‘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’
variety.comNaman Ramachandran “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.
It examines how Gandhi’s chance discovery of a vegetarian restaurant brings him to the lesser-known Vegetarian Society of London, of which Oldfield is one of the founders.
This chance meeting proves to be formative for Gandhi, as it is Oldfield who first discovers the writer in him and encourages him to pen articles for the Vegetarian Magazine. “It is about the relationship between the two of them and how they found each other at exactly the right time.
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