Tom Felton reunited with his former Harry Potter co-star Daniel Radcliffe on Wednesday evening, attending his Broadway production Every Brilliant Thing in New York.
The 38-year-old actor, who portrayed Draco Malfoy throughout the film series, shared photographs of the pair embracing backstage following the performance.
Mr Felton accompanied the images with a throwback picture from their time on the wizarding franchise, captioning the post “Broomsticks to Broadway.”
Mr Radcliffe, 36, currently leads the cast of the Broadway show, whilst Mr Felton has been treading the boards himself in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child in the United States.
The pair starred opposite one another for a decade, with Mr Radcliffe taking on the titular role of the boy wizard and Felton playing his school rival from 2001 until 2011.
Despite publicly diverging views on the franchise’s creator, the two actors appear to have maintained their friendship.
Their contrasting positions on JK Rowling’s gender-critical views have been well documented in recent years.
In 2020, Mr Radcliffe issued a statement through LGBTQ+ suicide-prevention organisation the Trevor Project, declaring: “Transgender women are women.
JK Rowling has been snubbed by the Harry Potter cast previously
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“Any statement to the contrary erases the identity and dignity of transgender people and goes against all advice given by professional health care associations who have far more expertise on this subject matter than either Jo or I.”
He was joined by fellow Potter alumni Emma Watson and Rupert Grint, as well as Fantastic Beasts star Eddie Redmayne, in distancing themselves from the author’s stance.
Mr Felton, by contrast, has remained supportive of Ms Rowling. Speaking at the Tony awards ceremony in June, he told Variety: “I can’t say it [impacts me], I’m not really that attuned to it.”
He added: “I have not seen anything bring the world together more than Potter. She’s responsible for that, so I’m incredibly grateful.”
Mr Radcliffe had said Ms Rowling’s comments left him “deeply saddened”
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Mr Radcliffe has spoken candidly about the fallout with the author, describing the situation as “really sad” in an interview with the Atlantic.
He explained his decision to speak out, stating: “I’d worked with the Trevor Project for 12 years and it would have seemed like, I don’t know, immense cowardice to me to not say something. I wanted to try and help people that had been negatively affected by the comments.”
The actor revealed he has had no direct communication with Ms Rowling since their public disagreement began.
“It makes me really sad, ultimately, because I do look at the person that I met, the times that we met, and the books that she wrote, and the world that she created, and all of that is to me so deeply empathic,” he said.
Emma Watson alongside Harry Potter co-stars Rupert Grint (left) and Daniel Radcliffe (right)
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Mr Radcliffe acknowledged that whilst the franchise would not have existed without Ms Rowling, “that doesn’t mean that you owe the things you truly believe to someone else for your entire life.”
Ms Rowling, who has faced floods of cancel calls from trans activists since making her position known, has made her feelings about the franchise’s leading trio abundantly clear on social media.
Responding to a post asking which actors instantly ruin a film, she wrote: “Three guesses. Sorry, but that was irresistible,” accompanied by three laughing emojis.
Though she did not name them directly, the remark appeared to reference Mr Radcliffe, Ms Watson and Mr Grint.
Following the publication of the Cass review of gender identity services in 2024, Ms Rowling indicated she was unlikely to forgive Mr Radcliffe and Watson, accusing them of being “celebs who cosied up to a movement intent on eroding women’s hard-won rights and who used their platforms to cheer on the transitioning of minors”.