Tom Felton Wrote Original Ukulele Songs for His New Costar on Set — The Internet Is in Love

Tom Felton serenaded his TWKY costar with original ukulele songs on set and a costar revealed the story. Here is what Tom Felton is actually like off-set and why fans adore him.

Tom Felton — best known as Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter franchise, a role he inhabited from ages 12 to 20 and that has defined his specific public identity despite the significant artistic distance he has put between himself and that character in subsequent years — was revealed by a costar on the set of 'TWKY' to have written original ukulele songs for the cast, with the costar saying 'he was making us all laugh,' per AOL's April coverage.

For the Tom Felton the public knows versus the Tom Felton these stories reveal: the Draco Malfoy character was television's and cinema's most recognizable blonde villain for a decade, and Felton has spent much of his adult life having to explain to new acquaintances that he is not, in fact, a cold aristocratic bully. His documented personal warmth — the ukulele playing, the specific Instagram content that shows genuine humour and self-awareness, the particular quality that his reunion content with former castmates demonstrates — is the particular antidote to the character association that has followed him.

For the 'TWKY' project context: the specific production and its full title are referenced in AOL's coverage in a way that suggests ongoing publicity around a project whose profile is building. Felton at 38 is in the specific career phase where former teenage franchise actors either fully transition into sustained adult careers or find themselves in a specific nostalgia economy. The costar's specific public warmth toward him suggests a collaborative environment.

For the ukulele as a specific detail: the particular choice of the ukulele — intimate, slightly quirky, requiring genuine musical skill to play well — as the vehicle for original songs written for castmates is the specific form of on-set generosity that creates the real relationships whose warmth coworkers describe years later. It is the precisely opposite impression from the Malfoy character.

For the fan community's specific response: Harry Potter fans' relationship with Tom Felton has been one of the franchise fandom's warmest ongoing stories — the particular appreciation for how thoroughly a good person can inhabit a genuinely repellent character.