I loved the film, and in this one, Draco is really with a different group of people. You’re not hanging with the kids anymore.
[laughs] No, he is well and truly a boy amongst men. I’m really glad you liked the film as well. I’m really, really pleased with the way the film came out. Not from a biased point of view, but the whole thing in general. As a fan of the books, I was really pleased with the way it came out. And yeah, it really is. Like you said, Draco is in a whole other realm.

He’s no longer at school sort of bullying people. He’s sitting at a table with the realms of evil. And well and truly out of his depth, might I add. He’s terrified. We really see Draco in a whole new light here. He’s failed his mission to become Voldemort’s (Ralph Fiennes) right hand man if you will, and now he’s just a shriveling wreak. His house has been infiltrated by Voldemort. There’s a real sense of life and death, I think, with Voldemort. So we really see Draco, A, being terrified, but B, second guessing actually, that this is the line that he wants to go down. He certainly looks at his father (Jason Isaacs) in a new light. Yeah, it’s a great journey for him, I think.

It’s interesting, the relationship that Draco has with his mom (Helen McCrory) because she doesn’t really seem like she belongs with the Death Eaters. You sort of see that side of her in Draco.
[SPOILERS] I’m very glad you said that! You are the very first journalist of the last three hundred and fifty or whatever it is this week to mention that and I’m very glad that you did. Draco is definitely…he’s one hundred percent his mother, and it’s really nice when you actually get to see that, but more to the point, as you so beautifully did, you noticed it.

Although she is still a Malfoy, she’s completely ashamed of her husband and knows…she’s the only one, actually…there’s a great part in this film where Draco has an opportunity to end it for Harry (Daniel Radcliffe). He has an opportunity to give him up and say, ‘Yeah, this is him.’ And I think out of all the people in the room that question whether I’m lying or not, she knows. She knows that something is happening. She can see through me, like most mothers can with their sons. And it’s really nice to have that because it really answers why Draco isn’t like his dad. Because he’s like his mum. And that journey really continues in the next one as well.

We’ve heard a lot from Dan and Rupert and Emma (Watson) about their last moments on set. What was the experience like for you?
[SPOILERS] It was a bizarre one actually, because my last day of actually having people there was shooting the epilogue. That was my last day of actually having Daniel, Rupert and Emma on the set together. It was quite a relief to get out of there because we were in this horrible makeup that we were desperate to get off our face. [laughs] That was the last day.

But my last day as an individual was actually a night shoot that I did by myself, just to get a shot of Draco walking off by himself in the middle of the night. I forget the scene it actually tied into, but it was bizarre. We finished at about three in the morning. The first AD, Dom Fysh gave me a lovely speech and a round of applause to say thank you for your hard work, which really meant a lot to me, and I did that sort of awkward handshake thing with everyone and kind of walked off before I knew I was going to get too emotional. Truth be told, it started to sink in then, and it still hasn’t fully sunk in all the way. It’s probably going to take another year or so before it’s fully sinks in.

You guys have been very lucky in that you’ve gotten to work on the same character with a bunch of different directors. I know Rupert, Dan and Emma were saying that Alfonso Cuaron is the one that whipped you guys into shape.
Yeah! He was the one that kind of…I saw him actually, two days ago. I bloody gave him a big hug and said ‘Thank you so much, mate.’ I think he took the films into a whole different direction. We’re very proud of the early films and we think Chris Colombus really set the tone. It’s almost impossible to make a film when you have almost only eleven-year-old children as your cast [laughs] because funny enough, we’re not that convincing as actors.

But he made it all work and he was the conductor that got the ball rolling. Alfonso really took it to a far more cinematic place, it seemed. The stories really evolved with him. I mean, obviously that helps with the books, because the stories do get richer and less child-oriented. But yeah, Alfonso definitely did something that was different. And we thank him for it. We think that film really brought the rest of the franchise along with it.