{"id":351382,"date":"2026-03-27T23:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T23:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/351382\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T23:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T23:31:11","slug":"harry-potters-tom-felton-on-emma-watson-admiration-child-actor-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/351382\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Potter\u2019s\u00a0Tom Felton on\u00a0Emma Watson Admiration, Child Actor Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/tom_felton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Felton<\/a> isn\u2019t hiding his emotions in the chamber of secrets.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While looking back at his time on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/harry_potter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Harry Potter <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/harry_potter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">films<\/a>, the actor admitted he still marvels at how costar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/emma_watson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emma Watson<\/a> navigated being thrust into the spotlight at such a young age.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019s anything she couldn\u2019t do,\u201d Tom, 38, confessed during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pSWIM3Tc9y0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 26 episode<\/a> of the Happy Sad Confused podcast. \u201cThere\u2019s no one that I admire more, really, considering being cast for such a now pivotal role in history. The added dimension of being a young woman, a young girl going through that is another level of complexity.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Emma, now 35, was just 9 years old when she auditioned for her role as Hermoine Grainger. Tom started his journey as Draco Malfoy at 13, while titular wizard Harry\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/daniel_radcliffe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Radcliffe<\/a> and Ron Weasley\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/rupert_grint\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rupert Grint<\/a> were 11. Though they were kids when the iconic franchise started in 2001, Tom still recognized that Emma\u2019s rise in the industry was fairly different since she was the only girl in the core group.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t relate to that, and I can\u2019t even experience it,\u201d he explained, before showing love to the entire Harry Potter cast. \u201cBut, you know, I just have huge admiration for all of them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Felton isn\u2019t hiding his emotions in the chamber of secrets.\u00a0 While looking back at his time on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-351382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}