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Re: Books - Beyond the Wand (Tom Felton)

[(Anonymous)]

Then he describes Daniel Radcliffe's "fierce intelligence" and devotion to his craft as an actor. 🤭

Re: Books - Beyond the Wand (Tom Felton)

[(Anonymous)]

The chapters on LA and his time in rehab are a bit more interesting, but feel like they've had anything too detailed or revealing carefully cut out. I'm not sure why he bothered with an autobiography when he wants to be vague and skim over everything in his life. (Well, I assume he just wanted money).

The best parts of this book are the technical details about making films and TV. I also liked an anecdote about Michael Gambon: Felton kept accidentally messing up his lines on set. They took a break. He apologised to Michael Gambon for wasting his time. Gambon was just like "lol I'm getting paid so much per day, please keep fucking up, so I can buy another ferrari".

(Felton found this very conforting and wasn't sure if it was just said to calm him. I'm inclined to take it at face value; it's exactly how I would react in Gambon's situation. xD)

There's also a chapter about him being mistaken for other people:
Aaron Paul
Frankie Muniz
Eminem

I can kind of see the other two, but Eminem???!!!

Rowling doesn't feature much in the book; I suspect his agent took a chainsaw to it. He mentions he got a letter off her praising his work on HBP, and he still has it framed. And there's a chapter at the end with a vague plea for people not to react with kneejerk hatred online and allow people to express their opinions and discuss them, which I think is intended as a defence of her (it's just a bit of a crap one). Rowling isn't present in his dedication at the end, while half the film studio seem to be, but tbf he may have just been way closer to them. I still think she'd have got a mention if this had been published in 2018, not 2022. The overall impression I got from the book is that he has nothing against her, but his agent is keeping him on a tight leash, because he isn't famous enough to not be mistaken for Eminem. He gets on with his family, and I suspect they are all sane about gendershit, so I'm guessing he feels he can't be a hypocrite and hate her over it. Am certain he's heard much more offensive stuff from his brothers. :P