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‘Harry Potter’ Star Tom Felton on Playing Gandhi’s Vegetarian Friend in New Series and Life After Draco Malfoy: ‘Even Without the Blonde Hair,’ Fans ‘Still Seem to Recognize Me’
'Harry Potter' star Tom Felton is currently filming the series 'Gandhi,' where he plays Josiah Oldfield, the future Mahatma's friend in London.
Part of the series, produced by Sameer Nair for India’s Applause Entertainment and directed by Hansal Mehta, follows the young Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi when he was in London to study law and missing vegetarian food. On getting the body language of the character right with few images available, Felton says that shooting at real locations dating back to Oldfield’s era helped him slide into the period, as did the costumes. And she was shunned a little bit and it was even made to be put under children’s literature, because the idea of a woman being a bonafide archaeologist back then wasn’t thought of, so it’s another maverick story,” Felton says.
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