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 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 .

More Photos of Tom Discussing FULL CIRCLE

Photos have appeared on the net of Tom on The Young Hollywood at Direct TV.

                  

Is That a Choccie  Cupcake I see there Tom ?

Tom with Nikki

First discussions about "FULL CIRCLE"

Tom meet to discuss FULL CIRCLE.

Recently Tom was excited to meet and discuss his next TV project with Direct TV.

The NEW project FULL CIRCLE is due for release  in October  and will run for 10 weeks Tom will be in  an  early episode and the Finale.

Full Circle is set in a restaurant and involves the lives of different couples and  their lives with a finale of how all their lives are all linked .  All sounds very intriguing.

Toms's character in the series is  Tim Abbott.

One lucky girl attending  managed to get us a photo of herself & Tom

She recommended he got himself a pair of Raybans  a good choice I think although  Tom did look 

 ONE COOL DUDE

Good Luck Tom and all the cast from  FULL CIRCLE

I LOVE THE  HAIR TO HAVE YOU GOT THE BOTTLE OF HAIR DYE OUT AGAIN  TOM 

Tom Goes FULL CIRCLE & MURDER IN THE FIRST as he Debuts on American TV

DIRECT TV  announced that Tom Felton was casted alongside David Boreanaz and Kate Walsh in their Drama FULL CIRCLE

DiRECT TV announced that  Tom will be appearing in the Neil Lebale  drama 'Full Circle'

Here is the report from  THE LOS ANGELES TIMES

By Patrick Kevin Day

May 23, 2013, 3:32 p.m.

When DirecTV's new original drama "Full Circle" debuts on the Audience Channel in the fall, some people will see it as screenwriter and playwright Neil LaBute's TV debut. But others may see it as a chance for Angel and Draco Malfoy to team. Both "Angel" and "Bones" star David Boreanaz and "Harry Potter" alum Tom Felton have been announced in the cast, but don't expect a typical ensemble effort.

The concept behind the 10-episode drama series is that each episode will feature a conversation between two characters in a restaurant. One of the characters will then provide the bridge to the next episode, which will feature that person paired with a new character, and so-on until the season finale, which will bring all the characters together.

Joining Boreanaz and Felton are Kate Walsh, Minka Kelly,Julian McMahon, Keke Palmer, Devon Gearhart, Bill Campbell, Noah Silver, Ally Sheedy, Cheyenne Jackson andRobin Weigert.

VIDEO: Fall 2013 TV preview

The connections are sometimes surprising: McMahon plays a high-powered entertainment lawyer, while Kelly plays his wife. And Boreanaz plays his client, a famous comic with a wild streak, while Palmer plays someone whose life was forever changed as the result of a joke the comic took too far.

Production on the series will begin at the end of May in DirecTV's Los Angeles Broadcasting Center.

"Full Circle" will be DirecTV's original series follow-up to "Rogue," the police drama starring Thandie Newton that debuted in April. Previously, DirecTV had picked up series that began on other networks to finish their runs. It produced three seasons of "Friday Night Lights" when it was going to be canceled by NBC and it produced two seasons of "Damages"when it was in danger of being canceled by FX.

but thats not all thanks to DEADLINE.COM . It has been  announced that Tom will be appearing in TNT TV's   pilot episode for MURDER IN THE FIRST and will be  a series regular.

Here is the report  from Deadline

British actor Tom Felton, best known for playing Draco Malfoy in the Harry Pottermovies, has joined the cast of TNT’s drama pilot Murder In The First as a series regular. Co-created by Steven Bochco and Eric Lodal, the project is a murder mystery that centers on San Francisco PD homicide detectives Terry Seagrave (Taye Diggs) and Hildy Mulligan (Kathleen Robertson), as they take on a case that seems more like a maze. Felton will play Erich Blunt, the cocky, spectacularly wealthy CEO of Applicon, a tech genius.

                                GOOD LUCK TOM X