Tom Felton has sent a message to Lox Pratt, his successor as the on-screen Draco Malfoy in the new Harry Potter TV series being made for HBO.
Felton was the Malfoy of the movies and has since returned to the role on stage in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, but at 38 he's a little bit too old to be playing a first-year Hogwarts student.
The new Malfoy is Lord of the Flies star Lox Pratt, and when Felton was on the Happy Sad Confused podcast he said that like his fellow movie stars Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson he'd reached out with an offer of help.
"I’ve sent word, yes," Felton said when asked if he'd been in touch with Pratt and check in to see how the child actor was doing.
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"I think it’s really important. It’s very different — we were entering things that don’t exist; there’s quite a lot of weight now.
"So the last thing I’m gonna do is offer anything other than say, ‘Here’s my phone number. Here’s my address.’ To his parents as well as him, and to anyone else there."
The actor wanted to stress that he didn't want to give advice to Pratt as 'this is your journey', but he did give a few hints and the offer of a helping hand with a message to the young star.
He said: "Have as much fun as possible, take as many pictures as you can, steal as many props as you can — they’ll be worth a fortune. But also, if you do need a word of encouragement or questions to ask, I’m there."
Not sure the props department is going to be glad you said that, Tom.
The other actors from the Harry Potter film have been in touch with their counterparts, but Radcliffe said he'd prefer it if the kids weren't asked about the people who used to play their roles all the time.
The leading man of the Harry Potter movies said he'd written a letter to Dominic McLaughlin, the new Harry who'd said it was 'insane' that the former Potter got in touch.
Radcliffe said he got a 'very sweet note back' in return, but has stressed he doesn't want to be a 'spectral phantom' in the boy's life and career.
He said if people really wanted to 'look after these kids' then one of the main things was to 'not ask about us - me, Emma, Rupert - all the time'.
Radcliffe's advice to the new Harry Potter was to 'have the best time and lean on the crew'.
"Everyone has an image of how we were all raised on the set by the best British actors, but Maggie Smith wasn't coming in and giving me advice on how to grow up," he explained.
"That's not their job. The people that we were really close to were the crew. The crew were some of my best friends, they are still the people who I am really close to."
Topics: Harry Potter, HBO, TV, Celebrity
Joe Harker