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​James HowardPhoto Credit: Manuel Harlan It's just the most magical story to tell on stage.

 ​James HowardPhoto Credit: Manuel Harlan It's just the most magical story to tell on stage.  And of course, here in London, we tell the story over two parts, so it's a full day of theatre. As an actor, there aren't many shows that give you that opportunity , to do a whole story over the course of two shows, over the course of a day. And there's just something so exciting about that. Most actors, if you do eight shows a week, you do matinees and the evening shows and you're repeating that same story twice a day. Whereas we tell the whole story over those two days, and that doesn't get old. There's something brilliant about taking an  audience on that journey from two o'clock in the afternoon through ‘till the end of the evening. And knowing that they've got a dinner break in between where they can go away and talk about what they've just seen and think about what's coming next. The reactions from the audience have never changed. There's a...
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In the first year, I was part of the ensemble and I was covering not just Draco, Harry, and Snape.

  In the first year, I was part of the ensemble and I was covering not just Draco, Harry, and Snape.  So it was quite a big task in that first year! There was a lot to learn because we were creating the show from scratch. We were putting it all together as one big ensemble, but at the same time, I was also having to learn those roles as well. And then from Year Two, which was 2017, I was getting the chance to play Draco, and I've been playing him ever since! What made you want to be a part of the show? It's the most magical world to be a part of! And because at the time, no one really knew what was going to be involved. There were little hints that were being dropped that it was going to involve a continuation of the story. So there was the  knowledge that there were the seven stories before that, and intriguingly, the last chapter of [Harry Potter and the] Deathly Hallows is called “19 Years Later.” So there were already hints placed in that last book of what might happe...
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