just opens the window.  It’s the second, third and fourth episodes that really start to suck you in.  And when we come to the ninth and tenth episodes, hopefully people will be heavily engrossed, as I was.  When I went to read it, I thought, “I’ll just flick through the second, third and fourth,” but six hours of my life went to reading the scripts. 

It makes me really happy that not only did DirecTV produce it, but they’re the ones distributing it in that new age fashion where it is available online, all at once, for people who want that.  I’m definitely from that generation where I can’t sit there for a week and twiddle my thumbs and wait for the next episode.  I want to see it, right away.  So, I’m glad they’re doing that.  They’re also airing two episodes a week on DirecTV, that you can watch over the five weeks that they’re airing it.  Some people like to pace themselves.  There is that horrible feeling that, if you do watch a whole season in one night, then you’re like, “Oh, my god, I’ve done it!”  I remember someone reading the early Harry Potter books was like, “I can only do a chapter a week.”  It’s like a drug.  You don’t want to take it all at once.  You’ve got to pace yourself.  It just goes to show how gripping modern TV and modern entertainment is.

You also have a new TNT series, Murder in the First.  Had you been actively looking to do television?

FELTON:  Oh, yeah, definitely!  I feel like the prestige of film over television is long gone.  If anything, it’s the other way around now.  I’ve been in awe of Damian Lewis, for a long time.  Now, look at where his career path is going.  It’s fantastic!  And I’m a huge fan of Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul.  For a film star, back in the day, it would take three different films or three different characters to show, “Wow, this guy is a great actor!”  Now, if you get one good character in one of these TV series – and Aaron Paul is a great example – you’re set and people love you forever.  You are a figure of modern pop culture, which is very cool.  I think the quality of writing and the production scale has just gone through the roof for TV.  I think withFull Circle, especially, it’s going to be the first of many, many more series of this ilk, to come.  I feel like this is a very modern way to present entertainment, and I think people are really going to like it.

As an actor, what’s it like to have been a part of something like the Harry Potter franchise, and know that it will always be remembered and loved by people?

FELTON:  It’s definitely not even remotely a negative.  People have referred to it as a burden or as something you have to shake, and it’s never been that for me.  I’ve always been very proud of what we did, as kids, and I feel very lucky because we’ve grown up since then.  I look very different from the guy that I played.  I’m not always the easiest person to spot, which is nice.  And I feel very lucky that the character that I got to play couldn’t have really been further from me.  A lot of people expect to meet Draco when they meet me, and they usually are pleasantly surprised when they see that I’m not a complete asshole.  It’s been fun to see people’s reactions, over the years.  They have these preconceptions of what I’m like, and then I turn that on its head.  So, I’m very proud of the past, and also very excited for the future.  I feel like, since then, I’ve taken on a whole range of different characters, none that are even remotely similar to young Draco.

I hope you enjoyed it. 

Screen Shots of Tom from BELLO

Here are a a selection of Screenshots from Toms recent photo shoot/promotion video
The photos can be found on line at the Bello website 
and is available to buy and download from  Itunes

BELLO PHOTOSHOOT & VIDEO

Tom's photoshoot is now available online and can be downloaded from ITUNES
You can see both on here below 

Tom is in ROLLACOASTER Issue No 9

TOM'S ON A  "ROLLACOASTER" ISSUE NO.9

  Tom gave his fans especially in the UK a REAL treat before he moves his family to live most

   likely in LA  where he will most likely start filming ' Murder in the First '  shortly  which has 

   been given the go ahead recently for the first 10 episodes which will be screened weekly for US 

   fans.  Lucky viewers in the USA who subscribe to  DIRECT TV have already seen Tom in his

   USA screen debut of ' FULL CIRCLE '  as TIM ABBOT.

 Tom appears in his final UK Magazine shoot with  ROLLACOASTER  along with an

 Interview where he talks  about his plans and his career and moving to LA.

  Our friends at Feltbeats have kindly made a transcript of Tom's interview and can be found 

  below : 

  After a decade working on one of the most high-profile movie franchises in film history, the world is waiting on Tom Felton’s next move. Fortunately, it’s a big one.

As a Harry Potter fan, an interview with Tom Felton – who played the film saga’s enfant terrible head- boy, Draco Malfoy – was a thrilling prospect. Managing to rem ain professional and dignified throughout (I held in any “10 points for Gryffindor!” outbursts) it quickly beca me clear that Felton is as humble as child-turned-adult actors come – and nothing like the sneering, wet behind the ears character he’s known for.
Unlike co-stars Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson, Felton was in big-screen films long before Potter. As part of Jim Broadbent’s miniature, mischievous family in 1997’s The Borrowers and Jodie Foster’s son in 1999’s melancholic historical drama Anna and the King. “One of the things about growing up while filming,” he says, “is that I never really realised that acting was something that I wanted to do for the rest of my life” the 26 year old explains, before admitting he briefly wanted to become a full-time fisherman. “I said that to the media when I was 12 and it’s kind of stuck with me since.”
Nowadays, post-Potter and post-almost-career- change, London-based Felton can’t move for acting projects.
There are currently 10 in the pipeline, including a 10 episode series titled Full Circle and a TNT pilot, Murder in the First, which would mean relocating to LA if it gets picked up. “I’m packing up with my girlfriend, my dog and my things and moving the whole lot over there.”
Most exciting of all, out this September 27, is Therese, in which he stars with Elizabeth Olsen. He plays Parisian Camille Raquin – a man married to his cousin Therese (a sexually frustrated Olson). “The character is pretty much the direct opposite of any character I’ve played previously, in regards to his manner and the way he holds himself. Without saying too much, he’s a weedy little git. It was a lot of fun to play that!”, he laughs.
How, like Radcliffe, Watson and the rest, was he seemingly able to steer clear of typical pre-and-post- adolescent temptations – drugs, drink, general excess – enough to avoid the British tabloid media’s lecherous gaze and, specifically, MailOnline’s “Sidebar of Shame”? “I was told by a few people that had we had shot Potter in the United States, it would have been a slightly different story,” he says. “I was blessed with three older brothers who, you know, treated me like the runt of the pack. They didn’t give me any special treatment. It kept my feet on the ground.”

HERE ARE SOME MORE PHOTOS FROM THE SHOOT

Photos by photographer George Harvey  &  Makeup Artist Elias Hove.

The Magazine is availble free within Mens London BOUTIQUES and to buy on  W.H. SMITH NEWS STANDS .